Ember Dragon

Chapter 843 Lava Giant Worm

"Ow—"

The giant lava worm let out a miserable cry, and countless cracks appeared on the rock covering its body, from which flowed blood resembling magma.

With just a few volleys, countless pebbles tumbled off its massive body, making a crisp sound as they were crushed into dust, leaving traces wherever they went.

Its defenses have been breached!

Seeing that the situation was not good, the lava giant worm developed pores on its body, spewing out thick smoke that enveloped its entire body.

This is a common tactic used by monsters; they use smoke to conceal their form, attempting to deliver a fatal blow to their prey in the haze and kill them.

In the past, prey trapped in the smoke would panic and stumble around, only to be swallowed whole by the giant lava worms that emerged from the thick smoke.

However, the tactical goggles of the dragon scale cultivators could clearly detect heat sources and see through the disguise of the lava giant worm. They dodged and hid back and forth, raising their hands to fire. The bullets that came flying at them did not decrease, but instead became more dense, like a storm.

The Iron Frenzy roared, "Keep firing! Don't give it a chance to breathe!"

Gunshots rang out, and a storm of metal poured out, leaving countless large and small blood holes on the lava giant worm's body.

"boom--"

The giant lava worm opened its mouth, which was covered with rings of sharp teeth, and drilled through the ground like a drill, burrowing into the scorching rock layer, causing the ground to tremble and shake.

"He went underground!"

"Watch your step, be careful not to be ambushed!"

Steel Frenzy stood still, shouting with all his might, but just then, he saw a row of earth and rocks suddenly bulge out in front of him, seemingly rushing towards him.

A bad premonition came to mind.

"It can't be me again, can it?"

Feeling the earth shaking more and more violently, Steel Tide gritted his teeth, gripped the chainsaw sword tightly with both hands, and held it in front of his chest, his arms taut with veins—he seemed to be waiting for something.

next moment.

"boom!"

The giant lava worm burst from the ground, stirring up towering rocks and soil, and its mouth, with its many serrated teeth, swallowed the dragon-scaled cultivator whole.

It's now!

Steel Frenzy used all its strength to recklessly thrust the chain sword downwards, instantly piercing through the relatively soft tongue of the lava giant worm and even penetrating deep into its throat.

"Ow—"

The giant lava worm let out a miserable cry, raised its head, and vomited out the steel horde along with more than a dozen undigested corpses.

The steel horde crashed down from mid-air, its bodies soaked in slime. It glanced curiously at the corpses beside it, then its expression turned strange: "Isn't this a chaotic world?"

"What a lousy guy," he muttered, quickly scrambling to his feet, grabbing his buzzing chainsaw sword, and rejoining the fight.

The battle has now reached a fever pitch. The giant lava worm bursts out of the ground and rampages around the dozen or so dragon-scaled cultivators, crushing them with its massive and hard body as if it wanted to turn these lowly "humans" into meat patties.

But facing this colossal creature, which resembled a moving mountain, the Dragon Scale cultivators showed no fear. Instead, they cooperated with each other, continuously using their unique weapons—power swords, chainsaw swords, and power axes—to inflict deep wounds on the Lava Giant Worm.

This group of dragon-scaled cultivators was like a school of hungry sharks. They gathered around the smell of blood and kept tearing at the body of the lava giant worm. Although they only bit off a piece of flesh each time, the accumulated damage could cause great harm to the worm.

This is the "bleeding tactic" they often use when dealing with large creatures.

Compared to the enormous, slow-moving, and clumsy lava worm, the dragon-scale cultivators were extremely agile, able to run and roll on the ground, easily dodging almost all of the monster's attacks.

"Roar!!"

With another earth-shattering roar, the giant lava worm lashed its thick tail like a whip, lashing out at the dragon-scaled cultivators.

Its tail tore through the air with a piercing screech, whipping up a scorching gust of wind before lashing out violently.

"Shh-"

The two dragon-scale cultivators were unable to dodge in time and were sent flying. The immense force sent them flying dozens of meters, embedding them deeply into the distant rock wall, creating two human-shaped craters.

But they still didn't die. After the transformation, the Dragon Scale cultivators had extremely high muscle strength and a strong buffering effect. Even if they were attacked to this extent, they would only suffer minor injuries, and their internal organs would be completely unharmed.

They slowly crawled out of the pit, spitting out two mouthfuls of bright red blood. Their flesh and blood made a hissing sound as they recovered at an extremely fast speed.

Hugging the ground, he dodged the lava worm's tail lash and rushed behind it in a few steps. He leaped up, raised his power spear high, aimed at the wound on her body, and plunged it down with all his might!
"For the Emperor—prepare to die!"

The tip of the powered spear gleamed with a cold light, releasing an extremely destructive energy field that instantly pierced through the thick skin of the lava giant worm, deeply penetrating its flesh and blood, churning its internal organs into a tangled mess, and then emerging from the other side.

This giant lava worm can reach a diameter of four meters, comparable to a small cave!

However, the power spear in the hands of the dragon-scale cultivator was nearly ten meters long, enough to pierce through almost all monsters within the material world!

In this way, a huge hole was pierced in the body of the lava giant worm, and scalding blood gushed out like a waterfall of lava, splashing onto the dragon-scale cultivator and making a hissing sound.

The scales along the vodka riverbank were burned with pits and showed many charred marks.

"Ow—"

The giant lava worm screamed miserably, twisting its massive body wildly and crushing countless rocks, trying to throw the dragon-scaled cultivator off.

But the man on the banks of the vodka River clung tightly to the power spear, clinging to the lava worm's body like a leech, refusing to let go no matter how much it struggled or shook. He even pulled out a bolt pistol and, aiming at close range, pulled the trigger again and again.

"boom!"

"Bang! Bang!"

Gunfire whistled as highly penetrating bullets embedded themselves in the lava worm's body, frantically destroying its structure and creating several gaping, bloody holes. "Well done!"

While the monster was entangled with the Vodka River, Steel Tide secretly slipped nearby and began attacking its weak points.

But the giant lava worm finally reacted, rolling on the ground, trying to crush the dragon-scaled cultivator to death with its weight.

But Vodka Riverbank keenly sensed this. He gripped the spear shaft tightly with both hands, kicked hard with his legs, and bulged the veins on his forehead, forcefully pulling the powered spear out of the lava giant worm's body, along with a lot of flesh and blood.

"Shh!"

Blood gushed forth like a pillar, and the lava worm let out another mournful howl. The vodka river raced across the rolling, enormous body, running from its midsection to near its forequarters.

His tactical goggles allowed him to clearly identify the monster's fatal weakness—its elemental core, which was its core as a fire elemental being.

"Death!"

He leaped into the air from the banks of the vodka river, his hands gripping the power spear, and aimed at the blazing elemental core, stabbing it down fiercely!
"Thorn-"

The lava giant worm's rocky armor and thick hide were mercilessly pierced, and the power spear cleanly pierced through its flesh. But just as it was about to destroy the elemental core, pillars of fire so dazzling that they were hard to look at shot out from its body.

Caught off guard, the creature on the banks of the vodka River was blasted dozens of meters away, crashing heavily to the ground and creating a large crater. Its scales were scorched and pitted, covered with charred marks.

This is the innate defense mechanism of the lava giant worm. Just like a squid squirting ink when it encounters danger, when it senses a fatal threat, this monster will unleash its immense elemental energy, sacrificing its life essence to repel and kill the invading enemy.

The miniature sun-like elemental core was exposed, radiating heat that distorted the air, while its outer flesh grew rapidly, filling the gaps.

Meanwhile, the giant lava worm was desperately burrowing into the ground in an attempt to escape, causing the ground to tremble and crack, as if an earthquake was about to occur.

—These humanoid creatures are terrifying! They're just like the giant legions from the fire elemental plane, no, even more terrifying than the fire giants!
It was almost killed by them!
Even the fire giants who dominate the fire elemental plane would not provoke such a large monster when hunting; they would simply drive it away from the hunting grounds.

But these humanoid beings from the material world really wanted to kill him!
"Don't let him escape!" Vodka Riverbank scrambled to his feet, picked up his spear, and pointed it at the lava worm in the distance, shouting, "The elemental core of this giant worm has been exposed. As long as we destroy that thing, we can kill it completely!"

Steel Frenzy's eyes lit up: "Stealing kills? Isn't that what I'm best at? This is perfect for me!"

He loaded his bolter with the most powerful armor-piercing rounds, adjusted his tactical goggles, raised the muzzle, and aimed at the brightest heat source shrouded in smoke.

Steel Frenzy grinned: "In that case, I'll gladly accept this head!"

However, at that moment, to the astonishment and surprise of the dragon scale cultivators, a sharp arrow flashing with cold light pierced through space and came whistling through, directly and mercilessly penetrating the elemental core.

"boom!"

The elemental core suddenly exploded, sending flames and thick smoke soaring into the sky.

The giant lava worm howled pitifully, twisting and shaking its body wildly, but its strength grew weaker and weaker until it finally crashed to the ground, causing the earth to crack and tremble.

At the same time, the Steel Frenzy clutched its head, letting out a wail no less mournful than that of the Lava Worm: "No, that's my head—"

He angrily turned his head and looked in the direction from which the arrow came, only to see a familiar figure.

On the distant cliff, Singo calmly lowered his longbow, a smug smile playing on his lips: "See that? A hundred paces, a single shot, a fatal blow."

The steamed bun next to him looked at the dragon-scale cultivators turning their heads in the distance and twitched his lips: "Xin Gou, aren't you going to get beaten up for stealing kills like this? Let me make this clear, if you fight with those muscle bros, I'll be the first to surrender."

Singo confidently stated, "Do they dare to fight me? I've been ranked the most cunning PvP player for three consecutive seasons. Anyone who wants to fight me will have to think twice."

In the previous PvP tournament, Xia Ye Qiuyu was ambushed and killed by this guy. She glanced at him and sneered, "What, you're quite proud of yourself?"

Steel Frenzy, his face dark, brandished his bolter and raised his chainsaw sword, pointing it at Singo on the cliff. He roared furiously, "Get down here! How dare you steal kills like that! Come on, let's have a real fight!"

"It all comes down to individual ability."

Singo crossed his arms, glanced down, and said disdainfully, "Besides, you think you can just come down like that? Then why don't you come up here? Guess if there's a trap here?"

"Then come down here if you dare!"

"Then come up here!"

"Come down!"

"Come up!"

The steamed bun said quietly, "No, how old are you? Are you all elementary school students?"

Singo looked down at the Steel Frenzy and said, "How naive. Is it really worth getting so worked up over such a small amount of experience? The rewards for this mission are the real prize. If you fight us to the death here, be careful that the Royalists don't steal the spoils!"

"Let me tell you, our best option now is to cooperate. I have some inside information. There are twenty-one of you, plus the four of us, making a total of twenty-five spots. Everyone can get the first prize for this mission. What do you say?"

Steel Frenzy gritted his teeth, paused for a moment, glanced at the Dragon Scale cultivators on his left and right, and finally sighed, coldly snorting, "Then I'll give you a chance to cling to a powerful figure! Let me make this clear beforehand: if you drag us down, our Dragon Scale cultivator legion will absolutely not lend a hand!"

"Sign a contract, otherwise I won't trust you."

"Trying to push your luck, huh?"

"How can you say that? This is the foundation of mutual trust. What if you act unreasonably, take the intelligence and run away using your power?"

"You fucking..." Steel Frenzy thought of Single's reputation as a master of strategy and said, "Fine, this won't happen again."

Singo then smiled, stepped forward, jumped up and patted Steel Tide on the shoulder, which was more than three meters away, and said, "That's more like it. Follow me, and be careful to hide your footsteps so that no one notices you. This time, the boss is a spellcaster."

The group walked quietly through the canyon for over ten miles before finally arriving at a cave. Deep inside the cave was a huge lava pool, and in the center of the lava pool sat a humanoid creature draped in a red robe.

The surroundings were filled with ash, thick smoke, and sparks. The air was distorted and deformed by the high temperature. A huge fire cloud appeared in the sky, churning like waves. The fire cloud was spreading rapidly, as if it would set the entire sky ablaze.

Everyone was astonished and speechless upon seeing this scene.

"This is."

　I'll add the regular chapter later; I had a social engagement today and got home late.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)