Generally speaking, the sandworm is a large magical beast that lives in a desert environment and uses soft soil to move freely to hunt wild beasts.

Gajilan, Randall, and the Kingdom of Norton share a great sand sea in the west, and there are occasional migrations of local creatures for various reasons.

When a colony of sandworms arrived in Norton not long ago, the toxins that seeped into the soil quickly caused the creatures to be highly poisonous.

And after the outbreak of the magic tide last year, these magical beasts suddenly became more dangerous......

"Lure them with a Thunderbolt!"

When the three astral adventurers came outside the carriage, the caravan's guards were battling the magical beasts with alchemy items supplied in the city.

They themselves tried their best to avoid making a sound, and at the same time dropped an alchemical bomb capable of emitting powerful sound waves and vibrations outside the caravan, in an effort to protect their employers from the attack in the first place.

Sandworms have no eyesight and are different from other creatures, and they perceive the "vibration" of objects, and this clever tool can create illusions that only work on them.

Despite their physical prowess as magical beasts, sandworms are insects and have lower intelligence than ordinary animals (1).

As the guards hurled the blasters out of the caravan, it didn't take long for the attackers to think their real prey was nearby.

However, even if the guards coped with it properly, the fear of the wriggling giant worm's body still caused some ordinary people to panic.

Two merchants and some servants failed to understand the nature of the monster even after being alerted, and when they saw the swarm of sandworms away from the convoy, they immediately fled in the opposite direction in fright.

Seeing this, the guards cursed silently.

But seeing that those people hadn't left the convoy too far, the sandworms who had been led away by the Thunderstone quickly went and returned—the Thunderstone that made a sound at one time was far less attractive than the actual running.

Originally, as long as they could lure away the sandworms without moving, the warriors would fight them, but now the sandworms that should have been gathered rushed towards the caravan members!

With almost no effort, those magical beasts with mouths bigger than the mouth of the well easily swallowed their prey with little resistance.

"What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and save people!" Thomas, the leader of the caravan, hurriedly shouted, "If a merchant dies, see if I will deduct the money from you!" ”

Hearing this, the guards were immediately in mourning, and they didn't know how many times they had scolded the people who had not followed their instructions and fled in a panic.

"Help, help, stop nagging!" Nafadio, who was the most powerful of the guards, pondered, trying to remember which of the people who had just escaped and was swallowed was the merchant of the caravan.

"Don't move any of you while we save people! Otherwise, they all have to die! ”

Servants and porters don't need to be rescued, but merchants can't die.

Although sandworms, especially mutated sandworms, are highly toxic, they possess mainly neurotoxins that do not pose a risk to the lives of their prey in the short term.

As long as the rescue is timely and the treatment is appropriate, there is still a certain possibility of recovery.

Even if the rescue is not effective, at least a vegetative person can be brought back.

After a few moments, the guards judged the whereabouts of the two merchants, and decisively launched a charge against the sandworms who were about to return to the ground!

Sensing a new movement, some of the sandworms that had not been able to hunt successfully before due to the limited prey immediately rushed up to meet the warriors.

However, times have changed, and the warriors of the Norton Kingdom are not the warriors of other countries who can only wield swords, and they invariably throw out another kind of projectile.

I only heard the sound of explosions repeatedly, and the alchemy props thrown out of the hands of the warriors suddenly exploded into flickering and deadly fires.

It was a more concentrated and powerful Blazing Gel that could be thrown to cause a powerful explosion.

"Now!"

The guards hurriedly rushed to the fleeing sandworm, preparing to plunge their swords into their bodies to prevent them from going deep into the ground.

But it was too late, and they couldn't stop the sandworms who had returned to the ground en masse after the hunt!

At that moment, a heavy metal gnome full of gears shot out of the carriage like a cannonball, and slammed into the tail end of the sandworm.

Even though the creature does not have similar senses, it still seems to have a silent scream coming from its mouth.

I saw that the sandworm that was punched by it in the tail kept trembling and lost its ability to move, and it was stuck in the hole.

Shocking and determining!?

This alloy gnome that looks exactly like the construction machine is actually a warrior monk who controls "qi"!?

This is a ridiculous joke!

"It turns out that Xiao Hei, do you really have qi?" Chen Zhou looked at the automatic dwarf incredulously, "Constructing a life form can also have life energy?" ”

"Whether it is made of flesh and blood or gold and stone, life is life, and theoretically even an automatic dwarf can possess qi, and even chakras can master it."

Xiao Hei's face was as usual (he had the same expression when he didn't deliberately change) and said quite bizarre words...... The definition of "life" in the wizarding world seems to be beyond the comprehension of Chen Zhou, a material inhabitant (original).

"Don't talk nonsense, there are quite a few other sandworms!"

While urging her teammates not to just chat, Tira raised her lantern and put the alchemy-made fuel into it to magically ignite it.

In an instant, all the magical beasts in the range fell into a state of slowness due to alchemy, and those sandworms that originally seemed to swim in the land and sand and stones actually wriggled strangely like drunks who had drunk too much......

"Looks disgusting."

"It's not just earthworms."

Chen Zhou also felt that these earthworms, which were magnified dozens or hundreds of times, looked very curious.

In order to protect himself and Lily's eyes, he decisively performed a large-scale "water creation technique" to freeze all the sandworms that were slow to move due to Tira's alchemy.

"Good control!"

Only then did Tila realize that her teammates were looking at the abundance of martial arts and turned out to be a spellcaster who favored restricting the enemy.

"Thank you, ...... three"

The three who claimed to be plane adventurers helped solve a large number of monsters, and the delighted caravan leader was about to thank the three when he heard a shout not far behind him.

"Don't move!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a violent tremor came from the ground again, and a small earthquake covered almost the entire area of the caravan.

In the midst of that tremor, it was not a simple sandworm, but an orc who used a strap to tie itself to the sandworm and use it as a mount!

This sandworm hunt was not a simple accident, but a premeditated attack!

(End of chapter)