Chapter 104: The Giant Worm of the Heart (Part II)
"Cole, Coto!"
"Don't be afraid, little girl—ah!"
Koto hurriedly hugged Belelis, and the solid Mithril full-body armor made a convex arc in mid-air like a shell that wrapped around him, and fell to the ground with a strange scream.
He managed to protect Bellelis's petite body, and he took the place of the future Archmage, Miss Magus, who withstood most of the impacts on the ground.
Thea fell not far away, but fortunately, the form of the giant wolf gave her the physique, strength, and agility far beyond her human form, so she immediately rolled over and stood up without any damage, and the golden pupil, which symbolized the blood of Asmo's half-angel, looked up, reflecting the young man's posture immediately after standing up with a sword—
Although that brave figure looked a little broken, not long ago, the tentacles brutally pierced through three parts, leaving three terrifying blood holes, and slowly recovered only by relying on the self-healing effect provided by the regenerative properties.
"Urs!" Xia couldn't help but take a breath of cold air when she looked at his terrible injury, and then stood in place in horror and shouted his name, afraid that he was just gritting his teeth and holding on, and the next second he would lose all his limbs and fall on his head.
The wolf girl's concern reached the young man's ears, causing the latter to turn his head half-sideways, and the corner of his eye flashed with the innate and unyielding will to "tell" her that it was all right.
Don't worry......
It's just three holes in the body.
Urs's gaze is still as tenacious as ever, and the indomitable will in his eyes is also the racial talent of his life as an Arranst, injuries below the near-death level will not have any negative impact on his character attributes, as long as the body and will are not completely defeated, he can continue to fight!
He gripped the sword in his hand, and quickly turned his gaze back to the enemy in front of him, the Mind Snatcher.
The large, bloated Heart-Snatching Giant Worm recovered from the pain caused by the Impact Ring and turned its attention back to the four members of the squad who had flown from the rock tunnel to the hollow underground.
This terrifying monster seemed to have some indelible hatred with everyone, or its biological nature was so violent and bloodthirsty, and the next second it immediately waved the four tentacles sticking out of its mouth and pumped towards Urs, while spreading a strange resonance from the depths of its throat to its mouth.
The strange sound was not so harsh, but it had a vicious energy attached to it, as if countless sharp silk threads like knives penetrated into people's minds through the transmission of sound.
Urs gritted his teeth indifferently, knowing in his heart that this was an extension of psionic energy as a means of combat, one of the best tricks of the psionic monsters, allowing the underground monsters nicknamed Octopus Heads to manipulate certain people with weak willpower like marionettes.
As a taboo product in the Psychic Monster Society, the Mindsnatcher Giant Worm still possesses this psychic power called psionic energy, although its appearance is far from that of the normally developed Psionic Monster.
It has no reliable intelligence, and subconsciously wants to make everyone submit to it, but unexpectedly, after activating the berserk ability, Urs is not affected by this power at all, and in the blink of an eye, it has already kicked away from the spot, causing the four tentacles dancing in its mouth to whipped there like whips-
Then he took a moment and said, "Poof! "There was a heavy thud, kicking up gravel and smoke!
"Uhhh Urs let out a roar of rage, dodging and then immediately counterattacking, his extreme physicality allowing him to fend to the side of the Mind Slayer Worm's mouth with far more speed and agility than anyone else.
The cross-shaped two-handed giant sword was firmly clenched by him with both hands, and the next moment he aimed at the tentacle that he had slashed before, and slashed at the purple flesh with a sharp blade!
This time, the tentacles that the Heartsnatcher sticking out of its mouth were severed by the sword.
Urs's powerful brute force attached to the blade of the Cross Greatsword and severed one of the tentacles of the giant insect monster, but the weapon with only a +1 enchantment level finally used up all its durability, and at the same time as the monster's dirty blood splashed out of the section of the severed limb, it made a crisp "pop" sound, and the long blade of the sword body extended a glass ice crack turtle pattern in the middle of the sword-
"Shh......h
Before finding a new good weapon, he knew that this +1 greatsword must only be used as his transitional equipment, so he didn't feel too distressed, but he complained in his heart that it was really not the right time for reimbursement.
Can you call it a chain drop at a critical moment, man?
But forget it......
Thinking about it, the young man let go of the invalid broken sword, and then controlled the five fingers of his right hand to grab a brand-new iron long sword from mid-emptiness.
The new longsword was one of the spare items he had stored in the spatial ring earlier.
Because he expected that the enchanted greatsword with only +1 level would be reimbursed on the spot because he couldn't bear his own strength at the beginning, Urs had prepared a lot of other tabula rasa weapons in the space ring given to him by Victor when he first left Twilight, and he was not at all interested in hilarious titles such as Broken Sword Venerable.
But then again, although the young man has lost his current relatively good enchanted weapon, he is more confident in defeating the heart-snatching giant worm in front of him than at the beginning - this is because he has caused effective damage to the monster with the blow just now, and the other is that he has developed a good habit in his previous life, and can roughly estimate the strength of the enemy based on the damage caused by the enemy to himself.
The Mind Slayer Worm's previous terrifying attack through his body didn't kill him all at once, and he judged that this terrible monster wasn't actually too terrifying to be beyond his imagination. Even if it theoretically has the potential for infinite evolution, at least it's not something that its own group can't match at this moment!
"Thea, heal!" At the end of the first round of confrontation, Urs immediately moved back, not under the influence of the effect of the berserk state, and at the same time loudly instructed the wolf girl behind him to provide him with magical casting support.
Xia reacted, and then quickly came back to her senses, and lifted the foreleg of the wolf claw wrapped around the Holy Emblem bracelet to perform a priest's 5-ring healing technique on him according to Urs's needs.
Perhaps due to the gradual awakening of the Beast Angel bloodline, Thea's spell-casting ability has unconsciously become strong enough to be able to cast the 5-ring magic normally - and if nothing else, both the priest's 5-ring magic and the druid's 5-ring magic should be able to be cast smoothly.
As a 5-ring mid-level divine technique that surpassed the 1~3 rings of low-level divine arts, the magical positive energy contained in the Great Healing Technique turned into a warm ball of light covering Urs's body, and then quickly integrated into his body, directly making his body, which had three blood holes open in the previous second, suddenly become relatively "complete".
His muscles were repaired at an explosive and astonishing speed under this miraculous healing effect, and although they were not immediately full, and several hard injuries on his internal organs and bones did not heal immediately, they at least looked much better than they had been a while ago.
Urs thanked Thea in his heart, his eyes unrelenting, and then noticed the scream of the heart-snatching giant worm that had just chopped off a tentacle of its mouth, and stood up in condescending manner.
Just as a red dragon tends to take a deep breath before breathing fire, the sudden movement of the Heart-Snatching Giant Worm is also a sign that it is about to spit acid on its prey.
Urs didn't intend to take the sour saliva of the heart-scorching giant worm in his face, so his feet were ready to dodge again, and it was best to take the opportunity to counterattack while dodging.
He quickly and roughly planned his next plan of action in his mind - but before the corrosive acid of the Mind Slayer could spit out of his mouth, a pitch-black oval object flew over his head, drawing a parabola with a faint fire and slamming into a piece of rock crust on the side of the giant worm's head.
The UFO, which was about the size of a clay pot, was like a grumpy little meteor, and the moment it hit the head of the giant insect, "Boom! There was a bang, and the sound of the explosion was filled with a very strong blasting force in the ears of those present.
The Heartsnatcher's attempt to spew acid was immediately interrupted by the explosion, and its painful screams continued to prolong under the sparks, and the semi-elemental crust as hard as a rock to resist a sword was suddenly blasted into a visible hole.
Urs's eyes were slightly startled when he saw the exploding sparks and the cracked crust on the giant worm's head.
What was that just now?
Little girl's alchemy bomb?
No...... Much more powerful than the Alchemy Bomb.
He subconsciously turned his head and glanced in the direction where Koto and Bellinglith had fallen, and happened to hear the dwarven warrior exclaim with a similar surprise to himself: "Little girl, this is ——?! ”
"Black kettle!" The future Grand Magister lady stood in the big iron stew pot named Xiao Meng behind the dwarf at some point, holding the wall of Xiao Meng's pot with one hand to reveal the upper half of her small body, and the image of a little man who was showing off her might was like a goblin stone thrower riding on the shoulders of a cyclops, "This name is called for the time being." ”
As the words fell, the spatial ring on her finger also played a convenient role in storing and retrieving, and according to her will, a clay pot-shaped item she called a black kettle was teleported to her hand.
Koto wondered how this particular powder jug was made, what it contained, and whether it had something to do with the magic technique called alchemy. He was a real rough man, and when he saw that this prop had indeed exploded through the sturdy crust of the Heartsnatcher Giant Worm, he suddenly shouted excitedly: "Black kettle!" Haha, good stuff, this thing works! Little girl, you're doing awesome! ”
"Uh...... But with such a good thing, why not use it earlier? ”
Because this is a half-finished product, His Royal Highness the Prince...... The power is amazing, but the safety of use cannot be guaranteed for the time being, not to mention, the amount of reserves is also very small, before leaving the port of Casey, I only made a few, with one less than one.
Moreover, sometimes it is not only "dumb fire", but also "blows up"......
Bellinglisy was embarrassed to tell him at this juncture that his invention actually had many technical hidden dangers that had not been solved, and if it weren't for the fact that the current situation was already critical, he wouldn't want to gamble on this thing with the mentality of being a dead horse and a live horse doctor.
The effect just now can only be said to be lucky, she bet right.
And then probably the gambler's psychology is at work, since the first one is fine, then the second one may also be ......
Thinking so, the little dwarf girl took out the second black fire kettle from the spatial ring and took it into her hand, and was about to aim it at the Heartsnatcher Giant Worm as she had just done when she heard Urs shouting at herself: "Give me this one!" ”
"Huh?"
She froze for a moment, and the few freckles on her face turned to the young man along with the doubt in her eyes, and saw the latter stretch out her left hand without a sword to urge: "Hurry up, trust me!" ”
“…… Well! ”
Bellingis didn't know what Urs was going to do, but as he said, after a moment of hesitation, she chose to believe him, then nodded, and tossed the second black kettle in her hand to him.
The clay pot containing the gunpowder fell impartially into the young man's big hand, and landed relatively lightly, as if to prove that this extremely offensive functional prop was detonated by violent collisions.
"Thea, shield!"
"Understood!"
Taking the clay pot from the little girl's hand, Urs turned his head and turned his back to the wolf girl to give instructions on the next step in the battle. The priest girl in the form of a wolf now has an extraordinary tacit understanding with him, and then once again casts a corresponding magic spell for him according to his needs-
Castaño's 5-Ring Priest's Divine Technique - Powerful Aid Technique!
True to its name, Ring 5 of the Priest's Divine List is a deluxe enhancement of the 2nd Ring Aid Spell, which fully enhances the target's movement accuracy, immunity resistance, and provides an externally visible layer of "temporary health" for the duration of the spell, known as a shield.
The energy of the divine spell swirled around Urs's side, temporarily strengthening his physical fitness while condensing into a translucent circle of holy golden shields around him.
The black-haired young man carried a pot in his left hand and a sword in his right hand, feeling the blessing of divine magic flowing in his body, and his strong body seemed to shoot at a giant heart-snatching insect that was even larger than him in the next second!
His eyes were hideous, and he roared and roared, and the scars and blood all over his body turned into a force called courage in the roar of rage.
The bloated Mind Snatcher Worm writhed its neck in the aftermath of the explosion, and its keen perception, which was enough to compensate for its visual impairment, allowed it to catch the young man's attack line at the same time, and the remaining three long tongue tentacles in its mouth reflexively struck it back in the air!
The movements of this monster are not as agile as the young man, and it is purely superior to the crushing of its size, and every brutal attack is a life and death test that is almost impossible to block normally for the four members of the squad present.
Urs had already experienced the purple giant worm's tentacle whip solidly, and this time he planned his actions, and when he looked up and saw the other party's three tentacles drawn at him again, he immediately turned into a dark shadow and leaped forward.
Cloak of Shadowscales' shadow attack ability is limited to two times a day - he decisively used the last one of the day, using the spell-like ability attached to this equipment to directly jump over the three tentacles of the Mind Snatcher Giant Worm to the front of the big worm before it was blasted open by Bellinglith's crusty head.
In mid-air, there was no obstacle in front of him at this moment!
The purple muscles of the flame-burned head beneath the cracks in the crust of the Heartsnatching Giant Worm became clearly visible in Urs's eyes at this moment. Without hesitation, he pressed the black kettle in his left hand, sponsored by Belinis, into the wound on the giant insect's head, and the iron sword in his right hand followed and thrust it hard.
The blade of the longsword pierces the clay pot, pushing the devastating item as deep into the mind slayer as deep as possible. The Black Flame Kettle was hit hard enough by Urs's attack, and then it unleashed its deadly spark in the monster's skull!
A powerful inward blast.
"Boom ——!!"