I Have Become a Death Worm

Urrrrrrrung-
“Kyirrrrruk…”
The White Sovereign raised its massive body high into the air.
It showed no sign of the pain it had just experienced.
Kuddeuk-
Suddenly, the White Sovereign’s outer shell armor trembled.
The wounds inflicted by the mind swords began to heal.
All broken and burst areas were completely restored.
The worm’s distinctive regenerative ability was being demonstrated.
But the surprise didn’t end there.
Thump.
A pulsation suddenly echoing in the void.
Thump, thump, thump!
Not just a single pulsation.
Multiple ones were beating, overlapping each other.
A noisy heartbeat like drumming spreads outward.
A newly created bodily organ achieves the manifestation of formless chanting.
Shiiiiing-!
A dazzling pillar of light shot up from the White Sovereign’s position.
Blue energy intermingled with golden powder-filled holy power.
The sovereign was enveloped in a radiant rainbow aura of seven colors.
A brilliance that sparkled in various colors like broken glass fragments spread outward.
There was a strong sense of white magic holy law perfected with a perfect pi ratio.
The holy attribute magic’s highest recovery spell, Recovery, was activated.
Shiiing…
With the final flicker of bright light, the completely cleaned White Sovereign’s appearance was revealed.
There was no trace of the damage it had taken.
Even the battered internal organs were completely healed.
The blood that had been pouring from its mouth had stopped.
The complete recovery of its body was finished.
“Huh.”
Tolga let out a bewildered sigh.
He couldn’t believe what he had just seen.
‘What kind of sight did I just witness?’
He clearly felt mana holes activating in the White Sovereign’s heart.
This was something never observed in any known reports.
A worm using Recovery, belonging to white magic’s highest recovery spells?
…The problem was that not one, but multiple mana holes were detected.
‘Usually an organism would have one heart…?’
Considering the typical biological structure, this should be impossible.
Guguugugung…
Once again, the atmosphere of the area trembled vastly, and an absurd mana flow was detected.
The White Sovereign’s display was not over with what just happened.
Shiiing, kiriring! Huuuung-!
Continuous Regeneration. Regeneration.
Strength Enhancement. Power Boost.
Speed Enhancement. Speed Boost.
Mana Enhancement. Mana Boost.
Vitality Enhancement. Life Boost.
Mental Power Enhancement. Mind Boost.
Sensory Enhancement. Sense Boost.
Luck Bestowal. Good Luck.
Courage Amplification. Brave Heart.
Skin Hardening. Skin Hardening.
Iron Wall Bestowal. Iron Wall.
Indomitable Bestowal. Adamant.
Barrier Creation. Protection.
Potential Opening. Full Potential.
All Resistance Amplification. Almighty.
A feast of all holy laws and divine holy laws from 1st to 10th rank pouring out like a flood.
The White Sovereign cast all kinds of buffs made of white magic on itself.
It seemed to be showing off what it had just acquired.
Naturally, these were Nerme’s abilities.
Chureureut, chwaaaaak, shwarrrrrr…!
All kinds of water magic also materialized, floating around the White Sovereign.
The White Sovereign displayed water attribute magic very familiarly.
It was like watching the skills of a very proficient hydrokinetist.
These were the abilities of Borhu, the first to be consumed from the Three Battle Wolves.
“Ah.”
Finally, as his knees gave out, Tolga slumped down.
His body, already suffering from a heart penetration wound, felt unbearably cold.
‘Mana holes… 5 of them? Does that mean it has 5 heart organs?’
Now he recalled the basic knowledge he had forgotten.
An earthworm, a clitellate annelid, has five hearts.
They are gathered in a row in the head part, so typically the head is a vital point.
This was also why it caused tremendous bleeding when hit in the palate.
With an explosive strike to the area surrounded by five hearts.
The problem was that mana holes were created starting with the consumption of Wang Junlin.
He still doesn’t know what the trigger was.
There had been no record of worms having mana holes.
Perhaps it was a phenomenon that occurred because it was a great beast belonging to S-class.
Or maybe it had them all along, but they were activated after eating Wang Junlin.
The greatest arch-mages were not those who lorded over magic towers.
They were right here in front of him.
Monster worms with five hearts all had strong qualities of arch-mages.
Regardless of what aptitude or class they chose.
Tolga’s eyes became deeply sunken.
‘I was completely toyed with.’
Even among S-classes, there are differences in caliber.
Monsters that have achieved existential evolution are on a different dimension.
But for a mere worm to be like this?
Could it possibly be a polymorphed White Dragon?
There are many powerful great beasts, but this was hard to believe.
It far exceeded conventional common sense.
Kurrrrrr-
The White Sovereign, having dispelled all magic, slowly approached.
A snow-white building with a wide-open top approached.
Tolga no longer had the strength to escape.
“Kyirrrrrruk…”
Finally, the White Sovereign approached to a distance of 50 meters, the reach of its head.
The lord of Death Worms slowly lowered its head and brought it close.
The tunnel-like huge mouth came within 5 meters of Tolga’s head.
It could clearly swallow him in one second if it wanted, but it didn’t.
There was some intention behind this action.
Tolga blinked his dim eyes in bewilderment.
Suddenly the White Sovereign began to speak.
“Actually, it’s a joke.”
“It was a jooooke~!”
“It’s a joke, you idiots!”
“Haha! Just played a little joke.”
“Are you joking with me now?”
The White Sovereign’s tunnel-like mouth, spread like a distant abyss.
From within, all kinds of voice languages of men, women, old, and young flowed out as if playing a recorder randomly.
From Tolga’s perspective, he could understand some English, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, and Russian.
Countless other languages of otherworld ethnicities were mixed in as well.
“Hut.”
Tolga was seized with shock.
Quotes from countless victims who had been devoured.
It was a shock that awakened his dimming mind.
The Death Worms of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert have an infamous legend.
They remember the voices of the victims they have eaten.
In the desert with diverse environments, senses can be confused.
That’s when they use this to bait prey.
“Haha…!”
Roaring laughter flowed from Tolga’s mouth.
A very dry and despairing laugh.
The White Sovereign had been thoroughly playing with them from the beginning.
Just because it was fun.
“Kyurut……”
The White Sovereign thoroughly mocked him in a vicious and exquisite way.
Tolga bitterly clicked his tongue.
‘Am I… going to die?’
The deep blue otherworld desert sky was obscured and no longer visible.
All that could be seen was the giant tunnel of death above his head.
‘It was a life without regrets.’
He had truly experienced many things.
At the end of life, even an encounter with a being that possessed such surprising understanding of humans.
Just a slight regret arose.
…Perhaps, could this monster be made an ally of humanity?
‘No…’
Eventually, Tolga gave up on the thought that occurred to him.
He felt that the White Sovereign understood his words.
But he wasn’t confident if it would fulfill his request.
Instead, Tolga attempted to converse with the sovereign.
“…Olgoi-Khorkhoi, do you absorb the power of the prey you consume?”
The blood of a nomadic warrior that flows naturally is bold and brave.
After a fair duel defeat, one acknowledges an overwhelmingly stronger opponent.
Tolga honestly praised and extolled the White Sovereign.
“…Great Olgoi-Khorkhoi. You are truly a powerful spiritual being.”
“Kyirrr…”
The White Sovereign just tilted its head meaningfully.
“Olgoi-Khorkhoi, you are the ominous incarnation reflecting the fear and legend of our Mongolian people originating from sacred Lake Baikal. Blessed with the spirit of our greatest ancestor, Genghis Khan, who once ruled the Eurasian continent, seek hegemony and conquest.”
Tolga offered unstinting praise and blessing.
“Kyirrrrrrr…”
The White Sovereign seemed to have lost interest in him.
Because he was prey that was no longer entertaining.
“Olgoi-Khorkhoi, I willingly offer my power…”
Tolga spread both arms toward the White Sovereign’s mouth above his head.
His consciousness was becoming dim and his eyes were flickering.
Being a superhuman who vastly surpassed his limits, he had endured this long.
If he were an ordinary person, it wouldn’t have been strange if he had died instantly.
The old man moved his lips with his last strength.
“Olgoi-Khorkhoi… take me to heaven…”
With that, the veteran old warrior’s strength was spent.
Kuuuuu-
In an instant, Tolga’s vision turned black and white.
A tunnel suddenly engulfing from all directions, fangs the size of pillars.
Chwaaaaa-!
Simultaneously, teeth closed in from all directions.
Just before being pulverized by the White Sovereign’s tremendous teeth.
The soul of the old man, who had already left his body due to heart failure, was experiencing ecstasy.
Jjak, jjak. Joreureu-
Clear bird sounds and flowing water sounds.
“Where is this…?”
A wide meadow with a rainbow in the deep blue sky and beautiful choir of men and women.
A very mild sunshine was leisurely shining down.
It was a vista he had never seen anywhere in his lifetime.
“Ah, paaaaaa-!”
“Honey!”
Sasasasasak-!
There were presences approaching from over there.
A girl wearing a flower crown, running through a flower field in a clean white one-piece dress with bare feet.
A mature woman with the same appearance was following the girl.
“Eok…!”
Tolga’s throat choked up.
“Airin… Elun…!”
Tears burst out involuntarily.
Beings lost on the first day of the great cataclysm.
Objects so desperately wanted to see even in dreams.
Faces so missed were coming.
“Daddyyy-!”
“Honey!”
The approaching girl and woman hugged Tolga.
Immediately kneeling on one knee, Tolga also hugged them tightly.
Embracing his family simultaneously, Tolga shed hot tears like a child.
“My dears… truly… I really missed you…! I missed you so much…! To the extent that I never forgot for a single day in 25 years…!”
“Dad saved many people in his lifetime and came to heaven, so it’s okay now!”
“Let’s never be apart again, shall we, honey?”
The father’s hot tears streamed down.
The daughter comforted her father with a natural face.
The wife reached out to wipe away the tears of her sobbing husband.
“Oh, and some people who wanted to see you came?”
Airin casually raised her hand pointing somewhere.
Tolga naturally turned his gaze in that direction.
Chwiiik-
The sound of grilling meat, the savory smell it emitted.
It was the smell of khorkhog, a traditional Mongolian steam dish.
“You all…”
In an instant, a lump in Tolga’s throat.
Beings so familiar like alter egos, impossible to forget.
The battlefield comrades who had been with him until just now teased him.
“Now you realize? Really late.”
“Ha, really! What’s everyone waiting for!”
Tolga’s eyes trembled.
“Nerme… Borhu…”
Tolga suddenly realized that his appearance had become youthful like a young man.
Their appearances were also exactly as they were when they first met in their early 20s and early 30s, as young men.
Their bodies were clean without any traces of the scars from the dimensional war.
“Yo, old man? See you again so soon?”
“Ah, come on! Come quickly and eat the meat! It’s getting cold!”
Young Nerme smiled with folded arms.
Young Borhu grumbled while busily steaming meat.
Young Tolga smiled broadly at them.
Heaven where everyone retains only their young, youthful, and pure appearance.
It was exactly as the known tradition said.
Tolga gently closed his eyes.
‘Thank you, Olgoi-Khorkhoi.’
Tolga did not forget to thank the Olgoi-Khorkhoi that had fulfilled his secret wish.
Opening his eyes, Tolga said to everyone.
“Then, shall we start the party?”
The souls of the great warriors thus reunited in heaven.
Everyone’s eternal happiness had now begun.
Meanwhile, in the mortal realm.
The White Sovereign was looking at the gifts that appeared in its vision.
[Hostile Predation has been activated.]
[S-class Hostility: Enhancement Mage has been acquired.]
[S-class Hostility: Manifestation Mage has been acquired.]
[S-class Hostility: Swordsman has been acquired.]
As with previous occasions, the messages disappeared as it withdrew its consciousness.
The White Sovereign, with its head tilted diagonally, was preoccupied with testing its newly acquired powers.
“Kyirililik…”
Kiring, kiring-
Centered on the White Sovereign positioned in the middle, deep blue mana mind swords were orbiting like planets.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
The White Sovereign’s five hearts beat.
The 5 S-class regulation hearts were already supplying an unrealistically large amount of massive mana.
It had already surpassed the greatest arch-mages throughout the otherworld and Earth.
The total mana of the mana container it could deploy was at an absurd level.
Perhaps the true specialty of worms is magic.
The White Sovereign roared lowly.
“Kyireuk…!”
Kiriring, kiriring-
The number of swords keeps increasing.
Dozens of swords, hundreds of swords, 1,000 swords.
A vast flow of mana is generated, and the number of mind swords keeps growing.
“Kyiiiiik-!”
The White Sovereign roared loudly and fully activated its 5 mana holes.
Kiriiiring-!
With a sharp air-splitting sound, swords of deep blue mana are deployed.
The number that rose to fill around the White Sovereign was an astounding 10,000.
It was a sword count equal to 10 times the amount that Tolga, known as Heaven Heart Sword, could create.
“Kyi, shahaaaak-!”
Kiriiiring─────!
With the White Sovereign’s roar, 10,000 mind swords scattered to the sky.
It was like fireworks celebrating the birth of a new absolute being.
The 10,000 mind swords immediately stabbed down into the desert.
Pyushushushut─────!
“Ki, eeeeek-!”
“Kkeoheoung!?”
“Kyaak-!”
Creatures that were doing nothing from far away began to be pierced and die.
Suddenly, without warning, merciless slaughter commenced.
Roars, blood, and flesh of all kinds burst.
Warrrrrr-!
The entire Grabadra Sea of the Shahar Great Desert began to quake.
Beasts of the field, birds of the air, magical beings and magical beasts all evacuate from the scene.
Now that the White Sovereign is in a good mood from victory is the time to escape.
If it changes its mind, it would be difficult to preserve one’s life.
The deadly and beautiful Grabadra Sea of the Shahar Great Desert.
The battlefield where three once-legendary great heroes now sleep.
The absolute ruler, certified a thousand years ago, is only one.
It was the being widely known as the White Sovereign.
It was so before, and it will be so in the future.
An unchanging truth.