"Roar~~"
The ear-splitting shriek rang out as a several-meter-tall monster rose upright and lunged viciously forward. The instant it bit down on its prey's neck, it twisted its body and swung the similarly shaped Hollow in front of it around.
"Arghhh~~"
A pained scream kept coming from the bitten Hollow's mouth as its enormous body rolled frantically, kicking up a skyful of white sand.
But no matter how it struggled, the upright Hollow's jaws remained as immovable as iron pincers.
As time passed, the ambushed Hollow gradually stopped struggling. In the end, even the spiritual pressure surrounding its body began to fade away.
No...
Strictly speaking, it had not disappeared. It was gradually being devoured.
The humanoid Hollow looked at the prey before it. Its bone mask split open at the mouth, and it bit down on the prey's mask in one bite. A flicker of emotion faintly surfaced in its otherwise emotionless eyes.
But in the next second...
The world in its eyes suddenly turned upside down. Confusion flashed through its gaze. It was only when it saw the headless corpse on the ground that it realized what had happened.
Behind the headless corpse, another humanoid Hollow had appeared at some point. Unlike the first, however, it had a pair of forelimbs shaped like a mantis's sickle blades.
Before it could take a closer look, its head fell into the bloody maw of the Hollow with the sickle-like forelimbs.
The mantis Hollow let out a somewhat delighted laugh. Before the laughter ended, an even larger figure appeared behind it and swallowed half of its upper body in one bite.
This time, the Hollow that appeared was an upright... sheep!
Its upright posture made it look humanoid, but its physical features leaned more toward a beast than those of the