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tentacles, now crackling with electricity and the centaur barely evaded the assault. But several guards weren’t as prompt as the gladiator. A tentacle shot down from above, clamped around one guard’s torso, and lifted him off his feet. With a casual flip, the tentacle tossed him aside as if he were a rag doll.

With growing dread, Kar-Tyr watched as the airborne guard came crashing down to the ground clear on to the other side of the arena. He didn’t move.

The monster grabbed the other Thulian guard with its suction cups and with all its might it backhanded the captive’s partner across the arena.

The doomed guard saw the bioelectric energy surging through the bulk of the gigantic creature. A beast-like snarl was the last thing he heard in his life, as the monster pulled him in closer to its mouth.

The monster shocked its prisoner with an electric impulse. The guard gave one gasping cry, and slumped down limply in the creature’s tentacle, and then was eaten voraciously. Bits of flesh and chinks of the deceased’s armor flew out of its mouth while some of the bloody bits had gotten stuck between the beast’s teeth. The crowd gave an outburst of merriment, knowing anything can happen in this fight.

Kar-Tyr kept his bottom four legs steady. Then he noticed the creature’s small tentacles on its lower body. Kar-Tyr unraveled his kunai and spun it to distract the beast. The monster’s use of echolocation could see the small parasite of a life form. It gave a wrathful shriek and brandished its massive limbs in rage.

Kar-Tyr threw his kunai around the creature’s forelegs and felt the blade latched itself on the other end of the cable. The beast felt its limbs locked together and frustratingly tried to keep itself balanced. With a powerful tug, Kar-Tyr sent the monster to the ground followed by a thunderous thud.

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