It seemed that the outcome was decided, but after hearing "her" voice, Shade still gave up the pursuit without hesitation, took a step back and appeared ten meters behind him.
There are more and more cracks on the trembling evil thing, but densely packed worms are constantly pouring out of those cracks, as if its body is held up by these worms.
Finally, as Professor Drake's body was completely shattered like an explosion, swarms of insects like a fountain exploded from his body in all directions. And the combined volume of those insects far exceeded the volume of Professor Drake's body.
"I knew that every evil thing here has two stages."
Shade was forced to retreat again, and then watched the densely packed insects all enter the soil. Almost in the next second, a dull sound of rumbling came from under his feet, and the ground began to shake violently. The towering tower was mostly buried by the wind and sand.
The buildings around the square began to fall bricks and stones, and Shade quickly scanned the surroundings while maintaining his balance.
【Be careful, there is a big guy underground.】
As soon as the voice of "her" fell, Shade saw a huge black shadow emerging from the depths of the ground beneath the square. Even if the thing curled up, it would be large enough to cover the entire Saint Teresa Square.
Therefore, Shade had no room to dodge at all. Amidst the loud noise, a huge earth-yellow worm with tentacles all over its body emerged from the ground right below him. While pushing Shade into the air with nowhere to dodge, like that
The huge deformed insect head, which resembled the deformed head of Professor Drake, opened its mouth and roared, revealing the tens of thousands of yellowed human teeth inside the mouth.
It opened its mouth and was about to swallow Shade in the air, but Shade stepped on its head hard. The worm's head drooped due to the force while roaring, and Shade also used the force to jump upward again.
Still bound by the earth and unable to turn into a red butterfly, he took the opportunity to wave his long staff and throw out the moonlight, but the moonlight could only leave a shallow white mark on its carapace.
The bricks and stones in the square were being transformed into yellow sand due to contact with the worm-Drake. At this moment, the dust in the sky almost turned into a sandstorm and swept across the center of the square.
The worm raised its head again, straightened its body, and opened its mouth again. After swallowing a blast from the thunder gun, it made a harsh friction sound as the moonlight wheel kept scratching its carapace. Amidst the sizzling sparks, it finally opened its mouth.
Swallowed the fallen Shade into his stomach.
Miss Isabella, who was looking at the center of the sandstorm with squinted eyes from the edge of the square, immediately frowned and wanted to come to the rescue, but as soon as she took a step, she stepped back.
At this moment, a not very bright silver moonlight ring appeared inside the body of the giant worm entrenched in the center of the square. As the ring became brighter and brighter inside the body, the worm began to roll on the ground, attracting another one.
The earthquake caused a piercing sound and even shattered the masonry that had not yet been transformed into sand and dust.
Finally, as the viscous khaki body fluid burst out of the insect's body, the "moonlight wheel second form" that continued to expand from inside the insect's body forcibly cut the insect's body into two pieces.
The vibration of the insect's body falling to the ground almost collapsed all the buildings around Saint Teresa Square except No. 6. When the vibration ended and the dust was still filling the sky, Shade, who kept coughing, finally crawled out of the insect's "belly"
Out:
"Cough cough, cough cough."
All the clothes on his upper body were corroded, but the pants on his lower body miraculously remained intact. His exposed body was covered with traces of teeth and scratches, and the corrosive body fluids of the worms prevented those scars from being healed immediately.
To heal, Shade would probably have to soak in water and rely on "full food" and "blessing of the drowned" to recover. But there is no water here, so he can only wait for it to recover automatically after leaving this time and space.
He even walked with a limp, but fortunately he could use the Staff of Yggdrasil as a crutch.
But the huge worm did not die. The vitality of this kind of evil thing is particularly tenacious. Shade wanted to find the worm's head and give it a fatal blow, but was stopped by Miss Isabella who flew over - the worm body
Lying in the square, I really can’t walk:
"Don't solve it yet. You have won. Let it recover on its own and I will demonstrate my thaumaturgy for you."
The blonde witch said, Shade nodded, took out the perfume bottle and took a sip, then limped back to the edge of the square to rest. Miss Isabella saw how pitiful he looked and put her hand on his shoulder.
She wanted to treat him, but found that her healing magic had no effect on Shade:
"Can't I treat you?"
Shade didn't know why. The witches of the Fifth Era could treat him. Seeing Miss Isabella looking at her own hands in a daze, Shade casually guessed:
"Maybe the tree father wants me to fight the enemy by myself. It doesn't matter. I can cure myself when I go back."
The blonde witch pursed her lips, probably thinking that she should no longer exist after all.
"Leave it to me next."
She said this, and then looked at the small perfume bottle that Shade took another sip. She sniffed lightly, and a blush instantly appeared on her face. She subconsciously touched her face, and the emotion that had not appeared for a long time made her feel...
In an instant, as if in this apocalyptic time, he came back to life from his fossilized state.
"The unknowable relic - [Desire] gave me something that turns desire into perfume. Perfume can restore spirituality."
Seeing her curiosity, Shade explained, and at the same time speculated whether the "mermaid" would still be alive in the doomsday era. Miss Isabella nodded and did not object to Shade's association with such evil things:
"For you who are facing the end, any power is just power. Can you let me taste it?"
"Um?"
Shade looked at her in surprise, then wiped the mouth of the bottle with his hand before handing it to her.
The blond lady with tear marks at the corners of her eyes didn't care that Shade had just drank. She raised the bottle and took a sip, and then covered her forehead with her left hand as if she was drunk:
"This feeling, this vivid feeling that I am still alive. It's been a long time coming."
Shade looked at her with pity.
The insect's body was squirming, and the body that had been severed by "Moonlight Ring Second Form" was being repaired and reconnected. After Miss Isabella returned the perfume bottle to Shade, she supported him, and finally hugged him.
Picked him up and took him flying to the edge of the square.
Seeing that Shade looked like he didn't know where to put his hands, the blond lady with a blush on her face asked with a smile:
"The witches you know haven't flown with you?"
"Flying by, but rarely holding me like this."
She pursed her lips and smiled softly, feeling that the man Luvia Anat chose was really interesting.
When they returned to the edge of the square, she carefully asked Shade to sit and rest against the outer wall of No. 6. She stood aside and watched the worm reborn with Shade:
"Actually, you used an incorrect method to defeat this thing. Filthy earth worm - this is the name I gave to this kind of monster in the doomsday era. They are divided into two stages. The first stage is human form, and after being defeated, it is a worm.
The best way to deal with it is to induce humanoid or insect-shaped evil things to leave the ground. Once they are far away from the earth, that is when they are at their weakest. Even if it is just for a second, you can find an opportunity to kill them with one blow."
"Forget it in human form, I can't let such a big insect escape from the ground."
Shade leaned against the wall and looked at the bug. He rummaged through the waistband of his trousers and found the fragments of his shirt. He used this month's life-free spell to take a deep breath and turn back time, restoring his shirt and the toys in his clothes. Otherwise, this would have been impossible.
This time it was really a heavy loss.
The witch also saw his method of turning back time, and while becoming more and more satisfied with him, she continued to introduce:
"If they cannot escape from the earth, water is also the nemesis of these worms. They can be roughly divided into three categories: rock worms, gravel worms and mud worms. This time they are of the gravel type."
He hesitated for a moment and then said:
"But what you did is not wrong. You have as much affinity to the earth as it does. Otherwise, after being swallowed, it will be immediately transformed into stone and digested. Gravel worms use sand as food and can also transform any entity into gravel.
.At the beginning of the end, it was them."
She covered her forehead and groaned, she couldn't mention things about her own time and space.
"Stop talking about this. What I want to do is to prevent this scene from happening again."
Shade put on his clothes, panted to regain his strength, and confirmed that the witch was in good condition before continuing:
"In the Battle of Randall Valley, I gained this power by swallowing the filthy earth. The last time I told you about my affairs, I just got to this point and I couldn't bear to leave."
Miss Isabella looked dazed for a moment:
"In your sixth era, this was actually like this. I remember you mentioned that Siris Lassus was not sacrificed. Did Luvia Anat ask you to do this? What is her plan?"
"No, Luvia didn't say anything. I chose this path myself. I'm pretty sure this was not her plan."
Leaning against the outer wall of his home, Shade coughed a few times. His current condition is not very good:
"I just don't like those sad stories. If I can help and save the people I meet, I won't be able to dedicate everything I have, but as long as I can do something, I will probably do it. Those filthy and twisted origins of the earth
, gave me the ability to draw power while standing on the earth. But it was not without cost. In order to digest those filthy and twisted powers, I lay in bed in a daze for half a month, and my cat was
I think I’m about to die.”
When he said these words, he bent his left leg on the ground, raised his right leg, put his right arm on his knee, and looked at the ground, so he did not notice the movement of the tall witch standing beside him.
Suddenly, his vision went dark. Xia De looked up and saw that she had knelt on one knee in front of him at some point. Her beautiful golden eyes looked at him with a look that could be called "pity", and then she stretched out her hand.
Put it on his forehead:
"Xia De, thank you for your hard work."
The golden eyes made Xia De tremble suddenly:
"This kind of conversation is too strange. Please don't say that. It's not hard work. I'm willing to do it, not to mention Siris."
His eyes wandered for a moment:
"If she and I like each other, of course I won't sacrifice her."