The descent into the Off Tracks was a descent into the claustrophobic gullet of the world. Yuuto could feel the weight of the Land of Wind pressing down from above, where millions of tons of stone and sediment were held back by nothing but the structural integrity of these ancient and shifting tunnels. The air here was a stagnant and heavy thing, thick with the pungent and sulfurous reek of sand worm waste and the sharp, metallic tang of unrefined chakra. It was a place where the sun was a forgotten myth, replaced by the erratic and pulsing bioluminescence of the crystals embedded in the rock like glowing ulcers.
Yuuto moved with the unhurried and predatory confidence of a man who had long ago made peace with the darkness. His four arms were held in a relaxed and ready posture, his muscles fluid beneath his deep tan skin. Beside him, Tennō was a shadow among shadows. The six eyed simian’s breath was a low and rhythmic huff, his many pupils darting across the uneven terrain. Tennō could feel it before Yuuto could, sensing the subtle and high frequency vibration that indicated a mass far too large for these narrow arteries.
The mission was simple in its phrasing but suicidal in its execution. An independent contractor, a man with too much gold and too many secrets, had placed a bounty on a localized anomaly. The Gilded Glutton was no longer the simple scavenger the miners feared because it had mutated. It had gorged itself on a particularly volatile vein of elemental carmot, and now it was a walking and segmented disaster. It was a creature of pure and overcharged friction, a biological engine running at a redline it was never meant to reach.
"Stay light on your feet, Tennō," Yuuto whispered. His voice was a calm rasp that cut through the oppressive hum of the mines. "The ground is not going to stay solid for long. When it hits, it is going to turn this entire sector into a slurry."
The grinding sound increased into a cacophony of shrieking stone and splintering crystal that seemed to come from everywhere at once. Then the ceiling did not just break; it shattered. A massive and segmented form draped in jagged, overlapping plates of crystalline armor tore through the rock, descending like a falling mountain. The Glutton hit the cavern floor with a force that sent a shockwave through Yuuto’s boots, and immediately the air around the beast began to shimmer with a white hot haze.
The creature was a horror of evolution. Its plates were a translucent and sickly violet, pulsing with the raw and unrefined energy it had consumed. Its dozens of legs were not just appendages but were vibrating tuning forks, humming at a frequency that liquefied the granite beneath them. The stone turned to a bubbling and viscous grey soup, and the Glutton began to swim through the floor. Its many eyes, each one a faceted and glowing orb of hatred, locked onto the two intruders.
Yuuto did not retreat. A slow and dark smirk tugged at the corner of his mouth, and his third eye snapped open. The golden slit in his forehead burned with a fierce and internal light that mirrored the brilliance of the creature's own overcharged core. He felt the cold, oily slick of his Cursed Chakra beginning to circulate, a stark contrast to the wild and chaotic energy of the beast.
"You see that, Tennō? It's bloated. It is heavy. It is drowning in its own greed." Yuuto said, his voice rising over the beast’s hissing. It thinks it can liquefy the world to escape us. Let us show it that some shadows are deeper than the earth itself. Two of Yuuto’s hands clapped together in a thunderous seal while the other two reached back toward the scrolls strapped to his harness. The air began to warp, not from heat, but from the sheer pressure of his spiritual presence. He was not here to play with the earth; he was here to dismantle a biological machine.
The Glutton reared back while its mandibles clicked with a sound like snapping timber. It vented a cloud of superheated steam from the gaps in its armor, a byproduct of its frantic metabolism. It did not see a man; it saw a high density chakra source that needed to be consumed. It lunged, its massive body rippling as it propelled itself through the liquefied stone with terrifying speed. Yuuto’s hands shifted, his fingers dancing as they spun invisible filaments of chakra.
"Tennō! Flank it! Use the pillars!" The simian vanished into the high shadows of the cavern, his powerful limbs propelling him from one crystalline outcropping to the next. Down below, Yuuto stood his ground while his shadow began to stretch and warp across the bubbling floor, defying the erratic light of the crystals. He could feel the creature's hunger, a cold and empty void that wanted to swallow everything he was.
"You want to eat?" Yuuto challenged as his purple eyes flashed. "Then taste the heat of the sun!" The air sweltered as he released the Scorch element.
WC: 864
[MFT]
Yuuto moved with the unhurried and predatory confidence of a man who had long ago made peace with the darkness. His four arms were held in a relaxed and ready posture, his muscles fluid beneath his deep tan skin. Beside him, Tennō was a shadow among shadows. The six eyed simian’s breath was a low and rhythmic huff, his many pupils darting across the uneven terrain. Tennō could feel it before Yuuto could, sensing the subtle and high frequency vibration that indicated a mass far too large for these narrow arteries.
The mission was simple in its phrasing but suicidal in its execution. An independent contractor, a man with too much gold and too many secrets, had placed a bounty on a localized anomaly. The Gilded Glutton was no longer the simple scavenger the miners feared because it had mutated. It had gorged itself on a particularly volatile vein of elemental carmot, and now it was a walking and segmented disaster. It was a creature of pure and overcharged friction, a biological engine running at a redline it was never meant to reach.
"Stay light on your feet, Tennō," Yuuto whispered. His voice was a calm rasp that cut through the oppressive hum of the mines. "The ground is not going to stay solid for long. When it hits, it is going to turn this entire sector into a slurry."
The grinding sound increased into a cacophony of shrieking stone and splintering crystal that seemed to come from everywhere at once. Then the ceiling did not just break; it shattered. A massive and segmented form draped in jagged, overlapping plates of crystalline armor tore through the rock, descending like a falling mountain. The Glutton hit the cavern floor with a force that sent a shockwave through Yuuto’s boots, and immediately the air around the beast began to shimmer with a white hot haze.
The creature was a horror of evolution. Its plates were a translucent and sickly violet, pulsing with the raw and unrefined energy it had consumed. Its dozens of legs were not just appendages but were vibrating tuning forks, humming at a frequency that liquefied the granite beneath them. The stone turned to a bubbling and viscous grey soup, and the Glutton began to swim through the floor. Its many eyes, each one a faceted and glowing orb of hatred, locked onto the two intruders.
Yuuto did not retreat. A slow and dark smirk tugged at the corner of his mouth, and his third eye snapped open. The golden slit in his forehead burned with a fierce and internal light that mirrored the brilliance of the creature's own overcharged core. He felt the cold, oily slick of his Cursed Chakra beginning to circulate, a stark contrast to the wild and chaotic energy of the beast.
"You see that, Tennō? It's bloated. It is heavy. It is drowning in its own greed." Yuuto said, his voice rising over the beast’s hissing. It thinks it can liquefy the world to escape us. Let us show it that some shadows are deeper than the earth itself. Two of Yuuto’s hands clapped together in a thunderous seal while the other two reached back toward the scrolls strapped to his harness. The air began to warp, not from heat, but from the sheer pressure of his spiritual presence. He was not here to play with the earth; he was here to dismantle a biological machine.
The Glutton reared back while its mandibles clicked with a sound like snapping timber. It vented a cloud of superheated steam from the gaps in its armor, a byproduct of its frantic metabolism. It did not see a man; it saw a high density chakra source that needed to be consumed. It lunged, its massive body rippling as it propelled itself through the liquefied stone with terrifying speed. Yuuto’s hands shifted, his fingers dancing as they spun invisible filaments of chakra.
"Tennō! Flank it! Use the pillars!" The simian vanished into the high shadows of the cavern, his powerful limbs propelling him from one crystalline outcropping to the next. Down below, Yuuto stood his ground while his shadow began to stretch and warp across the bubbling floor, defying the erratic light of the crystals. He could feel the creature's hunger, a cold and empty void that wanted to swallow everything he was.
"You want to eat?" Yuuto challenged as his purple eyes flashed. "Then taste the heat of the sun!" The air sweltered as he released the Scorch element.
WC: 864
[MFT]
Self-Modded S-Rank Mission
Will be a Modded Encounter, be battle ready
Will be a Modded Encounter, be battle ready
The Gilded Glutton (Carmot-Eater)
This beast is a massive, centipede-like horror that has spent centuries consuming refined chakra deposits. Its exoskeleton is no longer organic; it is a jagged, crystalline armor made of hardened carmot.- The Threat: It doesn't just bite—it drains. Because its body is essentially a massive, hungry battery, any chakra-based attack (Ninjutsu) that hits its armor is absorbed and used to fuel its own elemental breath attacks.
- Abilities: It can "swim" through solid rock as if it were water by vibrating its legs at a frequency that liquefies stone. For Yuuto, this means the very walls of the mine could become a maw at any second.
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