Chapter 1025 The Shiik


    The beast had grown, and its taste was no longer limited to waiting for the dead to decay, with Rowan''s unceasing draining of the vitality it exuded, the appetite of the creature exploded. No longer a carrion it became a hunter. To sustain its size which was increasing daily, it needed nourishment.


    With its great size which was currently three times bigger than the rest, the beast imed all the corpses in the area for itself, and for a while, it reigned over this area, but its appetite never diminished but continued growing, and soon its existence could no longer be tolerated by the others.


    One by one the others began to attack the ravenous beast, but its size had granted it great strength and it easily overcame the opposition and devoured them, not even waiting for them to decay, because it knew it was now somehow capable of eating all the death energy without being poisoned by life.


    It was even beginning to develop an appetite for hunting and killing instead of waiting and now it attacked any other beast closer to itself.


    However, everything has a breaking point. Inside this ce, resources were getting limited, and the beast not only took over all the avable corpses but was also killing the others, this situation could not go on for much longer.


    On this day they all began to attack, and coincidentally, this was the moment when Rowan''s enhanced consciousness waspleted and released.


    The world slowed down in his perception and he finally observed the ce he had been resurrected.


    Simr to the New Hope Continent after he descended into this world, this ce was a massive crater that extended for miles into the earth, and the light of the sun could not reach it, leaving it in a perpetual state of darkness.


    From above, there were corpses falling from the sky constantly, mostly humanoid and all spotting various gruesome injuries, making it clear that this ce was a garbage dump made for the disposal of bodies.


    He finally had a clear look at these creatures at the bottom of this crater, and they resembledrge spiders that had been crossbred with a crab and a crocodile, ck chitinous armor-like scales covered the top half of their body while below were filled with a brown saggy skin that scrapped the ground as they skittered through the blightedndscape with more than thirty thin limbs that ended at a razor-sharp point.


    The head and thorax of these creatures were nightmare fuel, for they had faces of people, but these faces were now diseased and rotting, with bones thick with diseases and rot showing through. From. their gaping mouths that stretched open to their ears they released mournful howls as if they were in constant pain.


    Each of them was asrge as an elephant, and they carried their bulk very easily, gliding across thendscape like ghosts.


    Because he had been inside the stomach of one, he knew that these creatures were mostly made of nothing else but thisrge organ that processed all the death energy they needed to survive.


    There were thousands of them inside this crater, and although the beast he now inhabited had killed nearly a hundred of them over thest year, it had never been more than three at a time, it might be impossible for it to survive the onught that wasing.


    The beast he inhabited had now be a monster, nearly four timesrger than its counterparts, and its armor was thicker and now had streaks of red running through it. The armor that covered only the top of the body of this creature was slowly growing to cover the entirety of its body, giving it the appearance of a tank.


    However what was amazing was its head and face, unlike the others, it was no longer decaying but it was whole and appeared lifelike. Currently, the face was that of a sleeping woman, with growing red hair. It stood over a pile of corpses and raised several of its front limbs upward, these ones were not only pointed but were thickened, made for shing as well as thrusting attacks.


    Seemingly not caring about the horde bearing down upon it, the monster only widened its stance and silently waited. Unlike the entirety of the army nearing down upon it, this monster no longer made a sound. It appeared to be asleep.


    The first carrion beast to reach it howling like a bat out of hell was slicedpletely in two, same with the three others behind it, the motion of the beast was so fast it was almost a blur. Its size does nothing to slow its speed.


    Greenish-ck blood spewed out from the bisected bodies and the beast used its other limbs to push them aside and receive the attacks of those behind, its limbs rising and falling like multiple reaper scythes.


    In a short while the beast was covered with shrieking bodies, but it silently continued its ughter.


    With his consciousness now free to wander to an extent, another of its functions activated and he instantly understood the name of these creatures. They were called Shiik. When Rowan killed anything with a soul, except for Immortals with dense soul power that could form Soul mountain in his primordial seas and he could not read their memories instantly, mortals were a separate case, their souls werepletely digested by him in an instant, granting him ess to all their memories and knowledge that had acquired in their lives. N?v(el)B\\jnn


    With the pathetic state of his consciousness, Rowan could not ess all his memories, and only with the growth of his body was he able to finally ess parts of the knowledge he must have gained after killing all the mortal beings on New Hope and beyond.


    Although his consciousness was still weak, he was able to ess part of the collective pool of knowledge instinctively, and while he had been referring to these creatures as beasts all this time, he was wrong, they were worse than beasts, they were Cmities.


    From the limited knowledge he could gain from mortals, he knew that the great enemies in this world were referred to as Cmities, these creatures had been around from time immemorial and they had gued this reality for that long, destroying countless lives till this moment it was generally epted that the Cmities were winning this endless war.


    From the memories of mortals he knew there were many levels of power in this world, but he only knew of three presently, the Mortal level, the Enlightened Level, and finally the Heroic level.


    The mortals had their champions, titled Explorers, these were the lucky few who were able to ess the power of this world which was surprisingly Aura and with it, they could walk upon thedder of power.


    The Shiik were Cmities that barely reached the Enlightened level, and they were considered fodder in higher-ranked continents, but useful fodder nheless, due to their unique ability, which was not the consumption of death, basically, All cmities were capable of this feat, no it was the fact that they could generate vitality out of death.


    This crater was not a stronghold of the Cmities, instead, it was the opposite and was a resource site preserved by the Explorers, in this ce they harvested the vitality-infused corpses that the Shiik discarded.