97: Chapter 97 Implantation of the White Bone Cleric and the Seventh Saint

A sinister arc curled at the corner of Su Chen's mouth.

"Merely inheriting the authority of a loser is not enough."

His voice echoed within the vast nest space, every syllable carrying a metallic vibration and an indisputable, absolute will.

"Since you are to be my seventh Saint, I must give you the best."

The moment his words fell, the entire internal structure of the Mother Nest began to undergo silent, precise reconstruction.

Countless biological pipes squirmed, extended, and connected like living creatures; dim green energy bands flickered on the translucent inner walls of the carapace, illuminating this vast underground space as if it were a workshop for gods and demons.

Su Chen turned around, his gaze piercing through layers of biological tissue to lock onto a giant evolution chamber in the deepest part of the Mother Nest.

It was an inverted giant cocoon made of dark purple carapace and biological metal, its surface covered in complex energy circuits, rhythmically contracting and expanding with the heartbeat of the Mother Nest.

"Mother Nest, prepare for surgery!"

Su Chen's command transformed into the lowest-level executable code via the mental link, instantly reaching every corner of the Mother Nest's will.

"Retrieve the 'Stellar Liquid Alloy' refined from the remains of the Radiant Star Whale!"

The command was issued.

A giant pipe with a diameter exceeding three meters descended from the dome of the nest, its end being a crystal-clear, diamond-like nozzle.

Inside the pipe, silver liquid flowed at high speed; it was so brilliant, as if an entire galaxy had been melted and compressed within it.

That was the essence of an ancient Starry Sky Behemoth.

It was a miraculous creation that surpassed all known metals in this plane, possessing self-repairing and energy-conducting properties.

"Retrieve the rule chain of the [divine office of white bones]!"

On the other side, in the Mother Nest's database, countless dim blue data streams converged into a pale chain composed of billions of tiny runes.

It twisted and spiraled, exuding the primordial aura of termination and withering; it was the core law stripped from the divinity of the God of White Bones.

Everything was ready.

Su Chen's expression was solemn as he pressed his hands down into the air.

An invisible but majestic force field spread out, precisely enveloping the Bio-Bone Dragon Theodore, who was crouching on the ground.

Theodore's massive body was slowly lifted by this force, drifting uncontrollably toward the inverted giant cocoon.

Its body, pieced together from countless metals and bones, had no room for resistance before the Master's will.

The valves of the evolution chamber opened silently, revealing a cavity filled with countless biological probes and energy conduits.

Theodore's massive body was slowly pushed into the prepared evolution chamber.

"Roar..."

Theodore roared lowly, feeling both nervous and expectant.

It turned its mechanical dragon head toward Su Chen, its dim blue optical sensors flickering violently.

It was a complex emotion mixed with fear of the unknown, longing for power, and absolute trust in the Master.

Su Chen's eyes did not have a ripple of emotion.

He was merely the most precise craftsman about to begin his work.

"Begin!"

With the order given.

The valves of the evolution chamber closed completely.

The diamond nozzle at the end of the pipe hanging from the dome precisely pierced the top of the evolution chamber, going straight through the carapace and aiming at the core bone marrow cavity of Theodore's spine.

Hiss—

Several tons of silver [Stellar Liquid Alloy] were injected under high pressure.

They were not cold liquid metal, but a scalding torrent containing the power of the stars.

"Click, click, click—"

Theodore let out a painful roar.

That sound was no longer a simple dragon roar, but a composite wail mixed with the sounds of metal snapping, bones shattering, and circuits burning.

Its entire body convulsed and rolled violently inside the evolution chamber, the massive force causing the entire giant cocoon to buzz.

Pain.

Extreme pain.

It was as if every bone and every part had been thrown into a furnace, first completely melted, and then forcibly reshaped.

Through the translucent inner wall of the evolution chamber, one could see the earth-shaking changes taking place inside Theodore.

Its original grayish-white undead bones were being eroded and assimilated at a visible speed after absorbing the stellar alloy.

Those scalding silver liquids, like billions of tiny Drones, drilled into every crevice of the bones, completely shattering the original calcified structure and replacing it with themselves.

The grayish-white faded away.

A deep, dark silver that seemed to absorb light seeped out from the inside of the bones.

On the surface of the bones, infinitely complex and mysterious stellar patterns began to emerge.

Those patterns were not carved on; they grew naturally from within the bones, faintly glowing like miniature star trails sleeping within the dragon's skeleton.

Theodore's roar gradually deepened; amidst the pain, there was a hint of a new, majestic sense of power.

Its bones were reorganizing.

Strength, toughness, and energy conductivity were all skyrocketing exponentially.

Su Chen watched all this calmly, his mental power acting like the most precise probe, monitoring the subtle changes in every cell and every bone of Theodore.

The timing matured in a split second, one ten-thousandth of a second.

"Now! Implant the divine portfolio!"

Su Chen's pupils contracted sharply; he suddenly raised his hand and grabbed at the air.

The chain of the [divine office of white bones] composed of countless rule runes was pulled out from the data stream by him and held in his palm.

The next second, he closed his fingers and slammed this core, which concentrated the authority of death, toward the center of Theodore's forehead inside the evolution chamber!

There was no physical contact.

But this palm seemed to pierce through all barriers of space, time, and matter.

Boom!

A pale white rule of death, like the singularity of a cosmic big bang, instantly erupted within the soul fire at the center of Theodore's forehead.

It was a pure concept of death, containing no impurities, reigning supreme over all things!

Theodore's soul fire, at the core of that dim blue flame, suddenly burst into a mass of pale white light.

The white color spread rapidly, devouring all the blue.

Its soul fire changed from dim blue to pale white.

Its consciousness was completely pulled out of its body at this moment, dragged by that majestic force of rules into a dimension that could not be described in words.

A rule world filled with endless bones.

There was no sky here, no earth, only gray void, and beneath the void, an endless ocean of bones covering the entire plane.

Bones of various creatures piled up into mountains, extending to the end of the line of sight.

They lay quietly, unchanged for billions of years.

Theodore's consciousness floated above this dead world, feeling that eternal loneliness and termination.

However, the moment its soul fire completely transformed into pale white.

The whole world moved.

Click.

A soft sound.

The nearest human skeleton slowly and stiffly raised its head.

In its empty eye sockets, a pale white flame, homologous to Theodore's soul fire, ignited.

Click... click click... click click click click!

It was as if it were the first domino to fall.

The sound of bones rubbing against each other, one after another, went from faint to clear, and from clear to deafening.

Billions of undead bones awoke from their slumber.

They stood up from the ocean of bones, and in their empty eye sockets, without exception, all burned with pale white soul fire.

They faced the sky, toward the direction of Theodore's consciousness.

Then, uniformly, they knelt on the ground.

It was a silent yet incomparably grand worship composed of billions of undead.

A realization, like lightning, split Theodore's chaotic consciousness.

It was no longer that manufactured Biochemical Bone Dragon.

It was no longer that legendary creature that had devoured the loser's divine fire.

At this moment, it became the sole will, the sole master of this endless ocean of bones.

"I am... the King of Bones!"

Inside the evolution chamber.

Theodore suddenly opened its eyes.

Its optical sensors were no longer dim blue, but two pale white suns of death, exuding an aura of absolute zero.

A dragon roar mixed with metallic tremors and undead shrieks broke through the shackles of the evolution chamber and resounded throughout the sky of the Mother Nest!

[Ding! Evolution successful!]

[Congratulations, Master! The seventh Saint has returned!]

In Su Chen's mind, the cold notification sound of the Mother Nest rang out.

[Theodore - Bone Monarch Dragon (Tier 9 Demigod Level)]

[divine portfolio: White Bones (Control all bone creatures), Star Dragon Body (Dual extremely high physical/magic resistance)]

The valves of the evolution chamber slowly opened, and thick white cold air gushed out.

A brand-new, unprecedented, terrifying creature appeared before Su Chen.

After evolution, although Theodore's size did not become larger, the invisible pressure, which almost seemed to crush the space, had increased by several times.

Its entire skeleton was no longer a rough assembly, but like the most precise work of art.

Every bone presented a perfect dark silver color, with starlight-like radiance flowing on the surface.

The joints between the bones were no longer rigid mechanical structures, but joints made of liquid stellar alloy that could freely expand and contract.

Dark silver streams of light flowed between the bone seams, as if a galaxy were surging in the dragon's blood vessels.

And above its head, a ferocious yet magnificent "Crown of Thorns" made entirely of condensed stellar alloy was silently floating.

That bone crown was the manifestation of its authority, demonstrating its supreme authority as an undead monarch.

Theodore walked out of the evolution chamber, its massive body landing on the ground without making any sound.

It walked with elegant yet heavy steps to stand before Su Chen.

Then, it lowered its head, which once belonged to a machine but now appeared as noble as a creation of the gods, and gently touched the newly born Crown of Thorns to the carapace ground at Su Chen's feet.

A gesture representing absolute submission.

"Thank you, Master, for bestowing this new life. Death will serve you forever."