Rohan twisted around mid stride despite every survival instinct telling him not to look.
And what he saw stopped him cold in his tracks.
The new E rank Elite — the one he suspected was the real queen of this beast nest — was gone.
It hadn't escaped, or been killed in the ordinary sense.
It was gone.
Completely obliterated.
The Hollow Tide Burst had detonated half inside the tunnel of flesh that the Poison Rocksnake Pike had carved through its abdomen, and the result was beyond anything Rohan had expected.
The beast's whole lower torso had been turned inside out. Great slabs of chitin and wet crimson-black flesh had been blown outward in every direction, plastering the entrance walls and ceiling in a gruesome spray.
