Host, Please Be Honest! What Exactly Are You?

Instantly, their anxiety increased by a hundred folds. 

Hiss~

Many subconsciously touched their pockets, confirming the paper piece they had was still on them.

Don\'t ask them why, but something told them things would only become harder from here on out.

"Loo-Loo-Look! Look around us. The land... The land is all green and rotten."

"Ahhh!" Secretary Kim jumped in horror, watching countless gross and icky maggots swim around her feet. 

The worst part was that the worms kept secreting even more slime wherever they passed.

Disgusting. 

They swelled and wiggled their finger-sized bodies in and out of the rotted soil, making many feel nauseous. It was their first time seeing such massive and slimy maggots.

Secretary Kim was a woman who had gone through hell alongside her boss, Elric. 

She has seen blood and massacres several times. But one of her biggest fears was bugs. Over the years, she has done her best to hide her disgust for such creatures.

As a secretary and part-time bodyguard, the enemy must never know her weakness. So she trained herself to swim with bugs and stay calm when near them. And indeed, it worked.

Except for Elric, no one knows of her weakness. But one has to know that all her training was with ordinary-sized bugs and not these gigantic monstrosities swimming around her feet, leaving trails of thick slime behind.

Good God... 

Secretary Kim\'s face turned ashen as she gripped Elric\'s shoulders hard. 

Thanks to everyone\'s confusion and shock, no one noticed her unusual state except for Elric.

"Calm yourself," Elric whispered with a reassuring nod.

This was all he could do for her. Even he was preoccupied with his strange surroundings. 

The soil was green and rotten, the trees were black and leafless, and there was a strange but chilling fog hovering a few inches above the soil.

The fog wasn\'t so thick that they couldn\'t see the ground. It was light but ensured its presence was felt.

~Bubuum. Bubuum. 

Hearts began beating wildly as everything they saw only heightened their senses.

Julius didn\'t know what to make of the fiery red skies and clouds that kept swirling endlessly. 

It all seemed like a bad dream... A smelly one at that. 

"Augh~...What is that awful stench?" Field Marshall Harry felt his nostrils were about to be choked to death by the rotten atomic bombs released by heaven knows who. 

"Do I smell sulfur?"

"No way. It\'s more than sulfur. Why does it smell like someone had stored a thousand corpses here?"

Even the FBI agents and military personnel commented on the powerful perfume in the air, not overthinking it. But for Haru and the other academy members, it immediately made them tense. 

"The smell... It\'s getting stronger."

Stronger? What do they mean?

Julius and the others were taken aback, growing their heads to their surroundings with widened eyes.

"This... This..."

"Sh**!"

One of Julius\' men yelled in disbelief as dread filled his legs.

"Monsters... Monsters... They are real!"

"No. No!... It\'s all an expensive illusion. Impossible!... Impossible!... How can they be real?"

"I... I believe in science. I believe in the God of science. Let me Go. Are you trying to tell me we\'ve been living with such creatures amongst us?"

~Grahhhhhhhh~ 

Many fell to their butts, feeling the rotting soil wasn\'t so bad after all. 

Sweet mother of science... The creatures before them caused their legs to wobble and their eyes to twitch in catatonic stupor. 

Their surroundings were chilly, but that wasn\'t the reason for their constant quivering.

Discomfort gnawed at their insides, prickling their scalps and causing their bodies to stay frozen in place. 

So what of the were soldiers in the special forces or FBI agents? Their former enemies were all human. But these... These were nightmares, enough to keep grown men sleepless.

Humans feared what they didn\'t understand. 

At this moment, they felt like toddlers when facing the gigantic creatures surrounding them all. Yet, they still couldn\'t describe the beasts around them accurately. 

The creatures had hunched backs and seemed to be wearing dark cloaks shrouded with black smoke.

Was it a cloak, or was it its skin? They couldn\'t tell and dared not look further. 

Their hands were spider-like and elongated, with only a few strands of hair that coiled and hissed like snakes. 

They had three empty eye buckets and mouths that stretched from ear to ear, revealing their razor-sharp teeth to all.

But maybe the most unbelievable fact was that their bodies were also rotten, with holes that showed their disgusting insides that had all sorts of strange bugs and mucus in them. 

Their bodies were so squished and hideous that if they looked any closer, they were afraid they would puke endlessly. 

No... Too late! 

Blugh~ 

Several people threw up whatever meal they last ate, with some holding their mouths and gagging. 

How can something be so ugly and so terrifying at the same time? 

~Greeeeeeeeeehhhhh~ 

The creatures released their thundering bellows after seeing the wave of fear emitted from the humans below. 

Food! Food! Food! 

~Greeeeeeeeh~ 

The creatures excitedly moved to their prey like how possessed girls in horror movies crawl did. Only, they had spider-like legs that enabled them to move even faster. 

Their smiles grew creeper, their bodies could twist and move unnaturally, and their heads began spinning after locking eyes on their chosen targets. 

Field Marshal Berry felt that if he were to go behind the creature, its head would twist 360 degrees, following his every move. 

He reached for his gun sheath out of reflex, only to curse loudly in the end. 

F***!

How could he have forgotten that it was confiscated earlier?

Son of a b**ch. 

He and many others had no choice but to reach for their daggers and tasers, wanting to cry but having no tears to shed. 

It\'s over. 

They were dead... Weren\'t they? 

~GREEEEEEEEHH~