Chapter 6: Initial Purification Attempt
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Belissar was hanging another frame on a tree when suddenly his body went hot. His eyes widened as he realized it wasn’t just him. The entire Tower had gone hot, he could feel streams of heat flowing through the ground and the air.
Initial Purification attempt commencing.
And then, the gates to the Hunger swung open.
Belissar gasped as the black, oil-like substance began to whip and reach into the flower meadow, only for the edges of the gates to begin glowing with bright light. The Hunger screeched and its tendrils retreated back through the gate.
Then the black substance began to condense and warp in the center of the gate. Belissar fell on his behind as he heard snarling and growling. A black paw with rainbow highlights broke out of the writhing mass and stepped into the gate, black mist emanating from it like tongues of fire as huge claws crushed the dandelions underfoot. A second paw stepped and then a snarling snout began to emerge above, with sharp fangs dripping with bits of the Hunger that melted into the ground, causing the flowers below to wilt in the process. Glowing red lights appeared where the creature may have had eyes...only that there were six of them in pairs climbing up its head.
Belissar began scooting back through the dirt as the creature fully exited the hunger and stepped into the field. The black mist emanating from it made its full body shape hard to distinguish, but it was vaguely in the shape of a canine, though larger than any dog or wolf Belissar had ever seen. What he could make out were the sharp claws on its feet, the fangs lining the snout that was a bit too long, and the sharp spike at the end of a snake-like tail.