Green Monster Epic

The valley was filled with chilling gusts of wind, its head perpetually shrouded in dense, swirling clouds. Even at the sun's highest point during the day, the valley only received dim light.

Negative energy thrived unchecked in this continuous and intricate valley maze, forming patches of black mist that drifted through the spiderweb-like valleys. The ground was dotted with small mountains and hills made of eerie white bones. Countless bone fragments littered the surface, making it difficult for ordinary plants to grow in this desolate place.

Whoosh ~ ~ ~

A shrill, terrifying sound echoed from the cloudy sky above. It was the vibration caused by negative energy tearing through space. A lost bird frantically flapped its wings in terror, suddenly crashing into an inconspicuous spatial rift. Its entire body shattered into several pieces, becoming a mangled corpse without even a cry.

Thud! !

The faint sound of something falling wasn't noticeable. A trickle of blood flowed from the bird's remains, merging into the white bones on the ground, then disappearing eerily. In the distance, a ball of ghostly green fire floated in the air, as if sensing the aura of a living creature, and wobbled closer.

Whoosh! !

The ghostly fire landed directly on the bird's remains, engulfing them in flames. The flesh and blood became nourishment for the ghostly fire, causing it to grow stronger. At the same time, the corpse turned into tiny bones at a speed visible to the naked eye, completely becoming part of it.

Crack! !

A tattered leather boot suddenly appeared, stepping on the tiny skeleton, crushing it along with the lingering ghostly fire into powder.

Ah ~ ~ ~

A soul-piercing howl, almost equivalent to a third-tier mind spell, projected into the mind of the boot's owner, but failed to stir up even the slightest ripple.

The scene moved upwards, revealing the face of a female earth goblin with a somewhat peculiar figure. What made her figure strange was that her upper body was slightly longer than her lower body, making her legs appear much shorter, similar to those of a hill goblin.

But if she were a hill goblin, her height of over 1.8 meters would make her much taller than the average hill goblin, a significant difference.

The female earth goblin's face was covered by half of a skull, as white as jade. Although her features were obscured, she still exuded a sense of heroic spirit. On her back was a giant sword almost as tall as herself. The blade, comparable to a shield, firmly protected her back. Her eyes swept over her feet, where a wisp of ghostly fire was dissipating, only to be extinguished by the earth goblin lifting her foot and stomping down again.

Creak! Creak! !

A series of dry sounds rang out. The lifeless white bones on the ground suddenly formed an arm. Without any flesh and blood connecting them, they still maintained the shape of an arm skeleton.

The earth goblin wasn't surprised by the scene on the ground. Having stayed in this desolate place for too long, she dealt with these things almost every minute of every day.

Her powerful hand reached back, and the heavy sword, covered in mottled battle scars, was pulled into her hand. Then, with a forceful slam, the shield-like blade crushed the animated bones that hadn't even fully formed into a pile of dust.

However, within the earth goblin's field of vision, more bones were slowly wriggling, piecing together humanoid figures. Moreover, among the bones crawling out of the ground, some corpses dragged out pieces of tattered weapons full of rust and gaps from the ground, held by mottled white bones, constantly shaking and waving them.

"Squeak! ! "

A gray-brown rat the size of a fist was startled by the tremors on the ground, scurrying through the gaps in the bones.

The earth goblin remained calm in the face of dozens of skeletons, but when she saw the tiny rat, a hint of joy appeared on her face.

Boom! ! !

Rattle ~ ~

With a sweep of the heavy sword, the surging battle aura transformed into a crescent moon, severing the dozens of skeletons that were slowly standing up in front of her, scattering them into a pile.

Having temporarily eliminated the obstacles in front of her, the earth goblin never lingered on these targets for even a second. Instead, she stared intently at the rat scurrying through the bones.

Thump! !

The door-like giant sword plunged into the bones, blocking the rat's path. In a panic, the rat was about to bypass the obstructing sword and flee to the left, but found a shadow looming over its head. A large hand, like a net, reached directly for the rat.

"Squeak! ! "

The seemingly inconspicuous rat, in a moment of crisis, let out a sharp cry, and at the same time, a negative energy arrow shot out from its small mouth, aiming straight for the goblin's palm.

Puff! !

Intense battle aura protected the safety of her palm, but the scattered residual negative energy, like maggots on a bone, clung to the goblin's hand. The skin on the earth goblin's hand immediately showed some wrinkles, as if she had suddenly aged a dozen years. However, it soon returned to its original state with the flow of blood representing vigorous vitality.

The large hand didn't stop, directly pinching the gray rat's small head. A clever劲儿of battle aura, following the contact with the fur, transformed into a sharp thorn, stirring in the gray rat's brain. The gray rat's agile eyes gradually became dull.

"Heh! ! "

A burst of joy suddenly appeared in the eyes of the earth goblin wearing tattered clothes. But when she looked around, she realized that she was surrounded by dozens of skeletons in the valley, slowly waving their weapons at her.

"Troublesome things! ! "

A gentle voice rang out. The earth goblin yanked the heavy sword from the ground, and after carefully putting the sluggish gray rat into her breastplate, she took a stride forward, engaging the dozens of skeletons in a battle.

Under the steady and powerful heavy sword, no corpse could withstand the earth goblin's blow. But every time these bones were scattered and broken into pieces on the ground, they would always stand up again after a while, as if they couldn't be killed at all.

However, the earth goblin was clearly experienced and had long been accustomed to this phenomenon. The giant sword in her hand constantly ravaged the bones on the surrounding ground until there wasn't a single complete bone left on the ground. Only then did those seemingly unkillable skeletons finally quiet down.

The ground was covered with fine bone fragments and decayed, broken weapons. After the earth goblin finished the battle, she found a relatively clean spot on the ground and slowly removed her half-skull mask, revealing her original face. It was Cole Greengrass, the hill goblin berserker who had left her hometown and disappeared for nearly twenty years.

Calculating her age, she was actually not much different in age from Stonefist, who had retired from his position as the Green Lake Town Chief. But now, Stonefist had to walk with a cane, while Cole, on the other hand, showed the charm of a mature middle-aged goblin between her eyebrows, but showed no signs of aging.

Carefully taking out the still barely alive gray rat from her bosom, a greedy look appeared in Cole's grayish-brown pupils. With a flip of her hand, a gleaming dagger swiftly cut a wound on the gray rat's body, and various entrails spilled out from its abdomen.

After simply processing the gray rat's fur and the inedible internal organs, Cole picked up the remaining flesh and blood of the gray rat and devoured it whole.

The toughness of the raw meat was insignificant under Cole's powerful bite. A faint red streak of blood inadvertently flowed from the corner of her mouth, and was immediately licked away by Cole's nimble tongue, swallowed cleanly into her stomach.

Feeling the food being rapidly digested by her stomach acid and slowly absorbed into her body, becoming the various elements her body urgently needed, Cole's mind couldn't help but drift to the beautiful times she had outside.

Initially, Cole accepted a sabotage mission, joining a team of dozens of adventurers to attack a human supply convoy heading to the Beastman Empire's front lines. However, due to a lapse in the intelligence system, or rather, the cunning humans using this supply convoy as bait, a legendary mid-tier human ranger was lurking within the convoy.

The team tasked with destroying the supplies not only failed to complete their mission but, under the swift and fierce attacks of the human ranger, was quickly defeated by the humans.

As one of the few high-tier peak berserkers in the team who could withstand the ranger's legendary attacks, Cole became the target in the human ranger's eyes after the team's collapse, relentlessly pursued by him.

The difference in strength was already vast, coupled with an absolute disadvantage in speed, Cole knew very well that escaping the legendary pursuit was almost impossible. Therefore, while fleeing, she consciously escaped towards a forbidden area of the Beastman Empire.

Finally, after exhausting all her means and various life-saving measures, Cole barely managed to escape into the Burial Valley with severe injuries, thus evading the human legend's pursuit.

The Burial Valley is said to be the battlefield remains of a war involving millions of warriors during the early establishment of the ancient Beastman Empire. At that time, even several Saint-level powerhouses joined the battle, forming this complex terrain, a valley stretching hundreds of miles like a spider web.

In that battle, over a million warriors perished, including several Saint-level beings. And because there were too many casualties to bury, these corpses were simply thrown into this deep valley maze.

Over time, the rotting corpses gathered a large amount of negative energy, enveloping the entire valley, forming a natural magic lock environment, blocking the possibility of flying through. And in the depths of the valley, the negative energy further permeated the entire land, making it almost impossible for ordinary plants and animals to survive.

Negative energy breeds and gathers here, and when quantitative change develops into qualitative change, the negative energy elements with some biological instincts naturally take shape. However, the newly evolved negative energy elements cannot substantially affect the material world, so they need a carrier to achieve their purpose, and the mountains of bones piled up in the valley are their best carriers, thus creating the opponents Cole fought in the previous scene, groups of skeletons acting on instinct.

The human ranger, unable to stay airborne, could only chase Cole's tracks in the complex valley, until the panicking Cole stumbled upon a powerful bone dragon, causing the human ranger to collide with the bone dragon.

Compared to those newly evolved negative energy elements, the negative energy element attached to the bone dragon's body can be said to be a higher level of existence, just like the difference between ordinary warriors and legends in the material world.

Two legends collided, and the bone dragon, still acting on instinct, disdained Cole, whose life aura was relatively weak, and instead had a crazy desire for the human ranger with a vigorous life aura. Without Cole's teasing or diverting the disaster, the two legends became entangled.

Cole also took advantage of this great opportunity to pass through the valley where the bone dragon was hovering and continued to flee deeper.

When Cole recovered from her injuries and returned to this valley, wanting to return along the same path as before, she suddenly discovered that the bone dragon still existed, but the human ranger was long gone.

With her retreat blocked, and not daring to get too close to provoke the bone dragon, Cole could only begin to struggle to survive in this desolate valley, searching for other exits. And this search took Cole a full dozen years, but she also benefited from the disaster, finding her own path to legend in the monotonous and boring desolate valley, and taking the opportunity to advance to the legendary rank.

For more than a decade, Cole lived alone here, the loneliness and torment from the depths of her heart, which cannot be described in a simple sentence. And it was this experience that allowed Cole to see herself clearly in solitude and find her direction.

After being promoted to legend, Cole excitedly killed her way back to the legendary bone dragon, thinking that even if her strength was not enough to match this bone dragon, it shouldn't be a big problem to withstand the bone dragon's attack for a short time and pass through the valley blocked by it.

But in reality, with Cole's sparse legendary strength, let alone confronting a behemoth with the word 'dragon', she couldn't even match ordinary early-stage legendary powerhouses.

After all, the improvement of a legendary powerhouse's strength is not just the individual's energy output and destruction, but also supplemented by various powerful legendary expertise. But Cole herself didn't have any legendary expertise crystals at all.

With just one move, Cole was slapped away by the bone dragon for dozens of meters, and then she fled into the depths of the valley without looking back, and was chased by the bone dragon for several days before barely escaping its pursuit.

Then, it was a dark and hopeless diary of struggling for survival. With Cole's status as a legendary powerhouse, her food in this desolate valley could only be small animals such as gray rats, cockroaches, and earthworms, which had the most tenacious vitality.

Occasionally, she could also find a few magic plant materials such as ghost mushrooms, which are extremely precious in the outside world, to change her taste, which can be regarded as a rare adjustment in her boring life.

The only thing that allowed her to persevere might be a belief in her heart, and trust in her most admired patriarch and teacher.

Without knowing when, a bronze-made pointer appeared in her hand, engraved with complex patterns, and inlaid with several red gems on the edge. Gently stroking the patterns and feeling the slight coolness brought by the pointer, Cole once again fell into memories.

Until the pointer in her hand suddenly vibrated and quickly rotated a direction on Cole's fingertip, causing Cole, who was in contemplation, to wake up suddenly, and the expression on her face suddenly became wonderful.