RPAGF Chapter 180 The Frog Gathering Place
Chapter 180 The Frog Gathering Place
The tranquility in the heart of the swamp was shattered by an unusual restlessness.
At first, there were slight tremors on the water's surface. The thin mist dispersed with the tremors, thinning out to reveal the bottomless, decaying, dark green waters.
Then—a strange, low, viscous sound came from deep underground, like the breath of some sleeping behemoth awakened, slowly bringing out something buried deep in the mud and water.
Mengling watched nervously from above, its huge fins hovering in mid-air, not daring to make a move. Even Mo Ming, standing on its back, held his breath.
The tremors grew increasingly violent, as if the surface of the water was being stirred by some indescribable force. Large swaths of duckweed and strange plants were lifted up, revealing even deeper black muddy water.
Suddenly, the water churned, as if countless things were struggling in boiling mud. The dark green liquid surged wildly, and more and more bubbles rose from the bottom, bursting and releasing a nauseating, fishy stench.
As the steam rose, a deep, muffled roar shattered the silence from the muddy water. The sound carried an indescribable power, silencing all the birds and beasts in the surrounding jungle, and the entire swamp instantly fell into a sharp silence and oppression.
Then, a huge black shadow suddenly broke through the water's surface, like a small mountain rising from the dark mud.
It was a huge, frog-like beast, its entire body covered in the wet, muddy color characteristic of swamps. Mud slid down its muscular body, revealing a smooth, disgusting layer of skin.
It is enormous, at least two or three meters tall, with four thick, pillar-like legs supporting its entire body. Every movement it makes causes the mud to creak and groan.
Its head occupies a large part of its body, and its huge eyes are like two orange-red spheres, emitting a faint light.
This giant frog has an incredibly wide mouth, with its lips splitting almost to its cheeks. With each breath, it emits a low, wet, panting sound, and a foul stench emanates from deep within its throat, making the air even more suffocating.
He's practically the Godzilla of frogs! This scene left Mo Ming speechless.
However, this is just the beginning.
As the first frog-like behemoth rose from the water, more black mud began to churn once more. From another body of water, yet another enormous frog-like monster laboriously crawled out along the muddy slope.
Compared to the previous one, it was slightly smaller, but its appearance was more ferocious, as its body surface was covered with strange protrusions. These protrusions throbbed like tumors, and a bluish-black liquid could even be seen flowing inside.
An even more terrifying thing happened when the second beast raised its clawed forelimbs from the water.
Its back began to tremble, and then countless tiny frog-like creatures crawled out from those protrusions, splashing into the water along its huge hind legs. These small creatures then began to gather from all directions toward the location of the first giant frog.
“There’s more…” Mo Ming said in a low voice, his forehead already covered in cold sweat.
Before he could finish speaking, the third frog-like monster let out a deafening roar and leaped most of its body out of the dark green water.
Its skin is a damp, cold, dark gray. It is much larger in size, with sharp, irregular teeth growing out of the slits in its mouth. Its tongue protrudes out of its body and is incredibly flexible, as if it could snatch its prey into its mouth at any moment.
Most terrifyingly, when it rises from the water, its enormous, membranous organs on both sides unfold like wings, gleaming with a dim purple light, resembling some kind of giant cloak.
This doesn't resemble the structure of a typical frog; it's more like some more powerful biological characteristic has been incorporated into its genes.
The fourth frog-shaped monster was different; it did not break through the water's surface but slowly emerged from the mud.
Judging from its massive size, it looked like an extended hill, but the moment it moved, Mo Ming realized that it was neither mud nor any other terrain.
It was an old and decaying behemoth, its back covered with strange parasitic plants, which even grew a dark, tree-like structure.
The monster moved slowly and heavily, but its gradual rise from the mud was like a unique disaster, carrying an unstoppable sense of oppression.
Its body moved slowly like a mountain range, and its pair of giant white eyes without pupils were particularly eerie, as if it knew everything around it without needing to see.
Mengling flapped its wings incessantly in the air, its silver eyes fixed on everything. As a powerful spirit beast, it possessed innate talents, but at this moment, it felt deeply shocked.
But deep within the waters, in the churning mud and exposed darkness, even more monsters seem to be stirring, waiting for their moment to be awakened.
"We have to get out of here—quickly!" Mo Ming whispered, his voice trembling slightly with fear.
With a soft cry, Mengling retracted its claws and fins, and accelerated away from the terrifying swamp.
The newly emerged frog-like behemoths on the ground showed no sign of pursuing them; they merely watched them depart with chilling gazes, as if letting out a deep, meaningful growl.
Even as he turned his back on them and left, Mo Ming took deep breaths, still feeling the pervasive presence of these giant frogs enveloping the entire world, an aura that wouldn't dissipate...
They seemed indifferent to the existence of Mo Ming and Meng Ling, as if they had just awakened from a deep sleep, stretching their bodies freely in this eerie swamp.
After Mo Ming and Meng Ling left, in the deepest part of the swamp, the mud churned even more violently, and a suffocating atmosphere made the surrounding air seem to freeze.
Just after the first few frog-like giants awoke, the thickest muddy area in the center of the swamp suddenly burst open, and a huge column of water mixed with black silt shot into the sky, accompanied by a deafening thud.
An area was quickly cleared, revealing a bottomless, pitch-black swamp. From within the swamp, a pair of dark red, glowing eyes slowly opened, enveloping the entire area in endless chill.
Then, an even more bizarrely shaped giant frog emerged from the deep pool.
Its body was exceptionally large, its entire body seemingly composed of interwoven black rock and slippery muscles, while its smooth back was covered with countless luminous crystals that emitted a dark red light, like burning embers or molten lava about to erupt.
Its head is flatter, and its mouth is as hard as a rock when it is closed, but when it slowly opens its mouth, it reveals two forked tongues with bright red tips, like beacons in the abyss.
Then, it let out a low growl, the sound waves causing the surrounding water to churn and even the nearby duckweed seemed to quickly decay under the impact of the sound.
Most horrifyingly, its back suddenly split open on both sides, revealing two irregular lava holes.
Thick smog and scorching steam billowed from there, and the muddy ground emitted a burnt smell from the high temperature. However, its noisy movements were not clumsy, and each movement carried a destructive force.
It emerged step by step from the depths of the swamp, the mud sliding off its body with each movement, like an ancient and evil clay giant being released and reborn.
It made all the other strange frogs bow down in worship!