Even though the lower portion of the mountain was supposed to only have weak monsters, as the monsters of this mountain were acting weird, Rein's party started the search from the base. Very soon it turned out to be a good decision as even before reaching the midway through the mountain, they encountered a UR grade monster.
This monster was a giant wolf and it was in the process of going down the mountain. Ruby wanted to attack it as soon as she saw the monster but Rein stopped her and started to investigate the monster. Soon he was able to see a small worm in this monster's brain too.
This worm was different from the worm that Rein had found in the Ashen Barrens. The worm from there had a long and thin shape while this worm had a round shape. Rein wanted to capture and investigate this worm too as there was a very high chance that this worm was also related to that monster of the core.
But without Kasumi and Patrik's support, only for Rein and Sophia, extracting the worm without killing it was a little hard. But still they needed to try. Rein decided to try doing Kasumi's part with his ability and Sophia decided to be extremely fast, so that there was no need for any healing.
But the biggest problem here was the fact this monster was not weak like the intelligent monster of the Ashen Barrens, so incapacitating it was not easy.
Rein told Ruby briefly about their plan as they needed her help holding the monster while both Rein and Sophia would be busy extracting the worm. Ruby had no idea why there was a need to do this but she readily agreed to help them out.
All three of them immediately attacked the monsters with their full strength. As this was a surprise attack, the monster was not ready for this and was defeated very quickly. Immediately afterwards, Ruby held the monsters in a lock hold so that it was not able to move at all. Immediately after that, Rein and Shopia started to extract the worm.
The whole process went smoothly. So much so that both Rein and Sophia were surprised by this. But as it was a good thing, they did not worry too much about it and immediately trapped the extracted worm in a special gadget.
Rein wanted to investigate it immediately with his eye of truth but Sophia stopped and told him to rest for some time. But Rein continued insisting that it would be better to find out everything about this worm as soon as possible as there was a high chance that this worm might also self destruct itself.
Sophia accepted her loss after arguing a little bit more and took out the gadget. Fortunately the worm was still intact inside the ice that Rein had created with all his might. He immediately started to investigate it and stopped after a few minutes.
In these few minutes, he had managed to find out about all the major characteristics of this worm. To find anything deeper, she needed to continue investigating it for a longer period of time, which was not possible in his current state. So after finding out the basic information about this worm, he stopped.
Rein then looked at the curious ladies and started to tell them about what he managed to find out. This worm had almost no intelligence and that was the reason why they had a significantly easier time catching it. As for what it did to the wolf monsters, it just gave it a yearning for the human flesh. Monsters were ferocious but they did not really have any preference for the human flesh.
A monster would find the same amount of satisfaction after eating an animal, a human or a monster's meat. So there was no need for them to especially target humans for food.
Big this worm had given this wolf monster a suggestion that human flesh was very satisfying and that was the reason why it was coming down the mountain. Rein had not seen it but he was sure that the other three monsters who had come down the mountain a couple of days ago and attacked this base were also here for the same reason.
Rein had also managed to find the same trace of the great monster of the core so there was no doubt that all of these worms were related. Now Rein was thinking about if all the danger zones of this world had these type worms in the monster's brains.
Now the situation was getting interesting.