Chapter 54: Hope.
The creature erupted from the endless darkness.
"....!"
It was a behemoth the size of a house. Its form was reminiscent of a nightmarish scavenger, if only it wasn’t supported by eight segmented legs, like pillars of obsidian supporting its grotesque form.
However, this was where the similarities between it and a regular nightmarish scavenger ended. Instead of chitin or bleak armor, the monstrosity’s shell seemed to be made out of lustrous dark metal. It was as if, its whole body had once been hardened through some inhuman ritual, and it emerged from it enclosed in an impenetrable suit of dark-crimson armor.
Compared to its counterparts- the scavengers, its armor was covered with long jagged spikes. And each one glimmered in the dark, promising bloodshed and sufferings of untold magnitude.
Its humanoid torso had four pairs of mighty arms. Its metallic face, a nightmarish fusion of beast and man, a visage shaped right out of infernal depths.
The sight sent a chill through me, dread slithering down my spine. Clamping down on my lips, I tried to suppress the rising panic.
However, nothing I did worked.
If anything,
Thump, Thump--!
They only increased the rapid pace at which my heartbeat echoed through the stifling silence. Each beat was akin to a hammering blow, driving fear deeper into me.