Upon arriving at the end of the hallway, the mercenaries were left speechless when they saw the body of a huge monster resting against the wall. The monster was huge enough to reach the ceiling, had black eyes, ferocious fangs and was covered with tentacles all over. While the figure of the creature looked like a gigantic humanoid, and even looked like it had nerves, tendons and other body parts; it was similar to a large slime.

The monster wasn’t moving as Juan had pulled out his heart. The round wound from the cut made the mercenaries feel nauseous.

[A shy’gus.]

Rem muttered as he looked at the monster’s dead body. The mercenaries looked back at him as if they were curious about what he said.

[The tentacle monsters we saw earlier would look like this once they grow up fully.]

“What? This?”

[It’s a type of monster. This one must have grown this big by eating the bodies of the mercenaries. This type of monster spawns tens of thousands of larvae, those tentacle monsters we saw earlier, at once whenever it feels like it’s in danger. So it’s a good thing that we took care of those larvae quickly. Even those who are used to dealing with the Crack are likely to miss the timing if they don’t hurry. I think I can guess where those skeleton soldiers came from. Anyway, I thought these monsters could only be found in...