Amoros had only just brought the sea monster back to her lair when she suddenly sensed an utterly evil power erupt from the center of Oldtown. Every scale on her body stood on end.
Without a moment to spare, she hurriedly tossed the hatchlings onto her back, snatched up the sea monster's carcass, and fled toward King's Landing.
After devouring almost half the sea monster's carcass, the hatchlings had miraculously grown to half a meter long. Terrified by that dreadful power, they huddled on Amoros's back like frightened kittens, not daring to move.
Baby dragons really did feel safer with their mother around!
Meanwhile, Aposos and the other two great dragons, who had been feasting at Oldtown's docks, immediately stopped eating and took to the air, warily watching the eerie black vapor rising from the center of the city.
Only the big-headed great dragon Himolos picked up her remaining half of the sea monster, eating as she watched.
The first things to emerge with the black vapor were dozens of enormous tentacles, each over two hundred meters long, coated in slime, rough, and covered with spikes. They slowly reached out like vicious beasts searching for prey, effortlessly crushing the stones on the ground wherever they passed.
As though they had eyes of their own, the tentacles smashed every building within reach to pieces. It was as if the creature had been born for the sole purpose of destruction.
It was rotten to the core, unable to tolerate anything whole or beautiful.
Some wealthy households had ignored Rouge's instructions to shelter underground. Now the tentacles found them and skewered them like candied fruit on a stick.
Then an enormous body slowly emerged from the black mist. Bloated and twisted, it looked exactly like a giant ball of flesh stitched together from