Chapter 229 - Taming the Light

The strange creature writhed with evident rage, the tentacles severed by Ren's dagger regenerating slowly as they undulated like serpents in the purple light. 

Ren tried to activate his knowledge, searching for information about the creature, but his ability seemed to fail. The information arrived fragmented, inconsistent, as if the beast were too anomalous to be understood through his usual parameters. 

It was then that Ren noticed something on one of the worm's final segments: a distinctive mark, artificial, that stood out against the natural plates. 

He recognized it immediately: it was the mark that Julius had made on the lesser worm they had found the previous night. The precise pattern of cuts was unmistakable, even amid the creature's grotesque anatomy.

Understanding hit him like a physical blow.