Soul Devourer Chapter 1 Episode 32 — Stampede

After finishing the dungeon raid, it was still before noon.

Since it felt like a good stopping point, I was thinking of grabbing an early lunch when suddenly, a loud alarm blared through the city.

[Emergency evacuation alert!

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Emergency evacuation alert!

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A Stampede has occurred!

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Please evacuate immediately to the nearest shelter!

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This is not a drill! I repeat, this is not a drill!

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Evacuate immediately to the nearest shelter!]

The blaring siren echoed throughout the city, followed by an announcement declaring that a Stampede had begun.

“A Stampede!?”

A Stampede — a phenomenon where monsters overflow from inside a dungeon and start invading the outside world.

Normally, thanks to the hunters, Stampedes rarely happen.

But depending on the dungeon’s environment or the types of monsters inside, some places inevitably get neglected.

If I could hear that announcement now, that meant the monsters had already started spilling out.

I checked the notification on my phone. It showed the location where the Stampede had occurred.

When I saw what kind of monsters were invading, I immediately sprinted toward the scene.

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The area near the Stampede site was a wreck.

The building where guild staff were stationed had been destroyed, and splatters of blood marked the surroundings.

The bodies of hunters who had tried to hold back the monsters, and guild staff who couldn’t escape in time, were scattered across the ground.

Their heads and limbs were missing — the corpses were horribly mangled.

The monsters rampaging through the city were trolls: massive creatures as large as orcs and ogres, with bulging bellies and grotesque faces.

They were monsters found in the higher tiers of B-rank dungeons.

Not only did they have resistance to both physical and magical attacks, they also possessed strong regenerative abilities.

Screaming civilians fled in panic as the trolls grabbed them with their thick arms, crushing them like toys or tossing them into their gaping mouths.

Some hunters who happened to be nearby, as well as others who rushed to the scene, were already fighting back, but they couldn’t contain the damage.

Of course, the Hunter Guild was contacting powerful clans to deal with the situation, but since most were still inside dungeons, they were responding too late.

Among the screams of fleeing people and the deafening roar of collapsing buildings, a mother pulled her daughter’s hand, desperately running for their lives.

“Hah… hah… hah…”

But the little girl, struggling to keep up, tripped and fell hard, her hand slipping from her mother’s grasp.

Paralyzed by fear, exhaustion, and pain, the girl couldn’t move and began crying out for her mother.

The woman turned back, ignoring the approaching monster, and threw herself over her daughter to protect her.

Please! Somebody help us!

As the mother prayed desperately to the heavens, the troll drooled as it reached its hand toward her—

“HEY, BASTARD!”

A young man rushed in and severed the troll’s wrist with a single slash.

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E/N:

It's Hero time! I effin love it when MCs protect mother and child pairs, or elderly, or a woman older than himself (iykyk 😏)! Stay tuned! (3/3 chapters)

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