Grounded Mant Novels & Stories

She leaned in slightly, her voice echoing clearly up through the ventilation grates. "Assign the stray to clean the lower drainage trenches in the Subterranean Beast Pits." Master Grendel froze. The color drained from his weathered face, his greasy rag dropping from his hand onto the stone floor. "The... the Beast Pits, My Lady?" Grendel stammered, his voice dropping into a frightened whisper. "The lower trenches run directly beneath the iron gates of the Razor-Tusk Shadow-Hounds and the Void-Bears! The air down there is thick with feral pheromones! An unbonded servant without an Alpha’s protection aura... the beasts will scent her mortality through the bars! They will drive themselves into

she says carefully, and I watch the massive man step closer to the yellow force field. "Mangogs have terrible eyesight. They use vibrations to locate targets. It works wonders on their sand-covered planet. But on ground like this, they are at a disadvantage. I was never in any danger, Krystal. I...I...need you to trust that I will protect you. Don't do anything like that again," Burk whispers, and I watch as embarrassment covers my friend's face.

After a few seconds, the beast seemed satisfied it had been victorious, it cried a loud shrill sound before throwing itself back into the dirt, and as the mole disappeared, the earth around the mound sunk back into itself, hiding the fact a gigantic mole had just broken the surface. “That thing would have to be what, six, no, seven feet tall? That’s ridiculous,” Ean scoffed, doing some quick estimation judged off what had protruded from the earth a few minutes ago. “It is quite thrilling to battle such a creature, is it not? Seeing how it attacks will give us the edge over knowing where it might strike,” Kita said, not being able to help from smiling, “I have not battled anything so captivat

Suddenly, a cold voice traveled into Lucas and Lola’s ears. After the emergence of laughter, a humanoid mantis creature appeared before them. That humanoid mantis creature was in the Rank 7 Earth Honorable Ranked realm. “I didn’t expect to meet with two humans. This is really out of my expectation.” Currently, Lucas had concealed his aura, and naturally, the Earth Honorable Ranked Humanoid Mantis had no idea that Lucas was not a human. Lola was a Rank 6 Chosen Celestial Being. She could sense the terror of the humanoid mantis creature and her fair face looked horrified.

“This stone is warm. That’s… not right.” Kael turned fully toward me. “Lana. Stay behind me.” Before I could answer, the ground vibrated. A low rumble passed beneath our feet — subtle, but unmistakable. My heart lurched as the path in front of us cracked, a thin line splitting the earth. Dren yelped and stumbled back. Warren grabbed him by the collar before he toppled down the slope. Mara drew a blade. “It’s not natural. Something beneath the ground—”

As a child from the mines, he noticed this instantly and jumped aside as the ground turned to sand and almost swallowed him up! “Quagmire!” the prince shouted, as the ground around them turned into thick mud. Several students started sinking up to their shins, yet Johan landed on dry, compact, ground. He had called the bedrock to support him, and hit the solid stone with his fist, splitting the ground in two and rushing at Prince Xander who tried to stop it with his palms outstretched. The cracked ground stopped about one foot away from him, while the overturned rocks rumbled and rushed back at Johan.

POV: Elena The basement of the Pharmacy block was silent, save for the rhythmic, digital chirp of the New Management’s wrist-projector. I stood in the center of the room, my hand still pressed against the warm, vibrating surface of the Grounding Stone. The "red" energy was no longer a fire in my veins; it was a steady, humming baseline, like the low notes of a cello played deep in the earth.

Then a dark light blead over into his gaze turning his yellow eyes, even more golden beneath the dark pine forest canopy. His long black rain laid draped over his shoulder and his large body thrummed with enough dominance to make the trees around him take a knee. Mantilo growled. Something heavy and blood thirsty as he raised a hand tipped with viscous claw. “I will see what I can do to thin the heard before the go back into hiding.” He smiled like granite. Then Mantilo turned and raced off after the fleeing Ghouls. The whimper of a pup tugged Brandon’s gaze up from his personal introspection.

The ceiling didn't just crack; it pulverized. The diamond-tipped Mantis-Borer—a segmented, robotic centipede designed for deep-crust mining—shrieked as it ground through the final layer of basalt. It was a masterpiece of the Iron Mind’s engineering: a relentless, unfeeling predator that didn't need to breathe, bleed, or think. "Flares! Now!" Siren screamed.

And because he knew what kind of beasts they were, he knew what strong points they possessed. The first beast was the Steel Bodied Mantis. It was a creature that was 2 metres in height. It looked like a giant praying mantis, and it was just as grotesque. It was a creature that had an extremely tough exoskeleton, just like most of its insect companions. Its defense was near impenetrable, which was why it was called the Steel Bodied Mantis.