Chapter 103: The Giant Worm of the Heart (Part II)
The huge purple worm seemed to be excited by the sight of the prey in front of it, and suddenly couldn't help but burst out with a sharp roar that shocked the mind, controlling the four tentacles in its mouth that opened its teeth and claws and quickly pounced on the young man who had not yet fallen back to the ground from mid-air!
Urs faced it in the air, and the color of his eyes turned crimson in two angry gazes, and then erupted into a beastly roar—
"Uhh
This is his furiousness, by far the most formidable force.
He slashed the cross-sword in his hand at the Heart-Snatching Giant Worm in front of him along the posture he had just turned over. The +1 level enchanted greatsword had already been overloaded in his hands, and this time it was clear that it would not be able to escape again, and he immediately let out a "poof! A sturdy, muffled sound slashed through one of the purple tentacles in the giant worm's mouth.
The sound of the slash surprised the young man for a moment, and then he immediately became aware of it, and said in his heart—
There's something wrong with this!
Urs cursed in his heart, but he also knew that the birth of the Heartsnatcher Giant Worm was a catastrophic accident in the history of the underworld.
This terrifying monster was originally just tadpole larvae of the psychics, which slowly developed in a huge hatching container called the cerebral pool by the psiculars, or was absorbed and digested by the master brain that controlled the cerebral pool as a pathetic feed, and a small part of them were taken out of the cerebral pool by the adult psychic monster after growing to a certain extent, and put into the ears of the captive of the humanoid intelligent creature to burrow into the latter's head, eat the captive's brain, take the captive's body and replace it, thus officially transforming into a new adult psychic monster.
Psivalists maintain their particular way of reproducing in this regular and cruel way - if an alien invader destroys a nest and kills the master of the nest, the nest will often leave the tadpole larvae in their brains to collapse and flee, causing the tadpole larvae to fend for themselves in the same abandoned brainpool.
Intruders who don't know the history of the Psicouckers often ignore these seemingly innocuous little things, and just pack up their loot and leave in a hurry.
In order to survive, hungry tadpole larvae have to devour each other in their brains, and eventually survive a tadpole larvae that manages to eat all their siblings. The tadpole larvae that survived in the cerebral pool acquired some nutrients in this most primitive way, digested the corpses of their own kind, continued to develop, and continued to grow, but because of the loss of the supervision of the adult body spirit sucking monsters, it was generally impossible to complete the transformation into a human form.
Unable to metamorphose, it can only continue to grow up as a juvenile, and one day it will fall back into hunger, so it will have to crawl out of its head to find new food.
Get out of your head and climb into a new world of the unknown – this tadpole hatchling doesn't know what awaits it on the journey ahead. Because of hunger, at this stage it only knows how to eat, eat anything, and if you're unlucky, you'll be killed by other monsters, and if you're lucky, if you can continue to survive, you'll eat bigger and bigger, and the bigger it gets, the bigger it eats, the bigger it eats......
Until one day, it inadvertently eats the brain of a creature with intelligence, and thus awakens its self-awareness.
The awakened self-consciousness and the germinating psionic energy interact within it, producing a terrifying force that allows its body to grow indefinitely in this deformed state, and its body also swells from the original tadpole to a bloated worm due to overgrowth.
Its logical and simple mind will always have endless hatred and madness, and this crazy hatred drives it to endlessly prey on all prey within its senses, and on rare occasions it even digests very well, and can even absorb some of the characteristics of food before it was born.
For example, if you eat a cow, it may be able to grow horns.
If you eat a bird, it may not be able to give birth to the wings of the bird;
Eat an elemental creature, and it may also become somatic elemental;
Eat a dragon, and it may evolve into another horror called the Mind Flayer;
Eat a god......
But fortunately, this kind of mutant variety of heart-catching giant worms is indeed very rare. It's no exaggeration to say that it's rarer than vegetarian cats.
Castaño rarely appears as a mutant species of Mind Flayer, and as a result, knowledge of this monster is very rare, and not many of the mages and scholars who specialize in biology are sure that the Mind Flayer's devouring ability hides such a terrifying secret.
Urs has memories of his previous life, so he knows more than the scholars of this world in some ways, so he can't help but be suspicious when he hears the sound of his greatsword slashing through the tentacles of the monster's mouth.
What did it eat to become so hard?
Earth elemental?
Slow, earth elemental? Could it be......
The young man's red eyes widened in a state of rage, and he saw up close that the cross giant sword in his hand did not immediately cut off the purple tentacles that the other party protruded from his mouth, but only cut a pus-draining gap and squeezed it into it, and the blade was forced to break out of a small splinter by the sticky skin as hard as a rock, and a few metal fragments flew out as if it was injured and splashed blood, indicating that this enchanted weapon with only +1 level seemed to be unbearable.
The side blade of the sword curled up slightly again as it cracked, and became a little duller, as if to protest that its master really could no longer use it so roughly.
Urs's brow furrowed. He knew that his blow had not caused much trouble to the enemy, and then he was about to change his own bad luck!
The actions of the Heartsnatcher did not "disappoint" the young people. The huge purple worm continued to dance with four tentacles sticking out of its mouth, and its bloated body continued to advance unhindered, and the next second it finally collided head-on with Urs, who had not had time to fall back to the ground from mid-air, and the remaining three tentacles that were not slashed by the giant sword pierced through the latter's body like spears-
Left shoulder, abdomen, plus a few ribs in the lower part of the right chest.
The wounded part was blurred for a while, but it was just a blessing in misfortune, or maybe the young man deliberately dodged, and there was nothing wrong with his head and heart, so that he didn't have an immediate distraction, and then he heard the exclamation of the dwarven warrior and the dwarf girl from behind him-
"Captain!"
"Brother Urs!"
Koto jumped off Thea's back to catch Bellingis, who had just been saved by Urs's volley and thrown back at him, and then looked up with the little girl who fell into her arms with a strange scream to see the scene of the Heartsnatcher Giant Worm crashing into the young man.
Their hearts jumped to their throats. Thea was almost distracted the moment she turned her head to see this picture, but she immediately very sensibly spent the first and a half seconds that would have been wasted on shouting in the process of performing the divine prayer.
The emblem bracelet with the sun and balance motif is still wrapped around her left wrist. She twisted and lifted the forelimb in wolf form, and the divine light then fell on Urs in mid-air with the sound of prayers that quickly fell from her mouth.
The white halo enveloped the young man, providing him with timely divine healing and a shield of energy of limited thickness.
Urs's body was very strong and tough, and the three tentacles of the Heartsnatcher pierced three different parts of his body, but they couldn't kill him immediately, so he finally slammed into him face to face, and then drove forward the young man like a heavy chariot at full speed, and in the blink of an eye, he was about to crash into the stunned Kotor, Belelis, and Thea!
Bellinglith was now held in Koto's arms, her light weight holding her against the dwarven warrior's shoulders like a small animal, her tiny wrist choked out with a deep red mark when she was thrown back by Urs not long ago.
Koto didn't have time to worry about anything, seeing that the huge thing in front of him was actually slamming into his face like this, so he quickly turned around half-sideways with a conditioned reflex, and put his right hand around the frightened dwarf girl, and the fortress giant shield equipped in his left hand was once again erected in front of him to defend himself, ready to meet the giant insect rush that would come in about the next second.
Urs should probably be glad that His Royal Highness the Prince of the Hearthfire Clan didn't put into practice the inspiration that had flashed in his head after the battle in Twilight that night, and added a set of spikes to the shield of the fortress shield to match the shield of the shield to match the shield strike.
He roared and endured the physical pain, relying on his strong self-healing ability and the divine protection provided by Xia to fight against the attack of the Mind Snatcher Giant Worm, and his strong back immediately felt the texture of the tower shield, as if he was stared at by the powerful Heart Snatcher Giant Worm in front of him and hit the dwarven shield, and then pushed the dwarf warrior who was defending against the shield through his body.
"No, not good!" Koto felt the pressure exerted on him by the Heartsnatcher Worm through Urs, and the dwarf body shape like a stump, which was naturally suitable for defense, could not help him at this time, and he was immediately forced to leave his feet off the ground, and along with Belelis in his arms and Thea behind him, he was pushed by the enemy into the unknown darkness deep in the tunnel.
The gut-like rock tunnel erupted with the sound of crushing stones as it violently advanced as the Heartsnatcher Worm violently advanced. Urs heard the cries of his companions come from behind him along with the whirring wind blowing on the side of his face, his blood-colored eyes projected a hideous gaze under the painful stimulation of the monster's wide open mouth towards him, and after breathing a sigh of relief, he released his left hand from the hilt of the greatsword, allowing a ring on his middle finger to be aimed deep in the throat of his enemy—
This is his Ring of Impact.
“Cro-Atash!”
Give me - stop!!
The young man's eyes widened and he roared out the magic spell that activated the charging ring. The energy of the ring responded loyally to its master with the angry command, and suddenly a cloud of restless air gathered and sprayed into the mouth of the Heartsnatcher like a cannon.
The restless air immediately formed a spiral of air under the power of magic, and the huge wind pressure was like a sharp blade cutting through the mouth, which was more fragile than the outer skin of the Heartsnatcher, and immediately poured into its stomach pouch down the esophagus.
The sharp pain tore through the killing intent of the Heart-Snatching Giant Worm in an instant. This huge bloated purple worm only had very simple logical thinking, and felt this unbearable pain under Urs's counterattack, and suddenly couldn't think too much of it at all, and suddenly almost subconsciously pulled the four tentacles in his mouth back from Urs, and then shook his head rudely, and all four members of the team who were pushed all the way by it flew out-
Fly into a wide space behind everyone.
Because unconsciously, the narrow tunnel has suddenly been completed, and the exit of the tunnel is connected to a new underground cavity, as if it can be used as a decisive battle venue, catching the three people and one wolf who are about to draw a parabola from mid-air and fall down.