"Grisha!" said Nidhogg, dangling around happily, it seemed to have quickly recovered its Health Points while absorbing Veronica's Mana. Well, in those times anything that was long and lacked limbs was considered a worm… Your name will be Nidhogg then" said Veronica. "Although he is not a dragon, Nidhogg was described to be a giant worm that breathed poison. Veronica glanced at the worm's status with a bit more time and discovered that it was male. Veronica was aware that the monsters she tamed would quickly develop their intelligence, so this might have been related to this. It seemed to have gained a strange look on its twelve eyes as if it had gained a bit more of thoughtfulness. The dark shadows dissipated as the creature was fully tamed. Veronica activated the skill 'Tame' while touching the head of the creature, a dark glow appeared from within her soul, which covered the worm's body for a small amount of time… she didn't remember this happening before. "Alright, easy there big boy… or girl? Tame!" The giant worm seemed captivated by the meat and by Veronica.
Veronica smiled, giving it the piece of meat. If he wanted to survive and to eat that delicious piece of meat, it needed to become her lackey. The worm seemed rather intelligent despite its first impression of Veronica and understood what she meant. "You can have it if we become friends!" said Veronica, with a bright smile on her phantom form face. However, Veronica had it tightly wrapped on her own liquid metal body, and the worm quickly gave up. "Grisha! Grisha!" said the worm, trying to escape Veronica to eat the piece of meat. Veronica took the piece and showed it to the beast. It was still alive, as it was breathing, but it seemed to have its Health Points lowered dramatically.Īqua then brought a large chunk of the Earth Worm Boss, slimy and juicy, it looked appetizing for the starving and weakened Venomous Scale Earth Worm. Then, she gently used her fist and punched the worm in the head several times, until it became dizzy and fell to the ground. "I need to incapacitate it without killing it first… I don't think it would happily agree on becoming my tamed monster out of nowhere," said Veronica. "You look promising," thought Veronica, jumping towards the air, and expanding her body like liquid metal, entangling the worm with her own body. It opened its gaping jaw, revealing a spiral of countless sharp fangs. The Venomous Scales Earth Worm towered over four meters, glancing at Veronica from above. Veronica saw that it could have a more promising future than the Earth Worm, as it was a rarer breed. Using 'Appraisal' she found out that it was a Rank 3 Venomous Scales Earth Worm. "Well, perhaps this one was drive by the delicious smell of the boss corpse" added Veronica, rushing towards the giant worm using 'Charge' repeatedly. "Ah, this is strange, monster usually don't appear in the boss room…" said Acathea. His crimson iris pointed to a giant worm that surged from within a hole in the cave of the boss. "Maybe you could tame that one?" asked Shade, flying around her.
"Ah, this is good… I don't regret killing it, to be honest," she said. Of course, usually, people would not recover mana by simply eating, but because she had the 'Digestion' Skill, and she did not need any nutrient, anything she ate would be converted into the only fuel she needed, Mana. With each bite, Veronica felt like she recovered the Mana used in the fight. If one were to ignore the slimy green blood and ooze, it was a delicacy. "Now what do I do? Should I tame another thing? Or wait?" wondered Veronica, taking a slice off the Earth Worm and eating it up with her soul. "Gishishishi," said Charlotte, she didn't want the little Acathea to carry things, so she took the pieces of the worm and tightly packed them in her threads, sticking them into her large, car-sized abdomen, which was already carrying dozens of corpses. "Don't worry auntie, it will respawn in a few hours!" said Acathea, as she used her superhuman strength to carry a large piece of the Earth Worm as if it were nothing. Indeed, Veronica had come to this dungeon to tame a strong monster, but it seems that she was too indulged in the expectation of its flavor, instead of making a friend of it. "Ah, that was nothing, little Acathea! …Wait a second, wasn't I going to tame this thing? Oops" "Uwaah! Auntie, you're so strong!" said Acathea, praising Veronica and rising her ego by a bit.
#Nidhogg worm skin#
Most of its skin and the scales covering it was also burned due to the strong Light Rays conjured by Shade. Its body was cut into large pieces, filled with gaping and bloody holes due to Aqua and Veronica's projectile attacks.
#Nidhogg worm series#
In less than five minutes, the Rank 4 Earth Worm, the feared Boss of the 'Earth Worm's Hive' was defeated by a series of slashing, artillery, and magic attacks.