I Have Become a Death Worm

“Kya, aaaak-!”
“Kishaaaak-!”
“Shashashak-!”
Resounding roars under the deep blue sky over the golden desert.
The sand in the distant all-around horizon heaves.
Numerous brown dorsal fins cut across the surface.
Their number appeared to be at least 10,000 at minimum.
Kwang! Shwaaa-
“Gu, uuuung…!”
An enormous body is seen rising, roaring and cutting through the sand in the middle of the desert sharks.
Dark brown back with beige underbelly, ruby-red eyes.
It was a sand whale, the strongest species of sand fish.
Considering the habits of desert sharks, such a large number gathering is unrealistic.
They normally just cross the desert in groups of slightly over a hundred, searching for prey.
…The cause of this phenomenon is, of course, that desert whale.
Those with control over all sand fish.
“Guuuung-!”
“Kr, shaaaak-!”
As if resonating with the sand whale’s cry, all desert sharks howled.
Wiiiiing-
Suddenly, a large formless wave spread out in all directions from the sand whale’s body.
Hung! Kudddddd-!
Suddenly the desert begins to shake violently.
The eyes of the rampaging desert sharks glow bright red.
Shimmers rose from their bodies like desert heat haze.
Red trails extend from their eyes, and their bodies bubble with rising haze.
Enhancement of all subordinate sand fish has been achieved.
Now they are much stronger and have forgotten fear.
The sand whale howled lowly as if asking me what I thought of it.
“Wuuuung…”
I don’t know since when, but it had been watching me.
It clearly wants my death.
That’s why it has rallied the desert sharks.
This is no longer a simple territory dispute between monsters.
This is… I felt it was closer to war.
And in war, even the strong die if they’re careless.
I completely abandoned any playfulness.
I recognized the situation with utmost seriousness.
When necessary, one must be sincere.
“Kyurut…!”
I slowly raised my body from the ground.
Quietly inhaling air, I gathered my full volume.
I emitted the roar of the legendary White Lord, the White Death Worm.
“Kyu, hwaaaaak─────!”
I let out a roar that would make the 170dB noise of a rocket launch seem like nothing.
The violence of an explosive sound that would overwhelm even if all the currently gathered creatures roared at once.
I unleashed the monster’s anger that I had been suppressing.
Huuuung-!
An enormous yellow dust storm swirled around me in all directions.
The desert sharks that had been rampaging indiscriminately froze for a moment.
I laid my body forward as if collapsing.
Kussssss-!
I charged fiercely like a train crossing the desert.
I charged, undulating my body this way and that like a snake.
The desert sharks also all charged from all directions.
The distant distance between us closed instantly.
Kwasuk! Kwassssss-!
Desert sharks clung all over me from head to tail, biting.
It’s like being a fully plated armor knight breaking through a zombie wave.
They eagerly chew between my body’s outer skin and natural stone armor.
Unable to inflict any damage, they were merely annoying.
I concentrated power in my electric pouch.
“Kyu, hwaak-!”
Patsutsutsuts-!
In an instant, deep blue electric fields rained down all around me.
I create powerful bioelectricity that makes electric eels seem like nothing.
Electrocuted creatures around me floated up onto the sandy field.
Desert sharks that had clung like leeches fell off in piles.
Kussssss-!
I charged fiercely toward my goal, the sand whale.
Nothing remained to block me.
Suddenly the sand around me rippled.
“Kr, rurrrr-!”
“Krshaaaok-!”
“Shaaaak-!”
Passssss-!
Three megalodons shot up from the sand to my left, front, and right.
Their experiences with one-eyed, knife-scarred, and facially collapsed appearances are impressive.
They immediately took positions in three directions and charged.
Kwak! Kwadeuk! Kwaddeuk!
They bit my head, sides, and tail respectively.
They immediately added damage with a violent rotating spin.
As expected from 20-meter class creatures, their weight is powerful.
It’s roughly like the weight class between adults and elementary school children.
I lightly twisted my body.
Huuuung-!
I rotated my body as much as possible, as if it had become a drill.
I became a rotating drill advancing while raising yellow winds.
They all fell off at once.
Tung! Teotung! Tuuung-!
The desert megalodons all swung their tails to strike me heavily.
My head, sides, and tail resonated as if vibrating.
Instead of biting, they chose attacks with more distance.
Suddenly they opened their mouths.
Various mana powers gathered individually.
Pishut! Jjeojeojeok-! Huuuung-!
A sharply fired water cannon, intricately splitting electric currents, and viscous green poison mist struck me.
None of them damaged my outer skin.
I learned a lesson from them.
I opened my mouth wide.
“Kyuhwak-!”
Hwaleuk! Hwaleuk! Hwaleuleuk-!
I repaid them with what I gained from the first desert megalodon I consumed.
Searing bright red fireballs were fired from my mouth.
The defenseless one-eyed megalodon was directly hit by the fire spheres.
“Kyi, shaak-! Kiiik-!”
The one-eyed megalodon was immediately engulfed in flames and turned charcoal black.
I jumped high onto the carbonized creature.
Kwasss-!
Having penetrated its head, I went in chewing from the head.
I penetrated from head through chest and belly to the tail and emerged.
The perished one-eyed megalodon collapsed, turning over its belly.
[Physical Predation has been activated.]
[B-class Physical Trait: Desert Megalodon (Water Attribute) has been acquired.]
I fired the newly acquired skill at the knife-scarred megalodon.
Pishuuuut-!
A hole was immediately punctured in the forehead of the knife-scarred megalodon by the sharp water stream fired from my mouth.
As it went limp, I again launched my body like a leech.
I chewed from the skull with murderous bite force.
Chwachwachwachwachwak-!
I passed through its body as if digging a tunnel.
Another system message appeared to me.
[Physical Predation has been activated.]
[B-class Physical Trait: Desert Megalodon (Electric Attribute) has been acquired.]
I bounced my body diagonally at the remaining facially collapsed megalodon.
Rising in the air, I opened my mouth wide aiming for its head.
Jjeok! Chwachwachwaak-!
Having bitten its skull, I rotated my body.
In an instant, its head split and its brain was consumed.
I swung my body wide to strike the remaining body of the creature.
Peok! Waddeu-!
Its side burst like gimbap, and its internal organs shot up.
The red pulsating form is what I’m looking for.
I launched my body at it and chewed it with my mouth.
Jjeok!
[Physical Predation has been activated.]
[B-class Physical Trait: Desert Megalodon (Poison Attribute) has been acquired.]
Recycling the battle methods learned from the desert megalodons.
Having dispatched the mid-bosses in an instant, I charged forward.
Peoseok! Kwadddduk-!
Of course, I thoroughly chewed up all the desert sharks in my path.
The mana stones in their hearts are automatically crushed, leading to enhancement.
However, identical messages no longer appeared unless I was conscious of them.
I opened my mouth towards the distant sand whale.
“Kyuhwak-!”
Hwaleuk! Hwaleuk! Hwaleueuik-!
Fireballs flew from my mouth, coloring the air red as they burned.
They are precisely directed at the creature less than 200 meters away.
“Wu, uuuuung…”
Kugugugugung-
A sand whale with a volume similar to a real blue whale.
Suddenly, a huge mana flow was generated around it.
Kwadddddd-!
Suddenly, desert sharks around it rose and clung thickly to its front.
They formed what looked exactly like a giant circular shield.
The fireballs I shot flew toward them.
Kwang! Hwaleuk-! Kwassssss-!
The desert sharks that were directly hit burst and carbonized into black charcoal lumps.
It utilized telekinesis to use its minions as friend shields, meat shields.
The sand whale again made a low crying sound.
“Guuuuung…”
Kushushushuk-!
Suddenly, the sands around me shot up like water pillars.
They become as hard as glass, hardening and surrounding me.
I was immediately surrounded by sand pillars and lifted up.
Kwagak!
I was instantly trapped in a sand prison.
I became a shape with only my head and tail sticking out front and back.
My movement was completely restricted by its telekinesis.
Its ruby-red eyes glowed.
Kwagagagaga-
The remaining desert sharks all charged, digging up the sand.
Following its attack order, they are trying to bite me in my current state.
Switching between defense and attack with telekinesis, and binding movement.
It can be seen as a truly ingenious and excellent strategy.
…However, I also had an exquisite means.
I simply exerted the mana power I had been saving.
Chwak, chwaak, chwaaa-
Dozens of large and small water spheres appeared around the defenseless creature.
Deep blue and clear water droplets formed from moisture in the air.
I pulled all the triggers of the prepared guns at once.
Pishuuuut─────!
In an instant, blue flashes penetrated the sand whale’s body from all directions.
Its body flinched and red blood streams shot up.
“……”
The creature, with wind holes throughout its body, fell into a heavy silence.
Kuuuung-!
It collapsed onto the desert, causing an enormous amount of bleeding.
The control tower that caused this situation was neutralized.
“Kyi, rilik…?”
“Kyishaaok…!”
“Kyaaaak…!?”
The desert sharks, freed from the subjugation order, were all bewildered.
The telekinesis that had been confining me was also released.
Passssss-
I slid forward with my body, gliding across the desert.
“Sha, aaaak-!?”
The desert sharks, coming to their senses at my charge, all fled at once.
The sand whale, only about 20 meters smaller than my current volume.
I jumped at its skull with my mouth wide open.
Chwachwachwachwachwak-!
Like a leech, I rapidly chewed through it, penetrating from its head to its tail in one go.
[Physical Predation has been activated.]
[A-class Physical Trait: Sand Whale has been acquired.]
Thus, the final gift of telekinesis arose.
“Kyuruuk…”
With the end of the battle, I sighed and looked around.
Having already come to their senses, the desert sharks were fleeing with their tails between their legs.
In the White Death Worm’s memory, those creatures are imprinted as parasites.
Just parasites that cling to the strong.
The hunt of a lord that only emerges at intervals of almost a week.
These creatures will definitely appear from somewhere.
Then they fiercely take scraps.
When swallowing enormous prey weighing several tons and burying themselves in the sand to rest.
Even knowing it’s ineffective, these creatures occasionally attacked the White Death Worm.
They’re just creatures swollen with bellies captured by belligerence.
Especially desert sharks reproduce very quickly with high spawning rates.
The fry grow instantly in the desert environment rich in mana.
I don’t want to leave these sucker sharks that get in my way and threaten me unchecked.
I decided to completely drive out all the desert sharks in the vicinity.
There’s no particular reason why.
I just don’t like sharks.
I don’t think they’ll be a threat, but they’re annoying when they form groups.
In the end, many small things add up to make a mountain.
Let’s clean up trash in time.
Kurrrrrung-
I began to move, sliding like a snake.
There was still unfinished business.
Time to continue.
So I chased and completely drove out all the shark bastards in the vicinity.
Enjoying the exciting bumper car play, a day passed quickly.
A magnificent sunset is setting in the golden desert to the west.
As the sun gradually sets, it’s becoming night.
The deep blue sky has turned a reddish-purple color.
The first night of the otherworld desert I’m experiencing.
I involuntarily let out a sigh.
“Kyuuuuu…!”
I should have known then.
That the sight I was about to witness would be a truly shocking sight for a lifetime.
As it became completely night…
The sky became a dark blue jewel, and the ground became a purple silk.
In a world made of jewels and silk, I received a sudden invitation.
In the night sky, a beautiful Milky Way flowed, glowing and rippling like luminous beads.
I can definitively say it’s a vista never seen in South Korea, a pollution hell.
An exclamation flowed from my open mouth.
“Kyurololo…”
I looked up at the night sky of the Shahar Great Desert as if bewitched.
A feeling of wanting to tilt my head up forever, vacantly.
As if my existence would be erased and become the night sky.
Beautiful.
Truly, desperately beautiful.
My soul, blood, and heart seemed to stop.
I swear, I’ve never seen a more beautiful scene in my life.
It was noble, elegant, and majestic to the point where I would shed tears profusely if I had eyes left.
The eyes that saw this cannot be bought with all the gold in the world.
I felt I could die without regret or lingering attachment now.
Was the desert night sky this beautiful?
“Kyurururut…”
Breath began to emerge from my tunnel-like enormous mouth.
Breath also comes from the mouths of creatures roaming around.
The temperature starts to seriously drop below zero.
The actual desert temperature can drop to as low as -10 degrees.
A cold hell of a different dimension from the scorching hell of the day unfolds.
If you don’t know this ecology, you will certainly not survive the first night and die away from home.
Just living in this diverse desert environment every day is sufficiently challenging.
Kyishaaak.
Kuoo.
Ppot.
Various colored eye lights began to ripple around me.
Various sounds are caught by the hearing throughout my body.
All kinds of appearances were gradually revealed.
Completely different things from the daytime begin to wander.
Sand monsters roaming and dripping sand, glass fairies clumped with naturally formed glass fragments in the desert wandering around and grinding whatever they encounter, golden troops made of golden bottles that sand has transformed into, presumed to be related to some large-scale experiment of an alchemist…
There were many dangerous solitary individuals.
Fire spirits Jin sitting cross-legged in a burning whirlwind spinning like a top and viciously laughing, huge sand vortexes in which clusters of sand spirits dwell and move freely, Maze Eaters disguised as oases that open their mouths to consume the entire ground…
Giants over dozens of meters tall appear here and there on the night horizon.
Mummy giants with glowing red eyes and bodies wrapped in bandages.
A race that settled in the desert and dedicated their souls to immortality.
The giants all raised their green crystal staffs high.
[Advance…!]
[March.]
[Forward…]
Kuuuuu-
The telepathic thoughts of the giants reached all creatures around.
From their staffs, fluorescent deep green death magic spread widely across the area.
Passssuk-
“Kyarrrrr…!”
“Geoeoeoe…!”
“Uuu…!
Zombies, skeletons, and mummies shot up from the frozen night desert soil.
All kinds of corpses walking staggeringly gather around the giants.
The great desert constantly swallows the lives of many outsiders.
Beings couldn’t escape the desert even after death.
Instead, they became part of the death army of the desert giant race.
In the sky around the mummy giants, wraiths swim forming colorful streams.
Bubble-like eyeballs and long-slitted mouth corners are extremely vicious and chilling.
Spirits that always covet the warmth of the living and try to steal their bodies.
Mixed among the wandering undead were all kinds of different races including desert beastmen, desert elves, desert dwarves, desert orcs, and desert goblins.
All creatures around instinctively avoided approaching the deep death of heaven and earth.
Instead, they turned their teeth and claws toward those among themselves that looked small and weak.
It is the thorough implementation of the survival of the fittest.
It’s truly a desert that doesn’t sleep at night.
Nocturnal creatures with reversed day and night cycles.
I let out an exclamation.
“Kyuruu…”
An ecosystem different from the daytime begins to unfold.
It was truly to the extent where I couldn’t tell time just by watching.
Living beings were fiercely living regardless of their given form and size.
It somehow reminded me of South Korea’s unlimited competition society from my previous life.
I couldn’t help but snicker thinking they’re ultimately all the same.
Koreans are better in that they don’t feel survival threats every day?
Most desert monsters still avoided approaching me.
It seems to have gotten worse since I defeated one Chinese S-class hunter and three Mongolian S-class hunters.
I was the crazy one in this area from the beginning, but now it seems I’ve been reborn as an absolute transcendent being.
Kurrrrrung-
I very lightly laid my body on the silk-like soft sand blanket.
So as not to startle the small desert friends living around me.
Then I curled my body into a circle.
Gugugugung-
I slightly bit my tail, becoming like the ouroboros snake.
In this state, I become absolutely invincible from the outside, like the defensive technique of an armadillo or ankylosaurus.
Since the White Death Worm has extreme defense that can withstand even a missile shower on its skin, there’s actually no answer.
There’s no particular worry about being targeted during sleep.
That’s how I prepared for full sleep mode.
Many thoughts arise extremely.
But sometimes there are times when no answer comes no matter how much you think.
At such times, sleep is a tonic to cool the head.
…For now, let’s get some good sleep.
Let’s think when we wake up tomorrow morning.
So, I tried to sleep.
“…”
…I’m trying to sleep but I just can’t fall asleep.
Currently, it wasn’t the atmosphere for it.
How could sleep come when I feel so unsettled.
…I miss my dad and mom, I miss my friends, and the faces of relatives come to mind.
Even my annoying boss and colleagues, school friends, and military comrades.
Cola, hamburgers, pizza, ramen, and pork hocks suddenly come to mind and make me hungry.
Oh, come to think of it, I ordered chicken delivery for an hour later…
I wonder what happened to me in my previous life.
Kiek, kiek.
Kyushushushut.
Kkureureu.
Using the sounds made by all the night creatures as a cozy lullaby.
I continued to try to sleep.
Please sleep, come to me.
“…Kyururu, kyuu.”
Eventually, I fell into dreamland while snoring.
It seemed like I could never sleep, but I fell asleep quickly.
I completely passed out to the point where I wouldn’t know if someone snatched me away.
The dream on the first night of becoming a Death Worm was truly bizarre.
There were giant chickens spread out like in the land of giants.
I played, burrowing into them like a worm.