Chapter 1926: Strange Beast (2/2)

In the beginning, everyone thought that the beast was being imprisoned by the chains but after more creaking noise, it seemed that it was pulling something quite heavy.

“What is that?” The dragging noise further down the cave confirmed this notion.

All eyes were back on the cave, even the emperor was gazing at it intensely. He wanted to peer through the void in order to see the item in the dark.

“Creak!” People finally saw the thing on the other side of the chains. It looked like a bronze coffin at first but upon closer inspection, it was just a large chest.

“Just a bit more to take it out!” The emperor was ecstatic to see this object.

For some unknown reasons, the young emperor didn’t want to step inside the cave or to personally pull on that chest.

“Creak.” A sharp grind came to a halt. The coffin was so close to getting out but the beast seemed to have lost all its power so the coffin dropped back down to the cave.

“Rawr!” The beast howled and strengthened its grip on the ground. With rambunctious noises of stones and debris, four deep claw marks were left behind.

It finally stabilized the chest, stopping it from dropping before continuing on the initial trajectory. Alas, it was still futile. The coffin was being pulled around inside the cave but looked like it had no intention of leaving.

The young emperor became quite tense while watching the struggle of the beast after several successive failures.

However, he couldn’t help it at all, clearly not wanting to go close to the cave due to having some scruples.

Everyone became curious about what was inside the bronze chest. In their eyes, the young emperor came especially for it. What was worth an emperor creating this much commotion?

“Boom!” The beast continued to fail since the chest was resisting and sliding back into the cave.

The emperor’s eyes turned cold. He waved his sleeve and recalled the banner to open the barrier meant to stop other emperors from stealing his treasure.

“Fill your stomach and gain strength!” He shouted at the beast.

“Rawr!” The beast seemed to understand him and howled back.

Next, before everyone could react, the beast opened its mouth and its red tongue shot out.

“Ah!” Miserable screams sounded. The tongue pierced through the chest of an expert far away and sucked all of his vitality, leaving only bones left.

“Poof! Poof! Poof!” The tongue actually split into smaller ones like a bunch of tentacles in the blink of an eye.

“Ahhh!” More screams echoed across the mountain range.

These tentacles began to slay one expert after another and draining them of their life force.