The baby worms were so hungry they tried to eat everything in sight, whether it be benches in the street or the living and breathing humans, it seemingly made not much of a difference to them. Their baby teeth were already able to dig through wood and metal with little effort.A group of worms attacked a skyscraper and began eating its walls and pillars from the lower floors, causing the whole building to crumble. This resulted in the deaths of thousands, but the worms drilled through the rubble and ate the dead humans, not leaving anything precious untouched.Though the mages were doing their best to stop the worms, either directly confronting the worms with their own strength or by using the drones to shoot them from the sky. However, the sheer number of worms still proved extremely difficult to handle. Many worms managed to either kill the mages or slip through their defenses.Sukazu, a delta mage, used his star seal to craft wind attacks to send worms flying in every direction. Ho
The loud cry of the Mother Worm was enough to eat away the confidence of not just civilians but many of the mages as well. However, the Mother Worm that was still standing up like a tower sprayed yellowish spit high into the air. And it fell everywhere in the city and melted everything it touched. The humans or the metal structures, it didn’t matter.And the melted masses were happily gorged on by the baby worms that also ate away the yellowish spit of their mother.It was truly a gut-stirring sight to watch even for Dave who had seen his own share of battles in his lifetime. He was someone who experimented even on innocent children for the sake of research, but he still valued human life. So he felt enraged to see so many souls dying left and right.“This damned monster wasn’t this big when I last saw it years ago. How did it grow so big?”Stardium worked effectively on human mages, but it wasn’t much effective on critters, so Dave had to use his technological prowess to tackle this
Lexi was riding her flying lizard and was observing all the ongoing destruction, wearing a neutral face.The low-level mages that used star-seals couldn’t fight back against the baby worms for long because their weapons had restrictions and limits. And without their weapons, they were no better than sitting ducks against these voracious worms. Only those mages who had absorbed a star crystal’s power were able to use skills on their own, without having to rely on faulty star-seals, and somewhat withstood the attack of the baby worms.A baby worm managed to fly past the lizard’s tongue and reached Lexi, but after smelling her scent, it stopped attacking and started licking her. “Good boy,” Lexi patted the worm before throwing it into the air. The lizard caught it with the tongue and pulled it into its mouth and chewed on it. Lexi kept smiling.The lizard flew to where the Mother Worm was, and Dave kept fighting the giant beast alone when everyone else had fallen. Parts of his body also
Because of the acid rain that the mother worm had showered upon the whole city, a lot of the towers and defense equipment had fallen. Many flying drones were taken down, and so many more mages lost their lives. Even more civilians perished because of the poisonous vapors the acid had released. People panicked and fled for their lives as the purple fog kept filling the city. A few seconds was enough for the people to get choked to death in the fog. And the baby worms greedily fed on those who died. Many flying drones took off in different directions and left the island for good. People fought each other for a place in any flying vehicle, for traveling on a ship was the same as committing suicide. The chances of reaching another island safely were zero. Justin’s ex-wife, Casey, also tried her best to get on a transport vehicle, but only the family members of the still-alive mages were given preference. Even though she somehow managed to get on the vehicle, she was pushed out by Kong w
The mother worm leaped at Myles, opening its mouth wide and looking to chomp on his entire upper body in one go.Myles crossed his fingers. “Carnage Shield.”An invisible shield formed before him and not only stopped the worm but also skewered its mouth with energy needles that extended out of the shield, making the mother worm scream in severe pain.It was as if thousands of thin needles had pierced its body and reached deep inside. Moreover, electricity leaked out from those needles and shocked its body in a way it produced flames. Straightaway, it looked like the worm was being cooked from the inside. The mother worm was instantly enraged like never before.It grew in size to the point it was as big as a whale, and it sprayed its toxic saliva at Myles with all the hatred in its gut.However, thanks to the carnage shield, the acid couldn’t even touch Myles.“Nether Rise.” He uttered, and the sandy ground around the mother worm cracked and black flames burst out and roasted the mothe
Blood began leaking out of Myles’ eyes, ears, nose, mouth, navel, and more. If it was someone else, they would have probably suffered a heart attack and died already, but Myles somehow bore the severe pain. He had to. Even though whenever the spiritual poison acted up, he felt terribly weak, he had to bear the pain, as showing any form of weakness would only make things worse for him.“Void Drain.”He put his hand on his chest and drained the poisonous vapor of the mother worm out of his body forcefully. While that helped ease the pain a little, the damage was already done.(One moment of carelessness…) He collapsed forward in a way his cheek hit the ground. And he passed out.The cobra crystal appeared in his hand, though his hand was clenched at the moment.The aerial barrier surrounding Maria, Rosie and others vanished into thin air.Maria was the first one to wake up. Looking around, she had no clue what had happened. Her eyes suddenly widened as she remembered the moment the gian
“Die!” Verella leaped and swiped her claws at Maria. “Bhel Cross!” Flames burst out of her claws and exploded upon impact. Maria activated the Aqua Field in time and suppressed the explosion but she was still pushed back. Verella swiveled toward Rosie and whipped her leg from above Myles’ body. “Great Dragon Cleaver!” Rosie blocked the attack by making a cross with her forearms, but her forearm utterly broke, and Verella’s shin pounded Rosie’s face and sent her rolling back on the sand like a rag doll. Her nose turned into a grotesquerie, and blood poured out nonstop. (She’s built differently than Blue Dog.) Rosie lifted her right hand, and the water from the ocean came to her like a living body and boosted her healing capacity and also stamina. Her broken nose and arm began healing at a rapid rate. Verella looked surprised. (Drawing sustenance even from salt water?) Now she understood why Maria looked so young despite being in late forties. (They have a huge advantage in this loca
They say people who rarely get angry would turn into demons when they do get angry. That was definitely the case for Shreya Soso who once held a comfortable position in the top 1000 alphas of the world.She did not care if there was an innocent civilian or an ignorant ant on the beach. She gained control over every sand particle sight and forged giant desert blades out of them in millions and cast them on the alphas that were fighting and flexing their arrogance on the beach.It happened too fast for those involved in the fight to be able to dodge them. Both Verella and Maria got struck by them head on. Rosie, however, was able to create a spinning water sphere around her that managed to neutralize the sand blades. But Rosie was worried about Myles because he was unconscious and not in a position to defend himself.For a long fifteen seconds, terror reigned over the beach. By the time all the blades crashed down, the border wall in that region was utterly destroyed. A massive depressi