Chapter 107

Chapter 107

Level 2 Player

Sand Worm

‘How many are there.’

The exact had to be found directly.

‘Water Barrier.’

Jin-su activated a water-type skill and poured mana. Then a barrier made of huge water was created.

‘Release.’

Splat!

At the same time as Jin-su released the skill, the huge water barrier poured down to the ground and soaked the dry sand wetly. The sand worm is a desert-type monster, so it reacted sensitively to moisture.

Dududuk!

As soon as making the ground into a sea of water, the sand in all directions wriggled. The desert-type monsters that were living while hiding in the sand began to gather.

‘The time when these guys attack from under the feet is the most tricky.’

However, Jin-su had a simple solution.

“Stay up.”

“Yeah.”

Tak!

At Jin-su’s words, Shin Su-a lightly threw her body and moved onto the head of the Bone Dragon. The ambush of monsters occurring in the sand does not work on Jin-su, but it was not so for Shin Su-a.

If the sand of the floor sinks, the Stone Golem can also fall.

‘But against the Bone Dragon, there is no way.’

As long as riding on the head of the Bone Dragon, Shin Su-a’s safety was the same as secured.

Srrng!

Jin-su drew the Baekcheon Divine Sword and Blood-Sucking Sword. Desert-type monsters were tricky enemies for ranged dealers like mages or archers to tackle. Because they move while buried in the sand, it is hard to grasp the exact position, and even if throwing an attack, the power is halved.

‘One has to accurately aim the moment of popping out from the sand and remove them.’

From the perspective of mages and archers, not only having to aim the exact timing to attack, but if slightly wrong, having to engage in close combat, so the compatibility was not good at all.

Shuk!

From the sand, the tail with a poison sting of a sand scorpion flew toward Jin-su.

Slash! Thud!

At the same time as Jin-su cut the tail of the sand scorpion with the Baekcheon Divine Sword, he stabbed the Blood-Sucking Sword into the place expected to be where the head of the sand scorpion is.

Creak!

Along with the sensation of a hard shell breaking, the Blood-Sucking Sword sucked the blood of the sand scorpion with a fierce momentum.

Shuk! Shuk! Shuk!

That was the start. Desert-type monsters popped out one after another from the sand and aimed at Jin-su. Jin-su, in a state of activating the tanker’s protection skill, cut every one as the desert-type monsters revealed their appearances outside the sand.

Slash! Crack! Splat!

‘They are gathering concentrated on me.’

Actually, this was a natural matter. The summons are not living life forms. That is why blood does not flow. Naturally, there is no moisture either.

On the other hand, Jin-su is a human made of blood and flesh. So he had no choice but to become the first target of the desert-type monsters with excellent ability to detect moisture.

‘It is not bad.’

Jin-su became the bait himself and cut down the desert-type monsters whatever came.

The summons were also digesting their respective roles well.

“Nyaang!”

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Leo ran wild excitedly and beat the desert-type monsters into a near-death state, and the Orc Shaman dominated the desert-type monsters and made them tangle and fight each other.

The shadow summons, Army Summons, Dragon Tooth Soldiers, and undead summons also showed off their respective specialties and hunted the desert-type monsters popping up from the sand.

The blood emitted by the dead monsters dyed the sand red. The more the sand was dyed red, the more desert-type monsters smelling the blood smell gathered.

“Kwaaaaa!”

Thud! Thud!

The Bone Dragon stabbed the front paws and wings into the sand like spear blades.

Crack! Creak!

Then the sand was dyed with red blood. The summons of undead origin including the Bone Dragon had excellent ability to grasp vitality to begin with. On top of that, since the desert-type monsters that smelled the blood smell gathered so many, from the Bone Dragon’s perspective, the hit rate was quite high even if roughly stabbing down.

‘With this degree, it is gradually time to reveal the appearance.’

There was no way the sand worm would not smell this thick blood smell.

‘First, let’s continue catching.’

Jin-su continued the hunting of desert-type monsters.

Dudududuk!

In the middle of that, the sand of the floor shook as if an earthquake occurred.

‘It came.’

A thick smile bloomed on Jin-su’s lips. Finally, the long-awaited sand worm appeared. The sand worm’s biggest weapon is not the saw-like teeth, unexpectedly tough hide, or high skill resistance, but the huge size.

‘It was so large that no matter how much hit, it did not show.’

A fatal strike that could cut the breath in one hit if an ordinary monster degenerates to the level of just a small scratch.

‘This time, there is no way.’

Before regression, he caught it barely after really suffering to death. Thanks to that, he obtained one achievement, but it was not a very good memory.

However, this time, the circumstances were different.

‘The moment it reveals its appearance, I will cut the breath.’

Although the sand worm has a huge size, it freely traverses the sand like swimming and diving in water. That much, it could be missed in a moment of carelessness.

Puuk!

At that time, the sand under Jin-su’s feet suddenly sank.

Sssuk!

The bodies of the desert-type monsters including Jin-su and the summons were sucked downward.

‘It finally came out.’

The appearance of the sand worm with saw-like teeth spread wide in the sand was seen.

‘Freeze Declaration.’

Dududuk!

Cold coldness invaded the inside of the sand worm’s mouth that was opened wide.

“Kyaaaak!”

At the moment the sand worm tried to shrink its body at the suddenly felt coldness.

‘Eat this.’

Jin-su raised a lot of mana and successively used cold-type skills like Ice Storm and Freeze Hell.

Dudududuk!

The sand worm’s head froze in an instant.

Crack! Crack!

“Kyaaaaak!”

At the moment the sand worm shattered the ice mass covering the head and tried to hide its body in the sand again.

Puuk!

The Baekcheon Divine Sword that longly emits pure white aura like a spear was embedded in the sand worm’s head.

“Kyarrrk!”

The breath of the huge sand worm was cut. Thanks to the pure white aura emitted from the Baekcheon Divine Sword accurately shattering the sand worm’s brain.

‘It succeeded.’

The sand worm was quite agile not matching its huge size. On top of that, the resistance to fire-type attribute was also quite high. That is why he used the strategy of binding the movement with cold-type skills and then cutting the breath.

Jin-su had caught the sand worm with this method even before regression.

‘At that time, it succeeded really precariously.’

The success rate was low to the degree where it would have failed if the coordination with the colleagues was even slightly off. However, now it succeeded too easily.

That meant that Jin-su had become stronger that much.

‘Army Summon.’

Jin-su made the sand worm into an Army Summon.

“Kyaaaaak!”

In an instant, a pair of sand worms composed of black and white was born.

‘Hunt the monsters.’

Jin-su gave an instruction.

Dudududuk!

As soon as the order fell, the 2 sand worms dug into the sand.

Creak! Crunch! Crunch!

Along with the noise of biting and chewing something, the experience rose quickly.

‘It seems it possesses the characteristics of the original intact.’

Although it became a summon, the ability to hide the body in the sand and move freely remained intact. This was the same as a death sentence to the desert-type monsters that were attacking Jin-su.

Inferior in all aspects, but the point of being able to hide the body in the sand and move freely was the only weapon of the desert-type monsters.

Yet, now even that weapon was lost.

The desert-type monsters that gathered smelling the blood smell received attacks from the 2 sand worms in the sand as the first stage. And if barely surviving and coming out of the sand avoiding the sand worms, they received attacks from the summons as the second stage.

From the perspective of the desert-type monsters, survival could no longer be guaranteed in either outside the sand or inside the sand.

‘Certainly, in desert terrain, the sand worm has better efficiency than the Bone Dragon.’

Against desert-type monsters hiding their bodies deep in the sand, even if the Bone Dragon emits a breath, it only wastes mana and cannot catch much. Physical attacks are better in effect at least.

The problem is the point that only desert-type monsters on the sand surface can be attacked. If a desert-type monster that felt a threat to life flees deep into the sand, there was no method to catch it. Even if trying to dig the sand and catch it, from the desert-type monster’s perspective, it is fine if fleeing to another place in the meantime.

The 2 sand worms that can move freely in the sand had superior hunting skill to the Bone Dragon under the premise of hunting desert-type monsters in desert terrain.

‘It is not that they are useless in other terrains either.’

Being able to move freely underground is an enormous weapon. The sand worm can dig into the ground in places like forest, dry land, swamp, or snowy plain that are not sand.

‘Although the movement speed will be slower than sand and the movement traces will show a lot.’

It was the best ability for collapsing the ground of the land or ignoring formations or defense walls and ambushing.

‘It cannot end with only 2.’

Although Jin-su who caught 1 sand worm and made 2 into summons, he had no thought of being satisfied with only this degree.

‘The level up speed is gradually dropping.’

That also meant that the number of gathering desert-type monsters is decreasing. The survival mission place of Floor 199 was a wide desert terrain to the degree where the end is not visible.

Before regression, the best was to stay in one place and devote to survival. He hoped that desert-type monsters in other places would not gather here. That is why he even acted carefully when drinking a sip of water.

However, now it is not.

Jin-su’s goal was no longer survival. It was conquering the entire wide survival mission place of Floor 199.

‘Then shall we go.’

Jin-su called 1 sand worm.

Saaaak!

From the sand, the snout of the sand worm full of saw-like teeth revealed its appearance.

Tak!

Jin-su went up onto the head of the sand worm.

‘Go.’

According to Jin-su’s instruction, the sand worm advanced forward at a terrifying speed.

‘It is fast even if not inside the sand.’

The other summons followed behind Jin-su riding on the sand worm’s head.

“Leo.”

“Nyaaaang! Nyaaaang! Nyaaaang!”

At Jin-su’s call, Leo continued to let out wide-area provocation roars. The desert-type monsters that felt the wide-area provocation roar of Leo and the vibration shaking as numerous summons move continued to rush.

However, the number was still not many to the degree of satisfaction.

‘Water Barrier.’

Jin-su gathered mana on the head of the sand worm and created a huge water barrier.

‘Release.’

Once Jin-su released the Water Barrier skill, the huge body of the sand worm became wet with water.

‘Here, gather more quickly.’

Jin-su continued to create a large amount of water with the Water Barrier skill while moving and then evenly sprinkled it on the bodies of the summons.

Puak!

“Kyaaaak!”

“Kiiiik!”

Sand lizards, sand moles, sand rattlesnakes, sand scorpions, sand toads, sand spiders, and so on.

An enormous number of desert-type monsters whose number and kinds cannot be counted rushed toward Jin-su and the summons.

‘It is much easier.’

The opponent the desert-type monsters aim for the most were Jin-su and Shin Su-a, the only living humans. However, Jin-su was on the head of the sand worm, and Shin Su-a was on the head of the Bone Dragon.

Naturally, no matter how much the desert-type monsters rush, they only continued to die.

‘Catch the monsters in the sand.’

Jin-su sent the sand worm he was riding back into the sand and came down to the sand floor.

“Kyaaaang!”

“Kiiiik!”

At the moment Jin-su stepped on the sand floor, the desert-type monsters became greatly excited and rushed madly.