The One Who Only Wants to Take My Wife Away? Who the Hell Are You, Some Otherworldly Homewrecker? 1830

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The battle on the surface had become so brutal that even the fearless newbies were yelling, "Holy crap!" But the fight underground was no easier.

On the surface, Vilanthia had used the Spider Lady's divine magic to restrain the Burning World demons with a vast, invisible web. Underground, Murphy and his little players had more to deal with than just the few Burning World demons who'd been stopped. A dozen or so Chaos eggs, previously restrained and drained by the power of the Warp, had also "hatched."

The Burning World demons at least had something resembling a human shape. These hatched Chaos eggs were the very definition of "whatever grows, grows."

They were Chaos vanguards corrupted from gnolls, so they still vaguely resembled their gnoll "prototypes." But all their fur had fallen out, replaced by rotting scales, and their bodies were studded with huge mouths that gaped through their flesh. Those things were as mentally corrosive as lampreys.

Some had grown extra claws, while others had developed strange tentacles. One was especially outrageous: it had three extra claws, two mouths—one in front and one in back—eight eyes, and six tentacles like an Old God's visage. It had even grown a mismatched pair of scorpion pincers.

This degree of mutation wasn't some "advanced modification" any random gnoll could undergo. The Warp's ravaging of flesh still depended on the subject's ability to endure it. In other words, the fact that this one could be twisted so horribly meant it had been a skilled fighter even before the process.

So, while operating Omega's purification program to kill a Burning World demon, Murphy took a moment to cast a Scan spell on the creature too:

``` Name: Child of Chaos · Gnoll Mutant Manson Bloodscar

Template: Warp Creature