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Episode IX: The Dungeon Worm, a traumatic mass produced demon

Finally, it's the 21st basement floor.

Through the volcano, we reached the cave area where Rank 3 demons appeared.

From here, we go through a cave where no light shines.

This place is illuminated by light crystals, but if you go first, you will be surrounded by darkness.

We are mining light crystals buried in the walls for future exploration.

"Look, this is the most beautiful light crystal out there!

Kuna turns into a throat and face, showing off the big light crystal of the cobbler she's mined.

It's a crystal that emits blue light.

"Kuna, you're too shabby. They all glow subtly in different colors, don't they? Something that emits a blue light and a red light, a white light in the middle of it."

"You like that area. In my case, if you're going to turn it into room lighting, I like the fact that it's white is a natural light."

Each light crystal has its own personality.

If you want to dig because of this, I want to think about when I use it in my room.

A blue-like light has a refreshing and brain awakening effect, and a red-like light has a reverse calming effect.

If it goes without difficulty, it would be nice to have a white natural light.

"I like red. It seems calm, resembling the light of a used candle."

"I am, blue! Because it's beautiful."

They all split up nicely.

Now you can choose the right one.

Tomorrow, when I leave this floor, I will dig up plenty for the money and go home in my bag. All you have to do is select it for yourself.

Kuna's fox ears shook with tingling.

"Sauge, I guess, but it rocked. But it's probably too faint to be my fault."

Looks like Kuna felt something.

I don't feel anything.

Apply a special cream to the tip of the spear to take care of him.

"Coona, Anne, watch your step. If your feet shake at all, jump forward with all your might. Perhaps the demons will be after me, but we need to be vigilant."

They snort.

The signs Kuna felt are not a mistake.

He's here.

Hiddenly, he turns off the sound and approaches.

During the game years, players who thoroughly shared information, including mine, knew the characteristics of countless demons and were highly responsive and vigilant, even though they didn't have much information, it was quite possible that many people had sacrificed themselves.

We can afford to deal with a monster at first sight. He's not one of us.

"Well."

Get out on a wide road and hit the tips and the ground with your toes.

To make me go for it.

Now I can draw your attention.

…… I knew it.

Just a slight shake. A minor discomfort that is too whispering to even care about usually.

That's his omen.

Look at your feet.

Then it came.

"Guiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

Floating sensation. The ground disappeared. The hard cave floor melted and sank, creating a hole.

In that hole, a brown, giantly rounded potato-shaped demon is opening his mouth. Looks close to Millworm.

This is the Dungeon Worm, one of the most difficult enemies in the [cave] area that has caused so many victims.

His mouth is round and he can swallow me whole easily. Kiba is growing in surprise.

"No matter how many times I look at you, I'm not used to you."

I knew they would suddenly take the scaffolding away.

That's why he's poking a needle made of orihalcon into the ceiling, and a thread extending from it is tied to his left hand. By using magic, the thread shrinks and the body is pulled to the ceiling.

With his body lifted, it didn't have to be his meal.

The scaffolding disappeared. Without measures, gravity would have pulled me into a hole and swallowed me up in his mouth.

A trivial vibration that would be a precursor if we were to fight this guy. I can't make it if it's not moving when I sense it.

It hasn't been moving since the ground disappeared.

There was a metal noise with the cock. He shut his mouth. And deflect the body. Preparing to advance.

"Cuo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo"

The dungeon worm, which ate the bait there, screams and thrusts with tremendous momentum from the ground.

I saw his face.

A body table filled with eight red eyes and soggy mucus... I can't believe I said I'd eat anything a few minutes ago. This guy is physiologically impossible.

"Eat this guy!

With his empty right hand, he swings and throws the machine demon spear Vajra

A spear stuck deep between his eyebrows.

"Cure, cure, cure."

Even as he screams, he keeps going in.

Pull another threaded needle against the wall and pull the thread to move sideways to avoid landing.

The dungeon worm, whose ramp ended in an empty motion, twirls his torso and tries to dive into the ground.

"Still, that's a little sturdy."

A special blow that swallows the Explorer in full, on top of the immortality. A life force that won't be fatally injured if a spear sticks between your eyebrows.

There is too much overlap of elements not to do.

In advance, retrieve the spear by pulling the thread that was attached to the spear.

As it is, they take the spear.

The moment he touches the ground, he swallows him without resistance as if the ground had melted.

Not even any sound.

"Sauge, it's crazy! Why, at that speed with that giant, dive into the ground and there's no sound!

Kuna screams.

The hair on the fox's tail is upside down and she has goosebumps. He looks so disgusting.

"It's his ability. [Fluidization]. He's not digging the earth. Swim the earth."

It thus combines a tremendous velocity and serenity in the ground.

There are as many demons attacking from his feet as there are, but there are no demons as fast and serene as he is.

That is why many players and explorers were sacrificed.

If you're on the ground, you can detect an intrusion if you tie the line.

Even raids from underground can be avoided by veterans who notice them because they have quite a bit of vibration and sound.

But he hits from the basement at high speeds without sound.

Players couldn't believe they were swallowed whole if they were camping like me because of it.

…… the greatest baptism in the Third Area. The ultimate of first sight.

That's the dungeon worm.

However, at least the salvation is once every few dozen seconds, with only a moment of [fluidized] breathing. The vibration is transmitted only slightly at that time. In the cave area, if you miss it, you die instantly.

"Anyway, you just have to watch your step"

"If you know the direction you're going to attack me, don't be so afraid."

Kuna and Anne make a terrible mistake.

Just watch your step, okay?

Dungeon worms aren't that sweet.

Throw about ten threaded needles around the perimeter and pin the thread.

Not just to the ground, but to the side of the cave, to the ceiling.

Those guys, the first blow hits from their feet. Because if we break our feet with fluidization, we know that humans are powerless.

And if you decide you're the one who can prevent it……….

"Kuna, do your best to jump forward!

A slight vibration is transmitted through the needle that stabbed him in the wall...... I feel his breath hold, so I raise my voice.

Kuna looked strange and jumped to her full strength.

How come there's no shaking at all on your face? It says:

In their long experience, Kuna and Anne, even if they don't know why, work as I say for now. Then I worry. I know if I don't, I'll die.

At that next moment, a dungeon worm popped out of the side of the kuna.

"Wha!? From the wall."

"These guys, walls or ceilings, they're coming at us from anywhere."

Let him think that the first blow will only come from the ground, and raid a human from the side with his attention there.

"[Demon Ore Smelting: Ginno Bow/Piercing]"

Spears don't make it from here.

Use the handheld Orihalcon to make a bow and release an arrow.

I'm putting yarn on my arrow butt.

My bow pierces me deeply, but I don't seem to be in pain. Still shooting arrows after arrows.

"[Thunder strike]"

Follow the thread further in pursuit and thunderbolt in

"Cure, cure, cure, cure."

If you just get electric shock running through your body, it's damaging. But it doesn't stop me from moving. He didn't mind, he dived to the ground again. Slash the yarn.

It's that giant. Pull it, but it's the och who loses his strength and gets slapped to the ground.

…… seven or eight meters in length. Diameter that allows you to swallow humans whole.

On top of that, a tough body with few steep spots called potato worms and no reduced combat power even with site defects. Everything is gloomy.

"Sage, I don't know, aren't you a troublesome demon to die for!?

"Didn't you say that? Islam. You're smart and your vitality is off the mark, even though you're alert. In addition, there are many cases where people act in flocks. If you hunt him down too much, he'll call for help. As far as I know, up to ten ni have appeared at a time.... Twenty Dungeon Worms is a nightmare for us right now."

"Instead of a nightmare, it's instant death!

There's no reason for Kuna to make a scene.

However, this creature of nightmares also seems to be weak.

... It's time for it to work though.

A slight vibration is transmitted from the needle.

Now it's up. Looks like I'm the one being targeted.

"Kuna, Anne, stay away from me!

They snort.

And Kuna turns to me to create a huge mass of flames.

Anne will be ready to step in at any time.

Good judgment. I can ambush you if I know where you're going to come out.

Dungeon worm faces out of the ceiling, mouths open and falls off. Coona's flames are slammed from the side, Anne runs through the walls and stuffs the distance in an instant to cleave it in the air.

Dungeon worms are highly flame resistant. Because of the mucus that covers his brown body, the flame of the coona ends only by blurring, and Anne's slaughter, though deeply cleaved, cannot be fatally wounded thanks to its size.

He's coming at me, keeping the momentum coming out of the ceiling. Jump forward and dodge.

The guy stays put and tries to dive again, but he also suffers from hitting the ground without [fluidization] activating.

And rumble around with butterflies. Nevertheless, if you get out on the ground, it's normative. Kuna and Anne are also exchanged to make a thorough attack.

After a while, I was finally able to take him down.

"Well, did it finally work?"

"Sauji, why did this demon suffer?

"It's strange. I don't think the Kuna flame worked as well as my sword."

"I've poisoned my spears and arrows plenty. The identity of the poison is the herb used to make the ointment for the burn medicine called Red Flame Flowers, which is sold as a herb in the city, but it seems strange and poisonous to these guys. Even this giant has a small amount of effect."

… red flame flowers become poison against dungeon worms.

The discovery was a coincidence.

It just so happens that one player has an anti-scald ointment to break through the volcanic area, and the dungeon worm that mouthed it suffered.

The discovery was shared, and experiments were repeated to establish dungeon worm control.

"It's strange. I can't believe the burn pills are so poisonous."

"Sort of. I've tried other demons, but it's about this guy who makes red flame flowers poisonous."

This discovery is huge.

Dungeon worms had made it difficult to explore the underground twenty-first hierarchy and beyond, but made it quite easy to explore.

To tell the truth, this guy's odor isn't just a stand-alone spec.

In addition to the battle against other demons, vibrations can be sensed and lying around.

"While I'm here, I hunt around the dungeon worm. Except near this entrance. If these guys are tapping the ground or mining light crystals, they sense the vibrations from quite a distance and find us and attack us, so it's easy to call them in. Because of its nature, more and more searchers are mining light crystals."

By the way, this is also why light crystals go up in price.

Just digging for light crystals, the vibrations tell the walls and the ground and call for more and more dungeon worms. Once they see it, most of the time it will be swallowed whole by the dungeon worm, so the presence of the dungeon worm is not very well known, and the next victim is there again.

In a way, light crystals are the biggest trap.

"Um, Sauji. Earlier, you said that dungeon worms sometimes act in flocks."

"Yeah, I told you."

"If you do something that calls for a dungeon worm like that, you'll be here in a herd soon!

"When three or more of them come at once, don't hesitate to return to the twentieth basement floor. The dungeon worm seems boring. In half an hour, we'll be back light. That's how Theory here keeps fighting fewer than two."

This is what we call the most efficient hunt when it just came to Rank 3.

Calling for a dungeon worm, pounding poison and bagging where he can no longer dive into the ground.

As soon as we get a number that we can't handle, we'll head back to the basement twentieth floor.

Some demons are easier to defeat, but sensing the vibrations of battle makes the dungeon worm come into the sidelines and very dangerous. That is why the idea of reversal is that it is safe to intentionally call the dungeon worm and kill it.

"Sauge, that's a lot of relief fighting."

"I can't help but think about my current strength. I'm really scared of the cave area. So is the laying of the dungeon worm, but behind the 21st basement, there's a worse nest of guys."

By the way, not everything in the cave area, from start to finish, is called a livestock demon wonderland.

For some reason, there are lousy people in the basement on the 21st floor, and it's easier from the 22nd floor.

Because of this, it is difficult to grow a Rank 3 or higher Explorer.

"Ugh, you only have to hunt dungeon worms for a while"

"When it comes to Rank 3 over Rank 4, I'll go ahead... but I'll be patient until I get stronger"

We just managed to get to Rank 3.

Now is the time to build up strength.

"In the meantime, shall we take out the Demon Stone? If I take the demon stone, I'll burn the body because it's out of the way. It's hard to burn from the outside because of the mucus that covers your body, but it burns easily inside. Kuna, stick your hand through your mouth and ash me from the inside out."

"Ugh, it's disgusting"

Nodding as Quina looked disgusted.

I dismantled the dungeon worm, took out the demon stone and had Coona burn it.

... And when I told him I was joking about eating this guy, Kuna and Anne shook their heads with a serious, disgusting face and came to stop him with all their strength.

Even though I'm getting used to eating Getestuff, I guess this just isn't possible.

By the way, they don't taste bad. A certain brave man among the players has eaten. Though, that's right. I honestly gave up this time, too. If you force it, Kuna and Anne are going to hate you for real.

Well, it's a fun, fun dungeon worm hunt from today on. Let's try our best.