The group of them quickly took up various angles as they stared at the Swarm-Beast and Swarm-lings who prowled around, ready to pounce and rip them to shreds at the smallest opportunity given.
~ROARR!~
The Swarm-Beast suddenly shrieked, a ferocious roar that rattled the countless lesser abominations that were still pouring through the rift.
Some skittered on insectile limbs, others crawled with too many hands, still others slithered with jaws blooming where heads should be. It was not a horde. It was an ocean.
And at its center, swarm-beast towered like a god of hunger. Its torso alone was the size of a fortress wall, plated in jagged black carapace that cracked and oozed ichor with every movement. Its wings, fractured realities of membrane and claw, scraped the veil between worlds.
And its eyes ,hundreds, blinking and unblinking all at once, locked on the four intruders with the same hungry clarity of a predator sighting prey.
