In the Abyss-Sea, Shanshan sat outside the great door with her arms wrapped around her knees, a forlorn expression on her face as she silently gazed at the lush forest beyond.
Suddenly, accompanied by the creaking sound of splintering trees, a monstrous creature several stories tall slowly emerged from the woods. At first glance, it resembled a split giant wolf, but its body bore no fur—only a thick sheath of crimson membrane. Inside the membrane, violet wisps of living things darted ceaselessly. The giant wolf opened two gaping maws, gnawing fiercely at the broken branches on the ground. When those were gone, it began chewing up the grass, and when the grass was finished, it started eating the very soil. As it ingested all these things, its barely wolf-like form grew ever more grotesque. If at first it seemed like two wolves fused together, now, judging by its twisted limbs, it was clearly a conglomerate of six.
