The end inevitably arrived for the Calamity that fought against all of its kin alone.
The giant Shiik beast was at the edge of death. A dozen of its limbs had already been crushed, while the others were misshapen. It would not be long before it flattened to a paste, but it did not give up, instead, it began to activate a trait that it did not understand but which mysteriously appeared inside it a few months back—it began to feed.
The instinct to feed had become ingrained inside it after two years of growth and unchecked hunger, and at the end of its rope, it turned to this new instinct.
