The dungeon has been parasitized

Chapter 126 Hunting

The centipede's tentacles sensed the vibrations on the ground, and taking advantage of this opportunity, Klein remotely activated a skill on the seeds in the sand: Accelerate Growth.

The seed quickly sprouted vines, which then writhed wildly in the sand like a struggling octopus, its tentacles outstretched, stirring up the sand and creating ripples on the ground.

The commotion immediately attracted the centipede, which turned its head, quickly located the vine, and then burrowed into the sand.

"Begin to sing, daisy."

After Yanami gave the instruction, Daisy began her chanting.

rustling sounds...

The sand rippled, and the centipede rapidly approached. When it came within ten meters, Klein controlled the Shadow Wolf and its clone to charge forward simultaneously.

The two shadow wolves, one on the left and one on the right, ran directly down the rock wall and quickly approached the melting centipede. Yanami also controlled the fire arrows and followed behind them.

Pfft!

Amidst the swirling sandstorm, a pair of glossy black, sickle-shaped mandibles burst forth from the sand. The massive mandibles suddenly opened in mid-air and bit down on Klein's still-twisting vines from below.

Just like when it swallowed the Walking Mushroom, the Dissolving Centipede instantly realized that Klein's vines were not the food it wanted and released its mouth.

But at the same time, Klein's vines all wrapped around him, entangled both his body beneath the sand and his body exposed above it.

Klein certainly didn't expect ordinary vines to be able to entangle such a large centipede, so the instant he entangled the centipede, he made all the vines metallize.

The vines, now strong, locked the centipede, but also robbed it of its ability to wriggle. The locked centipede was reduced to only half its body.

The remaining half of its body protruded from the ground, and its tail even had a large pincer!

The large pincers arched forward, attempting to cut through the vines that Klein had made incredibly tough.

At that moment, Klein sent a signal to Yanami.

("That's it!")

"Daisy, light magic! Point it at its head!"

"yes!"

Daisy's chanting had ended. She raised her wand and threw a ball of light at the vines not far away.

"Close your eyes!"

The ball of light exploded at the centipede's head. Caught off guard, the centipede was momentarily stunned by the bright light and began to struggle, seemingly disoriented. Its tail pincers, which had been slashing forward, began to writhe in all directions as it struggled, sending sand and gravel flying everywhere.

Taking advantage of the moment when the centipede was unable to lock onto its target, the two shadow wolves, who had been prepared beforehand, leaped to its side.

From the left and right, the two shadow wolves simultaneously bit the mandibles of the melting centipede. The two shadow wolves kicked backward at the same time, and Klein's non-metallic vines also pulled them along, working together to pry open the melting centipede's mouth.

("Yanami!")

("good!")

After receiving Klein's instructions, Yanami waved her wand, and dozens of flaming arrows poured into the mouth of the melting centipede.

Seeing that the fire arrow had already hit its body, Klein quickly maneuvered the Shadow Wolf backward, leaving his clone to entangle with the Melting Centipede.

The dissolving centipede finally recovered from its daze. Enduring the burning flames in its mouth, it lunged at the shadow wolf, but only managed to bite its clone.

"Let's blast it!"

Gudong.

The flaming arrows all stopped at the head. After a muffled thud, the head of the melting centipede bounced violently, but there was no blood and flesh flying out as Yanami had imagined; its head appeared completely intact...

"No way? He still won't die?"

puff.

The Shadow Wolf clone that was bitten turned into a pool of darkness and disappeared. The Dissolving Centipede, which had been supporting its head by biting it, lost its support after the clone disappeared and fell heavily onto the sand.

"This must be... dead, right?"

Snap, snap...

Hyacinth had barely uttered her question when she received an answer: the latter half of the melting centipede's body was still writhing on the sand, causing sand to fly everywhere, and worms to flee in panic.

However, the centipede's large head remained lying motionless on the ground, green fluid continuously flowing from its mouth, corroding a large pit in the sand, which hissed and steamed.

"Did he just faint?"

(No, it's already dead.)

Klein opened its status bar. At this moment, its health was indeed reduced to zero, but its body was still moving. Perhaps this was because the arthropod's nerve endings had not been damaged?

"It should be dead. It seems that these kinds of monsters can still move for a while even if their heads are damaged. But as long as you don't get close, there's no danger."

"That's good."

The three of them silently took a few steps back, not wanting to be affected by the writhing centipede corpse.

Its entire body was now exposed above the sand, its several-meter-long torso writhing wildly, its segmented, flattened body convulsing madly on the sand. Each segment of its carapace was unconsciously contracting and twisting, like a severed iron chain making its final struggle.

"Ugh... How disgusting."

"So many legs..."

The densely packed arthropods took turns kicking and stomping, their sharp claws wildly raking up large swaths of sand and gravel. When one of them accidentally grabbed a rock wall, it left countless claw marks that tore through the rock.

The three of them watched the dissolving centipede's final dance while making sarcastic remarks.

"Its armor is really tough. So many fire arrows exploding inside its body didn't even break the armor."

"Feelings, sensations can be used to make equipment."

The armor was indeed very hard; when Klein controlled the Shadow Wolf to bite its jaws, he felt like his teeth were about to break.

Moreover, it was incredibly strong. If it hadn't been bound halfway with metallic vines beforehand, and the flash of light hadn't made it dizzy, those scythe-like claws would probably have easily torn the Shadow Wolf to shreds.

"Thanks to Yanami, we took care of it with ease."

"Manipulating vines, that's so cool!"

"Hehe, you can praise me more!"

"And your Shadow Wolves are so well-coordinated...it's like you're controlling them yourself, sigh..."

Hyacinths sighed and looked at their own Rock Slugs, who were trembling as they stared at the still-writhing centipede corpse.

"If only these guys were this useful. The fact that they haven't run away is already a great achievement."

"Haha... Shadow Wolf is inherently very intelligent, which is why it's so powerful."

Of course, they had no idea that someone was actually controlling the Shadow Wolves, so Yanami could only laugh it off.

"By the way, Yanami, aren't you supposed to be able to tame monsters? Why didn't you tame the centipede?"

"Not everything can be tamed."

"I see."

Hyacinth seemed to be just a casual remark, without any further investigation.

Klein certainly wanted to tame it, since it seemed very good at digging holes, but the current situation made it difficult to parasitize, so he had no choice but to kill it.