Chapter 99: Mana Rail 17 [5]
"SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE—!"
The sound tore through the train like a knife to the ears. high-pitched, metallic, and so loud it made Kyle’s head ring.
It was the kind of noise that made your body freeze before your mind could even catch up. For a brief second. Everyone just... stopped.
Even the train itself seemed to shudder under the scream.
And then. They came.
From the connecting carriage up ahead. The first shape lunged out of the shadows. Then another. And another.
Monsters.
Misshapen, twitching things. Some small and fast, others massive and hulking.
Their bodies looked like they had been torn apart and glued back together with rot and rage.
Foul black tumors bulged from their flesh. Bone jutted out.
And all of them had the same glowing red eyes. Like dying embers burning in a pit of ash.