Chapter 505: Weird

Boom—!

The ground trembled violently!

Aaron's Spirituality suddenly sensed a powerful threat!

He could no longer care about hiding anything; he drew the "Sword in the Stone" from his waist and thrust it fiercely into the void before him.

Pop!

Some kind of invisible ripple was shattered, and the "Spirit World Shadow" teleportation ability returned once more!

His figure suddenly turned ethereal, and as he departed, he looked back.

He saw that from the gray earth, a massive black worm, incomparably thick and resembling an earthworm but over a thousand meters in length, had suddenly emerged!

That Mythical Creature, the thousand-handed centipede, appeared instantly insignificant before this burrowing worm.

The worm's head had no eyes or other organs, only a gaping, blood-red maw filled with layers upon layers of forest-white, sharp teeth.

Not only that, but on its pitch-black, rough skin were dense, black, strip-like objects that writhed like worms, forming constantly changing Mysterious symbols and twisted signs.

"If I continue to divine further, will I encounter extreme danger?"

Only Aaron's figure disappeared from this gray wasteland.

"It is too quiet in this vicinity."

Tap-tap!

Several of Aaron's Darkness incarnations instantly took on the pollution and erosion of the main body, and small black worms crawled out from within them.

Then, It turned Its head and looked at Aaron.

Immediately, Aaron pressed one hand against the "Sword in the Stone" and walked into the ruins of the department store.

The sky remained a gray haze, making one forget the passage of time.

Enide had black soot smeared on her face, her large, watery eyes darting around like a little mouse, finally landing on the ruins of the department store opposite; her throat slowly swallowed saliva, and her stomach emitted a low growl.

However, at this moment, they also burst apart like ink.

The next instant, Aaron suddenly covered his eyes, and fresh blood flowed from between his fingers.

He saw the two people who had fled and took the opportunity to leave a small mark on them.

As a Mythical Creature of the Eighth Primordial Substance, that thousand-handed centipede twisted and struggled on the spot, with pitch-black spots abruptly appearing on each of its arms.

The boy was startled, and suddenly a look of extreme terror appeared on his face.

And now, he had seen it for the second time.

Enide lay in the ruins, seemingly wanting to merge with the shadows: "When the end of the world arrives... the major cities are the first to be destroyed; too many people died here, making it easier for powerful 'Weird' to breed!"

The huge burrowing worm glared at those pitch-black liquids, then continued to burrow into the ground and disappeared...

The boy lay on the ground, vomiting out mangled fingers, his expression pale and filled with fear: "I... I found half a bag of dog food biscuits..."

'Not right... how can he wear such neat clothes? Could it be that he washes his face and brushes his teeth every day? That is an impossible thing to do; could he also be... Weird?'

"Their true name is—'Primordial Worms'!"

"Sister Enide, I'm hungry."

At his current level, divination no longer required the use of tools or other Ritual aids to directly obtain a great deal of information.

"The level of that giant earthworm... is at least on par with Motula before he ascended... it is an Imprinter of the Ninth Sephira!"

His intuition had already begun to sound the alarm, which made Aaron abandon the plan to continue divining; he flicked a bit of "Furnace Fire" to burn the "Primordial Worm clones" on the ground, while clicking his tongue in wonder: "I originally thought that burrowing worm was also a terrifying Mythical Creature descended from the Spirit World; I didn't expect that they are actually a race... does their appearance represent the decay of the world?"

Then, he saw with horror that on the back of his hand, a pitch-black, earthworm-like creature was forced out by the pure white radiance, falling to the ground, twisting and struggling as it died.

"Someone?"

Aaron went directly to the second floor and saw a young girl wearing a dress, standing by the balcony with her back to him.

"Perhaps... as life extends, I will see more and more similar things, right?"

Enide watched this scene, her expression changing; she took a leaf wrapped in layers from her bosom and stuffed it into the boy's mouth.

One finger after another abruptly emerged from his mouth, as if someone were trying to pry his mouth open and crawl out from his body!

In the ruins, there was nothing left on the fallen shelves.

On the other side.

Aaron arrived at a ruined Green Forest City and summoned a "Spirit of Falsehood," giving himself a "Purification" just in case.

Her gaze, fixed on the department store, suddenly changed; she saw a figure wearing a red dress on the second floor of the store!

"Wait a moment!"

"No, my talisman is burning hot; she is—Weird!"

"Purification!"

Merely seeing Its image caused various kinds of pollution to emerge directly in the depths of a sentient being's mind.

"Damn it... it's the Grudge Hand Curse; what did you eat?"

When looking closer, they were all small worms that had somehow followed the pollution into the body of the thousand-handed centipede, beginning to parasitize and entrench themselves frantically...

As she moved away, she seemed to see another man in neat clothes walking into the department store.

It is ruin, It is destruction, It is decay, It is the end of all things!

The apocalypse—Aaron had already seen it once.

Finally, that thousand-meter-long worm's mouthparts writhed, and like a large snake swallowing a small one, it swallowed the thousand-handed centipede directly into its body.

Enide no longer wanted to say anything.

"They are the worms of the world..."

"The place that breeds them..."

"Damn it... even I almost fell for it without realizing."

Aaron, who was treated as a Weird by Enide, was looking in the direction she fled, letting out a long sigh: "Sigh... another apocalypse."

"Monsters that only appear whenever the world decays and rots..."

Enide looked at the surroundings: "No survivors, no Animals, not even dangerous Spirit World Creatures... do you think this is normal?"

"Backlash?"

Without a second thought, Enide grabbed the boy and fled the scene rapidly.

Aaron looked at the corpse of the black worm, closed his eyes slightly, and used his divination ability.

That was the Spirit World of the past!

Aaron associated it with the image of rotting fruit with worms inside; he inexplicably felt it was very fitting, and felt a chill in his heart again: "This world... I'm afraid it's truly beyond saving."

"What a pity... how could that Scavenger be so careless?"

A boy of fourteen or fifteen years old nearby held an iron spear, wearing clothes made from a tattered sack, his eyes fixed on the entrance of the department store as he whispered.

"It doesn't seem to be a Spirit World Creature, nor is it an Extraordinary... what on earth is it?"

Seemingly startled by his voice, the young girl wearing a red dress slowly turned around...

(End of this chapter)