The entire room shook violently causing the thick layer of dust to momentarily rise into the air. They watched as through the cloud of dust a tall figure stood in the main doorway blocking their way. Its long black claws clawed at the stone wall near him causing the stone to shriek painfully. The dust quickly began to settle and clear causing the women to finally see the bestial thing. It walked on two hairy legs tipped with cloven hoofs. Its shaggy brown coat extended to about its hips before thinning out revealing its pale brown belly which was sucked into the body from malnutrition. One of its unnaturally long arms hung loosely beside it resembling a hairy noodle as it bumped against the creature's knee. Sitting on a heavily scarred neck was a naked skull of a great stag turned sickly yellow from all the grime and old viscera stuck onto it. Mounted on top of the yellowish skull was an impressive crown of horns which visibly made the beast hunch forward a little bit from its equally impressive weight.
A pin drop could have been heard in the room as the monster came into full magnificent view straightening out its spine, lifting its head above the thinning puff of dust its entry caused.
When women's bodies began to respond to the monster's sudden entry, Iris's lavender eyes met with fiery embers burning deep inside the skull causing them to snap onto her.
"Run!" Shiro shouted as she broke into a full sprint, dragging her ward behind her.
[Inspect]
[Big-Big Horn-Thing Level 670]
{Big thing hunts us us.}
[*Due to a lack of available information gathered by a race with your or similar cognitive abilities to you, no further information could have been given.}
Iris shook her head removing her system notification from her vision as she sprinted toward the exit. She could feel a pair of ravenous eyes drilling into her back as the sound of heavy footsteps echoed behind her.
Like a wave the Thing unleashed its aura hitting her body and almost tripping her. With each stride of its long legs, the beast got closer causing the world around them to shake violently.
"Left!" The nekos commanded as her figure disappeared behind a wall swiftly followed by the other woman.
The tall beast's hooves screeched as they slid across the smooth stone, carried forward by its tremendous momentum. The limp arm stiffened like a steel beam as its claws skid on the wall before digging in. The beast let out a grunt as it stood up, holding the stag skull in place with its other hand before giving chase to the four women. A puff of orange smoke from deep within the skull escaped through the empty sockets clinging to the yellowish bone as the beast picked up more speed, unwilling to let such a meal get away from it.
"It didn't lose us!" Iris communicated as the beast emerged from the side swinging its claws at the elf, ploughing a deep trench in the stone tiles behind her.
"Go right!" Shiro shouted back.
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The nekos was almost carrying the fox whose feet could barely keep up with the speed of her guard not to mention trying to maintain such a speed for any amount of time. Behind her, the two undead also didn't fare that much well. For the undead mage, it wasn't the problem of stamina but rather physical limitation imposed on her by her body.
"Go quicker." Iris urged as the monster got nearer to them, getting slowed down less and less by Shiro's sudden faints.
"I can't," The mage said as she pushed herself to pick up pace, no longer being able to magically aid her rather fragile body with copious amounts of mana. Kia suddenly turned around and summoned a magical circle which swiftly began to glow with a bright red colour. "Searing Blast!"
Kia shouted, her magically altered voice turning the air into a malformed haze that emitted a sinister hiss. The fine hair on the beast's upper body shrivelled up before disintegrating into ash as it passed through the haze, the beast let out a roar as it powered through the pain and didn't stop coming at them.
From the mage's fingertip, a black and blue beam of crackling energy pierced the space between her and the beast hitting it in the shoulder and causing its body to swivel back into the schorching heat.
"Kia!" Iris yanked the mage by her hand and ran with her unsure if she should be angry or grateful to the mage.
"Fuck!" The elf's ears moved as they heard Shiro's frustrated curse. Iris looked up and saw that they had entered into another empty room but the doorway at the opposite end had collapsed, blocking their only way of escaping.
*Grrrr*
The four women's eyes instantly snapped in the direction they entered from and saw the the Big-Horn-Thing standing in the doorway. Puffs of orange smoke were rising from inside the mask before the gas burst forward as the beast let out a thunderous roar. The fiery embers shining now from the stag's loosely hanging mouth seemed to be already feeding on them before it had caught its prey. Their predator seemed to be unable to resist letting its aura ravage the room sending the fox beside Shiro into an incomprehensible hysteria as fear and terror grasp her mind. Even starving wolves didn't let their ravenous aura burst out in front of their prey, letting their prey get funny ideas from learning about how desperate they were but the level 600 plus beast seemed to not care as it lumbered forward.
*Crash* *Rraaaa*
Behind the two-legged humanoid beast, a six-legged monster crashed into the wall slowing it down as it tore through the stonework leaving a six-meter high gash behind it. The six-legged insect-lizard was roughly the same size as the Horn-Thing but it was clearly bulkier than the tall slender humanoid with a great armoured crest protecting its neck from any danger and a long fat tail snacking behind it. On each side, the charging monster had a pair of scythes blades as arms with the lower pair being much smaller than the pair above it. Tucked under thick layers of natural armour a small face with two clusters of undersized black eyes fitted between a huge maw.
[Inspect]
[Megalisk Level 710]
{Big thing, doesn't like walls, likes meat.}
[*Due to a lack of available information gathered by a race with your or similar cognitive abilities to you, no further information could have been given.}
The Horn Thing turned around barely avoiding being grabbed by the four scythes which sprung forward with incredible speed. It punched the Megalisk, pushing its bulky body away from it. The two roared at each other forcing the demis to their knees covering their ears as the Titans began to fight.
A flap of skin moved on the Thing's chest revealing an endless orange pit spewing out a ray into the Megalisk's crest. A smell of burned flesh filled the room but the Megalisk looked unharmed by the Thing's attack before it retaliated pinning the stag beast against the wall, impaling it on the two small mandibles . The right upper scythe, cleaved through the stone as it descended toward the Thing's neck.
*Crack*
The scythe suddenly accelerated as the Thing extended its hand to stop it. The great stag skull cracked open as half of the horned crown fell to the ground from the Megalisk attack. Underneath the stag skull, a formless tumour of black fur with two orange eyes moved unnaturally across the head's surface.
Rage seemed to consume the hunger inside the orange embers as it threw off the bulky Megalisk of itself, lunging at it without a sign of self-preservation.
Crimson and green blood splashed everywhere as the two titans clashed, ripping chunks of one another. As the beam of purple energy melted Megalisk's armour and as its scythed arms lacerated the Horn-Thing's flesh the room shook. The humanoid monster grabbed one of two stubby legs of its opponent and pulled as hard as it could causing the insect to fall on its side.
Cracks appeared on the ruined floor as the Thing pounded the felled opponents crushing its armour with each strike. Before anyone could react the floor beneath them opened up into a dark endless chasm.
*Crash*
"Whaaaa-"