Ancient Ones

"Dale!"

"An Awakened! A Fifth Stage one!"

Their comrades, who had launched a joint attack just moments ago and were preparing to relocate together, died before their eyes in the blink of an eye.

The brutal sight was enough to horrify anyone.

But the warriors within the Maze had long since tempered their nerves. They reacted swiftly, diving into the surrounding darkness and quickly scattering.

Swish—

On the wall hung with human corpses, the pale finger bone that had just pierced the Maze wall twisted slightly.

Immediately afterward, the power of Source Material flowed through the bones.

Boom—

An explosion erupted in an instant.

White Bone Meal filled the surroundings, while the more aggressive Corruption Poison spread rapidly.

From the breach in the Maze to the cracks in the walls, a deathly white path was opened. The few insectoids still holding out quickly collapsed as well.

"Roar—"

The Mutated Ones continued to pour in.

Mindless and controlled, their momentum did not diminish as they kept moving forward like zombies from a movie.

But this time, there was another figure among the Mutated Ones.

Unlike the low-stage Mutated Ones, whose bodies were visibly warped, whose skin tended toward dark green, and whose flesh was covered in swollen lumps, this was a man dressed in a coarse linen robe, his expression calm.

Even upon close inspection,

there was not a trace of fleshly mutation on him. He looked like an ordinary living human, except his left arm hung limply at his side in an unnatural manner.

As though the bones within it had been completely removed.

"That's him!"

"He's different from the other Mutated Ones. We can't fight him—retreat first!"

"..."

The human warriors naturally recognized that he was extraordinary.

Their long years of battle made them respond correctly. They abandoned any