79. New Monsters

"Hurry up! Collect all the materials before the dungeon's gate closes!!" An old man ordered the miners, he was in his late 50s, or that's what is obvious for who sees him. That man who had a name tag written on it "Josh" kept yelling at the tired workers and rushing them to finish their work faster or they will be left to rotten in the dungeon with whatever surviving beasts.

"Come on! Come on!! You lazy pricks!!" He punched an old man and dropped him head first causing him to get a terrible head injury. The old man's head kept bleeding and no one dared to help him because they feared to end up like him.

They focused on their work and left the man to struggle by himself. A few minutes passed and the body stopped struggling, it laid flat on the cold ground, and the skin turned pale and became cold. It became motionless like a puppet's strings cut.

"Tsk, hurry up! We're leaving!" Josh called out for everyone and walked first to the dungeon's gate before the rest followed him.

All along, the dead body was suddenly surrounded by darkness, tall and slender fingers patted it before a head appeared from down, "poor little thing, you didn't get the chance to live the life you wanted. I see big dreams but abilities to bring them" the black thing whispered sending shivers down every living creature's spine, "come forth, and get back your rights from those monsters"

Everyone froze in place and sweat started forming on their foreheads, they wanted to move but their bodies were stuck in place.

Suddenly a huge black shadow appeared from behind and moved beneath them before it showed up in front of them, big grey eyes stared down at them before a huge white smile grew wider with every second passing. Horror filled their hearts and their bodies trembled but they could do nothing but stare at the huge thing in front of them.

the smile grew wider and became a circle with something glowing inside. The first to enter that hole was Josh. The mouth swallowed him and silence filled the place for few seconds before sounds of screams and something ripping grew louder, there was also the noises of swinging blades and crunchs.

A few minutes passed with only those noises until silence filled the place again, The grey eyes, which were closed, opened and stared down again at the group of trembling bodies, cold sweat kept dripping down from their foreheads to the suddenly bloody ground.

the black thing smiled again before a heavy voice with a feminine one came out of it, "you enjoyed watching me/him die, now it's my/his turn to enjoy watching"

The black shadow launched at them and swallowed them all ar one time, screams and swinging blades filled the place, there was nothing but their noises in the dungeon. The gate remained open and the black creature walked out of it in a flash before anyone sensed its mana.

"Oh? You must be master's new pet. Come, let's go see her, she's waiting for you~" Ophelia chirped while walking the black creature to a gate she had opened. The black thing changed its form and turned into a little puppy, "ruff!" it said while jumping after her excited to meet his master, the one who saved it and gave it a second chance in life.

"This is bad" a man said, "I don't know what kind of monster is that, but I know it's nothing we have registered in our data" Earth showed up from behind and stared at the dead bodies which were in a terrible state to be recognised, a shiver went down their spine while walking away.

The breeze blew again colder than before and Earth's worries increased with that, "this is REALLY bad"