Only one of them managed to survive. The three scouting squads had all been attacked almost simultaneously by the underground tendrils. The creatures beneath the soil had moved silently below their feet without any of the scouts realizing it until it was already too late.
Now it became horrifyingly clear what had truly happened.
The gigantic abominations rising into the sky had never been the real attack. Those colossal creatures had distracted the scouts and filled them with fear while the smaller flesh tendrils moved underground unnoticed. By the time the scouts focused on escaping from the giant monsters, the corrupted creatures beneath the earth had already surrounded them from below.
Then they burst upward all at once.
The men and women within the scouting squads never had any real chance to survive.
Because of that, only a single scout remained alive now. A young man from one of the squads who possessed the fastest running speed among them.
