I Received System to Become Dragonborn Chapter 1373 1373: From The Fissure

From above the valley, the squad leader stared down with widening eyes while the cold wind howled violently around him.

At first, he thought the movent beneath the fissures was only flowing corrupted energy or shifting earth caused by the strange pulses below the ground.

But then the surface beneath the fissures changed again. Sothing massive moved underneath. The enormous dark shape slowly traveled beneath the valley floor while the crimson-black cracks faintly bulged up as it passed below them.

The movent resembled sothing gigantic crawling deep beneath the earth. The squad leader could not see the entire thing clearly because the corrupted energy and mist obscured most of it. But what little he did see imdiately filled him with dread.

The shape looked unbelievably huge. Far larger than any corrupted Magical beast he had ever encountered before. And it did not move randomly.

It moved with purpose. Slowly with heavy movents. Like so ancient monstrous existence was waking up beneath the land of the kingdom.

The fissures themselves seed to react to its movent. The crimson light pulsed stronger while the deep rhythmic vibrations intensified throughout the valley.

They could hear the thumping sounds getting harder and louder.

The squad leader imdiately felt cold sweat forming along his back. Without wasting another second, he descended rapidly from the air.

Wind Magic swirled around his body while he quickly dropped toward the valley floor before landing near the other scouts with heavy expression.

The mont they saw his face, their own expressions imdiately turned uneasy.

One of the scouts stepped forward first.

"What did you see, sir?" the scout asked.

The squad leader remained silent briefly as though struggling to process what he had just witnessed. Then finally, he answered with visibly shaken voice. "There's sothing moving beneath the fissures."

The scouts imdiately froze.

Another scout frowned and asked, "Moving?"

The squad leader slowly nodded.

"It's massive and filled the whole fissure down there," he said. "I couldn't see it clearly through the corruption. But it's alive and moving."

Several scouts instinctively stepped backward.

"The ground also was changing above it while it moved beneath the valley."

The atmosphere imdiately beca suffocating.

One of the younger scouts visibly paled. He asked, "What kind of creature could even be that large?"

Nobody answered him because none of them wanted to imagine the answer.

The squad leader quickly snapped out of his shock. "Contact the king imdiately," he ordered sharply.

The female scout carrying the communication spirit imdiately activated it. Blue light erged from the floating spirit before flickering. Then the light destabilized.

But static-like interference erupted from the spirit repeatedly while distorted noise echoed around them. The scout's expression quickly changed. She tried again but the exact sa thing happened.

Finally, she looked toward the squad leader with alard eyes.

"The spirit communication isn't functioning," she said.

Several scouts imdiately reacted.

"What?"

"That's impossible."

"Spirit communication has never failed before even during the earlier corrupted attacks."

The panic among them imdiately began rising afterward. The squad leader's expression darkened further. Now even their communications were failing. Which ant the situation had already escalated.

The squad leader imdiately made his decision.

"We're leaving. Move back to Leonora now. Full speed," he ordered firmly.

The others imdiately looked toward him. Nobody argued. The scouts instantly turned and began sprinting back toward the kingdom at maximum speed while Magic enhancent runes across their bodies illuminated brightly.

Branches and rocks blurred past them while they rushed through the valley with growing panic inside their chests.

Then suddenly…

BOOOOOMMM.

A deafening sound erupted from behind them. The entire valley shook violently. The ground trembled beneath their feet while enormous vibrations spread throughout the surrounding hills.

Several scouts nearly lost their balance while running. Then another sound followed after that. A horrifying deep roar echoed from the fissures.

Every scout imdiately turned their heads backward. What they saw behind them made terror spread across their faces instantly.

The gigantic fissures had begun glowing brighter than before. Crimson-black light burst violently from the cracks while corrupted mist exploded into the air like smoke from an erupting volcano.

The ground continued shaking beneath their feet while the deep rhythmic thumping beneath the earth beca louder and faster.

The younger scouts could barely hide the fear inside their expressions anymore. Then suddenly another roar echoed across the distant lands.

But this ti it did not co from the valley behind them. It ca from far away and another direction.

The scouts instantly realized what that ant. The other fissures in another location that the other squad found had also beco active.

One of the scouts imdiately looked toward the distant forest with a pale face. "Oh no…" he muttered weakly.

Then another roar answered from even farther away. The squad leader's expression darkened completely.

"Move faster!" he shouted loudly. "Don't stop running!"

The scouts imdiately forced more Magic energy through their bodies. Their enhancent runes glowed brighter while they accelerated through the wilderness at full speed.

Fear now fully spread through the group. None of them even attempted maintaining formation perfectly anymore. Survival instincts had already taken over.

Behind them, the fissures continued erupting violently.

Then sothing enormous finally erged from the valley. The ground exploded.

A colossal serpentine body burst out from the fissures while corrupted earth and shattered rocks scattered across the entire valley floor. The creature's enormous body twisted up unnaturally while crimson-black corruption Magic flowed across it like boiling blood vessels.

Most of the scouts did not dare turn around anymore. They only kept running desperately toward Leonora while panic filled their minds.

But the squad leader looked back once.

And he imdiately regretted it.

His eyes widened with horror. The thing erging from the fissures was not a normal beast.

Its body looked like countless corrupted beasts had been lted together into one gigantic abomination. Massive chunks of flesh continuously moving and squirming across its serpentine form while different beast bodies protruded grotesquely from everywhere.

He could see wolf heads embedded into the sides of the creature's neck. Lion jaws opened and roared from beneath layers of flesh. Partially fused elephant skulls jutted out from its body while twisted limbs clawed endlessly against the air as if the creatures fused into it were still alive.

So parts looked half-lted together while others continued moving independently in horrifying ways.

The creature did not even possess one proper face. Its entire body was made from suffering and corruption fused into that moving flesh.

The squad leader felt his entire body turn cold. His instincts scread at him to keep looking away. But he could not stop himself from staring for one more second.

Then dozens of glowing crimson eyes suddenly opened across the creature's enormous body simultaneously. All of them looked directly toward the fleeing scouts.

The squad leader imdiately gritted his teeth hard afterward while forcing down the fear threatening to overwhelm him.

"Keep running!" he roared at the others while turning away from the monster and sprinting even faster toward the kingdom walls far in the distance.

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