Chaos and Unease

Hm!?

Instinctively, Green swung the Blood-Rage Sword in his hand at the tentacle coiled around his right foot.

After a shrill cry, the tentacle was severed. Half remained wrapped around Green's foot, while the other half swiftly burrowed into the ground. A great deal of foul-smelling green fluid sprayed from the wound.

Ignoring the fleeing attacker, the Blood-Rage Sword nimbly swept to his side, swiftly slicing through the shadowy figure of a tentacled monster lunging at him and cutting it in two. At the same time, Green's other hand shot out and seized the Abyssal creature pouncing toward him.

This Abyssal creature resembled a small octopus. Its leaping and concealment abilities were exceptional; its earlier jump had been aimed straight at Green's face. Now caught in Green's hand, its dozen-odd powerful tentacles struggled ceaselessly, trying to snap his palm.

"Evil Fiend?"

Evil Fiends were an extinct species of Abyssal creature recorded in the texts of the Wizard World. They possessed terrifying parasitic abilities. Like nightmare creatures, once they parasitized a host, that host would become a puppet shell under the Evil Fiend's control.

"So this really is a sealed ancient battlefield. There are even Abyssal creatures here that can only be found in old records."

Smack!

Suddenly, under the cover of several Evil Fiends, the Evil Fiend that had first ambushed Green and lost a tentacle landed on his back. A needle-like tube spun as it tried to bore through the black scales covering Green's body, its piercing howl chilling the mind.

After using the Blood-Rage Sword to kill the other Evil Fiends lunging at him, Green kept the one in his hand as a precious specimen. With a cold sneer, pfft, pfft, pfft, three bone spikes pierced the Evil Fiend on his back. Green fluid flowed out, and the