Chapter 202: Void Training III [6]
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BOOOOM!
The desert was hit with a gigantic explosion, shaking its roots to the core.
The ground rumbled as sand flew in the air.
It was only after a minute that the booming sound died down.
But then, crackles were heard in the air.
Loud and piercing crackles as the dark desert in the sound was illuminated.
Illuminated by ck and amethyst mes that waved viciously in the air, stretching tens of meters.
The desert or the sand was burning under those mythical mes, something that should have been impossible.
Suddenly, a form could be made out in the mes as someone walked out.
A boy, no older than 18, walked out, stumbling.
His previously ragged desert suit was nowpletely torn apart from the right side.
His eyes glowed purple in the moonlight as his hair and arm were encased invender mes that swayed beautifully in the night breeze.
Cracking sounds were heard as he walked on the sand.
His face, his neck, his arms.
All were covered in small,rge cracks that spread throughout his body.
Crumbs of his skin started to fall down but he quickly canceled the mes and they dispersed.
His mouth broke into coughs as he tripped and fell to the ground.
He almost lost consciousness but was saved when he received two notifications in front of him, snapping him back to reality.
[Queen Worm Killed! 1/1]
[Main Objective Completed!]
[The Void inside you growsrger...]
And Amon felt an immediate change inside his body as the cracks receded.
And something moved inside of him.
It was hard to point but it felt like something died out inside him.
Just like it always happened when he did the [Void Training].
Another set of notifications appeared in front of him.
[Would you like to continue the training? Y/N]
[2 Side Quests still need to bepleted]
[Water Level: 36%]
Amon stared at the Water Level.
It had dropped down by arge amount.
Not just because of the deathly fight he just had but also because of his usage of [Void mes].
It was his most dangerous and most mana-consuming [Void Skill].
It burned away at his body.
Ate at it from inside, ming his soul.
He moved to the continuation screen.
He still had 2 side quests to do.
And to aplish both, he had to defeat a total of 150 worms.
Something nearly impossible with the current water level considering how hard it was for just
100 worms.
But...
He was ready to do it.
For 2 reasons.
One was that he had nothing to lose from continuing. It was a training, if he died then it wouldn''t kill him.
And second, was something he saw with [Void Eyes] in that cave.
A mana reading he had caught in one of the pathways.
Or more specifically, mana readings.
Amon felt the ground shake with arge tremor as his eyes widened.
''No, no no....'' He gritted his teeth as he gripped the sand, trying to support himself up.
As he stood up with difficulty, he immediately saw it.
An enormous sandstorm approached him from a distance.
The only thing was...
That it wasn''t a sandstorm.
It was an army of worms, rushing back to theirir at breakneck speed for their queen.
''No, no''
Amon turned, immediately using [Voidstep] to appear in front of the hole from where he crashed outside.
Wasting no moment, he jumped down the tunnel, crashing down on the floor.
He activated [Void Eyes] again, activating them to the maximum and looking at each of the
pathways.
''Where, where, where is it...''
''There!'' His eyes widened as he finally spotted the pathway.
But as he was about to jump again, the ground quaked, throwing him off bnce.
He fell to the ground but quickly got up, gritting his teeth.
The worms were close.
Only a hundred meters away now.
''I need to hurry!''
Amon immediately used [Voidstep] again.
As hended in the tunnel, he immediately grabbed a rock and threw it at full speed forward.
It was only after he heard a sound at the end that he used [Voidteleport].
And he disappeared, before reappearing at the end of the tunnel.
But as he was about to shoot forward again, his body suddenly stopped in its tracks and his
eyes widened.
There was a worm.
Right in front of him, it''s open mouth an inch away from his face.
It instantly lunged at Amon''s face.
But...
It was futile as he collided with a thick white wall, making it recoil back into the fluid in which
it was.
Amon released a sharp exhale as he finally calmed down and stepped back.
The worm in front of him...
Was a baby worm.
It was encased in arge white egg, with a yellowish fluid inside in which the worm was
swimming.
Amon realized that it was the egg that the rock had hit.
But.
It wasn''t the only egg.
Amon jumped on a small tform that stuck out on the ceiling of the tunnel.
And as he did, his jaw dropped.
Right before him, stretching out for hundreds of meters were worm eggs.
As far as the eye could see, there were just eggs and eggs.
''This....'' Amon was unable to form his words.
As he was about to move though, the ground beneath him rumbled.
With such an intensity, cracks spread out on the floor.
One more shake and it would break down.
From the far end, Amon heard hundreds of screeches by the worms.
And because of those screeches...
The worms inside the eggs went ballistic.
The eggs started to shake as the waters swirled inside.
The worms crashed themselves into the walls of the eggs which had cracks on them now
because of the screams.
And in the next moment, all of them broke down.
The fluids lunged out of the shells onto the floor as the wormsnded on the floors.
In response to their parent worms, they screeched back, making Amon clutch his ears at the
sheer intensity.
''Fuck, fuck, fuck....''
He stepped back in shock.
And that step was enough for every worm to know his location as all of them locked onto him.
The tunnel behind Amon also finally caved in as an army of worms rushed inside to crush him
down.
Forced to a corner, Amon had only one option left.
After executing it, he couldn''t run as well since he would be totally out of mana.
But he was willing to take the risk.
He locked eyes with the worms that were mere meters away from him now.
And a maniacal smile spread across his features, unbeknownst to him. Even in such danger, he was having the time of his life right now.
"Let''s see who can survive longer." He spoke before his arm suddenly burst into mes.
Strange and intricate ck markings spread across his face, over to the top of his neck.
Four small marks appeared under his two glowing eyes as well.
And in correspondence to the ck mes, they glowed in a lc shade as well.
Without any hesitation, he waved his arm forward.
And in response, a sea of ck and violet mes spread forth, taking the whole cave in its
grasp.
Even Amon.
Screams rang out in the cave as Amon heard the sounds of flesh burning.
The worms instantly turned to ashes in a few seconds.
But they weren''t the only ones burning. Amon''s skin was seared with hot ming pain.
He felt as if moltenva was being poured on his skin. Cracks spread across his whole body as his clothes turned to ashes.
His heart threatened to burst and be ripped apart by the mes.
His chest and soul ached and his vision blurred.
All he saw was purple and ck.
mes were all he saw.
mes that could burn anything. mes under hismand.
Amon could burn all of it.
All of Eldergrove, if he wanted to.
The human kingdoms, the ghouls...
The whole world.
Amon felt his cracked burning face break into a vicious, insane grin as his body began to turn
into ashes under the destruction of the mes.
His arms and legs were beginning to disintegrate. Multiple notifications entered his vision.
[The Void inside you growsrger...] [The Void inside you growsrger...] [Your [Void] element has leveled up!]
[The Void inside you growsrger...] [The Void inside you growsrger...] [The Void inside.....] [200 Worms Defeated! 200/200]
[The Void inside you growsrger...]
His mind was teetering at the edge of insanity.
A brink away from the madness.
It was a beautiful sight.
The crackles of the sea of mes that devoured every piece of existence.
Amon could just picture it burning and burning and burning and burning-
As he felt thest pieces of his body disintegrate into nothingness, two final notifications
entered his vision.
[The Void inside you growsrger...]
[Your element [Void] has leveled up!]
[250 Worms Defeated! 250/250]
[Congrattions! You have sessfullypleted [Void Training III]. All questspleted!]
And then...
It all cked out.