Chapter 557 Shadow Devourer

?I used to be operating in the direction of the supply of the noise, hoping that I wasn’t too late to catch no matter was over there.

Turning spherical a nook, I discovered a quite grotesque sight.

The corpse of a Rejmar Dungeoneer was left on the facet and his physique had been actually cut up into two, his intestines drooping out of the physique.

Apparently, the proper half of the physique was lacking and a path of blood led away from the scene, little doubt taken away by what had killed him.

Nonetheless… If it was a monster that did this, why would it not trouble taking half of the physique away and leaving the opposite half right here?

And if it was another person that did this… Why trouble taking half the physique away anyway?

Until…

I regarded on the path of blood that regarded like a physique was being dragged alongside the ground.

The route it was heading to wasn’t the altar so the place else might the physique be delivered to?

Hmm… It may not be a good suggestion to go alone in that case…

“Zwei.”

“Grasp,” The Shadow Guard greeted me as quickly as she appeared.

I made her my vanguard as I adopted the blood path on the bottom that led to a different nook of the passage.

I famous that the partitions right here had been additionally full of varied carvings that depicted varied monsters in numerous poses, although all of them gave the impression to be preying on folks in a roundabout way or one other. Most of them additionally confirmed quite grotesque scenes the place the monster decapitates or feasts on their victims.

Truthfully… Not that totally different from regular monsters within the first place so it isn’t like these carvings had been some sort of a giant revelation or no matter.

As we continued ahead, I started to listen to a moist, crunching noise like one thing was being mashed collectively.

I glanced previous Zwei and I realised the sound was coming from across the nook up forward and the blood path led there.

Was the monster consuming the stays there?

I took over the lead and had Zwei watch my again whereas I snuck in the direction of the nook, making use of [Shadow Glide] to muffle my footsteps.

Reaching the nook, I glanced round it to see simply what was responsible for the crunching sound.

As I had guessed, there was a monster crouched over the corpse of the Rejmar on the finish of the hall. Or quite… What’s left of the half it had dragged right here not less than.

The monster regarded like a shadow of a really giant Mahun, besides if the Mahun was like two metres tall and had lengthy and skinny limbs that resulted in claws.

[Name: Shadow Devourer

Race: False Monster

Stats:

100 Strength

Then a figure popped around the corner and I leapt at it, my sword raised and ready to strike down at the monster.

My sword was just about to come down before a shrill scream came from the Shadow Devourer I had surprised and its claws slashed at my arm, pushing my sword to the side.

Its shadowy face morphed to open a jaw that was impossibly wide to take a bite at me but I stunned it with a quick cast of [Static Shock].

That gave me on a regular basis I wanted to reposition myself to decapitate its head with my sword, killing it immediately.

I frowned on the monster I had simply defeated, it appeared nearly prefer it knew I used to be hiding across the nook because it reacted nearly instantly to my assault.

I then observed that there was one other physique on the bottom, this time it was the higher half of a Rejmar corpse, most certainly belonging to a different poor Dungeoneer that was killed by this Shadow Devourer.

Then I observed that in one in all his arms was a warhammer that will have in all probability been as tall as he was.

This man was the identical Rejmar that we got here throughout preventing the Rat Stalker and smashed its head to bits. I suppose his occasion should have been caught up within the magic circle that teleported them right here too.

Meaning… Was everybody on that ground teleported right here?

I made a decision to go looking somewhat bit extra and went again to the hall I had come from, hoping to see if I might discover different Dungeoneers that had been additionally caught within the entice.

There have been so lots of them on that ground that we had been operating into one other occasion each few dozen steps so in the event that they had been all despatched right here, it should not be too troublesome to search out one other one proper?

One which wasn’t lifeless not less than.

As I entered the hall, I heard mushy footsteps coming from additional right down to my left. It appeared like somebody was making an attempt to maintain quiet however was failing to try this.

I received Zwei to return to my shadow once more earlier than I solid [Shadow Glide] as soon as extra and headed in the direction of the route of the footsteps.

There was an intersection up forward and the sound was coming from the left path.

I had my sword out simply in case the footsteps turned out to belong to a monster and I turned the nook whereas eradicating my Umbra spell, able to combat.

Fortuitously, what I noticed was one other Rejmar who gave the impression to be particularly startled to see me.

He shortly raised his protect along with his mace prepared by his facet, “You! What have you ever completed to my comrades?!”

I lowered my blade, “I am in the identical scenario as you. You bought caught up within the magic circle and awoke in a cell did not you?”

He narrowed his eyes, “You one other Dungeoneer then?”

I nodded, “I used to be additionally separated from my occasion. Have you ever seen anybody else round whilst you had been strolling right here?”

“Tsk. If I had, do you assume I’d nonetheless be wandering round alone? Do not suppose you’ve both?”

I shook my head, “Sadly, I solely got here throughout two lifeless Rejmars, each of them killed by Shadow Devourers. I wasn’t–”

“Wait, wait… Did you say Shadow Devourers?”

“Sure? Are they actually unhealthy information or one thing?”

His eyes widened earlier than furrowing to glare at me, “Do you not know what it means for us to see Shadow Devourers?! Now shouldn’t be the time to even be tal–”

There was a shift within the air and one thing dropped down behind him, proper earlier than his head was separated from his physique.

Ah fuck, come on… I used to be speaking to him, you bastard.