Chapter 235: Trapped Inside A Giant Beast's Stomach
Chapter 235: Trapped Inside A Giant Beast’s Stomach
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Chaos found himself inside the frog’s stomach. He immediately thought about destroying it all or eating the creature from the inside out, but he felt like this entity exuded an air of importance, as if he shouldn’t really treat it as a mere monster or divine beast… or well, a divine beast is important too, but he has been killing so many lately they feel not important.
The frog’s stomach was gigantic, it was like an ocean of green-colored gastric acids, which were boiling. They were strong enough to dissolve the corpses of the dragonflies he was eating in seconds, and only the largest creatures were still floating over.
Of course, Aruliel was an angel so she wouldn’t get killed easily.
But there was something weird.
“How strange, this being’s power… is it way above what it appears to be? Initially, it showed to be around God-Realm, but its way higher out of the sudden? It ate me casually despite the aura I unleash… Could this be above God-Realm? But what is it doing resting over simply water? And why does it get bothered so easily?” wondered Chaos.
He began to fly around the gastric acid sea, as he found someone screaming for help, he quickly moved towards the voice, as he found the obvious person he was going to find, Aruliel! She was screaming in horror.
Suddenly, he found her. She was walking over a mass of flesh; the walls of the entire stomach were dense and created some “land” where one could step on. It was slippery and all, but it was still a decent place where one could walk over.
She was fighting what seemed to be gigantic worms! They were those worms you see inside of people’s intestines. The entire stomach of this frog was so big that there were even these kinds of worms around. The worst part was that these worms were as strong as Living Deities, and had adapted to live in this acid.
“GYAA!”
Aruliel was screaming as if she couldn’t actually kill them if she wanted.
“Aruliel just kill them.” Said Chaos.
“Uwah! M-Master!” said Aruliel, as she was caught in the body of one of the worms, who wrapped themselves around her!
“GYAH! Help me, master!” she cried.
“No, just kill it.” said Chaos.
“But it’s scary!” she cried.
“You’ve killed worst things by now…” said Chaos.
“…Fine.” Sighed Aruliel.
She unleashed a flash of bright light from her non-infected hand, while there was a mass of darkness from her infected hand, both light and darkness released a powerful shockwave.
BOOOOOMMM!!!
The entire shockwave of both light and darkness spread across the entire place, as the worms were blasted into oblivion quite smoothly… turned into ashes, even.
“Hahh… Phew, thank you, Chaos-sama!” said Aruliel, flying towards Chaos and rubbing herself over his chest.
“Sorry I am taken.” Said Chaos, as he moved her aside.
“Geh… It was just affection between master and… erm, what’s called when you have a master?” asked Aruliel.
“Apprentice?” asked Chaos.
“Yeah that!” said Aruliel.
“Anyways, we should get out of here.” Said Chaos, as he flew away.
“Ah, wait!” cried Aruliel.
The two began to explore around, as Chaos suddenly found something very odd. Why didn’t the frog’s stomach got any damage even when Aruliel literally blasted its interior with light and darkness?
“This stomach is oddly resilient, how can we get out of here?” asked Chaos.
“Maybe we can go down and be pooped.” Said Aruliel.
“I would rather not.” Said Chaos, waving his head.
“T-Then I am out of options…” sighed Aruliel.
Chaos began to inspect the creature’s stomach, as he flew around with Aruliel.
At some point, they reached a stretcher area of the stomach within the sea of gastric acid, where there were massive temples spread all around… actually, ruins of temples, they were all floating over the gastric sea.
“What is this place? Ruins from ancient civilizations?” asked Aruliel.
“How old is this creature? Has it been eating civilizations before?” wondered Chaos.
The two flew near the ruins, finding out there were many words they couldn’t understand, written in an ancient language.
But there were also paintings spread across the floating ruins. They walked around them, as they found various interesting and strange paintings.
“How odd… What’s this?” asked Aruliel.
“A painting depicting… a giant frog?” wondered Chaos.
Indeed, the paintings depicted the same frog that swallowed the ruins, it was a massive painting, there were also people praying to the painting as if it were some kind of god. No, actually, not the painting, the frog itself.
And these people were also frog-like… they were like the kids Chaos faintly noticed walking around, but they were even more frog-like, perhaps of an even more ancient race of these frog people, perhaps even more primitive.
The ruins were all torn apart, so it was hard to make any clues, Chaos had to connect many dots around as he went investigating, while Aruliel played around like a stupid child.
The entire area of the gastric sea was like this, there were many ruins spread everywhere, and there was an air of mysticism and strangeness to it.
Based in all the clues, this entire place was even more ancient than he had imagined, and this frog too, perhaps has lived for many years, thousands of years.
He was right, this creature was indeed very ancient, it was older than the Boundless Abyss Dungeon and any other being he had fought, even older than the Demigods.
Maybe the Ore Giants would be as old, but even then, Chaos considered that it might not be the case… this giant frog was the oldest thing he had ever meet.
However, as the duo flew around, they sensed the glares of mysterious eyes lurking around the ruins and the fleshy and slippery lands of this place…
Chaos quickly caught one of the beings lurking around by producing a tentacle out of his body and wrapping it around it…
What he found was…
“Uagh! Let me go!”
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