NOVGO.NET Chapter 75: This is worse than getting crushed
Chapter 75: This is worse than getting crushed
Something sharp pricked his fingers.
No... it wasn’t one.
Multiple sharp things pricked his fingers.
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[HOST STATUS]
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HOST:Khae’el
RACE: ???
LEVEL: 11
EXP: 50/ 550
HP: 34 / 100
STAMINA: 100 / 100
ENERGY: 50 / 50
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ATTRIBUTES
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STRENGTH 12
AGILITY 12
VITALITY 10
ENDURANCE 12
PERCEPTION 11
INTELLIGENCE 13
WILLPOWER 10
UNALLOCATED POINTS: 0
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SKILLS
[01] Ring Resonance
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The pain came again. More punishing this time.
The creature bellowed and rushed at him once more.
"Fuck..."
He couldn’t tell how many spikes had hit him but his HP to hit 34. It was more than enough.
What happens when his Health Points hit zero?
He needed to move...
He pushed himself up but the pain only multiplied and pooled further to other areas.
Slowly immobilizing him.
A paralyzing agent.
That was what the spikes had... but why did they make the Unascendeds explode?
Did weapons work differently on certain creatures here?
RAAAAAAAAH!
"...fuck... get... up..."
[Enchanted potion of recovery x6]
[Would you like to use it?]
[Yes] / [No]
[Only one potion can be taken at once.]
He had that!
How could he forget?
The ground thumped as the creature bounded towards him.
[Yes.]
Like a wave of cool air washed over him. The horrible pain from before disappeared like it never existed.
His HP slowly increased.
[34]
[49]
[64]
[79]
[94]
[100]+9
As soon as the bar reached a hundred, K jumped backward. Narrowly avoiding another crushing and a spray of spikes. The ones on his back fell off with his movements.
The monster’s head crashed into the ground where he had been kneeling, sending dirt and stones flying. Its mandibles snapped shut with enough force to make the sound echo between the trees.
K landed several meters away. Then he immediately noticed something.
The creature’s momentum had carried it farther than calculated.
Its enormous body continued sliding across the soil, crushing plants and some trees beneath its weight before finally coming to a stop.
K smiled faintly.
"You’re slow..."
The creature twisted. Its body folded in on itself.
K’s smile disappeared. "Or not..."
It wasn’t slow.
It was turning.
The enormous worm compressed several sections of its body together until the front half rose high above the clearing. Its numerous gripping limbs dug into the soil, anchoring it in place.
Then it launched itself sideways. At him.
K sprinted.
The creature passed behind him with a tremendous rush of air, its bristled body scraping against the surrounding trees and knocking several branches loose.
"You’ll end up stripping the forest bare if you keep this up."
K turned.
The beast had already begun circling.
"Smart."
He raised his sword.
The creature’s mouth opened again.
This time, K noticed something beneath its head.
A second set of smaller jaws. Pinkish and soft looking.
His eyes narrowed. "Of course."
The monster lunged.
K rushed toward it instead of retreating.
At the last moment, he dropped beneath the snapping mandibles and drove his shoulder into the softer underside of its head, watching out for any hidden segment of its body that could shoot out those spines like before. His sword came up with the motion, slicing across one of the creature’s lower plates.
A burst of thick green fluid sprayed across the ground.
"Fuck!"
K kicked himself off the creature as it curled backwards with a bellow.
Ptooey!
He hacked and spat.
The greenish fluid had gotten in his eyes, nostrils and worst of all? His mouth.
Bitterness blossomed on his tongue and he nearly gagged.
This was way worse than getting crushed by the Sporm.
The creature thrashed nearby. Swinging its tail wildly around.
"Yeah... cry a little bitch..."
Its bristles rattled against one another.
Then its head turned toward him.
The wound wasn’t deep.
Not deep enough.
K swung the green fluid off his blade and took a defensive stance.
"You’re tougher than you look."
The monster answered with another shriek and charged.
K tightened his grip.
He planted his feet and waited for it to come closer, watching every contraction of its enormous segmented body.
It was some form of a largely mutated worm.
But it was still a worm.
And the most effective way to kill a worm was to spray with some salt but K didn’t have any salt but he had a sword that was just as salty.
Another effective way to kill a worm was to cut it at the right spots. And if the worm was millions of sizes larger than it should be?
You cut it into pieces and finish it off cleanly.
One section.
Two.
Three.
K’s eyes tracked the rhythm.
Each compress.
Each release.
Then he moved.
The short sword flashed toward the joint between two segments and struck the joint.
The blade bit through the thick outer layer with a sharp crack, sinking between the segments before K twisted his wrist and ripped it free. Green fluid sprayed across his arm.
The creature recoiled violently.
Its entire body convulsed.
K immediately retreated as the wounded section slammed against the ground hard enough to throw dirt into the air. The beast curled its body around itself, several of its segments folding inward while its head swung toward him and shot several waves of its spikes.
He was able to deflect some with his sword but the rest successfully found his skin.
[Enchanted potion of recovery x5]
[Would you like to use it?]
[Yes] / [No]
[Only one potion can be taken at once.]
The spikes fell of his body as he stood, shrugging them off.
The creature shifted its weight away from the injured side and raised its front half again. Its black eyes remained fixed on him while the small bristles covering its body trembled.
"Come on."
The beast opened its mouth.
The deep clicking noise it made the first time it shot those spikes rattled through the clearing.
K tightened his grip.
The creature suddenly drove its head into the ground.
K jumped backward as the impact sent a tremor through the ground. The force wasn’t enough to throw him off his feet, but it disturbed the ground beneath him, making his footing unstable.
The beast used the opening immediately.
Its body folded.
One segment after another contracted until its enormous form resembled a tightly compressed coil.
Then it released itself.
K barely managed to move in time.
The creature shot forward like a spring, its head passing within inches of his chest. One of its hooked limbs caught his side and tore through the fabric of his pants, throwing him into a roll.
He hit the ground hand but quickly found his footing.
The creature turned.
Its enormous body scraped against the soil as it pivoted toward him.
He rolled beneath its head missing the creature’s mandibles that snapped together above him.
K came up beneath its body.
For a moment, he was directly underneath it.
The upper underside from before that was softer.
Rows of tiny gripping limbs moved around him, pressing into the soil and pulling the massive body forward. K could see the segments contracting in sequence, each movement passing through the creature like a wave.
He spotted the wounded joint.
"Got you."