228 228. Hate

The Excavating worms had been moved from their previous lair and planted in that barren environment.

Then, their numbers had been periodically reduced to prevent them from escaping from the dungeon, forcing them to resort to cannibalism or to eat terrain.

The blood of the beasts from two thousand years ago might have been lost, diluted during that huge amount of time, but the will that it carried remained.

It was enough for one beast to start to hate, tainting its body with a firm but weak emotion, for a chain reaction to be generated.

That beast died but its blood was shared among the beast that ate it, awakening a similar will on them.

The same happened to those beasts that continued to spread that contaminated blood.

Then, the cleaning operation would arrive, reducing their numbers and concentrating once again that emotion in fewer specimens, while being slightly increased in might.

Like that, years passed and that cycle repeated itself.