The hair was a reddish mass of mycelium, its eye sockets teemed with wriggling maggots, and its soft, sagging body was composed of an unknown number of earthworms and nematodes.
Its bloated abdomen had countless rats burrowing in and out, and its forehead sprouted two clusters of colorful, mushroom-like growths resembling the massive antlers of a reindeer.
Its body surface was covered with green, black, white, yellow, and red molds.
A dark cloud of flying insects swirled around it, and with every breath, it inhaled and exhaled clouds of insects and spores.
This was the very being symbolizing the natural will of the cave world's ecosystem, a tier above the Heart of the Swarm of a single species like [Swarm]—the [Chǐ God]!
Byron had encountered it during his first exploration of the mines.
It lacked coherent self-awareness and killed according to rules, similar to the Old Gods steeped in the sea—it was a Bizarre that had "died."
