Alaric stopped and listened. Then the sound came again, as though metal was scraping against metal.
The sound was everywhere as it gradually got louder, and the echo filled the quiet ruins.
Alaric couldn't locate its specific direction with the wind spreading the sound everywhere.
"Wait, something is under..." Alaric started to say when the ground a few meters from him burst upward as a scorpion appeared, sand and dust spraying everywhere.
So the daddy came, Alaric thought to himself as he looked at the scorpion that was also observing them.
"The boss found us," Alaric muttered softly.
It was as large as a minivan, its carapace black and shiny in the burning sun. But the worst part was its stinger, you could literally see the venom dripping onto the ground, burning, smoke rising from it.
Alaric could already imagine how it would feel on human skin.
Then one of the guild members shot their power at it.
