Something exploded out of the ground. A figure wearing severely damaged thick heavy armor that looked ancient and corroded with a crown on its head burst through with great force. The group were all thrown back and debris landed all around them. Cora looked at the attacker and shuddered. It looked far more skeletal than any living person and had dark black pits utterly devoid of life or awareness for eyes.
Sickly dark veins covered what might have been pale skin or bone or a combination of both. It reeked of death and held a large sword with runes that glowed with a sinister yellowish green light.
Was this the ancient king Morgana had been talking about? Was this what was left of Manasseh? The contamination spreading across this world had clearly consumed all that he had once been and
