Chapter 279: Free City Alliance: Epilogue (1)
The rulers of the Free City Alliance, the giant worms, despaired.
We must escape.
The Gray Reaper, descended into the depths, looked like a god arriving to deliver divine punishment.
It was despair. It was the end.
Each time the Gray Reaper’s gaze swept over them, the children in the tank writhed in agony, rough stones spilling from their mouths.
Those stones were forged from their flesh, their life, their very souls.
A truly cruel sight, but the Gray Reaper paid it no mind.
And the comforting curtain of darkness that had veiled the underground began to tear.
Light poured from holes ripped in space, shredding the subterranean gloom.
Beyond those rifts teemed greedy demons.
The demons’ small hands darted through the gaps in space, avariciously snatching the stones made from the children’s souls.
As if they couldn’t bear to miss a single one.
As if those stones were precious treasures to them.
Meanwhile, the red tank prepared for raising the children filled with an unidentified liquid.
The brownish-black liquid was thicker than any poison, more viscous than mud.
Unfortunately, the children touched by that liquid had their insides dissolve, endlessly vomiting the black fluid.
The sight of the suffering children was almost unbearable to watch.
With every step the Gray Reaper took deeper underground, the core foundations of the subterranean facility crumbled.
The rebar and concrete that once solidly supported the city-sized underground facility turned bone-white, precarious, threatening to collapse at any moment.
The effort to reach the moon was turning to dust.
Ah, my rank is being shaved away.
Losing rank under the Gray Reaper’s gaze.
Like the children, the giant worms were dying, vomiting stones, when the Gray Reaper’s gaze fell upon them.
The Gray Reaper looked at the giant worms, slowly opened its hand…
And clenched it shut again.
That was the end for the three worms that had ruled the Free City Alliance.
And so the worms died, lamenting that attempting to reach such a monster was itself the mistake.
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