The skeleton rose to its feet, its towering form casting a long, menacing shadow over me. Only now, with it fully upright, did I grasp its sheer size—it stood at least four meters tall, easily dwarfing me. Its immense presence was overwhelming, a grotesque monument of death and power.
As it moved, the sound of ancient, brittle bones cracking and grinding against one another echoed through the hall, each snap and creak amplified in the oppressive silence. The sound was unsettling, sending a faint shiver down my spine.
But fear didn't grip me. No, it wasn't terror that made me shudder—it was the aura surrounding it. A bone-chilling wave of energy radiated from the creature, seeping into the air and through my skin. It was unexplainable, like a coldness that didn't merely touch the body but gripped the very soul. My breath fogged in the freezing atmosphere, though I couldn't pinpoint the source of this unnatural chill.
