Legend had it that the stars in the sky were alive.
Legend had it that the life within the stars was terrifying.
Legend had it...
"Goddammit!" Zhao Si cursed.
The meteorite crisis had passed, and a new problem had appeared.
Drawn together by purple arcs of electricity, the meteorite fragments around them reassembled into a bull-like stone lifeform.
Unlike a bull, this lifeform had a pair of enormous beetle-like pincers on its head.
It was also much larger than a bull, and rather than flesh and blood, it was made entirely of meteorite.
When the monster charged, arcs of gravity trailed around it as it rampaged with wild abandon.
A fallen star turned beast, a beast of fallen stars-they were more or less the same thing, without any particular name.
Presumably, anyone who encountered this sort of monster was gored to death before they had time to name it.
Few people had seen one afterward, and even those who had were busy fighting it, not thinking up a pleasant-sounding name.
For simplicity's sake, call it a Fallingstar Beast.
These beasts that fell from the sky were secondary. They were not the main course; at most, they were a side dish.
The real problem was the thing inside the huge meteorite Zhao Si had split open last.
The thing was enormous, looking like a dragonfly magnified countless times.
Its body was wildly disproportionate, too, with several legs resembling human hands.
It had a skull for a head, with enormous pincers beside its mouth as well.
Its dragonfly-like wings fluttered gently, while a single purple eye peered out through a break in the skull.
Its body seemed to consist of countless bubbles, and it was hard to say exactly what the thing was.
A huge tail curled and swung through the sky.