Chapter 6: Wurm
There is a small rocky hill in this forest, almost four or five meters high.
Stone Mountain suddenly cracked a crack and opened a huge orange-red vertical pupil.
Another crack opened in the boulder, revealing yellowed fangs and dark purple flesh.
This is the posture of a monster resting.
A roar ensued.
The roar woke up the other creatures, and countless birds and pterodactyls flew into the sky without a moment's hesitation.
The voice reached Gran's side, too, and he could hear only pure hostility in the roar.
Gran quickly climbed to a large tree next to him, and leaned against the branches and shade of the tree to cover his body.
Stone Mountain shuddered, raised its head, and crawled with heavy steps on its thick limbs to where Gran was.
The sound of it trampling the earth sounded like a purgatory demon in Gran's head, pulling him into the abyss of death.
Gran had never been so frightened, and regretted uttering the dragon language in the lake, and he was sure that it was the dragon language that had awakened the monster.
This monster is definitely not something he can deal with, he can only avoid its edge.
The footsteps grew heavier, and Gran realized that the monster was approaching the pond.
Gran's heart was beating wildly with nervousness, and he clung to the branch, not daring to say anything.
A huge monster appeared in Gran's eyes, and he finally saw the appearance of the monster in the forest.
The four-legged monster was more than eight meters long and six meters tall, like a chariot.
It was covered in large rock-like scales and armor, and there were many black-brown marks on the scales, like blood stains that had dried up for a long time, making it look extremely hideous.
The large skull and thick limbs showed its might, and the skull had a pair of eyes, but only the right eye could be opened, and a dark gray branch was stuck in the left eye.
A system chime appears in Gran's head, and he notices a task in the taskbar.
Kill a rock wurm to reward you with medium evolution points and increased dragon blood concentration after the next evolution, as well as the talent Cruel Nature (SR).
The Wurm is supposed to be referring to the rock monster under the tree, and this mission requires him to kill the Wurm... How could this be done!
Ignoring the difficult task, Gran observes the Iwdy Wurm.
This thing does have dragon blood, but it's just a wurm, not a pure-blooded dragon.
Iwachi wurm searched for the dragon-speaking dragon by the pond with the last remaining eyes, believing that it had encroached on its territory and wanted to wipe it out.
How could it have imagined that the dragon species it was looking for was a lizard shivering in the trees.
Gran shivered as the wurm's eyes swept over a bush, praying that the behemoth would be careless to see him.
The Iwatu wurm didn't find Gran, and it felt teased and let out an angry roar.
Hearing the roar up close made Gran's heart almost stop, and the hostility contained in the roar seemed to tear him to shreds.
'Let's go, let's go...'
Gran really didn't want to spend any more time with this monster, thinking that staying any longer would scare her out of mental illness.
The Iwdi wurm seemed to be bored, and instead of continuing the search, he left in the other direction.
After confirming that the Iwadi Wurm had really left, Gran breathed a sigh of relief for a moment and stared at the direction in which the Iwadi Wurm had left.
"Do you want to track it?"
Gran had a bold plan in his head - to track down the wurm and learn about its ecological habits.
If he can do it, he will definitely bring him a lot of gains, and maybe he will be able to find a way to deal with the rock wurm.
"But what if the monster finds out? It's equivalent to giving yourself a tiger's mouth. But if you don't do this, the next time you are found by it, will you have to hide in a tree again? Sooner or later, this will be recognized.
Understanding this monster is the most effective way to solve the problem once and for all. ”
After weighing it up, Gran didn't want to sit still and decided to go after the rock wurm.
But only observe it from afar, and retreat as soon as there is a situation, leaving no courage for yourself.
So Gran began to track the wurm,
Gran realizes that the Iwdi wurm is leaving in the same direction as the way he came to the pond, and when he sees the Iwdy wurm again, the Iwadi wurm is perched next to the bones of the little pterosaur.
Gran crushed and swallowed most of the bones of the little pterosaur, leaving only the chewy ones.
The Iwatu wurm stared at the pile of bones for a moment, then began to roar again, and then continued to leave.
Gran didn't dare to come forward to inspect the pile of bones until it was completely gone.
The bones of the little pterosaur are nothing special, why did this rock wurm look at it for so long?
When Gran looked at it, he realized that the Ilodia was probably not looking at the bones of the pterosaur, but at the scales that had been shattered and dropped by the pterosaur during his fight with the pterosaur.
This distressed Gran, who accused himself of being careless.
Because he didn't clean up the traces of the battle, the Iodi wurm saw the scattered scales.
I don't know if the monster can see something, but it's certainly not a good thing anyway.
'The monster isn't going to turn back, let's bury these things first.' ’
Glenn picked up the bones and scales and buried them in the woods, fearing that the Wurms would know they were there when they were gone.
After thinking about it, he still felt that it was safer to bury it, and he didn't think that this rock wurm would be sensitive enough to find him when the bones disappeared, if it was so keen, it would have killed itself in the pond.
Glenn quickly found the location of the Iwdy Wurm.
Everywhere this monster went, it would provoke a bunch of pterosaurs and birds to flee in all directions, like a plague god.
Along the way, Gran also found several small trees that had been broken, and they were easily broken just because they were in the way of the rock wurm.
This domineering monster looked out of place in the forest, not like a species that had inhabited the forest for a long time.
Gran carefully followed the Iwdi wurm and saw it stop at a rock pile, which lowered its head and swallowed the rocks into its belly.
It looks like the monster is eating, and its food is the rocks.
The Ilody wurm looks like a moving boulder, and now it feels a bit cannibalistic to see it eating rocks.
However, it should not show mercy to wipe out other dragon species, cannibalism is probably something that Iwdi Wurm is very good at.
Gran spends the whole day stalking the rock wurm.
He had seen with his own eyes the way the monster crushed other creatures with sheer force, and the excited roar it let out after it had tortured them.
"Why is it so excited?"
Gran recalls yesterday's thoughts when he saw the carcasses of the deer, and the wurms of Iwdi killed the creatures, using their carcasses as bait to attract other carnivores.
Because it can deal with competitors, that's why it's so excited? This does make sense.
Gran carefully observed the movements of the Iwachi wurm as he handled the corpse, and felt that it would manipulate the corpse at this time, turning the corpse into a dangerous bait.
Ilody wurm crushed creature corpses into pulp, letting out a roar of joy as he did so.
"Is that how it does bait?"
Gran waited for the next move of the rock wurm.
But after ravaging the bodies of those creatures, the Iwato wurm left, showing no interest in the remaining flesh.
There was no thought of waiting for other carnivores at all.
Soon after the wurm left, he saw several fat blackbirds fly in and peck at the corpse left behind by the wurm.
Judging by their fat appearance, it's obviously not the first time they've picked up food from behind rocky wurms and eaten them.
Gran suddenly realized that the Iwatu Wurm might not have any plan at all, and was just having fun.
Yes, with its capabilities, it doesn't seem to have to do that at all. ’
This rock wurm is nothing more than pure cruelty.
He was disgusted by it.
This monster really just treats torture and killing as a game, and other creatures are simply playthings that can be killed at will.
At the same time, Gran is also afraid, fearing that he will become a plaything.
During this stalk, Glenn had no way to forage for food, so he had to endure hunger to track the rock wurm.
After confirming that the Ilo Wurm was only killing creatures for fun, under the influence of hunger, Gran let down his guard a little and ate the creatures that had just been killed by the Ilo Wurm.
This would quench his hunger, but picking up the corpses left behind by the wurms and eating them made him feel resigned.
Not to sympathize with these creatures, but to think that this monster might ignore small scavengers and focus on larger animals like themselves.
After that, Gran didn't feel anything strange at all, and the monster probably didn't have that kind of mind at all.
The day of fear ends with the twilight,
At dusk, Gran saw the wurm curled up as if it was about to rest.
He felt like he might have gotten the most important information.
This monster probably won't haunt at night, right?
...
dense forest,
A hand resembling the bark of a tree caresses the trail of a beast on the grass.
"Finally found it, descendant of the Otherworldly Devil."