Chapter 119: Thrombber

Chapter 119: Thrombber

Sofia sent some mana in the ring and she could see inside without trouble. It actually contained nothing but a big wooden barrel.

Ugh this fucking stinks!

What in th-

Her gaze stopped on the three words stamped on the barrels top: Feral Death Row.

Feral? No way, is this

Holding her nose, Sofia opened the barrel. Inside was a mess of mangled, rotting and withered corpses.

I see. No wonder she didnt want Agran to know. She actually gave me dead vampires. Sofia had to go puke a bit further, but a certain book got a free meal.

Lets see this new page The new page in the book was after the three Templars' one. Forty thousand mana? But thats because theres four of them, so I guess these Vampires are the same prices as the Templars individually. The drawing depicted four humanoid skeletons with long-ish canines, in a crouching position. They had no weapon or armor to talk of.

I cant believe this is what they do to the Vampires who fall to the curse. A sad way to go. Well. Ill try them out in the next fight. Steep mana price to just waste on nothing.

Now to focus on whats important.

Since the bounty on my head is so high, I should expect to be actively hunted now. I need to get even stronger.

Well, I should be mostly safe as long as I avoid cities, right? How would anyone find me out here in the wild?

Still, Ill rush for the second trial, but first I want to try finding this old place.

The reason why Sofia wanted to go to the coast of Skyreach was that this had been the theater of a large battle between the Templars and a powerful Necromancer. Evidently the Churchs books hadnt always portrayed reality in a faithful way, but there was also some truth to them. After all, she had found one of the temples in the northern jungle.

If this particular story was to be trusted, a group of five Templars and fifty Paladins had gone on a crusade to get rid of a Necromancer who had been taking over the southern region of the kingdom. And while this story ended, like most others, in the glorious victory of the Church, it was also said that they never found the Necromancers lair. They searched the region for a while, finding nothing. Since the undead activity ceased after the mans death, they gave up looking after a while, and that was it for this tale of the Churchs achievements.

So there was a chance that somewhere in this region was the undiscovered base of operation of a high level necromancer, one that had taken the Church a whole platoon of 55 men to take care of.

Oh. Is that a Thrombber? This makes my skin crawl just looking at it!

In the smaller tunnel, which was too small for Pareth to enter standing up, the creature stood still, it was looking in the other direction. It was a big, wolf-sized, flesh-colored worm, hanging in the center of the tunnel. At first glance, it looked like the worm was hanging on a wobbly spider web. But the huge threads making it up were actually six pairs of long, segmented and flexible white legs. The twelve legs were spread in all directions, taking support against every side of the tunnel, maintaining the worm mid-air.

The worms body was pulsating, throbbing, and the ripples of these pulsations ran through the whole length of the malleable legs in rhythm.

I dont think it noticed us yet

Probably no need to go all out, but if its a hive, its important that we dont get swarmed Chain it when the graveyard goes off, and Ill go take care of it.

[Graveyard of the righteous]

[Spine of the Black Sun]

The monster detected Sofia the instant she entered the smaller tunnel, and Pareths chains appeared, taking a hold of its body. The legs were moving crazily and some grasped the chains, already breaking one. The graves sprouted out of the tunnels ground, along with the half skeletons, taking the opportunity to grab on four of the creatures legs.

The skeletons were melting in contact with the legs. Their reflective white appearance was due to some sort of corrosive coating. Im not getting close. Time to see what I learned from those whip lessons.

The spine whip lashed out five times, each producing a bright solar burst that charred the worms pulsating and fleshy body. The beast howled in clicketing shrieks as it burned. All that was left after the fifth hit was a smoking, black and shriveled worm surrounded by a bunch of noodle looking segmented legs that were slowly burning their way into the ground.

You have defeated [Male Thrombber - lv. 210]

[Spine of the black sun] reached level 106

[Graveyard of the righteous] reached level 105

No level up for a 210? Its getting harder to get experience Since the notification specifies that its a male, the females must be very different. Enough that it warrants a different classification.

Sofia walked closer to the carbonized worm, I couldnt see its front during the fight The worms head was frightening, it was ribbed with tough flesh tendrils that all converged around a single beady yellow eye. Sofia couldnt quite see what the creatures mouth was, but from the burned carcass, it looked like a beard of pointy teeth. Hundreds of them, all messily stuck to the underside of the worms head.

Theres a whole hive of these? The corrosive liquid on their legs is quite potent.

Maybe this kingdom was always meant to be burned down to the ground after all. Lets do some early spring cleaning.Ñ00v€l--ß1n hosted the premiere release of this chapter.