(Seymour's POV):
The three of us had returned to one of the cafes near the central fountain and talked about William and Mea's life.
"So, what are you two doing here?"
"We were being chased by an enemy group so we hid here..." - William
"I see, the ones that died aren't your friends?"
"Yes, they were all enemies. They had attracted a lot of these corrupted NPCs and almost got us killed. Good thing you have arrived. What are you exactly?" - William
What am I? Well it's pretty obvious so I'll just tell him.
I took out my tarot card without showing him what card I have.
"I think you're familiar with this? Yeah, I'm the leader of the faction that lives in the mountain range. Asylum."
"Asylum!?! Wait, you're Denzel's higher up?!" - William
Oh, do they know Denzel?
William starts feeling pressured unnecessarily and fidgets around like a kid.
From the way he looks he's about sixteen or seventeen at most. He has a short stature but seems to be hiding some neat abilities.
"This'll make it easier then. I shall welcome you to the Asylum, hold on."
I took out a pair of emblems which will allow them to enter the castle as new members.
"Head to the mountain range at the north of the central spawn. You'll find a large castle and you can enter the castle with this emblem."
"I see..." - William
"Well, I'm off to the center of this biome."
"Huh? You won't come to the castle with us?" - Mea
"Nah, I have something to investigate for a bit. I'll go ahead promising youngsters."
I immediately left the room after listening to their gratefulness. I waved back and went straight to the center of the biome.
I noticed a large chasm at the very center of the biome and jumped down without even caring.
I rolled on my landing and seemingly had a good spot to land.
I noticed three orbs that are set in three spots on the wall. That's quite different from what I remember but... I guess I can just say that I'm lucky...
"Question is, can I blow them all at once using one holy hand grenade?"
Holy hand grenades are about five times stronger than dynamites. After carefully placing the holy hand grenade on the shadow orb in the center.
I backed down quickly to avoid being in the explosion radius and stayed at the back wall.
The room is large but I haven't really gave it any light. The entire room is pretty dark and could pose threats from the inside. But I have countermeasures for that...
"Night Vision!"
My vision turns green and can detect heat signatures within my line of sight. At that moment, the holy hand grenade finally blew up and caused a minor tremor. The tremor stopped and I started using earth magic to clear off some flying monsters.
After that I started to feel earthquakes and a powerful presence inbound. After some time of waiting, a hole was formed and a monster came out from it.
A lengthy version of those flying mobs revealed themselves in a large straight line.
Like a giant worm that eats the whole world. This is definitely the Eater of Worlds...
I wonder what kind of bullshit did they rig this guy with.
The boss mob dug down and quickly escaped from sight.
It left a hole in its path which makes me conclude that this boss will be very destructive unlike the one in the game. What's more is...
The boss mob returned from the top of the cave, creating another hole and tried to eat me from above.
I dashed backwards and used Earthbound which is the name of my ability that emerges stalagmites from below, to puncture this boss as a test.
The blood spurted everywhere, the first few parts of this boss mob were removed and blown into particles. What fell down to the ground is some drops of demon ore, some sort of powder, and a bunch of blood.
The blood instantly corroded the drops and made them despawn.
The worm creates an new head and went down after turning its trajectory to create another hole.
I could crush it while it's digging but I want the loot this guy drops.
I tried to enclose my position towards the body that's still trying to enter the hole but... Suddenly, the worm intentionally disconnected from the main body, becoming two halves of it.
I can still feel the presence of the other half that is still digging through deeper underground...
The other one chased me and vomited a large amount of blood
"It's faster than before..."
I dodged to the side to avoid the acidic blood and stabbed my halberd into the front head.
"According to Denzel, these guys have lower armor on the front face. This actually proves the truth, when I have almost no strength fighting back against my halberd."
It easily took out five heads...
I managed to received the loot before they got despawned by the acidic blood.
But as it landed on the floor, it splattered and spread out so I was forced to dash backwards. I stopped my dash midway and dashed to the side, avoiding the one that's digging from below.
The part that splattered blood almost everywhere created another hole to start digging.
I took out a bottle filled with greenish purple liquid, and poured it on the blade of the halberd...
"Denz, I wonder what the effect of this potion is..."
I didn't receive an explanation from Denzel, so I simply took one bottle filled with this color and fiddled with it for a while.
It said: "Pouring this on a weapon will generate an unknown effect."
And so I got to test it here...
Both worms entered the rocks and are now moving towards me from opposite directions.
"I swear, if this game gave all mobs the ability to navigate around and become highly power predator hunters then we have to think about the talk on Creepers from Minecraft coming soon. I wonder if those are gonna be way more stupid."
But I had this in my priority list.
The worm in front of me came out first and tried to eat me in one go...
I thrust forward the halberd and trusted it.
I cut through eight heads of the worm and didn't spill any blood at all.
*Effect Identified*
So Denzel made it to corrode only blood as much as possible huh? I know you can recover blood and organs by drinking blood potions but, this game is quite complicated...
The worm from behind finally showed up but I had something in mind.
"Stalactite rain..."
Multiple spikes formed from the roof of the cave and dropped down in all directions.
A few spikes pierced through the worm and punctured it with a severe infection via Earthen Bleeding...
I removed a total of twenty heads since I started the fight.
Pretty sure that this guy had around fifty heads or maybe seventy-five. It depends on the difficulty.
I stepped side wards and demolished multiple stalactites and manipulated them using wind magic. I threw them all towards the giant worm which destroyed another head.
The worm ignored me and created another hole. Another worm showed up and attacked from the side.
I lowered my stance and stabbed the worm from below.
I brought it down and locked its position, but a small part of the worm disconnected and continued moving.
"Troublesome..."
I removed the halberd and started moving around to clear off the remaining heads...
Two worms kept charging at me while vomiting out their acid.
Once they both entered a hole, I noticed something...
I looked directly at the tail and it suddenly extended by another head and converted it to become two heads.
"So it multiplies whenever it eats some blocks huh..."
Regenerating through obscure areas is a neat ability. It leaves the targets confused on their target.
So the more I divide them the faster they multiply huh...
I'll basically remove them one by one then.
One worm showed up in my direction but I immediately thrust the halberd through it and removed around twelve heads before it changed direction to avoid losing more heads.
The other worm showed up from the side which I used Earthbound to stop it from its tracks. I cleared around another thirteen heads but it is unclear about the current number remaining.
"Maybe around fifty..."
It should have around that amount left considering how long both worms are still currently.
"Maybe a regeneration core?"
I concentrated my energy to locate the core of both worms. It seems that after generating a head the core will transfer, and if it doesn't exist, it will generate a core. So the target is the tail.
One worm came out from my left back side to try and eat me alive once again. I dashed sideways and destroyed the tail which is for some reason, hardened...
"That was troublesome..."
The worm tried to hide but I took this chance to eliminate as many heads as I can from that worm.
But the other worm showed up from my left to try and distract me.
"Aren't you smart?"
I activated Earthbound and eliminated the coreless worm while dashing forward.
I discarded another ten heads and found the tail.
I stomped the ground hard enough to make rock particles jump out and converted all of it around me to a large earth spike. I launched the spike towards the tail which destroyed it.
The worm hanged for a few seconds and fell down temporarily before making an escape.
But during that time I cut off another ten heads and it had around seven heads left before it escaped at a high speed.
I felt the worm returning to me with twelve heads so I just simply crushed the worm itself and eliminated it from the game.
"Finally... That was extremely exhausting."
After collecting the treasure bag that dropped to the ground. A demon altar emerged from the ground and is basking in the sunlight.
It then revealed a a zodiac sign inside a bubble.
The Zodiac sign that appeared was Cancer.
Nice...