The advance team commander gulped hard, "These black bones, could they be from a B-level Magic Beast..."
Just as the commander finished speaking, the ground beneath everyone’s feet suddenly began to tremor. The unexpected shake made everyone quickly grab onto nearby beast bones to steady themselves, and as the ground shook, countless unknown things broke through the earth, sending dust flying everywhere.
"Cough cough." Qian Qi was choked by the dust, and as she squinted to look, she was immediately stunned with fright. What she saw were crawling Magic Beasts, thicker than centenary trees, resembling giant white caterpillars emerging from the ground!
As they wriggled out of the earth, they moved their fat and large bodies towards the group. Their white, slightly translucent skin revealed a black spine incessantly moving within. On either side, pure black eyes rolled, and a circular giant mouth opened, with rows of jagged sharp white teeth drooling thick, foul-smelling saliva, making anyone who saw it shiver.
"What is that?!" The advance team commander exclaimed in horror, evidently having never seen such a Magic Beast before.
Even on Su Ang’s usually cool face, a rarely seen seriousness appeared. His spiritual power was being disrupted by the residual spiritual power in the air, rendering him completely unaware of these crawling Magic Beasts until now.
"Protect your spiritual power," Su Ang instructed. A circle of spiritual power quickly infused into Qian Qi’s brain area, while he released a Spirit Blade, striking towards the fat and massive crawling Magic Beasts.
The surface defense of these crawling Magic Beasts was apparently low, unable to withstand Su Ang’s S-Class Spirit Blade. Interestingly, the Spirit Blade only penetrated their soft skin, causing them to ooze thick, white blood but not piercing through their bodies.
Moreover, the punctured skin astonishingly regenerated at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Su Ang’s expression grew more solemn as he confirmed, "They can absorb spiritual power."
"Absorb spiritual power?! What exactly are these Magic Beasts?" Even the advance team commander noticed, exclaiming in shock.
Su Ang shook his head and then heard Qian Qi, who was leaning against a black beast bone, retching, "It couldn’t be maggots, could it—? Ugh—!"
Advance team commander: ...
The two looked up at the white, soft, layered, legless crawling Magic Beasts...
Honestly, they did really resemble maggots.
Thinking that gave them even more goosebumps.
"Chirp—" As if sensing their disgust, the crawling Magic Beasts suddenly raised their soft, fat bodies, their mouths full of fangs emitted a bizarre melody that assaulted their brain area!
Qian Qi felt the barrier set by Su Ang in her brain area ripple slightly, but beyond that, no real damage occurred. However, the advance team members were in trouble. Their spiritual power barriers were only C-level and struggled against the crawling Magic Beasts’ spiritual sonic attack.
"All units, engage, finish this quickly!" The advance team commander ordered swiftly, "Their defense is weak; kill them immediately!"
"Yes!" The other members of the advance team brandished their Long Blades and charged at the White Worm Demons.
As Long Blades carved huge incisions into their skins, the sticky, thick white blood of the White Worm Demons spurted out like a tide, gluing the advance team members in place.
"Chirp—" The attacked White Worm Demons opened their giant mouths, releasing another wave of spiritual sonic attack towards their eardrums. Except for one Strength Type member who barely broke free, the others couldn’t tear away from the sticky blood no matter how hard they tried.
"Damn it!" The advance team commander lifted his blade to block the diving mouth of a White Worm Demon, "Shao Xian, use fire!"
Responding, Shao Xian lifted his hand, casting a Fire Skill. Three spinning red flames, resembling fiery wheels, flew rapidly towards the commander, burning the white blood stuck to the commander’s feet into a jelly-like substance. The commander quickly retracted his Long Blade, smoothly scraping the premix on the ground, and thrust it, enveloped in fire, into the White Worm Demon’s mouth.
"Chirp-ugh—" The White Worm Demon emitted a wretched cry, and upon hearing this, the nearby White Worm Demons screamed as well, their sonic waves merging anomalously, growing several times stronger in power, all targeting the advance team.
Seeing this, Su Ang stopped observing and raised his hand to form a massive spiritual power shield, blocking all sonic wave attacks.
"Wait! Look!" Shao Xian suddenly yelled in astonishment, and everyone looked over, stunned.
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"It can even digest energy?" The advance team commander was dumbfounded, "Damn it, what kind of heaven-defying beast is this?"
"Commander, what do we do?" Shao Xian couldn’t help but ask.
"Focus all attacks on one! I refuse to believe it can regenerate if we shred all its skin!" The advance team commander spat, "Go!"
With the commander’s order, the seven people charged at a White Worm Demon, fire, Long Blade, and net of lightning tearing through the air, ripping the giant White Worm Demon’s skin into countless pieces, with thick, sticky white flesh spilling out, its pure black eyes melting into a pool of black water, leaving only a heap of white teeth and a long, thin black spine motionlessly piled on the ground.
"Success!" The commander rejoiced, "Continue attacking the other beasts! I’ll set up spiritual power barriers for you!"
Just as they were about to continue their assault, the thick white flesh on the ground began wriggling, the soft white skin swiftly reformed, and the previously large White Worm Demon instantly transformed into numerous small White Worm Demons, picking up teeth from the ground to reform.
They then bared two large front teeth, charging at the group with astonishing speed and ferocity.
"Oh come on! Is this poison?" Shao Xian swung a blade to fend off the flying small White Worm Demons, "They can even revive? How do we fight this?"
Su Ang observed all of this, acknowledging the bizarre nature of these White Worm Demons. Not only could they absorb spiritual power, but they could even absorb energy into themselves, and even when sliced into innumerable parts, they could regroup into more White Worm Demons.
Not even in an A-level dungeon had he seen such an extraordinary Magic Beast.
Could this have anything to do with the residual spiritual power in the air?
Su Ang’s brain rapidly processed this, analyzing it over and over until he suddenly realized he might have forgotten something.
He turned to look around.
Without any sign of Qian Qi, Su Ang’s heart sank. Just as he was about to release his spiritual power to search, something caught his eye. He looked up to find Qian Qi had somehow climbed to the top of a gigantic beast skeleton.
"Oh wow, observing from up high makes them look even more like maggots..." Qian Qi muttered while taking off the sack from her neck, unable to resist her sarcastic quip.
[Oh~ dear Qian Qi~ please don’t judge a beast by its appearance~] The system giggled, [This is a very nutritious sort of Bone Worm Beast, capable of devouring everything, and a rare kind that only appears under specific conditions ^__^!]
Qian Qi pondered for two seconds, "Can it eat poop too?"
Qian Qi: "Can it eat trash? Can it digest it? If this can be taken to the garbage dump, it would directly solve the world’s environmental issues, honey!"
Qian Qi! Can your brain function normally for a bit!