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"D-Damn it...!" the guild master groaned, his body twisting in agony. Though his high resistance prevented mutation, the curse was killing him from within.
"Guild master!!!" the adventurers cried, rushing toward him and abandoning the civilians they had been protecting.
The monsters roared and laughed with cruel intelligence. Their twisted, malformed faces contorted into grotesque smiles, eyes glowing with malicious glee as they closed in on the defenseless civilians.
"Protect the people!" the guild master roared one final time. Forcing his failing body to obey, he swung a desperate punch that cracked the jaw of a charging Death Walker. His legs buckled beneath him as the curse devoured him from the inside.
A massive Abyssal Goo surged forward like a tidal wave of living sludge. Its gelatinous body was already digesting three screaming adventurers who had been too slow to escape. Dozens of half-dissolved skeletons rattled inside its translucent mass.
