Tyre! (Twenty-Three)

Guk raised his mechanical claw and pointed it at the ghoul Wizard.

He made the barrel mounted beneath his claw flash and roar just once. The loathsome Wizard's head and shoulders vanished in a cloud of pink mist, while what remained of his body flew off the rocks as if someone had violently yanked his corpse from behind.

With the Wizard's death, the remaining ghouls immediately scattered without the slightest hesitation.

Guk did not pursue them. He bent down, scooped up a handful of blood-mixed standing water with one huge hand, and splashed it over his face.

Then he rose and strode toward Alan at the roadside embankment.

"Damn it! We have to get out of here!"

Only then did the other two besides Alan react. Just as they dared turn and run, something unexpected happened again.

ROAR~!

The thing appeared with almost no warning, save for massive bubbles churning up from the pool.

Guk sensed the ground rumbling as the giant creature surfaced and immediately turned around.

Behind him, a pool flooded with standing water could barely contain the monster.

It tore through the ground with its scale-covered body and clawed limbs, then suddenly leaped onto the roadside, opening its huge mouth at the scent of blood.

The inside of that enormous maw was corpse-pale, exuding waves of unbearable ammonia stench. Its dense, sharp teeth were like serrated spears made of pale yellow coral.

Snorting, it heaved its bloated body onto the ground and let out a deep, rasping roar, its rumbling like a train approaching from afar.

A closer look revealed that it vaguely possessed a human outline, but its lower body was swollen and revolting like a fat maggot, constantly secreting pale yellow slime.

For some special reason, Alan recognized this monster. It was called a Glutton