>>784755084
You disregard the pain as you keep stabbing the foul creature's chitin-covered head.
After a short struggle, you successfully murder the shit out of it and pull your knife out of its dead body, now with a fresh coating of ichor around it.
>>784757089
With an angry mewl capable of chilling the most savage of beasts' soul, you repeatedly stab the creature's face .
Ichor splashes over you over and over again as the beast's groans and growls slowly drop in volume and it finally expires.
What if it just wanted friends, you monster?
>>7847589"Only about ten, so far. It's been hard to recruit people lately, for some reason..."
>>7847592They look at each other and exchange a few hushed whispers before nodding, then one of them begins reaching into a bag while the rest approaches you.
"We're just a... branch of the defence corps, and we specialise in cataloging these critters"
One of them nods towards a bag full of the remains of the creature you fought.
>>784759414
They're too far away to identify, but their caravan looks distinctly human-made
>>784759651
You step out of your house and take a breath of fresh mountain air. It smells like burnt crabs and gunpowder.