Chapter 200: Void Training III [4]
Chapter 200: Void Training III [4]
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Amon wiped the sweat off his face, slumping down on the ground, tired.
He set his odachi to the side before wiping the sweat on his face.
His breaths came out in tired gasps.
"Sigh..." He sighed, gazing at the notifications that appeared in front of him.
[Defeated 1 Worm! 100/100]
[The Void inside you grows larger...]
[The Void inside you grows larger...]
[The Void inside you grows larger...]
Around him, multiple bodies of worms lay strewn across the sand, dead and curled up.
His cloak and multiple parts on the bodysuit were torn.
A multitude of cracks ran over his arms and neck.
It had been a long battle, with the sun almost close to setting now.
Fortunately, he was able to pull through.
After defeating multiple worms, Amon realized it would take too long to beat them all.
Which was why he created multiple quakes to attract as many worms as he could toward him. While in the meantime, he was laying a trap with his [Void Threads].
To those threads, he also attached the large number of daggers that he had made, coating them with [Void Touch].
When the worms swarmed the area in large amounts, the trap had been triggered.
They were completely strangled in threads that destroyed their scales and cut through their bodies at the same time.
The daggers also stabbed through their exposed bodies.
While it was a little difficult at first, with his mana and water level being rapidly drained, everything changed when...
His [Void] element leveled up after multiple kills.
After that, it was like a hot knife cutting through butter as the threads completely sliced through them.
It was a long and tiring battle, but fortunately, he was able to pull through.
Standing up, Amon turned back to their exposed bodies and quickly started to drain their water fluid.
It took him about an hour but once he was done, he was satisfied with the output.
He checked his water level.
[Water Level: 76-79%]
Wiping his sweat once more, Amon stared far off in the distance.
There was another piece of information he had gained from the trap.
Just like he had thought, all of the worms had rushed from only one direction.
And it was the direction of the sun.
After the fight, which lasted like 4 hours, he had about 5 hours left now.
Not wanting to waste any more time, Amon immediately started running forward.
But just before he started his rush, he had a sudden thought.
'Hmmm...'
Even though it would take a portion of his mana, in the end, he chose to do what he had in mind.
And once he was done.
He blitzed through the sand at full speed, his hood pulled up to prevent the sand from going into his eyes.
Even with the air push from behind that aided his motion, he was having a problem.
'I'm still not fast enough...' He complained.
He didn't know how far their lair was but...
If he traveled at this rate, he would waste too much time.
Amon started to rack his brain on how to travel fast.
He had no [Lightning] element or Nultharia for travel.
There was no application of [Void] for travel. It would still be a while before he could open portals.
But then, his brain clicked back to the team battles.
In the tundra terrain...
He quickly retrieved one of his daggers and threw it across the sand field with full force.
Unlike before, he had no way to aid its speed but he just needed small boosts.
Amon activated [Void Eyes], and poured all of his mana into them as they glowed amethyst.
And far away, he saw his dagger close to landing.
But at the same time, he used [Voidteleport].
As soon as he teleported, he shot off once more before spamming [Voidsteps].
And his speed of travel was 8x faster than before.
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[After 1 Hour]
Amon watched with widened eyes through his hood.
He was perched upon a hoodoo, a thin spire of rocks rising high into the sky.
And what he saw, left him astonished.
Right before him was a gigantic canyon, that spanned multiple hundreds of meters on all
sides.
And right in that canyon...
Was a swarm of worms, crawling around the area in a serpentine motion.
Screeches and screams often resounded from the completely packed area below.
But not only that...
On two sides of the canyon, where there were supposed to be enormous thick walls of rock. Multiple giant pathways led underground, one in the north and one in the south.
'This is a mess...' Amon concluded.
From what he had concluded, the southern pathway was probably where all the worms rushed
to.
Whenever there was a sound.
His reasoning for this was of course because it was the direction where he had just arrived
from.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
Which left the northern pathway.
'It should probably lead to the queen's room.'
He was probably correct. Unless there was another worm nest far away which Amon doubted.
The system wouldn't give him such a short time and a gigantic map to explore.
Which was why...
His main objective was right in front.
The only problem was the swarm of worms at the bottom.
He needed to get rid of them.
Fortunately, he had a plan.
'You can do it now.'
'Alright.' He received a reply in his thoughts.
And immediately as the reply came, the worms suddenly screeched simultaneously.
All of them started to wriggle furiously and the ground started to quake vigorously. One by one every snake started to rush in through the southern pathway. Amon quickly hid himself and held on to the ground for support, careful not to make a noise.
He stayed like that for at least 10 minutes until the whole canyon below him was empty. Not a single sign of worm remained. It was completely clean.
But even then, he made sure to stay there for another minute for the worms to get out of
range.
It was then that he jumped down carefully into the canyon, careful not to make a noise.
'I have 30 minutes to find the queen now.'
That was the time until the worms would return.
What he had just done was because of the action that he did before running off.
Before leaving the worms, he had anticipated the area to be crowded like this.
And so, even though it would drain his mana, he had left a clone of himself there.
On his signal, the clone had messed with the dead bodies of the worms there, creating such a
powerful sound that the worms present in the canyon, went haywire.
It was a good decision to leave a clone before running off.
Clearing his thoughts, Amon immediately dissolved his feet into black smoke to not make a
noise.
There could still be worms guarding the queen in the northern pathway.
'Alright, time to find the queen.' Amon pulled up his hood before shooting forward.
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