The moment Slayer's first arrow hit the Millipede Queen, Sunny saw the Great Tyrant clearly for the first time.
She was quite enormous, her bulbous body encased in glistening black chitin and decorated with beautiful patterns of orange-red, as if inlaid with burning embers. The first segment of her carapace flared at the back of her head, making it seem as if the appalling creature was wearing a crown.
She had no eyes, so the front of her armored head was flawlessly smooth before opening into a monstrous, eerily human-like maw.
That maw was now open, the last scream dying in its depths.
The Millipede Queen was at least a hundred meters long, her segmented body quite thin in relation to its great length, and had been flowing across the tangled surface of the Burned Forest like a river of glistening darkness, her countless legs shredding the dead wood into splinters as she did. But now, the giant creature had come to an abrupt halt and fell in a mess of towering black coils…
