I Have Become a Death Worm

Kwarrrrr─────!
Overturned desert soil and sand poured down.
A massive sand cloud arose as if a nuclear bomb had dropped.
It was an overwhelming natural spectacle visible even from 3 kilometers away.
Poddeuk, poddeuk-
The sound of chicken bones breaking echoed.
The Death Worm moved its teeth, consuming Nerme.
It chewed thoroughly as if wanting to savor every bit without leaving anything.
‘Farewell, comrade…’
Tolga, who had landed far away, briefly prayed for his soul.
The old man raised his gaze to look at the deep blue sky of this otherworld.
As the dust explosion subsided, the clear sky was becoming visible.
Unlike when they first arrived, the surrounding landscape had completely changed.
Of course, the jeep they came in and all equipment had long since been blown away.
‘So… I’m the last one to survive.’
Comrades who had been together for nearly 15 years had departed.
Each left with a farewell message.
It was as natural as meeting and then parting.
Emotions were surprisingly indifferent and calm.
Tears didn’t suddenly burst forth.
Perhaps reality hadn’t sunk in yet.
“Huu…”
The old man took a deep breath with his wrinkled lips.
He didn’t know why the deaths of his comrades didn’t feel real.
Was it because he had seen too many deaths over the past 25 years?
It’s not that his emotions were barren like the desert.
…Thinking a bit more, intense emotions might be about to burst.
‘Ah, I see.’
Eventually, Tolga could find the answer by himself.
It’s because he was controlling himself.
Since that day, he had lived thoroughly discarding emotions.
To avoid making mistakes by being led by emotions.
It was a natural mechanism coming from being a highly trained hunter.
“Hahaha…!”
Tolga burst into hearty laughter.
He thought he had retired and become human, but he still wasn’t human.
That’s why, even after losing comrades who were like life itself, he was desperately controlling his emotions.
Sometimes he wondered why he couldn’t feel emotions.
To only now know the answer to that.
Fate was truly ironic.
“Shuruuuu…!”
The white terror turns its face toward him, its final prey.
The mouth that had consumed both companions was impeccably clean.
It was eerie, almost like a pure maiden.
As he let go of his attachment to life, his mind became peaceful.
Tolga’s lips slowly moved.
“Olgoi-Khorkhoi.”
The Three Battle Wolves leader who had gained enlightenment and released attachments.
Like his active duty days, a legend returned to the battlefield.
Tolga’s resolute voice resonated like ripples on water.
“I will challenge your legend.”
Tolga closed his eyes with a face as relaxed as if sleeping, and slowly raised both arms toward the sky.
Hwaryuk-
Deep blue mana shimmer emanated from Tolga’s body.
The old man’s feet lifted off the ground as if ascending.
In an instant, his jacket burst as if exploding.
Puhuuk-!
As Tolga’s upper clothing burst, his scar-covered body of glory was revealed.
The instantaneous body reinforcement ability of an S-class Enhancement Mage begins to manifest.
The muscles throughout his body explosively swelled to more than three times their size.
Kiring, kiring-
Clear and bright bell-like sounds suddenly echoed in the air around the old man.
It was like the sound of invisible bells.
“Shuruuut…?”
The White Sovereign tilted its head, observing this phenomenon it was experiencing for the first time.
Kiriring, kiriring-
Around Tolga, who had spread his arms, several formless swords made of deep blue mana appeared.
The deep blue, translucent swords began to orbit around Tolga like planets.
Mind swords continued to be forged like fireworks along with blue mana crystals.
Kiriiiring-
Suddenly, a clear metallic sound echoed distantly and widely.
Kiriiiring─────!
A thousand mind swords spread out around Tolga as if wallpapering the space.
It was a magnificent and fantastic sight that could take one’s breath away.
Tolga rose higher than the White Sovereign’s height.
With folded arms, he looked down at the lowered ground.
The returned Sword Master moved his lips.
“From now on…”
Triple class including S-class Enhancement Mage, S-class Manifestation Mage, and S-class Swordsman.
Known as Thousand Sword or Heaven Heart Sword.
Tolga’s solemn declaration echoed.
“I will commence monster extermination.”
Hung! Kiriiiring─────!
The thousand deep blue mind swords were simultaneously angled diagonally and shot at the White Sovereign on the ground.
Blue mana crystals scattered like tails behind the shooting swords.
A surprise bombardment of swords rains down.
Pyushushushut─────!
The desert around the White Sovereign’s position heaved violently like a honeycomb being disturbed.
A thousand mind swords began to stab down like missiles.
It was as if a vast cemetery was suddenly being created.
Kak! Tikikikikik-!
“Kyi, riiiiik-!”
The outer skin of the White Sovereign receiving the mind sword bombardment gradually began to be damaged.
Borhu’s hydro cannon shot that concentrated his full mana power.
For Tolga, each shot was just a normal attack.
The White Sovereign also responded immediately.
Puuuuk! Pyushushushut-!
Sand streams and internal stones were expelled from all pores of the Albino Death Worm’s body.
Hundreds, even thousands of projectiles are suddenly rapidly released externally.
Other expelled internal impurities also collided with the incoming mind swords.
The vast desert transformed into a battlefield between two powerful beings.
Kangangangangang-!
With a noisy metallic sound, the projectiles collided with each other.
The durability of the internal stones shot by the White Sovereign was weaker than Tolga’s mind swords and immediately crumbled.
However, the sand streams definitely twisted and distorted the trajectories of the mind swords.
Most began to miss the White Sovereign instead of hitting it.
Tolga slightly frowned and waved his arm.
Shureuk-
The countless mind swords stuck like tombstones in the sand near the White Sovereign suddenly wavered, scattered into blue mana crystals, and then.
Kiriiiring─────!
A thousand mind swords were once again deployed around Tolga as if wallpapering the space.
Tolga, who had recovered and reconstructed the mana from all the mind swords, snapped his fingers.
The sword blades that had risen straight up all bent down at 45 degrees.
Hung! Kiriiiring─────!
The sword screen generated by the manifestation of will was widely scattered.
They were not all fired simultaneously, but at regular intervals from the front.
The sword screen fired in succession looked like a shower of blue comets.
Kwakwakwakwakwa-!
“Kuooooo-!”
The White Sovereign ran fiercely, turning over the desert.
It was an evasive maneuver to avoid its disadvantageous situation.
Tolga simply lowered his thumb of his clenched fist toward the target on the ground.
Pyushushushuk-!
The mind swords of the legendary Mongolian Sword Master changed direction, countless numbers chasing the target.
The thousand mind swords were already like guided missiles.
They will not stop until they embed in the target.
“Kyu, hyaaaak-!”
The sovereign, which had been charging like a caterpillar while emitting angry roars, suddenly raised its body.
Sand explosively rose in its circular-toothed mouth.
Puk! Puhuuuk-!
The special organ of sandworms, cousins and another worm type related to Death Worms.
Yellow sand breath was powerfully expelled like a dragon’s breath.
The White Sovereign, spewing a powerful yellow sand cannon, violently turned its head.
Huuung! Kiriiiring-
The mind swords caught in the headbanging sand breath all had their trajectories twisted and fell away.
Nevertheless, some mind swords flew toward the sovereign like guided missiles.
Pajik, patsuts-!
This time, blue sparks flickered across the White Sovereign’s entire body.
Suddenly the sovereign raised its 50-meter massive body upright.
The calamity roared toward the sky and shook its body.
“Kyu, hwaaaaak-!”
Patsutsutsuts─────!
A powerful electric field like an eel was generated in the White Sovereign’s body.
The Death Worm’s special internal organ, similar to a bird’s gizzard but an electric pouch, conducts the current it produces through its outer skin.
It was an enormous voltage just short of lightning’s 1 billion volts.
Few desert monsters could withstand this and survive.
The forms of the approaching mind swords were immediately carbonized and erased.
Shuk, kiriiiring─────!
Tolga replenished the lost mind swords by investing mana.
The manifestation-type Sword Master simply waved his hand like a conductor of an orchestra.
With a light gesture, the widely deployed mind swords rushed toward the sovereign like the spread feathers of a peacock.
Chureureuk…
This time, bright red blood slowly oozed from the White Sovereign’s mouth.
Chweok! Chwihiik-
When the blood drops fell to the desert below, they immediately dissolved deeply as if carbonizing.
The depth extended several dozen meters below the sand.
It emitted a terrible stench as if blood had been stagnant and rotting.
It was hemotoxin and gastric acid refluxed from inside the body.
The White Sovereign growled as it vomited blood.
“Kyururururut…!”
A characteristic harmless only to the Death Worm itself.
Preparation for the Death Worms’ signature skill.
It decided that Tolga’s attack pattern from the sky was annoying.
It intended to dissolve him completely along with the mind swords he kept creating.
In an instant, hemotoxic fluid explosively rose in the White Sovereign’s mouth.
Chwak! Chuwaaaaak─────!
A vast thickness of blood cannon was fired from the White Sovereign’s wide-open mouth like a water cannon.
This time, the White Sovereign shot not a sand breath but a blood breath.
Literally the firing of acidic blood that makes up its internal gastric acid.
It was like a human with an empty stomach vomiting gastric acid.
Extreme poison that could dissolve even diamonds rushed forth.
“Tch.”
Tolga, who was firing mind swords from the air, slightly frowned.
Tolga gripped his fist with his outstretched palm.
Then he swung his arm clockwise.
Kishushushung-
The mind swords being fired gathered in the air in front of Tolga.
More than hundreds of swords congregate at one intended point.
The mind swords eventually transformed into a kite shield over several dozen meters large.
Despite his alias as Heaven Heart Sword handling up to 1,000 swords, his manifestation of other things was also top-notch.
Eventually, the White Sovereign’s blood cannon and Tolga’s giant shield collided.
Chwak! Chuuuuk-!
Tolga’s giant will shield received the blood cannon.
It safely protected its master from the lethal acidic hemotoxin.
The blood water with tremendous hydraulic pressure rained down with enough force to blow away even an aircraft carrier.
Chijik, bassss-
Although part of the surface crumbled, he immediately invested mana to replenish it.
When he converted all 1,000 swords to their maximum limit into a shield, it became complete.
The White Sovereign’s radiation continued for several dozen seconds.
“Kyuruuuu…”
The White Sovereign, having vomited blood, took a deep breath as blood flowed.
“Heo, eok…! Heouk…!”
Tolga panted with a face drenched in cold sweat.
‘…It’s tough indeed.’
The old man’s body was already overwhelmed by the strain.
He had overworked his body for nearly 15 years since awakening.
His creaking body could stop at any moment without surprise.
He even received warnings that he might die prematurely.
But he pushed himself to the limit without rest.
Finally, the opportunity came for humanity to successfully counterattack.
From that point, he gave rest to his overworked body.
Retirement from the front lines was also for recovery purposes.
…But now, he had restarted the machine at full power.
The already aged machine was now overloaded.
Some S-class individuals undergo metamorphosis.
When the state of full immersion reaches its peak, a body exchange or body change phenomenon occurs.
The user regains the body of their youth at that point.
The young body is maintained, and lifespan becomes semi-permanent.
But such an opportunity never came to him.
Despite his diligent efforts, he had finally given up.
Tolga inwardly clicked his tongue in regret.
‘If I were completely in my young prime, it would have been an excellent match…’
He wanted to subjugate Mongolia’s myth one-on-one.
But given the realistic conditions, it seemed impossible.
The software was still running smoothly.
He was facing hardware problems.
‘No, I’m not sure if I could have won even in my prime.’
The comparison in terms of age wasn’t even close from the beginning.
The opponent was a great beast and spiritual being of the desert with an age approaching a thousand years.
He was a short-lived species who couldn’t even live 70 years.
The otherworld Elzeria was filled with long-lived species for whom several hundred years of lifespan was laughable.
It was truly an attempt to form wrinkles in front of a true elder.
“Kyi, hyaaaak-!”
The White Sovereign, coiled like a white dragon on the ground, roared fiercely toward him in the sky.
A roar as if asking if that was the end of his struggle.
Determination filled Tolga’s face.
‘I’ll bet on my final move.’
Kiriiiring-
Mind swords were again deployed around the floating Tolga in the air.
However, this time all the mind swords were clumping together as one.
It was similar to the will shield formed earlier.
Kaddeuk-
The thousand mind swords clumped together became a giant mind sword exceeding 50 meters in length.
Huung-
The giant mind sword tilted diagonally downward at 45 degrees at its master’s gesture.
Tolga moved his body and clung tightly to the pommel base of the mind sword.
He needed to target the inside of the White Sovereign’s intestines.
‘There’s only one chance.’
While the exterior was protected by sturdy armor, the inside of the mouth and body was not.
There was a case of the US military capturing a baby sandworm rampaging in the Arizona desert by firing a Hellfire missile into its mouth.
Since then, it has become a certified typical weakness of worm-type creatures.
‘Let’s go!’
Battle intent blazes in the old Sword Master’s eyes.
With the manifestation of his will, Tolga was launched simultaneously with the mind sword.
Huuuung-!
The giant mind sword descends, cutting through the air with a heavy sound.
It was easily larger than the body volume of the White Sovereign below.
Feeling the threat, the creature opened its mouth wide.
“Kyi, shahaaaaa─────!”
Kuuuuu-!
First, a terrible sonic shockwave is generated in ring form.
It tries to shake off the giant mind sword rushing toward it.
The giant mind sword sailed steadily like a ship.
Puhuuuuk-!
At some point, the sonic blast transformed into thick sand streams that were fired.
Spray force that could crumble even tall skyscrapers like sand castles.
The giant mind sword was directly engulfed in the center of the sand cannon.
It wobbled like a precarious shipwreck but still advanced.
Chuwaaaak-!
The sand breath changed into a bright red hemotoxic water cannon.
The force of the fired blood cannon grew more intense.
The toxicity contained in the hemotoxin also seems to have intensified.
The White Sovereign was clearly angry.
Three levels of prevention attempts were made.
Bassss-
Finally, the giant mind sword began to crumble.
The deep blue surface turned red and dissolved.
It was like watching candy melting in heat.
‘Just… just a little more.’
Wuddeuk, wuddeuk-
Tolga’s right arm, hidden at the pommel of the giant mind sword, swelled.
Tolga hammered the full power of his instantaneous body reinforcement into his fist.
The arm growing larger than its original volume was grotesque.
Chwihiik-!
Finally, at the moment when the giant mind sword fulfilled its role.
The wide-open mouth of the White Sovereign was visible just 10 meters ahead.
“Kya, aaaak-!”
The White Sovereign moved its teeth as if cheering.
Did a biscuit fly in to be eaten voluntarily?
That’s all it could think.
Tolga also intended this himself.
A smile formed on the old man’s lips.
‘To catch a tiger, go into the tiger’s mouth!’
Peoeong-!
The remaining mana burst from Tolga’s entire body.
The White Sovereign’s teeth are visible right in front of him.
A hell of bite force that could crush even a Humvee.
The old man bravely jumped inside.
‘Float like a butterfly! Sting like a bee!’
In an instant, darkness enveloped him with snow-white bars.
Tolga gritted his teeth and pulled back his right arm with all his might.
The swollen muscles throughout the old man’s body cried out.
‘Eat this!’
Without hesitation, Tolga delivered a full-power uppercut to the roof of the Death Worm’s mouth.
Peoeoeoeong-!
In an instant, a white shock wave burst beyond the White Sovereign’s crown.
The power was enough to penetrate through the outer skin.
“Kyi, heeeeek-!”
The White Sovereign, its palate hit, let out a terrible scream.
Surprisingly, the White Sovereign’s massive body of at least 50 meters and 1,000 tons floated hundreds of meters into the air.
It seems the force that was about to be exerted reversed back onto itself.
A direct hit to the internal organs, precisely targeting the weakness of worm-type creatures.
Tolga had already quickly escaped after delivering the strike.
Kwang! Urrrrrr─────!
A yellow wind arose around the White Sovereign that crashed into the desert.
It rivaled the aftermath of a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion.
Geographical changes are created several times today.
It was as if an absurd sirocco was being generated.
Kwarrrrr-!
“Kka, aaaak-! Kkeuhik! Heugigigigik-!”
The White Sovereign vomited blood and rolled around in pain.
It’s clear that a critical hit was delivered to the creature’s inner organs inside its body.
Truly enormous amounts of blood kept flowing from its mouth.
The yellowish desert begins to turn into a sea of bright red blood.
With that amount of bleeding, it will soon perish.
‘It was a gamble.’
Tolga also couldn’t believe his achievement.
It was nothing but a thorough gamble.
He expected failure with a probability of over 70%.
It was literally a life-or-death operation.
…But it worked?
“Huu…”
Tolga looked at the sky with a vacant gaze.
He had believed it was impossible to achieve.
Yet he somehow managed to do it.
‘…I’ve finally defeated the legend.’
With this, the memorial for his comrades was fulfilled.
What remains is how to return to Earth.
Tolga smiled with relief.
“I’ve done it…”
It was then that the White Sovereign laughed lowly.
“Kyireuk…”
The white calamity’s mockery echoed across the desert that had become a sea of blood.
Tolga instantly froze like a rock.
“Kyireuk, kyireuk, kyireuk.”
Tolga’s smile was completely erased.
This great monster spiritual being was clearly laughing.
Though it had no facial muscles, the thought that it kept laughing came to mind.
‘I definitely inflicted a fatal wound…’
Tolga felt an eerie chill.
It was the same feeling as when Nerme died.
White Sovereign. White Death. Pure White Calamity. Desert Reaper. Roar of Nightmares.
Countless ominous names for the creature come to mind.
Mongolian Death Worm. Intestine Worm. Camel Hunter. Olgoi-Khorkhoi.
The Mongolians’ chilling legend of terror is recalled.
Hwaleuk-
Tolga raised his remaining tiny bit of mana.
‘Quickly! I must finish-‘
In an instant, a blue flash shot from behind Tolga.
Pishut-
“Kkeoheouk!”
The old man suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart.
An enormous chest pain that made his mouth gape open.
“Heo…! Heuk…!”
The retired legendary Sword Master Tolga was engulfed in shock.
Blood refluxed from his mouth and spurted outward.
He had suddenly become like the creature.
Tolga looked down in bewilderment.
Ppyujit, ppyujit-
Blood gushing from the penetration wound was thoroughly soaking his lower body.
This is definitely an irreversible fatal wound.
It was a shot that precisely pierced his heart.
Tolga’s eyes opened vacantly.
‘Why…’
Suddenly, the conclusion came too meaninglessly.
Naturally, such an ending cannot be accepted.
There was another reason Tolga was shocked.
‘That can’t be.’
He knows what just launched the surprise attack.
However, it was something that couldn’t possibly happen.
Because it absolutely could not occur.
But he had to confirm it.
‘Absolutely…!’
Tolga turned his back very slowly, like an eternity.
Upon confirming the identity, Tolga’s mouth gaped open.
“Heok……!”
Something was floating 5 meters behind him.
It was a rippling water sphere with a diameter of 1 meter.
Something he naturally knew very well.
The unique ability of his comrade Borhu.
The power just now offered to the White Sovereign.
A water stream fired from a compressed water sphere had precisely pierced his heart.