Chapter 1406 – Krath Assault!

The ‘yolk’ of the egg reveals itself to be even more disgusting than what I had supposed. As the ant line behind me prepares for battle, the goop sprayed into the air turns out to be an entire colony of semi-liquid grasping hands. They flutter through the air before raining down onto the ground. I get a particularly bad feeling about these hands, so I flex my legs and use an empowered dash to get the heck out of there.

Instead of landing on my carapace, the wriggling hands land on the floor of the tunnel, and that’s where the true grossness is revealed. Like writhing noodles topped with a grasping claw, they latch onto the ground and start pulling themselves towards me. What’s more, they’re fast, way faster than they appear they should be.

With a rising sense of ick, I prepare another wave of Dragon’s Breath and unleash it against the oncoming spaghetti swarm. It’s much more effective than it was against the egg, and I gleefully cook the pasta with the roaring jet of pure flame.

It goes well, at least I think it does, right up until I feel an unbelievable pain latch onto my side.

How in the heck?!

Tilting my head, I can see one of the horrible things has managed to grab hold of me. Instantly, it starts pressing itself against my carapace, burning and melting into the diamond.

Ha! You think you can burn through my gravity compressed diamond that easily? You’re dreaming! Except, I realise rather quickly that isn’t what the noodle arm of doom wants at all. After flattening itself out, it starts sliding across my carapace toward the nearest joint. The moment it arrives, it starts trying to burrow into the gap and burn its way inside me!

GAH! That’s disgusting!

Dragon’s Breath!

Hot! Hot!

Note to self, do not set yourself on fire. Thankfully, my gambit appears to have worked. I don’t detect any trace of the evil goopy thing that tried to slip its way inside my carapace.

Seriously, the monsters in the fifth are just… the worst.

I’d expound upon their many disgusting attributes, but something else demands my attention. Ahead of me, the many sources of waves I detected have resolved into a massed charge of terrifying-looking monsters. Unlike the earlier assaults we suffered from the random Dungeon spawns of the fifth, many of these monsters share a type.

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These aren’t spawns, these are most definitely crafted pets.

Casting my senses forward, I seek out any trace of the slimy foe, and to my surprise, I actually find them.

The Krath are here, they’re actually here! So they weren’t content with just skulking around and watching their feeble plans fall to bits! They summoned a little gumption and came out in the open! I really didn’t think that was in their playbook.