Nameless was too late to realise that, the civils carcass and the baby was all a bait to lure some gullible fool like him. That's why even the Royds avoided this.
But it was already too late.
As soon as he reached near the shore, a jaw as wide as to swallow his torso whole, clamped shut around his hands. And pulled him along the stream.
"AHHHHHHH...!!"
A gutwrenching sound echo throughout the misty valley.
Biting his lips, nameless tried to lean back but to no avail. The force was too great to resist.
Both of his arms were being crushed, cut from the elbow and blood was being sucked by the white long narrow slimy tube. At the front thousands of tiny sharp teeth dug inward, slowly crushing his bones. And two humongous teeths in the lower jaw, the same size as his ribs, jammed themself in his chest.
Writhing in agonizing pain, nameless did the only thing that made sense. As he was being sucked into the stream, He rolled on his back several times. Just as he tried to grasp for more air the pulling stopped for a split second.
And that was all he needed.
Nameless quickly pulled his mangled left hand out and shoved it deep into a nearby crack. Thankfully he could still move his fingers, even though his forearm bones were sticking out of it and blood gushed out like a crimson river. For some reason the pulling became even stronger.
Nameless had two big holes in his chest, his heel bones were sticking out from trying to stop the pull, he had bitten into his lips so hard that his teeth were about to fall off, just so he didn't attract any more attention, and now his vision was going blurry each second.
Nameless already tried Slashing that tube from inside but to no avail. The thick slime prevented it from penetrations. And both of his arms were being torn apart.
Now he couldn't even breathe properly. It was over for him.
"Attack him from inside, Wretch," a slow wrathful voice reverberated across his mind.
Nameless didn't care anymore who's or how this voice came to be, the pain was so great even his eyes were about to bulge out.
So he did as he was told, he mustered all the strength he could and threw the spear inside.
It hit something soft and the world fell silent again, the pulling stopped, the pain stopped and then the civil quickly let go.
For just a moment, the sheene silver water became black and a deep rageing wail came through it.
By then nameless was already trying to crawl away. His mangled right arm was hanging limp with just a few strings of tendons attached to them and the left arm had already become numb while stuck in the crack.
The crimson eyed civil looked at nameless with cold wrath burning in them. And readied his jaw again.
His body shook involuntarily, the first attack already left him half paralyzed, if this attack hit he was as good as dead.
'No!!, i can't die like this, not here, not while starving.'
He started pulling his arm even more violently.
But he couldn't. Time slowed down as if every breath he took he was getting closer and closer to the cold inevitable death.
It was the end of him, or so he thought.
Three obsidian arrows streaked through the sky, hitting the civil right across his fin, tail, and trunk. Viscous black liquid poured out of its body. The crimson eyed looked to its south, And it fled.
Nameless didn't hear any of that, currently he was coughing blood and his whole body was going through a profound change, as if going through a metamorphosis.
The ink of his intricate tattoo pulsated under the crimson veil, as if coming back to life. It slithered across his whole body, soul and even spirit. Few words etched into his very being as if they were a part of him.
[ Welcome back, Bringer ].
[ Auto activation of Blessing - Seed Of Remembrance (3) ].
[ Estimated amount - |39|% (in use - 1) ].
Then, namelesses wound started healing. First his two gaping holes in his chest then, his lips and teeth, lower heel, eyes, his right arm which only had three tendons connecting to his main body. Even the stuck up left arm which had already fallen, regrew without a hitch. Strangely the crimson blood evaporated as
soon as he recovered.
By then nameless was long gone.