I Have Become a Death Worm

It was a sad dream.
Everyone sitting at the long table lets out sighs.
They watched the giant crystal ball with a serious atmosphere.
Truly, something terribly tragic was happening.
Countless towers soaring high enough to reach the sky.
A strange otherworld where iron birds and horses roam.
When first discovered, it was just endlessly fascinating.
Because it was full of sights that couldn’t be seen on this side.
But in the end, it became a disaster.
Because contact between civilizations clearly causes problems.
The two hidden worlds should never have known each other.
I had foreseen that catastrophe would come because of this.
One hundred million died on the first day of war.
No one expected it would be this severe.
Most civilians were surprisingly defenseless and weak.
The most fatal thing was that no one knew about the existence of mana.
Weapons that shoot metal pieces at high speeds were very interesting.
They also had powerful explosive arrows, but the issue is the quantity limit.
There are clear limitations, and production seems to take time.
There are no countermeasures against tactics that destroy production facilities.
The ratio of soldiers to civilians in that world was very low.
Those who have the will to fight aren’t even one in a hundred.
They just weakly screamed and ran away.
Or they died miserably while hiding.
Meanwhile, all kinds of atrocities take place.
Various human figures are shown in real-time.
Betraying those they trusted, looting food supplies.
The people of that otherworld faced hell overnight.
Those bugs who fled without even being able to resist.
They eagerly persecute and fight each other.
A place where human-like beings had their primal fighting spirit castrated within a meager modern civilization and legal system.
That was my perspective when looking at that world.
I tilted my head and looked up at the ceiling again.
Perhaps this outcome is ultimately my responsibility.
Because I was the one who connected the two worlds.
But I have grievances too.
I clearly sent a sage to warn them.
I even gave them hundreds of years of sufficient time to prepare.
But they did nothing over there.
They just laughed, saying who would believe such nonsense in this day and age.
Honestly, the humans in that world deserved to all die.
Because they completely ignored my warning in the end.
However, compassion eventually blossomed.
…Because things had gone too far.
It’s not that they are bad.
A situation where both sides clearly have reasons they must act.
Both sides had sufficient justification.
…But that was too cruel.
It saddened me that I had to go eliminate a friend for whom I would not hesitate to give my life.
But he and his five disciples had completely gone mad.
Such a method is never salvation.
They must be stopped.
As always, zealots with convictions ruin the world.
That’s why I challenged them alone.
I believed without a doubt that I would surely win.
…And then I lost.
It was unbearably miserable and desperate.
Who knew they had become so strong?
What will happen to both worlds from now on?
There was a woman’s voice echoing at the scene.
‘…Therefore, I intend to execute the plan.’
All eyes in the audience focused on me.
Various emotions were loaded – fear, despair, lamentation.
But there were also definite expressions and gazes of hope.
Beliefs that I would surely achieve it.
Too many innocent lives are being lost.
I realized that my life had less than a minute left.
In the end, we were cornered like this.
I knew there was no other means left.
She began walking toward me from the center of the scene.
Me, just lying down looking only at the ceiling like a critical patient.
Finally, her face entered my view.
She looked down at me profoundly.
‘…I love you, ■■.’
Golden blonde hair like pure gold, deep blue eyes like the ocean.
The woman clearly called my name.
But somehow it wasn’t recognizable.
As if refusing to remember.
‘…So.’
She moved her lips, containing many meanings.
A sad and touched feeling overwhelmed me.
She gently bent her body over me as if burying herself.
The woman’s lips softly covered my lips.
‘Go now.’
With her kiss as the starting point, my consciousness rapidly separated.
It was good because it was warm like sunshine and so very gentle.
Her face instantly distanced like dust.
I was being transmitted somewhere.
Don’t send me away! Let me stay together a little longer!
I tried crying out, but it was useless.
It was a phenomenon independent of my will.
Like a wave generated in cozy sleep.
Like a faint dream, it kept getting farther away.
So I woke up from the dream.
Urrrrrung-
“……”
Fierce ground tremors are generated.
The ground ahead was vibrating.
Scorching sunlight shines down from the blue sky.
Tak! Tikik!
“Kururu!”
“Shaak-!”
There are even collision noises nearby.
Fierce roars as if beasts are fighting.
I involuntarily let out a questioning sound.
“Kyurut?”
Who is it, really?
The audacious ones who would wake me, the lord of Grabadra Sea?
Urrrrrung-
I released the posture of biting my tail.
I immediately raised my body straight up.
“Kyurururu.”
I stretched fully, extending from head to tail in a straight line.
I loosened the muscles that had stiffened from sleeping curled up last night.
It was more muscular than expected, and had joints as well.
“Kyu, rurut…!”
Is this what they call the cat stretching pose?
I can no longer do such movements because my limbs are missing.
This feeling of having only a body from head to toe without arms and legs, when will I ever get used to it?
I stared at the distant front that was the source of the noise that woke me.
Urrrrrung-
In the desert quite far ahead, giant dung beetles rolling enormous dung could be seen.
They are super-sized insects comparable to the size of cars at least.
It’s a spectacular sight as they race quickly as if competing.
Naturally, the dung they were rolling was also enormously large.
What kind of being could produce such large dung?
…By the way, I seemed to be in the middle of a dream.
I can’t remember at all.
What was it…?
Kak! Takak!
The noise was elsewhere too.
“Kururrr.”
“Shaok! Shaaak-!”
A crayfish and a spider were fighting right in front of me.
They are spectacular, about the size of a medium car like the dung beetles.
The crayfish with impressive copper-colored base and yellow-white wave patterns on its shell is a Desert Giant Lobster.
The spider with a color as black as petroleum and unique blood-red spot patterns on its underbelly is a Gigant Tarantula.
“Sha, aok-! Shaleuk!”
The Gigant Tarantula, flashing its eight red simple eyes, raised its front legs to threaten fully.
Looking closely, something was caught in the spider web that it had been dragging like a noose behind it.
It was a Camelodon, a herbivorous large desert magical beast shaped like a mixture of camel and mammoth.
It could be tamed and used as a mount by desert people.
“Kururu! Kururuk-!”
The Desert Giant Lobster responded by fiercely threatening with its thick pincers raised.
From the situation, it seems the Desert Giant Lobster is trying to snatch what the Gigant Tarantula had hunted.
It’s something that happens everywhere in the ecosystem.
“Kururu! Kurut!”
“Shaaaak-!”
The two fiercely threatening each other.
I felt quite thrilled.
They were so engrossed with each other that they didn’t even notice me, just 50 meters away.
It’s like hyenas fighting while ignoring a lion nearby.
This is interesting?
Taktaktaktak.
“Shaaaa-!”
“Kururrr-!”
The Gigant Tarantula, momentarily releasing its prey, and the Desert Giant Lobster approach each other.
Different shaped legs frantically patter as they close in.
Neither seems willing to yield.
Monster spider vs monster crayfish.
A battle that heats up the soul of a kaiju enthusiast unfolds again.
I watched the situation with an excited feeling.
“Sha, aaaak-!”
The first attack was initiated by the Gigant Tarantula.
It quickly twisted its body to aim its plump underbelly forward.
Pururureuk-
White thread bundles were fired from the rear of the Gigant Tarantula.
A grand amount of spider web is pulled out from the silk gland in its belly.
A mesh net of a strength that can’t be cut even with a knife lunges forward.
The Desert Giant Lobster wasn’t just taking it either.
“Pugrururur-!”
The Desert Giant Lobster suddenly went berserk and frantically rolled its legs.
A pair of upright eyes frantically wobble with excitement.
Its mouth, seemingly agitated, opened wide.
Bogrururur-
Surprisingly, bubbles gurgled and spewed from the Desert Giant Lobster’s mouth.
It was like watching a decorative soap bubble sprayer.
The spider web and bubbles met each other.
Pak! Chwahaak-!
The spider web spewed by the Gigant Tarantula burst loudly.
This was because the non-attribute bubbles caused a grand explosion.
Unexpectedly, they have opposing attributes, making it difficult for each to approach the other.
They growled fiercely.
“Shaaaa…!”
“Kururu…!”
I coiled my body like a thousand-year-old serpent and looked down with my upper body.
Then I interestingly observed the battle unfolding before my eyes.
They say watching small fry fight is the most fun, right?
It was while I was enjoying watching.
Teobuk, teobuk.
From the east, a form that looked like a fusion of alligator and chameleon crawled sluggishly.
A super-large reptile the size of a decent bus with eight legs.
On its back, rocks stained with mana rose like colorful jewels.
It was a Basilisk, a dangerous reptilian magical beast that spews petrification gas.
“Kuwek. Kuwek.”
It was heading straight this way.
It was both drawn to the fight of other strong beings and interested in the prey.
Why are they so explosively interested in prey caught by others?
Our desert magical beast friends, where’s your conscience?
“Sha, aaa…!”
“Kururu…!”
The Gigant Tarantula and Desert Giant Lobster simultaneously exclaimed in alarm.
They do not welcome a third enemy that suddenly appeared.
The sluggishly approaching Basilisk came very close.
The Basilisk’s mouth opened wide at them.
“Kuweeeek…”
Kussssss-
In an instant, a gray mist was emitted from the Basilisk’s mouth.
The tremendous breath of petrification that solidifies everything into stone is blown out.
The Gigant Tarantula and Desert Giant Lobster flinched.
“Shaaa!”
“Kurok!”
The two instinctively backed away falteringly.
They can shoot explosive bubbles and spider webs, but they don’t.
Because they know it won’t work on this strong one that just appeared.
Ah, a true dark horse has appeared!
The match finally flowed in an unexpected direction.
Of course, they had to jump away from gas that petrifies everything.
“Kuwek.”
The Basilisk began walking majestically like an alligator, step by step.
It opened its mouth wide to the Camelodon, which had died wrapped in the Gigant Tarantula’s spider web.
Eujuk, eujuk.
The form of the Camelodon began to crumble instantly from the Basilisk’s tooth venom.
“Kuweek.”
Kussss- Baddeuk.
Occasionally, it blows petrification gas to appropriately petrify like a crispy outside and tender inside.
Then it chewed diligently as if breaking and eating candy.
As expected of a petrification beast, it enjoys the taste of stone.
While I was watching the three-way battle of small beasts.
At some point, playfulness surged in me too.
“Kyurut, kyurut.”
It may seem sneaky, but this is the ecosystem of nature.
Rather than hunting with risk, it’s easier to snatch prey.
…However, that logic applies equally to me now.
Wouldn’t it be fine for me to do the same thing?
I recalled yesterday’s battle, my first day of reincarnation.
Honestly, I was too drunk on power and fought recklessly.
If I had wanted to engage in a smart battle, I could have.
And deliberately getting dirty by covering my body with soil and engaging in such dirty fighting was cliché.
Therefore, I decided to utilize a completely different tactic this time.
Without moving a single step from this spot, annihilating using only acquired skills.
“Kyururururut…”
Sarreuk-
With the manifestation of will, vast mana arose from my body.
I’ve well observed the interesting bug fight.
Now it’s time to reap the rewards.
Wiiiiing-
I lightly exert telekinesis.
A skill acquired by consuming the sand whale in yesterday’s battle.
I naturally recognized the Basilisk busy with its meal.
“Kuwek…?”
Suddenly it hesitated at the onrushing formless power.
Its eyeballs were pulled out and blood spurted from its mouth.
“Kyok!”
Kwachaaaak─────!
The Basilisk’s form was tightly compressed in the middle and crumpled.
It was like a compressed can crushed in a crusher.
A light application of tremendous telekinesis.
Handling of the strongest dark horse.
“Sha, shaak!?”
“Kururu!”
The Gigant Tarantula and Desert Giant Lobster simultaneously exclaimed in shock.
A sudden unexpected offensive had struck down the Basilisk.
As if finally finding the source, they frantically looked at me.
I targeted the crayfish, the second one to act like a scoundrel.
I activated Recovery, the highest level recovery spell of white magic.
Shiiiing-!
“Ku, kurut!?”
Suddenly a dazzling pillar of light rose on it.
Blue energy with holy power full of golden powder, wrapped in a splendid rainbow aura of seven colors.
Brilliance of various colors like glass fragments spreads out.
Bassssuk-
The minor wounds on its body were healed.
Other internal things were also completely cured at once.
But the healing never stops.
It continues to apply excessive healing.
Bassuk-
The form of the Desert Giant Lobster melted instantly.
With excessive concentrated treatment beyond what was needed, cells began to die.
Its form became like soap poorly dissolved in water.
“Ku, rut…!”
Kwang!
Finally, it suddenly jumped in place, then contracted its pincers and legs.
And then it no longer moved.
“Ki, shaaaak-!”
Shashashashashak-
The Gigant Tarantula quickly moved its legs and began to flee the scene with its tail between its legs.
Finally, I opened the mana hole and exerted manifestation art.
Kiriring-
In the air dozens of meters above the path it was fleeing, a deep blue mind sword was instantly created.
In the form of a straight great sword 10 meters in size, with the blade pointing downward.
Huuung-
With the manifestation of will, the mind sword immediately fell down.
It was exactly when the Gigant Tarantula’s head was approaching.
Kung! Seugeok-
The Gigant Tarantula’s head was precisely cut off by the sword blade that fell and struck from the sky.
Tuk, tuduk.
The creature’s severed head bounced away and rolled.
Its neck was cleanly beheaded as if on a guillotine.
I opened my mouth and laughed heartily.
“Kyurut!”
In the end, I became the protagonist of the fishing gain.
This is what true free food is about.
Gugugugung-
I flowed like a snake to the prepared prey.
To swallow the closest Basilisk whole, I opened my mouth wide.
Kwadeuk, puseoseooseok-
Without even stopping, I passed through everything, crushing recklessly.
[Physical Predation has been activated.]
[C-class Physical Trait: Basilisk has been acquired.]
[Physical Predation has been activated.]
[D-class Physical Trait: Desert Giant Lobster has been acquired.]
[Physical Predation has been activated.]
[D-class Physical Trait: Gigant Tarantula has been acquired.]
With this, I gained petrification gas, bomb bubbles, and spider web.
I smacked my lips in satisfaction.
“Kyureuk.”
Slaughter through skill use.
It definitely felt different from fighting with bare body.
But, for a moment, a certain question arose.
Thinking about it, the Albino Death Worm was always alone.
Naturally, there are many Death Worms and Sand Worms in this desert besides me.
It’s just that there has been no connection or empathy between them at all.
It was also based on the ecology of worms that don’t live in groups.
The other three great lords each formed groups together.
…In the current battle, there’s a skill I haven’t used yet.
The ability of monster tamer Wang Junlin.
“Kyuruut…!”
I inhaled deeply, drawing oxygen into my lungs.
The method of using power was input into my mind simultaneously with consumption.
But, will it work even in monster state?
With air gathered plentifully in my mouth, I shouted loudly.
[Awaken, my subjects!]
“Kyu, hwahaaaak─────!”
My thought wave and explosive sound overlapped and echoed throughout the desert in all directions.
Hwaaak… hwak… hwak…
“……”
The echoing echoes of the lord.
Silence that settles as if massive.
For a while, nothing happened even after waiting.
Gugugugung-
Suddenly the ground around me vibrated.
A truly massive amount of kinetic energy converges.
It’s as if an enormous sinkhole is being created centered around me.
Urrrrrung…
Tremendous ground tremors occur.
It felt as if the ground was being turned over.
The source where the noise was gathering was, of course, me.
Kwasssssuk─────!
Suddenly, the ground around me burst out in disarray.
Piles of earth covering the view soared to the sky.
Red things and yellow things rose simultaneously.
[Did you call us! Great White Sovereign!]
[Loyalty and obedience to the White Sovereign!]
[Master! May you be eternal!]
[Brother! Did you call~!]
[Hello~! I’m the prettiest in this neighborhood~!]
[Khahaha! Let’s eat sand! Let’s eat saaaand-!]
Over 100 Death Worms and Sand Worms shot up all around me at once.