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The Flesh started to move, some parts of it were burned but those wounds slowly disappeared. This process happened many times until the Flesh moved.

Hundreds of souls mourned inside, the lump of flesh enlarged. It began to destroy the basement.

Duke Obata watched it, he laughed so loud. The voices reverberated and the room cracked. The ceiling fell and Duke Obata didn't move. He let the rubbles buried him.

He continued laughing even though his body got crushed. He wasn't scared of any wounds or injury, he could heal himself.

*Guaahhh…*

The large flesh came out and expanded more. It didn't stop enlarging. The red veins were visible and the cracks on stitches were glowing.

The creature was fully awake.

Together with the hundreds of souls and the energy of the Light, a new monster was created.

*Guaahhh……*

It started to walk, dozens of feet stooped on the ground. It looked like a caterpillar, a disgusting caterpillar.

Yuusha regained his clarity, the first thing he saw was a giant flesh walking. This time, he heard hundreds of sounds assaulting him.

"Ack!!"

His ears were ringing, the hundreds of sounds pierced him. He gasped in pain, his face was red and he couldn't focus.

"Gaah!"

This was his first time experiencing this. When he got this new Gift, he became sensitive to human emotions. He always heard their sadness, happiness, or suffering. Each emotion had a different rhythm and tone. Sometimes, the emotions were music to his ears, and sometimes not.

And right now, hundreds of sounds attacked him. And all of them had the same emotions, hatred, sadness, suffering, and wrath. Yuusha felt stabbing pain. He realized how fragile human emotions are.

…………………

Donovan and Christopher ran to the Baudan, but they stopped when they heard a wailing sound.

*Gaooooohhhh*

"… What's that?"

Donovan felt the tremor on the ground, he got high sensitivity because of his Path. Every part of his body received goosebumps hearing the wail…

*Bang!*

They heard a loud stepping sound.

"Oh no…"

Christopher received a notification. The future changed and this event never happened in his book…

In his story, the creature didn't wake up. Duke Obata didn't wake the creature because he believed it was still incomplete… then what happened? Why did he awaken the Flesh?

Even in the early versions of the Auburn War, the Flesh didn't wake.

"Did I made a mistake?"

Christopher weakly muttered. There was only one reason that he could think of. He interfered and changed the future into the worst possible outcome.

The Civil War should end after two weeks and Duke Obata got defeated. However, because of Christopher and the Gate, the scenario moved fast and the timeline changed. Christopher interfered because he wanted to end the civil war as soon as possible.

Christopher was eager to save his parents that's why he didn't think about the possibility that Duke Obata would awaken the creature if he was cornered.

Now, he must solve this unknown problem.

He clenched the plute on his palms. He didn't have enough information about this creature. In the first place, this creature wasn't even described in his book. He only wrote it like this, Duke Obata experimented with thousands of people to create a new creature. That's all.

"Donovan let's go!"

He urged him. Donovan gulped and nodded, he was not sure if he could fight that creature.

The sun started to rise, the plan of infiltrating the Baudan succeeded. However, they got another problem.

An alien creature was now crawling in the city.

………………

*Guaaahhhhh*

The Flesh moved forward, anything that blocked its path was destroyed.

"Aaaahhhhh!!"

"Please help me!!!"

The citizens ran away from the creature but they failed. The arms of the creature extended and grasped them. The citizens fought back but more arms touched them. They struggled to break free, the arms held them tightly and pulled them towards the body.

"Nooo!!"

The Flesh started to devour them. It opened its mouth and ate them. Its hundred of eyes looked for people, it was still hungry. It wants to satisfy its hunger.

*Guaaaahhh!*

It cried and advanced. Every people that it saw would be eaten. The Flesh watched the place hunting for people to eat, the sun was starting to rise. Its vision became clearer and the eyes moved differently.

On the road, a child was crying. His knee was injured and he was looking for his mama.

"Mama… waahh… mama!"

He didn't know that his mother was already dead. The child cried out calling his mother. He didn't saw the arms coming at him.

"Waahhh!!!"

The arms continued and grabbed the kid. The child was frightened, he screamed and pulled the flesh out of him. But the arms were stronger, it dragged the kid.

"Waahhh mama, mamaaa!!!"

The kid screamed.

Fortunately, a man heard his voice. Julian cast water blades and cut the arms. He caught the kid and inspected him. The kid had bruised but it was not fatal.

"Waahh!!"

"Your Highness!!"

Julian's retainers appeared. The Prince changed his direction when he heard the wailing and the retainers followed him.

All of them stared at the unknown creature.

"W- what is that!?"

Nobody knew the answer. A grotesque creature with hundreds of eyes, arms, and feet. It looked like bodies attached to each other.

One of the retainers puked. He couldn't endure the scene.

Julian realized that the creature was eating the people. Its body became larger every time he ate them.

"This…"

Julian witnessed many things, but this one gave him chills to his core. Fear, he was afraid of the creature. Except for the Goddesses, he thought no one could scare a Master. However, his principles changed when he saw the creature.

He could see his death if he fought it. He perceived large numbers of existences inside the Flesh.

The Flesh didn't care about them and it continued to hunt people. It got bigger, Julian decided that he must prevent the creature from eating or else it would enlarge.

"Listen, I want you to take all of the people away from that. No matter what, don't let yourself be touched."

The retainers paused, they didn't reply, they were afraid too. Julian turned to them, his eyes trembled just like them. However, he didn't run away. Julian cast his spell.

"As the first Prince of the Cransia Empire! I command you, save all of the people!!"

He said to them with conviction. The retainers steel themselves and all of them said.

"Yes, Your Highness!!"

Julian began to attack the Flesh.