Inner Potential, Once Again

"What the hell is that—"

The soldier at the very front jumped in fright and instinctively started to shout, but the person beside him covered his mouth the next second.

Looking up, he saw that it was Ta Mi. He had moved remarkably quickly.

Looking toward the monster again, the bizarre creature had not moved at all. It seemed not to have noticed the group's noise.

Ta Mi had done the right thing. They still did not know what this monster was capable of. Who knew what consequences provoking it might bring? What if it self-destructed?

Lu Lu Wo gestured to everyone, and they slowly backed away from the monster.

Crack!

Someone accidentally stepped on a brittle wooden board, and a clear snapping sound rang out through the darkness.

Everyone hurriedly looked toward the monster. It did not react at all.

If not for the swollen thing that could presumably be called its body, which kept pulsing in and out, someone might have classified it as a dead object.

"Has anyone seen something like this before?" Lu Lu Wo asked quietly, glancing up at the monster.

The group exchanged looks, then shook their heads in unison.

"Then let's call that thing a squid for now."

The monsters they had seen in Plague Village earlier had fallen into only three categories: fatties, skinnies, and fire-breathing dogs—all nicknames coined by Lu Lu Wo.

Those monsters had not exactly been easy on the eyes either, but compared to this "squid," they had looked downright handsome. At least they had proper noses and mouths.

And based on the sort of monsters Zane Dungeon tended to produce, a deeply troubling question arose in her mind:

This squid couldn't have been transformed from a human too, could it?

No, there was no way someone could mutate