Chapter 2522: "Lahmu"
That day, the waters of the Persian Gulf at the edge of Mesopotamia were completely polluted by black mud, gradually turning into a Black Sea.
The Black Sea continued to erode the ocean, assimilating it bit by bit while emanating an evil, hateful, and ominous aura.
And from within that Black Mud, monsters slowly began to emerge.
They were strange creatures that were pitch-black all over and hideously ugly.
Each creature had legs as sharp as spears. Its body was elongated, and where its head should have been, it had neither eyes nor facial features—only a huge mouth with a long tongue and a row of white teeth. The sight was deeply unsettling.
Even more unsettling were the sounds that came from those creatures' mouths.
"s@4r;f@"
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"Utj,utj."
"6d5w,6d5w,uit@,e7uk."
They were utterly chaotic and incomprehensible, sounding like several children babbling nonsense. No one could make heads or tails of them.
Listening to those sounds produced an instinctive sense of rejection and discomfort, just like the creatures' appearances did.
Every feature of these monsters seemed designed to challenge the limits of human tolerance, making them both revolting and terrifying.
Yet the monsters continued emerging from the sea one after another. Eventually, they came ashore and scattered in every direction across the land of Mesopotamia.
This scene had already continued for several hours.
Ever since Gorgon had been defeated and the ocean polluted by Black Mud, these monsters had constantly emerged from the sea, come ashore, and spread in every direction, covering the land of Mesopotamia.
If the beasts had previously been the primary inhabitants of Mesopotamia, then now the entire land had been taken over by these monsters.
The beasts had already died alongside Gorgon, who had given birth to them. In their place were these children created