Will blinked, and blinked again. The sun was a dim red, and his ears were flooded with a ringing noise that wouldn’t go away.“What happened?”“He blew up most of the forest.” Loth’s voice said, seemingly from underwater.I’ve never been this hard of hearing before.Will reached up and touched his ear, feeling something wet.“Here.”A splash of something over his face, and suddenly the sun came into focus and the water was removed from his ears.“Aw man, those are expensive,” Will grumbled as he sat up.“I asked you to used Sourdough on the potion, but you said the city council could wait until afternoon.” Loth said as Will’s head cleared up.BOOM!Will craned his neck and spotted the other Lords battling…something inhuman.Void had become…a mass of some kind. Tentacles sprouted from the coliseum-sized mass roughly the shape of a cabbage, and despite Void’s grand size, he was swinging those tentacles at the Lords bouncing around him like fleas with surprising dexterity.“How come the human becomes more inhuman than the brain-worm?” Will groaned as Loth helped him to his feet.“I would argue that as a creature specialized in parasitizing the human body, the worm might have had a strong preference for its host to remain human. While Void simply does not give a shit.”“Not a bad gues-“BOOM!Will and Loth tumbled backwards as a pressure wave and blast of fire flowed over their dugout position.When Will climbed out of the crater, a huge chunk of the earth was missing right below where Ghoul had been flying.A cloud above him had a hole punched in it, and Ghoul was nowhere to be seen.Was the blast focused? And we got the backwash?How did he….“It’s got something to do with his body-weight.” Will mused.“Eh?”“The mass of the thing (...)