Chapter 58
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Chapter 58
Even though he dodged it, he still lost a little bit of HP due to the air becoming corrosive from the liquid they spat out.
Swoooshhh!
Gustav’s body went back to normal after successfully dodging their attacks. He extended both his arms as he reached the middle of both solar worms.
Slasshhh!
His right and left claws sliced through the sides of both worms as he kept running forward with his arms outstretched.
Plerrkkkhh!
The solar worms screeched out in pain as the sides of their upper body, their belly, and their lower halves were torn open causing their internal organs to spill out along with a puddle of lava-like blood.
Plop! Plop!
Both bodies of the solar worms fell to the ground as system notifications popped up in Gustav’s line of sight.
<+ EXP
Now that he had killed all fourteen of them, Gustav had now reached level nine.
Sshhhsss!
Gustav stared at the corpses of the blood worms with a contemplative look.
Their bloods were already corroding the ground causing a sizzling sound to ring out.
’I won’t be cooking mixed-breeds for dinner this time...’ Gustav stared at the mess around him with a repulsed expression.
’I wonder if any restaurants will be interested in buying their body parts,’ Gustav couldn’t conclude on whether to take the bodies of these solar worms or not.
After thinking for a few seconds he picked them up and put them in his storage device before leaving the hole.
He knew he had to be as quick as possible now that he had killed some of the solar worms.
He reckoned that he only had about thirty minutes and quickly dashed into the third hole to continue.
Just like the previous, the third hole also had a similar crystal and worm surrounding it.
[High energy crystal has been detected]
[Name: Salitre Pure Crystal]
Just like in the previous hole the same notifications popped up here.
Gustav moved closer to the crystal which was positioned on the right corner of the hole.
[Does host wish to absorb energy into the system]
[YES/NO]
Gustav quickly said yes and the system started absorbing the energy of the second crystal.
After the system was done absorbing the energy the same situation as the previous hole happened again.
Gustav was already prepared for it. This time he didn’t spend up to five minutes before killing all the solar worms within the hole.
He kept calculating the amount of time left before the entire solar worms would start scurrying towards his location.
Gustav quickly bolted out of the small hole and quickly moved towards the first hole.
The first hole was where he sensed the energy to be higher and also at its purest form.
Gustav dashed into the hole without any hindrance and was surprised to see something different from the other two.
Instead of looking at the center of the hole or whatever, Gustav’s sights were locked on the ceiling.
On the ceiling, he could see the blue crystal similar to the ones he saw in the last two holes. The difference was, this was almost twice as large, ’Nine hundred and eighty-seven thousand,’ Gustav made use of God eyes to check the readings.
It was absolutely higher than the previous two.
’If I’m able to absorb this, the system would have received one-sixth of the amount of energy it needs for the next upgrade,’ Gustav calculated, but it didn’t look like it was going to be easy to absorb this one.
The reason for that was, Gustav couldn’t see several solar worms coiled around this one like the previous holes. Instead, there were only two of them on the ceiling.
These two solar worms coiled around the large crystal with their eyes closed, oblivious to what was going in the surroundings but they had noticeable differences from normal solar worms.
These two were almost twice the size of a normal solar worm with redder skin and a kind of purplish scale growing on the upper part of their body.
Gustav moved some steps forward while scrutinizing both worms.
Even without the readings, he could tell that these two were not level Solar worms like the rest.
Gustav moved forward to observe the worms more when one of them suddenly opened its eyes.
Sqrrrreee!
Unlike the rest, this one also sounded a bit different with a more refined tone.
The one with the opened eyes happened to be coiled around the lower part of the crystal but its shriek also woke the second one.
They looked down at Gustav from high up with a menacing expression.
Sqrrrreee! Sqrrrreee!
Both solar worms shrieked together before bolting towards Gustav with speed from upwards.
Swooonn! Swoooon!
Both solar worms happened to be crazily fast with almost twice the speed of a normal solar worm.
Gustav already sensed that they would be formidable so he activated sprint instantly.
[Sprint has been activated]
[- EP]
Swoooshhh!
Gustav dashed towards the left dodging both solar worms.
Bam! Bam!
The solar worms landed on the ground and immediately chased after Gustav who had just finished dodging.
Thoom!
One of them leaped in the air towards Gustav while the other darted towards him with a wide-open mouth where hundreds of sharp pointy teeth could be seen.
The wide-open mouth was big enough to fit in three humans at the same time and would easily rip them to shreds with a single gnash so Gustav had no plans of being caught by it.
He jumped backward by seventy-five feet missing the first one that leaped into the air by a few feet.
The one on the ground arrived in front of him from the left and Gustav reacted by swerving further left.
Swhhhii!
Just as the solar worm’s body was passing by his front after he dodged it, Gustav lowered his arms and poured as much strength as he could into it before slashing upwards with a lot of force.
Swwhhhiii! Slasshhh!
Gustav’s sharp claws covered in whitish light traveled forward with intensity ripping apart the air.
Krryyhhrrrr!
When it made contact with the solar worm, It tore a sixteen inches deep gash on its body sending it flying several feet forward.
’What the...?’ Gustav was surprised that he didn’t manage to deal more damage than that since he used all of his strength in that attack earlier.
Sqrrrreee!
The solar worm shrieked out in pain after receiving that attack from Gustav but that attack wasn’t enough to severely harm it.
Immediately it landed back on the ground, it dashed out crazily towards Gustav again.
- Resilient Solar Worms
- Resilient Solar Worms
- Resilient Solar Worms
The solar worm shrieked out in pain after receiving that attack from Gustav but that wasn’t enough to severely harm it.
Immediately it landed back on the ground, it dashed out crazily towards Gustav again.
Thwii!
It shot out a wider stream of silver-like liquid that covered a width of more than seventy-five feet.
This was practically a point-blank attack.
Gustav knowing that there was nowhere to dodge, transformed his hand back to normal immediately and straightened his palm before raising it.
[Chop has been activated]
[Atomic disintegration coat has been activated]
Whitish light appeared around Gustav’s palm before he swung it down with force.
Swwhhhiii!
A white arc of light similar in shape to the blade of an axe, shot out of his palm as it came down and started splitting the attack in two.
Shwwiii!
Gustav’s body also shot forward while doing that as the divided streams passed by his sides.
Unfortunately, he had misjudged the attack, his palm strike from the combination of chop and atomic disintegration, was unable to divide the stream completely because, unlike the other solar worms, these two could shoot it out for longer.
The rest of the liquid slammed into Gustav after his chop lost power.
The intense force lifted Gustav off the ground and threw him backward.
Bang!
Gustav’s back slammed into the wall on the other end of the hole.
"Urgh!" Gustav exclaimed with a pained expression and fell to his knee after his back slammed into the wall.
Sshhhsss!
His upper clothes had been burnt off again and his parts of his skin peeled off.
"That hurt," Gustav muttered slightly as he straightened his body.
[- HP]
His arms and his entire upper body had been scorched by the attack. Gustav was practically in a sorry state as he breathed in and out profusely.
[Regeneration has been activated]
Gustav’s body started healing up bit by bit but the solar worm was incensed after seeing that its attack failed to disintegrate Gustav.
It dashed out again along with its partner towards Gustav.
Even though Gustav had lost hp due to that attack he wasn’t really in any danger. even if he lost more he still wouldn’t be in any real danger.
This is because his healing function will never stop until he ran out of energy which meant his HP can’t dwindle to until his energy points ran out.
Amidst the scorching pain, Gustav swerved towards the left dodging the first solar worm who ended up slamming into the wall.
Gustav was about to attack its opening but before he could, the second one jumped high up again in a bid to use its entire body to crush Gustav with its weight.
Thooom!
Gustav leapt backward dodging the dropping body of the solar worm.
Both worms had such great synergy and Gustav guessed that must be attributed to the fact that they’re mating partners.
[Gravitational Imbalance has been activated]
Gustav finally decided to activate a gravitational energy skill since the battle was taking longer than he wanted.
The gravitational force around a circumference of ten meters suddenly turned weird.
The solar worms who had already dashed out suddenly felt like their bodies become heavier, decreasing their mobility.
Due to the sudden change, they were distracted for a split second which gave Gustav the chance to dash towards the one on the left.
Before both of them could react, Gustav’s right arm had already been thrown out with his palm transforming into that of the bloodwolf’s.
Slash!
His four claws accurately landed on the right eye of the worm tearing four b****y lines on it.
Sqeeuuuee!
The worm screeched in pain and started thrashing around while blood spilled out of its eyes.
Gustav didn’t stop moving, he dashed towards the second one on the side.
He had injured this one earlier so it was easy to land more hits on it due to its previously injured state.
Gustav’s claws were covered in the same white light as before as he repeated hacked at the upper body of this solar worm.
Slash! s***h! s***h! s***h!
His claws tore deep gashes across the body of the worm in a few moments causing it to bleed out more.
He wanted to s***h at the solar worm again when the one on the side threw its body over intending to slam Gustav against the wall.
Swwoosshh!
Gustav leaped towards the side and kicked the wall with his right leg causing his body to propel further into the air as he spun repeatedly in mid-air to dodge the body attack.
At this point, one of the solar worms had lost its right eye while the other was already severely injured and bleeding out.
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Sqeeuuuee! Sqeeuuuee! Sqeeuuuee!
Outside the cave, the solar worms around suddenly started shrieking loudly to one another.
Some of them squirmed back and forth across the vicinity for a few seconds before turning around to face the cave.
Sqeeuuuee! Sqeeuuuee!
They made those weird noises at one another again before darting towards the cave.
Inside the cave, the same situation as outside was playing out.
The solar worms within the cave stopped whatever they were doing at the moment and started heading towards the end of the cave.
The sound of their wriggling bodies moving across the ground gave off a weird and creepy feeling.
-
Gustav continued engaging the two solar worms unaware of the multitude of solar worms headed for the hole.
At this moment he had inflicted severe injuries on them both but they still had enough vigor in them to last for a while.
His body had also healed up completely but he hadn’t been able to kill them both yet.
’Damn it, I have one minute left till they storm this place,’ Gustav said internally with a frustrated look.
He had been calculating the time he spent fighting the two solar worms and he figured that the solar worms should be aware of the death of their kindred in a minute time.
’I don’t have a choice anymore, I have to use it,’ Gustav’s face shown resolve as he said this internally.
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-Energy: /
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Not only was he low on time but his energy was almost completely spent.
- Using Energy Discharge In A Battle
- Using Energy Discharge In A Battle
- Using Energy Discharge In A Battle
Both injured solar worms were still headed towards him with animosity.
Gustav turned and jumped backward about three times before running towards the left.
Although the worms wondered why he suddenly went defensive they still chased after him.
They were the aggressive type so Gustav inflicting injuries on them, triggered their anguish.
Gustav suddenly came to a pause when he got to the middle of the space.
The worms still bolted towards him crazily even though their speed wasn’t as great as before.
Gustav stared at them approaching with a concentrated look.
Immediately they were six meters away from reaching him, he activated a skill.
[Super Jump has been activated]
[- EP]
Gustav squatted slightly with speed before jumping into the air.
Thoooooooomm!
Six feet wide cracks appeared on the ground surface as his body lifted above the ground with extreme speed.
Swweeii!
He arrived at the ceiling of this space in an instant.
The ceiling of the cave was twenty-three meters away from the ground but Gustav crossed that height in a second.
The solar worms got to the spot where Gustav leaped out from, at the same time he grabbed onto the huge crystal with both his palms, using it to suspend himself in mid-air.
He gritted his teeth and called out within his mind, ’Energy discharge %’
[Energy discharge has been activated]
[- % Energy From Gravitational Field]
Twoooommmmm!
A red wave of energy suddenly blasted out of Gustav’s body.
Bang!
It covered a circumference of twelve meters causing the ceiling of the cave to shake.
The solar worms looked up in awe only to notice the tip of a large pointy blue crystal headed towards them from above with intense speed. Gustav happened to be at the top and was holding onto the large crystal.
Zwwoooonn!
The solar worms tried to escape but before they could move further than two feet, the gigantic crystal tip slammed onto one of them with Intensity, impaling it completely and penetrating deep into the ground.
Boom!
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