At first, the constriction did nothing to phase the creature’s will, the mountain-range of blundering death would not budge. A fierce, unyielding hate surged up from the depth of its rotten soul. It laid waste to everything…<br/><br/>With the creed of this battle well-established, it roared with fury, the flesh-shell growling with enough tenacity to rustle every leaf in a hundred yards, echoing across distant fields. There was a ripping, popping sound as ligaments tore, and the breaking crescendo of snapping trees as bones burst from its relentless pursuit. A glimmer of white erupted from the creature’s hind legs, the structure reduced to shattered flesh and bleeding splinters. Finally, it caved. It bent its knees, froze momentarily, then jolted to the ground, driving itself into a crater.<br/><br/>The stream trickling from the wounds suddenly became a geyser, exploding outwards and blanketing everything in a scalding mist. Its mantra of hatred continued with an undying flame flickering violently within its consumed mind, though, it was now concealed by a wall of fog, dense enough to cut with a knife. The restrictive tendrils from the forest suddenly came loose and violent shudders quaked the ground. Abandoning its solid form and scattering into countless black branches, blasting forth from the boiling cloud, casting saliva and darkened blood everywhere. Arteries drained life fluid, striking out like rubber hoses. The skin peeled back, pinned with plates of purest ebony, latticed and rough. Reaffirming the grip on reality, the brute haphazardly flung itself across the field with a reckless force. The ribs cage cracked and pried open on impact, the whiteness of bone shining out in a sea of flesh. Its intestines spewed across the ground in pinkish brown coils and a brilliant scarlet brown, darker around the edges, showing the yellow plasma in wet ripples. The body mended itself, slowly, guts retracting and bones closing around each other, reinforced by coagulated blood and viscus.<br/><br/>An opposing monstrous figure arose, its roar deep like fading thunder and just as hardy, shocking.<br/><br/>It vibrated through the inches-thick skull to the crab-apple sized brain within, then, it blundered through the forest with the stealth of a bull elephant, colossal feet rending the ground, crushing over the shallow ocean of graves with a grand shower of flickering sparks to bear, sending hefty chunks of broken stone through the air in a bloody splatter of hailing debris and hellfire. It massacred a nearby wall and a billowing dust plume took to the efforts.<br/><br/>Rivers of ember, like a fountain, pillars of black smoke wounding through the air like hungry serpents, the mindless thing crashed against the other, flames leaping, devouring feverishly at the other’s black gunk while claws clambered against the entangled swamp-water-thick mass, jaws snapping at the individuals behind the guardian.