Beginning Of Multiverse Saga-Chapter 328: Scaled Earthworm

Sharky was speechless. If the children alone were already so tough to deal with, just how terrifying was the real deal? His first thought was, Is this like the difference between an alien queen and normal aliens?

Whatever, if he was able to kill it, it would be good, if not, he would just run away.

Both of them decided to shift that place.

"One sec!" Sharky exclaimed before running over to the two bug corpses. They were so strange, their bodies might have some kind of use as materials.

Alina knew what he was thinking. She frowned and remarked, "These two bugs are too large. We can only bring some scales and see if we can gather some blood..." She looked for some bottles as she spoke.

Sharky said with a smile, "There’s no need to go through that trouble. I want everything." He used the Brilliant Glass Bead to suck up the two bug corpses afterward. The Brilliant Glass Bead really was an amazing thing; the interior kept its contents in stasis, so he didn’t have to worry about rotting and other such problems.

Alina exclaimed in shock, "A storage treasure? How is yours that large?"

It was completely beyond her understanding. Normally speaking, spatial artifacts were extremely precious, and their space was limited too. Having one or two cubic meters of space would already be incredible. Just how much space would one need to store the two strange bugs that were at least twenty meters long?

Sharky almost choked. He could only say with a strange expression, "Your man has a lot of secrets. You’ll find out as you get to know him better in the future."

Alina’s face turned red when Sharky referred to himself as her man. She shot back, "You’re clearly just a little boy, and yet you’re trying to show off your maturity in front of me! Twenty years ago, you were still in swaddling clothes, drinking milk."

"Don’t talk about the age with me, if I should really think about it, then even your mother will not be born, when I am playing with girls," Sharky unconsciously replied. But soon, he realized his mistake.

"What are you saying?" Alina was really confused hearing him say that, she thought he was bragging, and bragging so much.

Instead of replying to her, Sharky grabbed her and pushed her down. He reached out his hand and covered her mouth, even covering the luminescent pearl with his hands.

Alina jumped in fright. Don’t tell me he wants to do it now...

But they had just experienced a great battle of life and death. The terrifying mother worm might rush over at any time, too. Wouldn’t doing it on the spot be a bit too rushed...

But I’ve heard that after some people experience life and death situations, they end up in a state of extreme stimulation. They need a woman to vent their...

Her face turned red. What in the world am I thinking? She knew that Sharky definitely wasn’t that kind of person. There had to be a reason for his actions.

Sure enough, she immediately sensed something that made her blood run cold. She heard an extremely strange noise, and thick black fog covered the entire cave. That black fog was stronger than any of the fog they had encountered along the way.

Then, the ground suddenly bulged. After that, a strange bug that was several times thicker than the ones they had seen previously emerged. Its long mandibles almost made it seem like a massive dragon that could cleave anything in half. Its scales weren’t multicolored, but rather pitch-black like ink. Black fog surrounded its entire body, and it emanated a terrifying power.

Alina’s eyes widened. The pressure she felt from it was even greater than Charlotte’s. It wasn’t that the creature was far stronger than Charlotte, but rather that its massive size and monstrous appearance felt overwhelming.

A small part of the bug’s body emerged from the ground. It moved around, then stopped near that pool of green blood. Its mouth opened wide and its rows of saw-teeth moved around, flickering with a vicious glint. Even though it didn’t have a head or a face, the two could sense its absolute fury permeating the very atmosphere.

Sharky looking at the bug, he understood that the thing has intelligence, and not a low intelligence, but rather high intelligence.

He also found its name, Scaled Earthworm.

The Scaled Earthworm looked around but didn’t find its offspring’s corpses. It had a confused ’expression’, and began to look through the cave.

Sharky and Alina didn’t even dare to breathe too hard. Sharky used Mirror Mirage to completely hide his aura. Meanwhile, as a clan leader, Alina had her own methods. She took out several talismans and stuck them onto her body, and her aura completely vanished.

The Scaled Earthworm moved around the cave. Whenever its massive body slid across the ground, it was accompanied by scalp-numbingly loud grinding. Its body only continued to emerge from the ground, almost as if it were endlessly long.

Should I use this chance to strike it with the Poisonous Prick? Sharky thought briefly, but he quickly dismissed the idea. The monster gave off pressure even greater than a grandmaster’s. He probably wouldn’t even be able to approach its body.

The Scaled Earthworm didn’t notice anything, so it slowly left through a tunnel. Its massive body seemed to fill the entire mine tunnel. Sharky and Alina both sighed in relief when they saw that they had escaped a calamity.

Suddenly, however, Alina’s Medusa blood began to surge. As it was a top-ranked beast lineage in its own right, and of one of the most intelligent fiend races at that, the pride of her bloodline reacted to the pressure of the Scaled Earthworm.

Alina cried out ’not good’ inwardly and quickly tried to quell her surging blood. But it was already too late. The Scaled Earthworm immediately returned, raising its head and looking around.

Then, Sharky felt an incredibly cold sensation, as if he had touched something ice-cold and sticky. He realized that the Scaled Earthworm was using its own method of searching the surroundings, the same way a grandmaster would scan their surroundings with their soul.

"Run!" he cried. He knew that their current state could only fool a grandmaster’s ordinary senses. If they knew there was someone there, finding that person wouldn’t be difficult at all. That was true for humans, so how could they escape something with senses as sharp as the Scaled Earthworm’s?!

He didn’t hesitate for even a moment, quickly grabbing Alina and charging in the opposite direction. However, he could hear a loud rumbling behind him. The Scaled Earthworm was already chasing after them!

Sharky continuously uses Immortal Phoenix Technique to quickly move around. Alina used her paintbrush to draw a ring of light around the two of them. They rushed through the cave more quickly than ever before

But unfortunately, no matter how fast they ran, they couldn’t throw off the Scaled Earthworm. Instead, it drew closer and closer. Judging from the way the walls behind them were quickly warping, it was obvious that the worm was moving through the earth quickly.

The two of them were already going as fast as they could, but the creature was far too nimble inside the earth. Furthermore, it could cut straight through the earth instead of taking winding paths, unlike the two of them. It would catch up in under three breaths of time.

"Sharky, I’m dragging you down. You should go first." A decisive look flashed through Alina’s eyes.

She intended to stay behind to hold it off, to try to buy Sharky a chance at life. Otherwise, both of them would die together. After all, no matter how she thought about it, there was no way the two of them would be a match for the terrifying worm.

Her eyes flickered with a red light as she decided to ignite all of her Medusa blood without holding back at all. Even though it wouldn’t be enough to kill the strange bug, it should be able to hold the monster back temporarily.

She was about to push Sharky away, but he instead grabbed her hand firmly. He said, shaking his head, "Stop being foolish."

Alina panicked. That meant they would both die! However, she suddenly noticed Sharky moved faster than before.

Immediately afterward, they suddenly accelerated, becoming many times faster than before. The mine tunnels were no longer obstacles to overcome, but rather became their shelter. The change made no sense whatsoever. If they had been running through the mines before, now they were drifting.

They lost the Scaled Earthworm in a mere few seconds. Sharky took Alina and went into hiding again.

A while later, they heard rustling nearby. The earth nearby began to change rapidly as the Scaled Earthworm passed by. But it didn’t stop, instead continuing into the distance.

When she sensed that the terrifying aura had gradually disappeared, only then did Alina sigh in relief. She couldn’t help but ask Sharky, "Sharky, what kind of skill was that just now? You just became so much faster... Huh? Sharky, what’s wrong?"

Sharky was drenched in sweat, his entire body incredibly pale. Even his aura was somewhat unsteady. He forced a smile as he said, "It’s nothing, just a slight side effect."

He had almost used the Immortal Phoenix Technique at full strength, that is why he was able to move so much faster. But it also makes him exhausted.

Looking at the Sharky situation, tears fell from her eyes, for saving her. He looked like he was burning his own lifespan.

"Why are you crying," Sharky said, looking at tears in her eyes, he wiped them.

"Never cry, your tears are worth more than a diamond for me," Sharky said, and put his lips on her.

Alina’s lips also cooperated with him. And let him suck it, as he wants.

Sharky suddenly felt his actions just then really were a bit trashy.

Because of how they were pressing up against each other, he subconsciously leaned back against the wall behind him. Suddenly, it collapsed.

Sharky was horrified. His first thought was that a Scaled Earthworm had suddenly attacked from behind him. However, he quickly realized that it was only because there was a secret passage of some sort behind the wall. The two tumbled down into the opening.

The Scaled Earthworm that had been heading off into the distance suddenly stopped. It turned around to look toward where the two had been. It was about to rush back when it sensed an intense ripple of energy surging in the distance. It was as if two powerful existences were carrying out a final clash of life and death.

Compared to those two ants, such powerful energy was far more attractive to the worm. As such, it moved quickly, its body disappearing into the earth. It hurried toward the direction from which the energy had erupted.

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Meanwhile, Sharky held Alina tightly as they made their way through the narrow tunnel.

"Are you alright?" Sharky asked while vigilantly examining his new surroundings.

Unlike the artificial mine tunnels, they seemed to be in naturally formed caves. In theory, this place should have been even darker due to its depth; and yet there was some faint red light diffused throughout the area, as if there were torches around them.

"How could anything have happened to me with how well you protected me?" Alina replied, patting off the dirt from his body with care.