Boom!!
Half a weathered bone beam was swept up by the worm's tail and swung across, smashing against the cliff face in a spray of shattered rock!
The Warlord raised an arm to take the blow head-on, then clamped its five fingers around the lunging worm's head and wrenched it down!
Crack!
The gray-white shell shattered on the spot, but the slick black body beneath suddenly contracted and slipped out between its fingers.
[Calamity Kin · Carrion-Eating Worm (LV.54, Tier Two)].
The worm's body, dozens of meters long, coiled against the rock wall. Its countless legs scrabbled backward, dragging a whole backful of bones toward a narrow fissure to the north!
[Tom Pie] crouched above, his eyelid twitching.
The fissure could fit the worm, but not the eight-meter-tall Warlord. If it managed to retreat inside, hauling it back out would be no easy task.
He spread his right hand slightly. Just as gray light flickered between his fingers, his empty stomach clenched hard.
Burning pain flared across his back, his calf, and the still-open wound on his shoulder.
"Fuck... still nagging me."
[Tom Pie] gritted his teeth and suppressed that faint gray light.
He had little Nirvana Energy left in his body. He couldn't keep throwing out [Corrosion Claw] at everything he saw.
Below, the newly awakened seven-meter giant stepped forward, its LV.44 marker passing through the shadows. It swung half a worm limb and slammed it into the side of the worm's neck!
Bang!
The worm's head jerked sideways, and two pale ribs actually clattered off its back.
[Tom Pie]'s gaze sharpened.
That wasn't armor it had grown itself!
The bones of The Ancient it had just swept up were still fastened to its back. Dark-red tendrils extended through gaps in the armor, binding the bones tight,