Beginning Of Multiverse Saga-Chapter 338: Fighting Again Scaled Earthworm

Charlotte and Alina had already rushed over when they heard the noise. They asked, "How is the lesson going?"

Diana felt a bit uncomfortable and nervous for some reason. Only after some time did she say, "It’s going very well!"

A hint of gentleness appeared in Charlotte’s cold and clear eyes. She remarked, "His talent really is quite good."

Suddenly, a rumble shook the cave around them. They could hear the worm’s terrifying noises in the distance again.

"It seems to have found us, and it is showing us how angry it is," Alina said worriedly. "We need to hurry; it would be very bad if the worm caused this mine to collapse."

She was the Frost clan’s leader, and these mines were the Frost clan’s very foundation. She naturally didn’t want anything happening to them. The others, on the other hand, were worried that even more creatures might enter through the spatial rift if they waited any longer.

They quickly began to discuss the details of the plan. In the end, they decided that Charlotte and Diana would draw the Scaled Earthworm’s attention from the front to allow Sharky to secretly approach. Then, Sharky would deliver the fatal blow.

They were both grandmasters, and their souls were powerful. They could sense their surroundings even in absolute darkness. The lack of light wouldn’t affect their movements at all.

Alina would keep watch from a distance, helping them guard against the sudden ambushes of any smaller worms and making sure that they had a way out.

Having decided on a strategy, they ventured deeper into the mines. They were relatively small, so it would be for the Scaled Earthworm to find them. However, the mother worm screamed from time to time. Furthermore, the closer they got, the thicker the black mist all around them grew, making it extremely easy to find.

Soon, they all got into position. The Scaled Earthworm didn’t crawl along the ground like an ordinary worm; rather, it hid underground almost completely. Only a small portion of its body would be exposed above the surface.

Diana and Charlotte quickly began to attack it with their respective skills. Of course, they made sure not to release any light in the process.

On the other hand, the Scaled Earthworm didn’t have any eyes. The area it was in was completely dark too.

Screeeeeeeech...

With more scalp-numbingly loud grinding, half of the Scaled Earthworm rushed out of the ground. It was clearly angered. These despicable humans... It had already given up on troubling them, and yet they actually dared to provoke it now?

It opened its mouth, firing a thick torrent of black fog at the two women.

But the two of them knew how formidable the attack was and didn’t dare to face it head-on. Both of them dodged to one side.

The beam of black fog struck a wall, immediately corroding it and leaving a large crater. It was easy to imagine how if the attack had hit, even if the two were in their strongest states, they might not have been able to endure such a blow.

They didn’t run and instead moved around the worm, allowing Sharky to approach the enemy more easily.

The Scaled Earthworm suddenly fired something similar to a pair of flying swords from its mouth, which quickly chased after the two women. The pair of blades had been refined from the large mandibles the worm had shed over the years. They were even stronger than some human cultivators’ flying swords.

Normally, Diana and Charlotte would have several ways of dealing with the two weapons. However, they were seriously injured and could only flee in panic. On several occasions, they were surrounded by danger.

Because of the difference in quality of the pills they had consumed, Diana clearly hadn’t recovered as much as Charlotte. After dodging a few times, she was powerless to do so anymore. She thought of blocking an attack with a non-essential part of her body, but she worried about whether she could withstand the enemy’s frightening poison.

Suddenly, Charlotte rushed over and grabbed her, narrowly avoiding the Scaled Earthworm’s attack by a hair.

Diana was a bit surprised. The two had faced each other for so many years, both wishing to end each other’s lives. She had never expected the other woman to save her here. Still, although she was grateful, she remarked, "Who wanted you to save me? It’s not as if I couldn’t have avoided that!"

Even as she spoke, she used her Star Shattering Imprint to smash away one of the long, venomous blades aimed at Charlotte’s back.

"Keep dreaming! Who was trying to save you? I wanted to kill you myself; I did not want you to die to a monster like this before that." Charlotte didn’t mince words either.

When she heard the two women arguing against each other, Alina’s face darkened. If anyone else saw this, their eyeballs might just pop out, right? Two grandmasters who can dominate this world are actually fighting here like sisters!

She didn’t just stand there doing nothing either. She drew continuously in the air, granting the two of them all sorts of blessing halos.

Diana and Charlotte immediately felt their bodies grow lighter. Their speed, regeneration, and other abilities all increased considerably. They were knowledgeable in their own right and quickly realized that these were blessings conferred by the academy’s dao of art.

If it were any other time, the blessing halos wouldn’t really help them at all, perhaps even having the opposite effect. After all, grandmasters needed absolute control over their own bodies. If something else interfered with them, it could end up causing their judgment to deviate. But in their weakened state, those kinds of buffs were extremely useful. At the very least, they no longer had to struggle as much against the Scaled Earthworm’s flying mandibles.

"I didn’t expect to end up owing this woman a favor..." Diana and Charlotte both felt rather strange. It was easier for the two of them to accept favors from each other, because they were just too familiar with each other after fighting for so many years. But now, they actually owed Alina a favor...

Her ridiculous beauty made both women feel considerable danger. Between her close relationship with Sharky and her identity as a Medusa... The two women didn’t know why, but they subconsciously didn’t want to owe her anything.

But they didn’t have the time to worry about such things at that moment either, because they noticed that the mother worm had begun diving underground periodically before bursting out of the surface. It had clearly decided to lurk underground, searching for a good opportunity to inflict a fatal blow on the two of them. It was biding its time, waiting to take them out in a single move!

The two women began to sweat. With their judgment, they both knew with absolute certainty that they wouldn’t be able to dodge anymore after another three seconds passed!

Just then, a pitch-black glint suddenly flickered by the Scaled Earthworm’s side. Sharky appeared, thrusting a blade outward like a thunderbolt!

The Scaled Earthworm was alarmed. Its senses, both physical and spiritual, were extremely well-developed. Not a single thing within this dark area should have escaped its perception! But where had this person come from? Only when he struck had it sensed his presence! Now, it was already too late to evade or counterattack!

Its bestial instincts told it that the dagger was dangerous. Black light swirled around it as it frantically gathered power around its entire body to defend against that attack.

Unfortunately, it didn’t have much time and couldn’t put up a perfect defense. The dagger arrived with absolutely ferocious momentum, cutting straight through its energy barrier that hadn’t fully solidified yet. Then, it smashed against the worm’s scales with an ear-piercing, metallic screech, sparks flying in all directions.

The Scaled Earthworm’s defenses were actually that tough!

Diana felt dejected. She was familiar with the Star Shattering Imprint, so she had obviously realized that at that instant, the Star Shattering Imprint’s fifty percent success rate hadn’t worked!

Diana shivered in horror, thinking, It’s all over!

The exact scenario she had feared the most had happened, but there was nothing she could have done other than to risk it all. Despite that, she had lost the gamble.

It was easy to imagine that Sharky would quickly be killed by the enemy. The three of them wouldn’t be able to escape either.

Even taking a thousand steps back and assuming that some of them managed to escape, the Scaled Earthworm wouldn’t be fooled so easily a second time. As long as it hid underground, who could even do anything to it?

From then on, it would just bide its time underground, only attacking when there were good opportunities. They would only be able to passively defend at that point as it attacked again and again. By then, a single slip-up would make them food.

Charlotte clearly realized that as well. She shot Diana a glare and cried, "The stuff you taught him is way too unreliable! You ended up sending Sharky to death!"

When faced with such criticism from her old enemy, for the first time, Diana didn’t retort. Instead, she only looked nervously in Sharky’s direction.

Just then, the Scaled Earthworm moved. It suddenly turned around, biting down on the place where Sharky had just been

But Sharky had already moved several meters away. He left behind a pile of assorted bottles and containers in his original location. The Scaled Earthworm just happened to bite down on that spot, swallowing up those containers.

Charlotte and Diana frowned. Did Sharky plan to poison it? They obviously knew that the worm had been venomous to begin with. It had extremely high poison tolerance. There probably weren’t any poisons that could injure it, right?

It was no wonder that even though the Scaled Earthworm had clearly sensed the medicine bottles, it still hadn’t avoided them at all and had just swallowed them. These drugs were probably nothing more than nourishment for it.

Just then, Sharky appeared next to the women. He grabbed their hands and ran frantically, crying, "What are you all staring for? Run!"

Diana and Charlotte were both stunned. A slight blush appeared on their faces. Fortunately, none of them could see each other because it was pitch-black. They quickly flung aside Sharky’s hand. The two of them had already recovered a bit of cultivation. They were grandmasters, after all, so they weren’t much slower than him.

Sharky didn’t pay too much attention to that. He had been worrying about how he was going to bring Alina with him anyway. By the time he reached her, his hands were empty, so he grabbed her and ran.

Charlotte noticed that and suddenly felt a bit of regret. However, she quickly snapped out of her daze and called out, "We won’t be able to escape that Earthworm’s pursuit with our current speed!"

Suddenly, however, she was stunned. She saw that the Earthworm didn’t chase them, and instead began to jerk wildly back and forth in place.

Only after they reached a safe spot did all of them stop. Charlotte asked, "Just what kind of poison did you feed that strange worm? Why did it look as if it had been poisoned?"

Alina brought up what had happened with Venom Child previously as well. The three women were all curious. Unfortunately, Sharky didn’t give them any details no matter how they asked.

Eventually, even Diana began to sound angry as she said, "Sharky, we’re all in the same boat here. We haven’t withheld anything from you, so why are you hiding this from us?"

For the first time, Charlotte stood on the same side as her. The two had already taught him their very best techniques, and yet he still wouldn’t tell them the truth.

Alina spoke up for Sharky and said, "Seniors, please do not misunderstand! Sharky is not that type of person. There is definitely something too embarrassing for him to talk about."

When she heard that, Charlotte’s expression grew even colder. Diana also harrumphed. "You’re the only good guy here, and the rest of us are villains?"