The human face in the centre was the most unsettling, its eyes wide with terror as it screamed incoherently. The sound was a distorted mix of human agony and animalistic rage, a cacophony that echoed off the walls of the pit.
The creature's tentacles writhed with a life of their own, each one tipped with a different head snakes with forked tongues, dogs snarling with foam-flecked jaws, and rats with gleaming red eyes. The entire abomination was a nightmare made flesh, and it advanced with an eerie, fluid motion that sent shivers down my spine.
Aurelia and I barely had time to react as the creature lunged, its tentacles whipping towards us with blinding speed. I ducked, narrowly avoiding a snapping dog's head that passed so close I could feel its hot breath on my skin.
Aurelia countered with a blast of her black and white flames, but the creature's writhing mass absorbed the fire, the heads screeching in pain but not retreating.
