I Have Become a Death Worm

Shahar Great Desert East Grabadra Sea.
Small oasis village Rabat located on the outskirts of the region.
Rabat was currently experiencing an invasion from another world.
“Take everything of value! Burn useless things!”
“Otherworlders have many good magic tools! Take them all!”
“These cursed China invaders! The divine punishment of sun god Zanitra will fall on you!”
“No! That was my daughter’s dowry for her wedding! You bastards!”
One company from the 7th Armored Brigade of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army 27th Group Army is looting the village.
The operation’s purpose is to secure the otherworlders and acquire all strategic assets.
All obstacles arising during the mission are being actively eliminated.
Gunshots echoed everywhere.
Tang! Tatatang-!
“Kraak! Damn it!”
“Don’t resist and stay still!”
“Keep moving and I’ll shoot!”
“Damn lightning crossbows…!”
Naturally, the small vigilante group had been annihilated long ago.
Medieval armament couldn’t match modern weapons.
Being a perfect remote village in the middle of nowhere, there are no proper warriors.
The shock and screams of the captured Rabat villagers erupted.
“When will the Rashka Warrior Corps of the Sand Tribe arrive!”
“Did those money-grubbing mercenary assassin bastards chicken out!?”
“That can’t be! Our covenant should still be valid!”
Seeing the confusion of the residents, today’s operation commander, Lieutenant Colonel Li Juren, nodded with satisfaction.
‘It’s proceeding as planned.’
There was a separate reason why the operation was smooth.
The Shakazad Khanate, which has a hostile relationship with the Arzhan Khanate to which Rabat village belongs, was actively supporting the operation.
The Shakazad Khanate, as an ally of the People’s Republic of China, is receiving support for modern weapons including firearms.
In Elzeria, a medieval civilization world, firearms were a definite game changer.
“The suppression of the village seems roughly complete, Lord Juren.”
The support team leader dispatched from the Shakazad Khanate, Mualpu, casually spoke next to Li Juren.
Li Juren smiled with a radiant eye smile.
“Thanks to your country’s full cooperation, we were able to complete the operation smoothly.”
“As promised, this territory will be ours, right? Our country’s residents who worship the full moon goddess Arnya will immigrate here.”
“Of course.”
“This is the deal.”
Mualpu touched his bushy beard and grinned.
They both had Magic Earsets in their ears based on brain wave recognition translation principles, so there was no problem with communication.
Mualpu fondled the Type 77 pistol, the standard issue pistol of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, with a subtle touch.
“These lightning crossbows from the Gaia world are completely changing the war landscape. They say it’s much faster than even the decent Aura Faris’s sword energy emission.”
Lightning crossbow is what firearms from Earth are called in Elzeria.
Li Juren held a contemptuous smile on his lips, hidden from Mualpu’s view.
‘Anyway, these primitive and ignorant otherworld creatures are subjects for education, and that doesn’t change.’
A truly comment steeped in vast chosen people ideology.
But Li Juren didn’t think his thoughts were particularly wrong.
In fact, it was the emotion held by quite a few Earthlings toward Elzerians.
The side with highly developed civilization can’t help but look down on the relatively lesser one.
It was a natural principle like water flowing from top to bottom.
It’s been 25 years since the exchange with the otherworld began after the great cataclysm of 1999.
A new trend has arrived on Earth where a new century opened after the great cataclysm.
That is, the side that secures more new resources takes hegemony.
Humans are beings who always live by plundering other beings.
They think the resources given to Earth are always theirs.
However, resources are not infinite, and food has limits.
In the end, it was clear that they had to turn their heads somewhere.
The idea that came from there was the otherworld expedition.
Securing resources that are traded at high prices.
The true value of the Shahar Great Desert was revealed in relatively recent research.
Beneath the desert surface, a substance similar to petroleum was discovered.
It generates much more energy with a smaller volume.
Otherworlders called this substance desta, magic petroleum.
The Shahar Great Desert must have been a sea in the distant ancient times.
The countless sand fish evolved to adapt to the sand prove this.
The vast natural mana that even makes such unrealistic ecological adaptations possible has been deposited in the strata over a long time, becoming petroleum with a more massive energy content.
Its value was at least 10 times the price of existing petroleum, and more.
When this became known, the world went crazy.
It was truly a shock that shook common sense and conventional wisdom.
It could be a hook to pull down all substantive oil-producing countries both before and after the great cataclysm.
Besides that, there were inexhaustible resources in the otherworld desert.
‘In the end, all places are for obtaining resources here.’
Currently, various parts of Earth are connected to the five classified continents of the Elzeria world.
In such uncertain specificity, they are forming various relationships with each other.
The international laws of UN member countries only apply on the same Earth.
They don’t apply to the otherworld beyond the gate.
It was a method targeting the fatal blind spot of international law.
Anyway, the great powers of Western Europe, including the United States, were also carrying out similar acts in the otherworld.
Everyone is just more or less severe than a robber, but in the end, all the same.
There was no reason for China to be blamed for being involved in this.
Li Juren licked his lips with a subtle smile.
‘I must have the blood of a thief flowing in me.’
Virtually implicit looting permitted by the military.
An act that would have been punished according to military law originally.
It felt like becoming a privateer pirate in the Age of Exploration.
These barbarians, still uncivilized, just wearing the shell of civilized people.
What keeps relationships with them firm is firearms.
Something with which even a baby can kill a knight who has trained martial arts all his life.
‘Fortunately, the method of manufacturing firearms has not been shared with the otherworlders at all.’
This was an issue agreed upon by countries entering the otherworld, led by the permanent members of the Security Council.
Let’s not unnecessarily put each other in vulnerable positions.
But that too is just a matter of time.
They are recruiting Earth’s technicians in various ways.
While making crude imitations, they are also trying to establish production facilities.
Eventually, the technological gap will be caught up.
When such a time finally comes.
They needed to achieve overwhelming technological development.
That is the core of the new century’s otherworld resource scramble.
“Kyaa, aaak! Beast! Let this go!”
“Hehehe! Stay still! Captain! I’ll go have some fun for a while!”
“Tch, moron. Come back quickly.”
A disturbance arises from a squad positioned at the rear.
A squad member was dragging a screaming village woman somewhere.
Mualpu stroked his beard, smiling lecherous.
“Hoho, different worlds and different appearances, but men are the same everywhere.”
Li Juren just blankly allowed the deviant behavior occurring among his subordinate troops.
Originally, they should have promptly returned with the end of the operation, but he didn’t want to.
He just wanted to be immersed in the current atmosphere of overwhelming victory.
Li Juren wanted to be even more intoxicated.
‘…China, soars again.’
Even though it’s said to have suffered the most severe damage along with India in the great cataclysm.
In the end, it will rise again powerfully like a dragon.
That was Li Juren’s firm belief.
“Kyaa, aaak-!”
A woman’s piercing scream erupted from somewhere.
When Li Juren immediately looked back, it was the Rabat woman who had just been dragged away by the soldier.
The woman was running away breathlessly, covered in blood.
The soldier who had tried to molest her was sprawled out dead with his head exploded.
“…Huh?”
When Li Juren let out a puzzled sound.
Kiring-
There was a clear metallic sound awakening the senses.
A steel sound of the soul that naturally makes one conscious.
“What… is that?”
“What is this…?”
The attention-drawn commanders of both armies simultaneously looked at the eastern sky.
“What, what is that…?”
The sky at an altitude of about 200 meters, pointed at by one common soldier.
A deep blue long sword shining brightly was floating.
It was a large and beautiful longsword about 50 meters in diameter.
Its blade pointed downward as if stuck in the ground.
It sparkles receiving the desert scorching sun under the clear sky.
“A sword… floating?”
“Am I… seeing things?”
“This isn’t just visible to me, right?”
The rest of the troops also murmured and looked up at the sky.
The captured Rabat residents also looked up blankly.
Tak, tatak-
“Wha…t!”
The Type 77 pistol that Mualpu had cherished like a treasure fell from his hand and rolled on the ground.
“My god…! Such a vast amount of mana concentrated… a mind sword!?”
Mualpu’s mouth gaped open.
As an Aura Faris, the knight profession dealing with aura in the western continent corresponding to the Aura Knight of the central continent.
He could immediately understand how vast and powerful a mana convergence this giant mana sword was.
It was comparable to the might of at least an 8th rank court magician.
Naturally, it far transcended the power of everyone present at the scene.
“Mind sword…?”
When Li Juren, who didn’t understand the term, raised one eyebrow.
When everyone at the scene was so dumbfounded.
Kiring-
With a small ripple of the giant mana sword.
Pyushushushut-!
Countless mind swords were fired, splitting like signal flares.
“Keok!”
“Uaak!”
“Hu, eoeo-!”
Mind swords shot like javelins precisely penetrated Chinese soldiers.
Soldiers pierced by mind swords collapsed and fell all over.
It was precise sniping that did not target Rabat residents.
“Wha, what! What is this!”
“Uaaak-! Swords are pouring from the sky!”
“The big sword is shooting out small swords!?”
Li Juren’s mouth gaped open in shock.
‘What… the hell is this!’
Mualpu’s hand grabbed the nape of the dazed Li Juren.
“Oh no! Damn it!”
Mualpu, exerting magic power, performed an evasive maneuver amid the falling mind swords.
Tududuk-!
Three mind swords were stuck at the point where Li Juren had just been standing.
Mualpu ordered his subordinate khanate soldiers who were also being pierced by mind swords.
“Everyone! Hide in cover like houses! Lord Juren too! Quickly command your subordinate troops!”
Mualpu observed the situation while sticking out his tongue.
‘Something’s strange! Definitely strange!’
The giant mind sword suddenly appearing in the air delivering death.
Although it could precisely hit everything, some seemed to miss deliberately.
As if, giving opportunities to certain beings as well.
Li Juren frantically looked around his troops.
“All, all troops…!”
Already half of the 224 company members were injured and dead.
The unexpected disaster was not over with just this.
In an instant, dirt mounds rose noisily throughout Rabat village.
Kwasssssuk─────!
Impossibly large and huge monster bodies rose from the ground.
“Uh, aaak-!”
“Wha, what!”
“Huh, eok!?”
Several soldiers were swept up and rose into the air with the dirt mounds.
What suddenly entered the battlefield were red Death Worms and yellow Sand Worms.
The worms all made sighing sounds like air escaping.
“Kyururururuk…!”
“Kyuruut…!”
“Kyuut…!”
Worms that had very naturally completed infiltration beyond the boundaries of objects and terrain.
Suddenly worms pierced through the ground surface and rose up.
Their number exceeded 100.
Kurrrrrr-!
Instantly, the ground where several soldiers were standing collapsed.
“Hu, aaak-!”
“Uaaak-!”
“Uwak!?”
A suddenly created sinkhole.
Below was a hole more than 5 meters in diameter.
The teeth array full of sawteeth was a Sand Worm with its mouth wide open.
The open entrance leading to death closed.
Kwachaaaak─────!
Inside, a terrible flesh-tearing sound and blood spray of humans being crushed.
Like a meat grinder, it crushed what had fallen in.
A 30-meter Sand Worm initiated the first consumption.
“Kyu, rururut-!”
“Kyuaaaak-!”
“Kyuuu-!”
With that as the starting point, the Death Worms and Sand Worms all attacked at once.
Chwak! Kwadeuk-!
“Hu, aaaa-!”
“Uaaak!?”
“Keoeok!”
Chinese soldiers bitten by worms were thrown up into the air.
Severed arms and legs fell, and bodies were chewed.
Vicious and cruel consumption took place.
“Kkeok! Keukeokeukeokeok-!”
The limbs of a soldier whose body was bitten by a Death Worm and raised high into the air thrashed at high speed.
Kwadeuk-!
The body was eaten, and the severed lower body fell to the ground.
Kung. Jurureuk-
Jelly-like innards and sticky blood flowed from the cross-section of the severed human body.
Gudddduk- Chwak!
“Kkeuheoeok-!”
True to its segmented body like an earthworm, it also bends 90 degrees right below to eat.
It shows a skill like a human licking their feet while bending their waist 180 degrees while standing.
Screams erupted from the confused Chinese soldiers.
“Sa, save meeee-!”
“The company is under attack!”
“It’s an attack of desert worms!”
Suddenly, one-sided indiscriminate slaughter is carried out.
Death Worms and Sand Worms devoured humans indiscriminately.
They never targeted Rabat residents captured by the Chinese military.
“Mi, chin…!”
Mualpu was shocked at the sight unfolding before his eyes.
This is definitely not just a movement of magical beasts.
A strike accompanied by a thoroughly tactical system.
It was the perfect movement of an army.
“All troops! Return fire! Begin individual combat!”
The Chinese military, having regained its senses, didn’t just take it.
“Shoot! Shoot! Pull the trigger madly!”
“Die! You monster bastards!”
“Taste the modern marvel of firearms!”
The gun barrels of the Chinese military all spat fire.
Tang! Tatatatatang-!
Bullets with flashes flew chaotically.
Hit sparks bloomed chaotically on the bodies of Death Worms and Sand Worms rising here and there on the ground.
Tititititing-!
However, they don’t damage the worms with sturdy outer skin.
Death Worms at D-class and Sand Worms at C-class far exceed the level of damage that can be inflicted by gunpowder firearms.
Worms adapted to live in the harsh desert had outer skins that were sturdy armor in themselves.
To inflict damage on that constitution, magic firearms shooting attribute magic bullets are needed.
However, since it was a very simple mission to secure just one village, there were no awakened individuals.
It’s a situation where there aren’t even hunters from the Hunter Corps.
Kwang! Kusss-!
Worms were busily moving even on the outskirts of the village.
They damage Chinese military vehicles and tanks by striking them with their bodies.
They also destroy firearms by striking and crushing them with their bodies, leaving no room for recycling even later.
“Huak!”
Suddenly, a death cry erupts next to Li Juren.
When Li Juren hurriedly looked back, Mualpu, who had saved him, was being lifted into the air in the mouth of a Death Worm.
“Uh, aaak-! Lord Juren!”
Mualpu’s right arm holding a sword was bitten by the Death Worm’s mouth.
A Death Worm from beyond also bends its body and bites the remaining left arm.
Below, Death Worms poke out their heads and bite both legs.
Finally, a Sand Worm extended its huge mouth to the remaining head.
Chwaaaak-!
Mualpu’s head and limbs disappeared instantly.
Chwakchwakchwakchwakchwak-!
Death Worms and Sand Worms aggressively thrust their heads into the remaining body, which had become like dismembered punishment.
The human body disappears without form.
Becoming a handful of blood happened very quickly.
With the death of Knight Mualpu, the Shakazad’s operation commander, the soldiers led by his subordinate officers instantly became a disorganized rabble.
Support troops from the Shakazad Khanate begin to flee.
Since they were originally miscellaneous troops whose purpose was looting, they had no fighting spirit.
The cadres under Li Juren shouted until they spat blood from their throats.
“Don’t run away! It’s a violation of the military agreement between the two countries!”
“Don’t be ridiculous! Who would sacrifice their life to deal with such monsters!”
A Shakazad officer responded to the shout of a Chinese lieutenant.
They both wore Magic Earsets, so conversation was possible.
But their intentions clearly diverged.
Kwadddddd-!
Ground tremors occurred in front of the fleeing Shakazad Khanate soldiers.
Death Worms and Sand Worms rose up, splitting the ground.
Huge shadows fall over the soldiers.
“Uh, aaaa-!”
“Oh, moon goddess Arnya…!”
“I, don’t want to die!”
Despair sets in for the prey that is perfectly cornered.
The worms thrust their bodies into the soldiers all at once.
Chwak! Chwachwachwachwachwak-!
Severed limbs scattered and a flower of bright red blood bloomed.
It was the end of the collaborators who cooperated with the modern invading army.
The roars of worms and the screams of humans crossed.
“Kyuhwaaaak-!”
“Uh, aaaak-!”
A being not directly participating in the current operation.
The White Sovereign was watching the scene from a slightly distant point.
“Kyururururuk…”
Sharing of what the subjects eat takes place.
A system message appeared in the White Sovereign’s vision.
Just blankly, like watching the death sentences of countless prisoners.
[The power of the separated half-soul awakens. You have awakened Nutrient Predation.]
[Nutrient: Human has been acquired.]
[Nutrient Predation has been activated.]
[Nutrient: Human has been acquired.]
[Nutrient Predation has been activated.]
[Nutrient: Human has been acquired.]
[Nutrient Predation has been activated.]
[Nutrient: Human has been acquired.]
[Nutrient Predation has been activated.]
[Nutrient: Human has been acquired.]
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Those without any abilities, the non-specific, are just nutrients.