Clang----!!
A pitch-black blade flash, as deep as the Void, slashed savagely into the heavy armor. Shattered plates sprayed past the tactical goggles like bullets, trailing a long string of dazzling sparks!
[Vanguard Across the Realm] drove his sword hand sharply downward!
The Bio-Mechanical Appendage, thicker than a grown man's torso, had only lost a small portion of its bony tendons. The backward-curving hook at its tip remained buried deep in the weathered dead shell outside the cliff.
As the hundred-meter worm frantically curled inward, crushing everything around it, rubble burst into showers. The dark-gold divine wall membrane, previously bulging high below, gradually relaxed. Seizing its chance, the giant worm clamped onto the bone layer and dragged itself inch by inch deeper into the fissure!
[Calamity Kin · Vein-Devouring Worm (LV.72, Tier Three)]!
Its enormous, hundred-meter body reared ferociously within the fissure. Overlapping rings of serrated bone around its long jaws instantly spun like a storm. Like a meat-grinding fortress running at full speed, it descended straight onto [Vanguard Across the Realm] in a foul-smelling tide of blood!
Boom!!
A savage bolt of lightning struck from the heavens, hammering squarely into the center of its head armor!
High-voltage arcs blasted vast sheets of slime apart, forcing the bone-ring mouthparts sharply sideways. [Vanguard Across the Realm]'s chest sank slightly as [Rift-Breaking Breathing] circulated rapidly, sharing the strain of his short-range warp. Space abruptly shifted around him. He slipped out along the blind spot beside the giant worm's fangs and landed firmly on a weathered broken beam outside its appendage!
Second strike!
A death-line from the Abyss swept through the air, plunging without restraint into the very same wounded seam in its bones!
Squelch--!!
Black blood erupted skyward like a high-pressure water jet. Half the heavy hooked leg crashed down amid a