After the Parasitic Mother Empress died, the Otherworlder army swiftly collapsed. They abandoned the fight and scattered into the darkness.
The savage zombies began their hunt in earnest.
Blood Fiend led the charge, racing straight after the Carrion Beast King.
After all, that was the last SSS Crystal Core.
Mutated blood erupted from his hand, forming a blood chain that wrapped around the beast king's thigh again.
"Trying to run? Not so easy!"
"Roar!"
The beast king roared in pain. He did not want to linger for even a moment; all he wanted was to leave immediately.
He swung his sharp claws straight at his own leg.
Crack!
Amid the crunch of breaking bones and the sound of tearing flesh, he forcibly snapped off his own leg, sacrificing it to survive.
Freed from the blood chain, he landed on his three remaining limbs and fled desperately for his life. With a single bound, he shot hundreds of meters away.
He left a trail of filthy blood in his wake.
Blood Fiend had not expected this brute to be so ruthless. Watching the receding figure, he could only give chase again.
The Carrion Beast King was fast, but his injuries were too severe.
When he glanced back, he saw Blood Fiend closing in.
Blood-red light splashed around Blood Fiend, and another blood chain formed in his hand, whipping toward the beast king.
Growing desperate, the Carrion Beast King looked ahead and spotted a pitch-black fissure, like a bottomless abyss.
He had no time to hesitate. He immediately leaped into the fissure.
The blood chain swept past behind him, striking empty air.
"Damn it!"
Before Blood Fiend's eyes, the beast king vanished from sight.
Without much hesitation, he jumped into the abyss as well.
Boundless darkness instantly swallowed him.
The darkness did