The cavern trembled as the Cardinal of Gluttony advanced, its lumbering steps sending tremors through the flesh-like ground.
The ground itself seemed to lose its color and life as this beast constantly devoured; those that were close to it, rushing in crazed fashion, would somehow stick to the strange monster as if magnetized by an unseen force.
Its grotesque belly pulsed and squirmed as though something alive tried to crawl out from inside.
The beast opened its maw, and a roar bellowed forth, and a deep, wet sound that seemed to shake the marrow in their bones.
"Brace yourselves!" Emeros shouted, sensing terror coil up his spine.
"Behind us!" Throvald called and saw the beast behind them charging at them, its claws scraping the walls, leaving streaks of burning slime.
"Focus on the front! That thing will eat everything in its path! Take its attack and let it kill all those behind us!" Emeros ordered.
