Chapter 43: Between Continents(2)
The poisonous goo was covering his whole body and causing everything to feel sore and in some cases he simply felt nothing, such as on his hands that were tightly wrung around his staff and constantly showered in the goo, luckily Cades could still feel his wings and think in some capacity.
But as hundreds more of the disgusting, long, fleshy tentacles began ascending into the air from all around and the arching began to descend onto himself with as much power as they could seemingly muster he began realizing that he couldn't win this, he had overestimated himself, or maybe the monster had simply tricked him, maybe this was part of how it hunted.
He had to escape but the tendrils were covering the skies, the only way through which he could escape and he was almost certain that the kraken-like monster didn't entirely show itself yet, so much so that he might not have seen its entire body yet, as he had previously thought.
And yet Cades attempted to rise up higher into the sky, evading some of the quickly descending tendrils that were seemingly trying to impale him on their long, fleshy lances, poisoning him with their horrid but manageable venom.
The blue tent of the skies, however, was blocked by the arching, pulsating mass of black flesh, so much so that the dark, black goo rained down as if it was a horrendous storm, so much so that Cades could barely feel his body and especially his face.
Luckily the venom seemed to simply dull his mind and body instead of paralysing, most likely because of his rank and the fact that ehetrians mostly didn't absorb food or other nutrients into their body, instead opting to absorb energy and mana itself, mostly through smaller amounts of sugar and in very rare cases mana stones even.
But, still, as he was flying far above the poison was still a great hinderance to his escape attempt because of the simple fact that he could barely analyse the structure created by the tendrils and consequently didn't know where exactly it was weak.
Because of the same reason he didn't even realize that added to the arching tent above his head there were now gigantic, pulsating, fleshy black walls around him, growing closer and closer and as if that hadn't already been enough an eye surrounded by teeth was under his feet as he had begun slashing through the rapidly regenerating tentacles that were now spewing dark blue blood added on to the disgusting, reeking black goo.
The gigantic, black-blue eye under his feet was slowly opening up in a grotesque show of its anatomy, a never-ending tunnel of pulsating flesh, the same as that of which its tendrils, though much more of the disgusting black goo was visible around what seemed to be the kraken-like creatures "throat".
Cades, however, unperturbedly continued slashing through the seemingly endless, regenerating walls of flesh that were still growing closer with the gigantic, opened "eye" rising above the water, displacing it all to its surrounding, intending to devour him with one powerful gulp.
As Cades however finally begun screaming his blade begun brightly burning in a pure, violet colour, with the incredible intent to cut through everything, a power that he had practiced with but was barely able to use, and when he used it then mostly in a subconscious state.