From above the valley, the squad leader stared down with widening eyes while the cold wind howled violently around him.
At first, he thought the movement beneath the fissures was only flowing corrupted energy or shifting earth caused by the strange pulses below the ground.
But then the surface beneath the fissures changed again. Something massive moved underneath. The enormous dark shape slowly traveled beneath the valley floor while the crimson-black cracks faintly bulged up as it passed below them.
The movement resembled something gigantic crawling deep beneath the earth. The squad leader could not see the entire thing clearly because the corrupted energy and mist obscured most of it. But what little he did see immediately filled him with dread.
The shape looked unbelievably huge. Far larger than any corrupted Magical beast he had ever encountered before. And it did not move randomly.
