As Shade spoke, a long, snake-like bulge rose from his sleeve once more. The sealed worm emerged from within, but rather than attacking the worm body being roasted by three different flames, it shot toward Vanessa.
It clamped its jaws around the tail of the giant worm, the only part not yet aflame, and then devoured the tail.
In this era, aside from sealing, there was no way to completely deal with an evil thing like the Gravel Worm. Otherwise, the Fifth Epoch Witch would not have sealed that worm and thrown it into the Gravel Gold Sand Sea.
But Adele had said more than once that apocalyptic evil creatures could grow stronger by devouring others of the same kind. Thus, the sealed Gravel Worm in Shade's possession had the ability to completely eliminate its Same Race through devouring them. Shade had already tested this when he summoned the worm just now.
It did not need to truly consume the burning worm's entire body. It merely bit its tail and gave a fierce pull. A layer of black gravel immediately surfaced across the severely wounded worm's body, rapidly gathering toward its tail.
As the gravel flowed away, the helpless worm's struggling movements, which had still seemed fleshy only seconds earlier, grew increasingly rigid. Its entire body was rapidly turning into actual stone.
Only then did the pitch-black Paradox Worm embedded in the worm's carapace sense that the Gravel Worm was about to perish. It finally detached itself from the worm's body and flew into the sky.
Sister Devlin instantly vanished from Giant Shade's shoulder. After appearing above the black insect, she gave a light sweep of the black scythe in her hand, and the fleeing insect fell straight down, completely motionless.
As most people breathed a sigh of relief, Emilia,