Bang!
A tree fell.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
A large swath of trees fell.
In the forest shrouded by night, more than twenty hyena-like creatures with Bone Blades growing from their forelimbs continuously chopped at tree trunks until the trees fell, then swiftly dragged them aside.
They worked efficiently, clearing an open space of more than a hundred square meters in the forest before long.
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
Then came a sound as a bloated Black Beetle the size of a house rapidly flapped its wings and flew over, descending from the sky to land in the center of the newly cleared space.
Gurgle, gurgle!
The Black Beetle's abdomen rumbled as it excreted a large amount of grass-green liquid. It flowed across the ground, solidified, and formed a Fungal Mat.
Gurgle, gurgle!
Another rumble sounded, and the Black Beetle produced eight giant eggs, each a meter in diameter, on the Fungal Mat and began incubating them.
This location was far from the territory of the strange creature swarm. The Black Beetle's arrival was an extremely reckless "airdrop" operation, a method the strange creature swarm used to speed up its territorial expansion.
Such a reckless operation was obviously difficult to conceal. Before long, it drew the attention of nearby creatures.
Rustling sounds rose as beasts and Demonized Creatures appeared around the edge of the clearing. Their eyes glowed with an eerie green light as they stared at the beetle incubating the giant eggs. Within moments, there were already two or three hundred of them.
Roar! Roar!
They growled warnings at the beetle, declaring in the most direct way possible that it was unwelcome here and demanding that it leave immediately.
But the Black Beetle paid them no heed. Ignoring the many beasts and Demonized Beasts, it continued incubating the giant eggs.
**Thump,