The footsteps could be heard as the group of twenty hurridly rushed down the hallway with heavy steps. The leader of the group shouting, "pry open these doors, find anything you can to barricade the hallway. We will have to make a final stand. The sound of thousands of high-pitched squeals and bangs from their previous fortifications. Hearing this, they all hastened their collective effort prying down the steel doors before grabbing whatever desk chair they could find before welding it together against the wall.
Little did they know that a squirming lump of flesh was right above them. 'welp, looks like option four is going to need some adjustments.' it thought, looking down seeing them make a base right below the hole it was using to look down. Initially thinking they would go down deeper to gather more materials, they only went about 30 meters from their initial base seeing their previous fortifications slowly break down with every passing moment.
While looking down at these groups of individuals, the only thing the God could only feel both respect and fear for both was their teamwork and their ability to make quick decisions in a short period.
However, this feeling didn't last long when it noticed that the barrier in the vents was also starting to get dinge with the rustle of scratches and screeches the group down below, seemingly completely oblivious to the dangers above them. For some reason, the metal was giving away faster than the makeshift barrier they made at the intersection.
Seeing things not going as planned, it expanded itself to cover the entire ventilation shaft before creating a massive gaping maw with seemingly endless rows of little mouths inside, ready to bite down on everything that comes it's way. Generating only a single eye in the center of all the endless rows of teeth to see what was coming, it saw the steel finally begin splintering, revealing large black compound eyes and the literal rustling of swarms of endless insects can prying at the metal little by little.
Using another eye, it could see that the humans barely filled in half of the hallway with their fortifications when sudden some of the men who kept their guns raised shouted, "Hurry up. They are breaking through." before shooting their weapons trying to kill a few stragglers that managed to slip through.
[Quest: devour/survive the wave of monsters.
Reward: instant level up and 10% increase in stats
Failure: Death]
Just as the God received the notification, a swarm of specimen 2187 broke through the metal plate. Having done everything it could to prepare, it quickly began eating the never-ending multitude of insectoids in front of it.
[Host has eaten foreign flesh +2 hp]
[Host has gained +1 exp]
[Host has gained + 0.5 energy]
[Host has eaten foreign flesh +2 hp]
[Host has gained +1 exp]
[Host has gained + 0.5 energy]
[Host has eaten foreign flesh +2 hp]
[Host has gained +1 exp]
[Host has gained + 0.5 energy]
Specimen 2187 specimens swarmed, constantly scratching and screeching against the metal barrier as the hole they go through is continuously getting bigger and bigger, allowing more of them to get through at a time. All of whom only wound up getting devoured by the many mouths from the God of flesh.
Meanwhile, down below, the soldiers were continuing the makeshift barrier little over halfway done. "Come on. I need more metal desks to make this and chairs for supports. Pick it up!" Alice said, using a makeshift blowtorch from her dwindling materials and lucifer's helping each other weld everything together.
Ben, leading streams of sweat constantly gasping for air, shouts, "don't you think we know that these doors aren't straightforward to open.
Robert quickly pushes Ben out of the way, saying, "stand back I am going to blow it up!" placing a thing of C4 on one of the doors before shouting, "Fire in the hole" A loud bang could be heard before shaking everything in the hallway revealing many metal desks and chairs in what looks like a cafeteria.
Edward begins to angrily shout, "No more explosions, we are having a hard time keeping these things back as is! Do you want us to get overrun!?" continuously shooting his minigun into the horde of insectoids trying to get through their old barrier.
Yelling back at him, "You should be thanking me after this with a bottle of scotch, you bloody idiot. We just got everything we need to finish the barricade!" quickly rushing in to grab more tables.
"Enough, stop arguing and grab whatever you can. We have to finish this barrier asap," their Captain shouts. "All those not initially with us, go help Robert now!"
With many of them getting out of a daze, they were quickly rushing to assist. They all shout in unison, "Yes, Sir!"
Edward yelling once again, "Captain, they are breaking through. I can't keep them at bay any longer. The explosion shook the old one too much."
Alice also shouts, "Captain. The explosion has just destroyed a section of the barrier. I need more time!"
Lucifer looks up at the swarm of monsters, constantly going through the barrier and the men frantically trying to get more materials. Knowing what must be done, he takes one of his canisters and reattaches it to to the nozzle of his flame thrower before laughing hysterically through his mask.
"Pyro, what are you doing? Alice asked, looking at the maniac before quickly connecting the dots. "No, you're not going to."
He quickly runs straight into the horde of incoming monsters running past Edward, still shooting his gun. "pyro, what are you doing?"
IN response, he only laughed louder and started to run directly into the horde flame es blazing right in front of him, nearly blocking his vision completely as the searing heat comes back at him. Going out in a massive blaze, the canister starts to overheat.
Hearing the cries of his men, the Captain quickly rushes out, seeing lucifer on fire running towards the enemy. "Don't do it, you fool!" shouting at the top of his lungs.
Not looking back, he stares right into the never-ending jaws of death during their entire time together with his team. He finally says something. "I will see you all on the other side!" time slows down as everyone looks at their friend before a colossal explosion of flames consumes him and a large amount of the insects. The blast and heat produced were so great the entire intersection was blown away, and everything rumbled, loosening the vents enough to pop out of the ceiling slowly. A wave of insectoid gushing out and a large mound of writhing flesh and tentacles from above.
The god was constantly squirming, looking around with its multitude of blue eyes before using its tendrils to spread itself across the hallway as much as possible, turning itself into a wall. A variety of gaping maws formed right towards the insectoids and a few behind it towards the soldiers. The soldiers freeze in shock, looking at the new creature eating most of the smaller insectoids coming out of the vent while even more were coming back through the hallway.
The Captain, being the first one breaking out of his daze, screamed, "Hurry with the barrier. The monsters are fighting each other. We don't know how long the new one is going to help us."
The rest of the team hears this hastened their work speed even more as the feeling of absolute dread sets in as they looked at the numerous eyes and mouths staring right at them.
Ben's the only one still in shock screams, "What the hell is that thing!" as snot runs down his nose and tears flow uncontrollably.
With some fear in his eyes, Robert shouts. "We know as much as you. Everything in here has tried to kill us so far. Now help with the barricade in case that thing decides to come after us next!"
Forcing himself, he runs to go help gather materials for the wall. All the while, the god starts growing as it continues its feast on the seemingly never-ending stream of monsters coming only to enter its gullet.