"What the hell are those things?!"
Wu Baiyi shouted.
Compared to Shi Zunhou, whose nerves were so thick he reduced every target to numbers,
the others were more shaken by the grotesque shapes of those spawn!
Through the Sky Peng Horizontal's portholes, they could watch the "glorious forms" of the Cthulhu Beast spawn from a certain distance.
Some of the spawn were clearly several warships clustered together in all manner of bizarre poses, with several tentacles sprouting from different parts. Those were relatively normal.
Some were simply warships fused with the main structure of a Space Factory, then festooned with tentacles of varying thickness. Those were still somewhat acceptable.
Others were formed from masses of unknown flesh, gathered together into enormous bodies. Dozens, even hundreds, of faces would periodically appear on different parts of them. They were truly horrifying!
More astonishing still, what met their eyes included several enormous planets—planets with giant human faces!
"After the Cthulhu Beast descended into the material world, the ritual it performed to transform its spawn didn't simply turn members of the Rune Civilization directly into spawn. The spawn created through such a direct transformation would be insignificant in combat, limited by their human bodies.
"Therefore, during the transformation ritual, the Cthulhu Beast used whatever materials were at hand. It drew on various creations of civilization affected by large-scale mutations to generate all sorts of bodies that could house the spawn's souls.
"When souls corrupted by mental contamination combined with mutated creations of civilization, they gave rise to spawn with formidable combat strength.
"All these spawn possess bizarre traits.
"Their bodies are highly resistant to conventional technological weapons, and they seem to have no vulnerable spots. Until their bodies are completely destroyed, they retain considerable vitality and combat strength.
"We generally have to concentrate fire