[A/N: Bonus Chapter for reaching 200 Power Stones! Weekly Goal achieved!]
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Chapter 192: The King of Treachery
The cavern shook as the King Level Beast unleashed a deafening, overlapping roar.
The colossal, million-eyed heart pulsed violently. The massive parasitic worms tethering the heart to the World Tree's roots began to thrash.
At the head of each worm, the fused human faces stretched impossibly wide. Their jaws dislocated, tearing at the seams.
A torrential tidal wave of boiling, pitch-black acid erupted from the screaming mouths.
"Scatter!" Lucien yelled.
Draven did not run. He simply shifted his weight, taking two calm, precise steps to the right.
The highly corrosive acid splashed against the obsidian ridge mere inches from his boots, instantly melting the heavy stone into a bubbling puddle.
Lucien darted to the left, his silver boots a blur of motion.
Nyx did not dodge. She simply ceased to exist.
