Chapter 586 - 580. The Strongs’ Amusement
The miasmic beasts gathered at the edge of the meadow around the huge lake were full of confusion.
Something in their mind told them to go around hunting for beings that weren’t choked full of miasma, but another voice in their mind also told them to stay put and let nothing go past them and reach the lake. Their natural instinct was to roam around and hunt, and yet they couldn’t move away past a certain point.
Some tried to challenge this restriction and stepped over the forbidden line. But the moment they were about to do it, the voice grew stronger and yanked them back to the boring formation, or some ’guards’ tackled and dragged them there.
The beasts, freshly out of dungeons and yet to adapt to being submitted to a higher order, were frustrated and restless. Perhaps because of this, their senses became a bit dull.
When a giant shredding machine in the shape of a Serpent crashed against them, they couldn’t even react.
The serpent came out of nowhere, slithering quietly through the field of sharp black grass. The darkness masked its presence, and a barrier erased it even more. Despite its size, the serpent shredded the outer line of the gathering beasts like a silent killer, and only after the shredded corpses of those at the outer edge splattered to the ones behind, did the troops of beasts stir.
They growled and took an attacking stance, only for the serpent to finally rise and crash into their rank like a lunatic on a warpath. Chaos ensued among the beasts stationed near the meadow as the beasts either followed their instinct to run or followed the invading voice to block the serpent.
Inside the serpent, however, it was peaceful.
Well, as peaceful as it could be inside a shredding machine. Tian Yu looked around at the hundreds of black stakes constantly moving at a fast speed like rotors while forming the shape of a serpent. In a way, it was like a horizontal tornado made of hundreds of shrapnels.
With two espers chilling inside its ’belly’.
"This is my first time inside," Bassena laughed while knocking at the barrier around them with his knuckles. It was as hard as a diamond; he had tried to break the barrier before making the [Jormungard], and it was satisfactorily though.