HBWnovel Chapter 57 The Lesser Undead
Chapter 57 The Lesser Undead
Ch.57 The Lesser Undead
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[ MONARCH'S MESSAGE ]
This chapter is slightly gruesome, so for the viewers of faint hearts; beware.
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A Celestial Beast. A Beast that had met specific and yet ambiguous requirements in order to unlock the evolution.
A Celestial Beast didn’t obtain a human form nor the ability to absorb essence freely from the air. However, they obtained the most tyrannical and divine bodies possible that allowed them to be multiple times stronger than other Beasts of the same level.
In fact, some of the more talented Celestial Beasts would be able to fight other Beasts that were a whole realm above them (e.g Realm 4 Stage 5 Celestial Beast fighting against a Realm 5 Stage 5 Regular Beast). It got even more stupendous when such Celestial Beasts were Laws Beasts at the same time.
But that was for another time.
Right now, Eridel had much more pressing issues. Somewhat unexpected but at the same time it was to be expected.
HUMANITY WAS FAILING!
In a regular World, there shouldn’t be a situation where an Enlightened Race was at the bottom of the food chain but here it was!
Ants and rats were casually bullying humans, lower-mid level life forms like wolves were enforcing humans as servants and higher level life forms like the Dragons and Snakes were straight up enslaving them or using them as cattle! A DISGRACE!
As an ex-human and current elite Planetary Engineer, Eridel could not let such an imbalance persist!
Eridel zoomed his attention to the North Continent and a group of Human teenagers that were running frantically through a forest.
The picture of desperation and despair could be found on each of their faces, clearly something was chasing them. And alas, the sound of a rustling bush was heard and an indistinguishable shadow appeared with a shocking speed that the children were unprepared for.
Besides the girl who was running a couple metres in front of him there were 3 other people much further ahead, they were 2 boys and 1 girl and part of the new family they were forming.
His heart warmed when the 3 in the front turned around and started making gestures for them to run faster.
He took a quick glance back and was pleased with the distance they had made, the cannibals always took time to eat before resuming chase.
They should be able to ma-
CSSSSSHH!
Huh?
Neither the boy or girl could comprehend the image of their 3 companions suddenly becoming headless as their heads soared into the sky in a trail of blood.
What was even more jarring was the fact the bodies still kept running for a few more seconds as blood was ejected in copious amounts.
Soon, humanoid figures started appearing over the bodies with some getting straight to business and some of them eyeing the boy and his last living friend.
These humanoids actually looked exactly like humans but neither of them was actually whole. They either had a large amount of flesh missing from their bodies or were complete skeletons. Some were more complete than others but some you would NEVER confuse for a living being.
They were cannibals.
But Eridel would prefer to call them lesser undead.
The girl dropped to her knees with a look of horror as her companions were devoured whilst the boy completely stopped running. He didn’t even bother to look at the scene and merely gazed at the ground with soulless eyes as his body passively tried to regather oxygen.
The picture of defeat.
“Um... would you guys like some help?”