Chapter 246: Death Star

Chapter 246: Death Star

Using the skill of her demon form that allowed her to take a different decision a few seconds in the past she disappeared out of the attacks way and reappeared directly in front of the other worm, ready to punch.

You have defeated [Adult Sandworm - lv. 220]

In the meantime, both Pareth and Ihuarah managed to finish one of theirs leaving only three worms alive.

With the third tier of [Runeforged Overlord] active, Sofia could fly despite the manaless environment, but her mana reserves wouldnt hold for long. She flew directly to Ihuarah while the worm on him buried itself. Just as Sofia ran out of mana, being once again stuck at zero, she collided with the half-buried worm. Her hand pierced its skin and she turned the monsters skeleton to dust, killing it on the spot.

You have defeated [Adult Sandworm - lv. 203]

Her mana shot up again, absorbing 45% of whatever the worm had left, and she immediately reactivated the runes on her body, allowing her to fly in Pareths direction. Ihuarah and Alith had followed, the whole group collapsed onto the last two worms. Pareth dropped his weapon and grappled one before it could burrow, which Alith and Ihuarah focused on, while Sofia chased the last one, which had managed to hide underground.

Sofia could feel the monsters movements through the sand, she chased it from the surface.

Its about to emerge.

The worm was going to attack from under her, it seemed to be a common pattern of attack among the sandworms. Lets see it try to swallow me. Sofia in her demon form had access to her bone armor now, which made a lot of difference, her defense was extremely tough to get through. Right then her mana ran out again.

Contrary to her expectation, the worm didnt emerge, what came out of the deserts depth was firstly a concentrated beam of energy which hit her directly. The bone armor was melting under the heat of the attack, and Sofias skin developed a nice char in the instant before she could move out of the beam. But the truth was, she barely felt it.

Health : 312 668 / 358 560

Stamina : 325 060 / 358 560

Mana : 0 / 358 560

That would have killed human-me though. If I didnt have mana for [Heat death], or a rune up. It did manage to damage Pareth after all, so that wasnt even the biggest beam these worms can do. The initial instance of this chapter being available happened at N0v3l.Bin.

Sofia allowed herself to do nothing while the worm was coming back to the surface. The instant it showed its ugly head out of the sand, she rushed in. Using her claws, she sliced off every single one of the feelers. The worm thrashed in the air, but it couldnt throw her off despite its best efforts. Its sensory organs compromised, it fell on the side. Sofia cut up chunks of the worm, preventing it from burrowing until it died exsanguinated.

You have defeated [Adult Sandworm - lv. 267]

One more good skeleton to collect!

Sofia sat on the worms mangled corpse, only a few seconds before she turned back to a human did she remember the Domination map, which she hastily slathered in her Demon blood. Her demon form transformation ended and she could only wait in place for her body to recover slowly. She only threw one glance at the map but it depicted a region she had never heard of so she decided to worry about it later.

Its interesting that the ones to die first while I was underground were the ones I had touched with the rot, all the ones I killed in demon form were free of rot.

Honestly, they were kind of weak for their level, werent they?

Or maybe were a bit too powerful for our level.

[SUN]

Perhaps even more than the [Archangel] prompt she had once seen, the result of the [Identify] she instinctively threw at the intruder might have been the scariest thing Sofia had ever witnessed.

The meaning of these three characters was very clear.

The tall blonde elf which had appeared out of nowhere was a God in the flesh. Her mere presence was radiating so much mana that it was almost suffocating. She was wearing black and gold tight fitting clothes just like Her saintess did, and She looked almost normal, if not for Her pure white and softly glowing left arm.

She looked rather joyful as she looked around, observing the three travelers.

Do I look that scary? She said in a playful voice, giggling as She hid Her mouth with Her normal hand.

YES! But- I, uh Where is [Poker face] when I need it?! N- no. Thank you. For the blessing, and the ritual.

It is my pleasure. After all, I had been watching your group since long before.

What? When

Sun pointed at Alith, You were the one I had my eyes on. A soul fetched from another world by the Deep itself. I was curious enough to give you a blessing. Do you like it?

Aliths blessing The SSS rank Blessing of Phoenix lineage, giving absolute heat immunity that might even allow one to survive were they to be thrown into

The Sun.

And fetched by the Deep?!!!

Alith had been too stunned to speak, but being asked a direct question, she answered without thinking, I love it. I only wish it synergized with my class a bit more. After saying this, she froze with a tense face, realizing she might have committed a grave mistake.

But Sun seemed not to be bothered by the impetuous words, in fact, Her smile only deepened. I can fix that if you want. In fact I came to see you three because I felt a bit playful today, and since you came so close to me, I might as well have a bit of light-hearted fun, shouldnt I? You all owe me at least this much. I love giving out quests, so Ive prepared one for each of you! You have to take them!

Ihuarah was still prostrate on the floor, yet his voice could be heard, it was oozing dread, shaky, broken, Q- Quests

Yes, yes! Smile! Sun exclaimed, pointing Her index fingers at Her radiant smile. I even have one just for you, I hope you will give me a better show this time, Velanihuarahton of Sorrow!

Please, God, no Merciful Mother, save this wretched Apostle

The more Sofia observed Suns smile, the more she felt like Ihuarahs dread was contagious. So far, Sun had been nothing but helpful, and Sofia had a relatively good opinion of Her.

[Congratulations. You have received a quest!]

In the flurry of system windows that appeared at once, one line in particular made Sofia reconsider her opinion on the lively smiling Goddess.

[Penalty for failure : Death]