A low, heavy panting came through the gray fog of early morning. A massive body moved slowly, gradually revealing its true form before Gelman and Ging.
It was a Greater Species, shaped like a swollen, vicious boar Demi-human. Two tusks jutted from its mouth.
A twisted metal crown sat on its head, and its powerful arms gripped a cleaver that could easily split a carriage in two.
Its skin was covered in bumps and bite marks. A mass of intestines spilled from its disemboweled belly, hanging like an apron and hiding its legs.
Behind the Greater Species followed an unremarkable Lesser Species, another boar Demi-human. About Gelman and Ging's size, with all its limbs intact, it snarled as if emboldened by its powerful companion.
This was the "Pigman God" and its little pig lackey. The "Pigman God" was undoubtedly a terrifying Enhancer.
Gelman and Ging turned around at the same time and looked behind them.
Another cloud of black mist surged out from there. The Flesh Monsters they had encountered along the way squirmed toward one another and gathered together.
They bit, joined, and fused with one another, making strange squelching sounds. Before long, a Greater Species Flesh Monster appeared, pieced together like a centipede.
This was the "Formless Flesh," a Transmutation monster on par with the "Pigman God."
The "Pigman God" and the "Formless Flesh," together with the many more Flesh Monsters surging in from all around, soon formed a ring around Gelman and Ging.
"Tch." Ging complained, "Didn't Dong say he'd get here first and help us clear out the monsters? Where'd he disappear to?"
"Maybe he ran into some trouble." As Gelman replied, he took out the Gu Yuan Badge.
Bzz—
Gelman conjured the "Painful Bloodlust Apostle's Remnant," directing it at the "Formless Flesh."
Flesh was the