Just as the familias were all rushing to the Dungeon entrance to lend aid.
Far away in the Great Tree Sea, the Hestia Familia had finally arrived before the final boss, and the last battle was about to begin!
Inside a circular chamber formed from a massive hollow.
The true appearance of the ancient monster, Calamity Scorpion, now entered everyone's eyes—
The chamber was covered in nauseating dark-green pipes. They grew and branched like tree limbs, constantly writhing, their surfaces covered in dark, leech-like patterns. Countless pipes crisscrossed one another, as if they meant to parasitize the entire ruin.
And where those pipes converged, on the round platform at the center of the hall, a gigantic pitch-black scorpion crouched in the middle, its body covered in dazzling patterns like red warning lights.
Its body was incomparably huge, estimated to be over ten meters long. From afar, it looked like a small mountain standing there, its thick tail raised high into the air like a sharp sword pointed straight at the heavens.
Beside its body grew many legs with savage pincers, staggered, chaotic, and densely clustered together, making it look especially twisted.
At the front of its body, that pair of enormous pincers was larger than a person, making anyone who saw them feel fear from the bottom of their heart.
This was the god-slaying beast from ancient times, the Calamity Scorpion that existed only in historical legend.
With such a hideous appearance and such immense might, even from so far away, it made people feel an intense sense of oppression.
"Aryyyyyyyyy—!"
After seeing everyone appear, Andariel's scarlet single eye instantly flashed with a bloodthirsty gleam. A piercing hiss sounded from its mouthparts as it glared furiously at the women.
At this sight, the women's expressions all shook. They immediately grew