Pale Abomination, Arson Maniac

At three and a half meters tall, it had a lanky body, a torso like dry bones, and pale skin devoid of texture, like the skin of a deep-sea fish with its scales stripped away. One arm was thick, long, and covered in tumors, while the other was thin and short, like a withered branch.

Its head in particular was horribly disproportionate. One eye was huge, the other tiny. It seemed to have no eyelids and could not close its eyes; only the tumors around its sockets could tremble together and close slightly.

Its eyeballs were also vastly different from human ones.

There were no whites and no pupils, only three dots scattered amid a purple-red haze. The three dots formed an irregular triangle. Looking closely, one would discover that they were not round at all, but had an irregular radiating shape.

It was as though three fissures could tear open from those dots at any moment, allowing something strange and venomous to peer into the human world through them.

The gigantic abomination let out an enraged hiss. Its shrill, piercing cry carried terrifying force, making the flames on the ancient tree flutter wildly and causing the nearest "egg" to explode at once.

Pale-purple viscous fluid gurgled out and spread everywhere, and a naked body slumped out along with it. The person who flowed out was the woman who had leaped into the tree hollow earlier. In that brief time, it was as though part of her had been digested. Her hair, eyelids, and lips had all vanished, and inhuman traits had even appeared on her body.

The "prematurely born" body trembled, then screamed. It seemed that some awareness of being that woman still remained, and she cried out in collapse at what had happened to her.

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