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RUNNING AWAY...\n\nFOOLS.\n\nRUN INTO THE FOREST!\nMOVE!\nTHEY'RE DOOMING THEMSELVES.\nWITHOUT A FIRE, WE'LL FREEZE TO DEATH BEFORE THE NIGHT IS OVER.\n\nUNTIL THE SUN RISES, RUNNING AWAY IS SUICIDE.\nS-SO WHAT?!\nI PREFER FREEZING TO DEATH THAN BEING EATEN BY THAT MONSTER ANYWAY!\nWE NEED TO HIDE!\nCOME ON! FOLLOW ME!\n\nNGH!\nWHAT'S WRONG?\nCAN'T YOU MOVE?!\nCALM DOWN!\n\nWHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?!\nI'M CHAINED TO THAT BIG BASTARD!\nW-WAS HE STILL ALIVE...?\n\nYOU JUST HAD TO THINK ABOUT HOW THINGS COULD GET WORSE, RIGHT, YOU IDIOT?\n\nMUTATION!\n\nTHIS IS NOT RIGHT.\nWHAT IS A TYRANT DOING HERE?!\nTyrant: A Nightmare Creature ranked above Beasts, Monsters, Demons, and Devils. Only creatures of Tyrant class or higher can create minions.\nI'VE NEVER EVEN HEARD ABOUT ANYTHING STRONGER THAN A SINGLE DEVIL APPEARING IN THE FIRST NIGHTMARE.\n\nJUST HOW POWERFUL IS THAT DAMN FATED ATTRIBUTE?!\nFATED\nATTRIBUTE DESCRIPTION: THE STRINGS OF FATE ARE WOUND TIGHTLY AROUND YOU. UNLIKELY EVENTS, BOTH GOOD AND BAD, ARE DRAWN BY YOUR PRESENCE. THERE ARE THOSE WHO ARE BLESSED, AND THERE ARE THOSE WHO ARE CURSED... BUT RARELY BOTH.\n\nWE HAVE TO FINISH IT BEFORE IT FULLY TRANSFORMS!\nHESITATE AND WE BOTH DIE!\nI'LL LOOP THE CHAIN AROUND ITS NECK—\n\nWHEN I GIVE THE SIGNAL, PULL WITH EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT!\nO-OKAY...\n\nNOW!\n\nDIE!\nDIE, YOU BASTARD!\n\n[YOU HAVE SLAIN A DORMANT BEAST, MOUNTAIN KING'S LARVA.]\n\nMOUNTAIN KING... SO THAT'S WHAT IT'S CALLED.\nW-WE...\nWE KILLED IT!\n\nTHREE SECONDS...\nI CAN REST FOR THREE MORE SECONDS.\nKID...\n\nWHAT DO WE DO NOW?\n?\nMORE LARVAE?\nGRR...\n\nFUCK... THIS IS ABSOLUTE HELL.\nI WISH I COULD JUST WAKE UP ALREADY.\n\nCOME AT ME, YOU BASTARDS!","bubble_count":56,"pages_count":22,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"The group's attack by a giant creature scatters them; as those fleeing run toward the forest, the chained youth says they will freeze to death without fire and thinks this is suicide.","spoiler_summary":"The group's attack by a giant creature scatters them; as those fleeing run toward the forest, the chained youth says they will freeze to death without fire and thinks this is suicide. It is revealed that the giant on the ground is still alive and is mutating into a Tyrant. Before the transformation is complete, the duo wraps the chain around its neck and kills the beast, the Mountain King Larva. 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