novelraw Chapter 101 : Chapter 101
Chapter 101 : Chapter 101
Chapter 101 Burial (4)
RUMBLE...
The surface of the pile of rocks, huge as a hill, rose and fell.
As if it were breathing.
That was no tectonic shift.
That thing, which looked like a hill made of rocks at first glance.
That was the Queen Earth-Burrowing Worm.
Ordinary Earth-Burrowing Worm individuals have smooth surfaces like centipedes or millipedes.
But the Queen individual was different.
The Queen was hundreds of thousands of times larger than other individuals and possessed a rough surface almost identical to rock.
And that body was too excessively massive for a single hunter to hunt.
In fact, it felt like this in the game too.
Because it didn't feel like dealing with a monster, but fighting a moving hill.
Riman had to catch such a thing today, with his power alone.
“......”
Riman first held his breath and watched the Queen.
The surface of the Queen's body swelled and deflated repeatedly, but other than that, nothing happened.
It was in a sleeping state.
Seeing that, Riman muttered inwardly.
‘Good, the first step is a success.’
Originally, the Queen Earth-Burrowing Worm is extremely sensitive to the trembling of the ground.
Because once it settles in a place, it has the ability to synchronize with the bedrock of that area.
As a side effect, it could also feel every vibration felt from the ground.
Therefore, there was almost no way to enter the Queen's room ‘secretly.’
Because the moment one steps into the room, the Queen detects that vibration.
However, even though Riman crossed the threshold openly, the Queen showed no reaction at all.
It was because of the
These shoes, which absorb all shock, absorb all sound and vibration created by steps as well.
Therefore, even though Riman had intruded, the Queen had failed to detect him.
‘With this, I’ve taken the initiative.’
The Queen is asleep.
And the Queen has not noticed the intruder.
Therefore, the right to the first strike had passed to Riman.
Riman quickly approached the Queen.
Even though he moved almost as if running, the Queen did not notice until the end.
Riman said to Saya.
“Saya, make it a bit cold around her. So her bones chill.”
“Shaa!”
SWISH!
Saya flew up into the sky.
WHOOSH...
And she began to drop the temperature of this area using her weather manipulation ability.
Soon, the temperature plummeted to the point where steam came out of Riman's mouth.
While Saya was doing her job like that.
Riman squatted down and placed his palm on the ground.
‘The Queen Earth-Burrowing Worm’s most annoying ability.’
That was exactly the synchronization with the ground.
The Queen, synchronized with the ground, could freely transform the shape of that area's terrain.
In other words, fighting the Queen meant having to fight not only the Queen's main body but this entire cave.
He had to face situations where the ground trembled like waves, stalactites poured from the ceiling, and spikes shot out from the walls.
Because of this, the subjugation difficulty of the Queen Earth-Burrowing Worm tended to go crazy.
However, Riman had no intention of accepting that difficulty as it was.
SIZZLE...!
Riman instantly injected a large amount of mana into the ground.
What seeped out of Riman’s hand was mana of the Earth attribute.
In other words, mana mimicking the essence of the land.
Like rainwater seeping into dry ground, the mana quickly dug down beneath the surface.
And, finally, the Queen began to react.
RUMBLE...!
The Queen woke from her sleep and began to squirm her body.
As the Queen's body began to maneuver, the Queen's mana connected to this land also began to tremble.
Riman's mana detected that vibration.
And quickly, closely, he traced the source and spread of that vibration.
Riman's senses, which had reached the peak, were no exception when it came to the control of mana.
Because he succeeded in finding it in an instant.
The junction between the Queen's mana and this bedrock.
The mana Riman extended grabbed that junction.
And twisted it in a single breath.
What is twisted breaks, and what is broken soon scatters.
CRUNCH!
It felt like the sound was ringing in his ears.
‘Connection severed.’
Like that, he cut off the synchronization between the Queen and the ground.
Now the Queen could neither control the ground at will nor feel the vibration of the ground.
Isolation.
Now, the only thing Riman had to deal with was the Queen's main body alone.
Though it was still a bit too big.
GRUMBLE...!
Finally, the Queen fully raised her body.
A sight like seeing a giant snake made of rock.
The Queen raised her head and looked at Riman.
Then she opened that massive mouth.
Thousands of teeth composed of minerals.
Sharp destructive power that could easily crush steel.
But Riman also had no intention of just watching those things.
‘Jaws of a beast, crevasse, collapsing bulkhead.’
[Ice White Palm]
CRACKLE!
A giant hand of ice appeared in the air.
At the same time he clenched his hand tightly, the hand of ice performed the same action.
The ice hand grabbed the Queen's snout.
At the same time—
BOOM BOOM BOOM!
The hand of ice exploded, emitting fierce cold air.
The place swept by the explosion was covered in thick ice, and thus the Queen's mouth was frozen and sealed.
The thousands of teeth she boasted of were also trapped inside the ice.
“Kahk...!”
On top of that, the temperature here had dropped significantly due to Saya's temperature manipulation.
Thanks to that, the strength and density of the generated ice were at a ruthless level.
To the point where even the Queen's ruthless bite force couldn't do anything about it.
“Kurararak...!”
The guy soon began to twist its body this way and that and thrash about.
RUMBLE!!
That huge body erupted vibrations close to an earthquake on the ground just by moving.
However, Riman stood too peacefully on the ground.
Because his shoes were absorbing all the vibrations.
“Don’t just thrash around, show me your real power.”
Riman muttered to himself as if sneering.
“Your ability doesn't end here.”
And as if she understood those words.
The Queen began to show movement different from before.
GRIND...!
The carapace on the surface of the Queen's body began to ripple and deform.
Large spikes rose above the rock-like surface.
And a few seconds later.
THUD THUD THUD!
Countless rock spikes were fired at a ferocious speed.
Stone spikes, each weighing from tens to hundreds of kilograms.
They filled his vision and pounced on Riman.
If death rained from the sky, would it look like this?
CRASH!!
The spikes slammed onto the ground, and debris and dust soared.
And inside that dust cloud, Riman's silhouette was still standing upright.
Not a single spike touched Riman.
THUD THUD!
The guy shot spikes again.
Spikes poured down like rain once more onto the ground already covered in spikes.
CRASH!!
Roar, upheaval, dust.
Even though destruction swept over the ground again, Riman still did not fall.
Shield?
No, Riman's shield could not take that amount of mass head-on.
He dodged.
Seeing everything with his eyes, calmly.
By calculating and predicting all the trajectories of the dozens of pouring spikes and calculating the safest point.
He didn't use a grain of magic, but his movement and brain processing itself had already reached the realm of magic.
Riman scanned the surface of the Queen's body with his eyes.
‘It’s about time.’
The thickness and area of the carapace were noticeably reduced compared to before.
The spikes the guy shot, they were all things fired by deforming her own carapace.
Therefore, the more she poured out spikes, the thinner and narrower the carapace was bound to become structurally.
Riman blocked the guy's mouth to cut off the attack using teeth, then induced the guy's spike bombardment.
After that, he did not respond at all and let the guy continue to pour spikes.
So that the guy would consume her own carapace herself.
Now that the guy's carapace had become sufficiently thin like that.
The time has come.
The time for a counterattack.
Jingle—
The Black Seed Bell rang in Riman's hand.
Eoduksini's whip manifested once again.
In the shape of a pitch-black whip where ominousness rippled.
“Go.”
SWISH!
The tip of the whip was shot like an arrow.
The target was the Queen's body.
Precisely, it was the raw flesh revealed as the carapace peeled off.
THWACK!
The whip digging sharply into the raw flesh.
Riman flowed mana through the hand holding the whip.
Maximum output, [Discharge].
Pitch-black electric current runs along the whip.
Soon it digs into the Queen's body.
ZZRT ZZRT!!
“Kaaaak...!”
The electric current began to ravage the Queen's insides.
If the guy's carapace had been intact, this kind of electric shock wouldn't have even worked.
But now that the carapace was cracked and the raw flesh was exposed, Riman's electric
shock plugged straight into the guy without a bit of dampening.
“Hup!”
WHOOSH!
At the same time as he poured the electric shock like that, Riman pulled his body with all his might using the whip.
One end of the whip was embedded in the Queen.
Therefore, Riman's body was dragged and flew straight to the Queen.
TAP!
Landing.
Riman stood on top of the Queen's body.
And the Queen did not tolerate the impudence of stepping on her jade body.
CLASH!
The Queen finally smashed the ice covering her snout.
She had broken the ice with just her bite force.
The thick ice blocking the guy's mouth became sharp fragments and scattered in all directions.
Riman did not miss that moment.
‘Rolling waves, transparent pillar, cloud's falling water.’
[Crushing Whirlwind]
The mana extending from Riman's body grabs the surrounding atmosphere.
The flow of air is twisted, accelerated, and rotated.
A tornado rages.
WHOOOOSH...!
The scattered ice fragments are sucked into the flow of the rotating atmosphere.
Sharp ice shards swirl along the surface of the vortex.
[Crushing Whirlwind], magic that creates a tornado.
On top of that magic, which is already sufficiently destructive on its own, countless ice fragments are added.
Riman grabs the path of that tornado with mana, twists it, and pushes it into the Queen's mouth.
The situation where the Queen was opening her huge mouth and rushing in to chew and swallow Riman.
Therefore, the tornado dug into the Queen's mouth too easily.
GRIND GRIND GRIND!!
No creature can train even the inside of its oral cavity.
The swirling ice fragments ground the inside of the Queen's mouth.
The effect of swallowing an operating blender whole.
Blood mist spewed out like a fountain from the guy's mouth.
SPLASH!
“KAAAAAAAAAA!!”
Pain that was impossible to endure assaulted the guy.
The Queen Earth-Burrowing Worm twisted its huge body and began to thrash.
A sight like a small rocky mountain running wild.
Riman, standing on top of it, was in a state where he could be bounced off at any moment.
[Weight]
WHOOSH!
Riman applied hypergravity to his body and stuck tight to the surface of the guy's body.
Furthermore, he pushed an excessive amount of mana into the hand holding the black whip.
Mana altered to the freezing attribute.
Maximum output, [Freeze].
The whip was still embedded in the guy's body.
Cold air began to dig into the interior of the bodily tissues that had become tattered by the [Discharge] just a moment ago.
The cell membranes burst due to electric shock, and the cytoplasm and moisture flowed out from them.
When they met the cold air, they began to freeze in an instant.
It began to freeze from the inside of the body.
CRACKLE...!
Soon, the Queen's struggling slowly slowed down.
Outside the body, severe cold surrounded it, and inside the body, it froze.
No matter how huge the body was, there was no way to withstand the cooling tightening from inside and out.
Like that, the Queen Earth-Burrowing Worm's movement stopped completely.
RATTLE...-
“...Finished.”
WHOOSH...-
Riman released the hypergravity hanging on his body.
Beneath his feet, only a frozen dead rocky mountain remained.
“...To think I really caught this alone.”
A demonic beast where victory couldn't be guaranteed even if dozens of high-level Headhunters in the game clung to it and beat it for two hours.
He had caught that alone.
But such pride was brief.
“Ugh, it’s cold.”
As the fight ended, the cold began to be felt.
Plus, the battle was over, the tension was released, and his energy was drained.
Lethargy and fatigue weighed down his body at the same time.
At that moment.
STAB.
“Huh?”
Blood splattered from Riman's side.
And next to him, Jensen Morrow was standing there.