Reaper's Resurgence - Book 3 - Chapter 65 - The Horror (Patreon)

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Alexia

To my surprise, I don’t end up finding anything in the tunnel for nearly half an hour. Not a single thing.

Other than the gross stuff, that is. And the horrific stuff.

At one point I swear I see a human heart just floating around in the blood within the wall.

This whole final boss area is disturbing as hell.

But I keep moving forward. Keep pressing onwards.

Finding more and more disgusting and disturbing stuff making up the walls, floor, and ceiling of the place. All while the flesh follows my footsteps.

I’m just glad it’s not making a gross squelching sound as I walk.

That would make this so much worse.

I continue walking for another half an hour before I finally run into something. Something that has me questioning just where exactly I am.

It’s a monster, no doubt about that. But it’s in the form of a large worm, with rather squishy and worm-like skin. And it’s the size of a dog with the mouth of a leech.

Most importantly though is the result I see as its identify result.

{Horrific Parasite – Species: Fallen Horrific Parasite – Level 901}

That’s not disturbing in the slightest. Nor is the fact that it came out of the liquid making up the ceiling. Just kinda fell out and splashed onto the flesh that quickly met its fall on the ground.

And now I stare as it slowly wiggles over to me.

I wonder… I have a theory about this place judging by that creature’s name, but I really don’t want it to be true.

The monster doesn’t give me much time to think about that theory though as it jumps right at me. And out of instinct, I try to swat it away, only for the monster to attempt to latch onto my arm with some sort of small mouth that jumps out of its larger mouth.

But my physical damage immunity makes all of that null and void when the inner mouth passes right through my hand and the monster follows after, landing on the ground. Then I turn around, summoning my polearm in the process before thrusting it straight into the creature and the ground beneath it.

I blink in surprise at the result.

Huh.

I killed it in one blow? Just one cut? And my polearm sliced through it like butter…

Why is that?

The thing is almost a hundred levels above me, and it’s clearly a Class A equivalent chaos monster.

A thought comes to mind, and I kneel down before using my polearm to open its mouth. And what I find has me almost gagging before immediately closing its mouth again.

Yeah, that’s disturbing.

Inside of the smaller mouth of the parasite were dozens of tiny worms, each oozing some sort of green liquid. Likely a poison.

I’m really glad I’m immune to physical damage and poison.

Very glad indeed.

A faint shiver runs down my spine at the thought of one of these-

My train of thought is interrupted when I hear a splashing sound, following which something passes straight through me and lands on the flesh beneath me. And when I look down, I spot another parasite. One trying hard to bite onto my foot yet failing miserably.

I stare at the thing for a few seconds before it pauses.

Then something incredibly gross happens.

The thing starts climbing up my foot, surprisingly not passing through. But it doesn’t take me long to figure out why.

It doesn’t seem to be trying to hurt me right now. Just climbing up my foot and then leg.

I quickly cut straight through it, slicing the thing in half with my polearm while teleporting back wards at the same time. Just to make sure none of its insides get on me.

Yeah, I really don’t like this place. I should finish up as soon as I can.

More importantly though, my theory from earlier.

I turn my gaze on the walls of this tunnel.

If there are a bunch of parasites roaming around this place…

I glance at the three more parasites moving out from the liquids in the walls and ceiling. Mostly from the blood.

…then wouldn’t it make sense?

My lips purse for a few seconds before I sigh and finally do it.

I identify the walls of the place.

And immediately grimace.

{The Horror – The Horror of Cataclysm – Level 1000}

Yep. My hunch was correct.

I give a sad smile to the ceiling.

This is the boss.

I’m inside of it right now.

The entire damned last boss area is literally the boss’s insides.

That would certainly explain the parasites. And the name of this place.

The Horror isn’t exactly a normal name for a location after all.

I stare sadly up at the ceiling as the parasites all wiggle their way over to me before trying and failing to bite me.

At least the monsters at the start of this place are weaklings. In terms of my immunity to physical damage at least.

Wouldn’t want to be here without it.

I quickly begin slaughtering every one of the parasites before pressing onwards deeper into the tunnel. Or, I guess, whatever part of the monster’s body I’m currently in.

Not exactly happy that I’m inside of it though.

Wait a second…

I frown before tilting my head down to look at the flesh beneath my feet. And out of curiosity, I summon my polearm again before stabbing straight down into the flesh. Only for said flesh to move out of the way faster than I can stab it, making me stab some sort of metal instead. Sending vibrations down my arms from the sheer impact that has me feeling very uncomfortable for a few seconds.

Right. Stabbing the thing isn’t exactly working out.

Okay, so what if I stab some other part of it? Or, better yet, if I use magic.

I try one thing after another, both implosions and Quantum Bolts, but nothing ever seems to work.

Probably due to the almost two hundred level gap between us.

A pity.

I sigh before continuing on my trek through whatever part of its body I’m currently in.