122 Victims (1/2)

It was one the most grotesque sight I had ever seen in my life and I had seen a lot of grotesque things since the start of the apocalypse.

The creature… was a solid blob of mass that was made up of the bodies of thousands, no, tens of thousands of abnormals.

Torso, heads, legs, arms, hearts, intestines, stomach. Every part and organ of the body was on full display in front of me.

It seemed as someone had taken tens of thousands of bodies, put them in a grinder and then meshed them up in a ball to create the… creature in front of me.

Four giant legs made up of thousands of legs supported it's weight and numerous tentacles, made up of hands dangling from it's bottom wriggled around and caught anything that came under it's body.

I was a 4th tier abnormal being snatched from the ground and being absorbed into that… thing without it being able to put any resistance.

Not that it tried.

Abnormals from tens of kilometers could be seen converging in this place as they came close to the… thing and it simply absorbed it in it's body.

I felt bile rise in my throat with disgust and fear.

It was slow. Giant but slow.

I was fairly certain that I would be able to run away from it if it came after me.

But for some reason, that thought did not brought me any relief.

My instincts were telling me that this thing… whatever it was, was dangerous.

Immensely so.

I turned to look in the direction of Netra and found that she had a grave expression on her face.

I had never seen such an expression on her face when she faced against an enemy.

Her expression only made me more certain that this thing was dangerous.

As if reading my mind, she turned to look at me.

Her grave expression softened a bit at my sight and she jumped from her tree to mine without making any noise.

”We need to get out of here.” She whispered in my ears and I nodded in return.

I had no wish to stare at the thing forming in front of me either.

I turned back and followed behind Netra who was already jumping from tree to tree.

Whatever that thing was, it had unnerved Netra quite a bit.

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I took deep breaths and fell on the ground with exhaustion.

We have been running for a while now but I was still able to see the 300 meter tall monster in the horizon.

It loomed over everything else on it's four large legs and devoured the abnormals one by one with it's numerous tentacles.

”What the hell is that?” I asked in a tired voice between deep breaths.

Netra had ignored all my questions when we were running away from the forest and I had a feeling that she was hiding something from me.

Well, it was not like she was entitled to tell me everything that I wanted to know or something. But the fact that she was so blatantly ignoring me still hurt a bit.