The Great Worm Lich

The concentrated red liquid filled with acid and fire gradually slid over Zhang Lisheng’s outer-round inner square blue and yellow scales, while emitting faint green smoke and resonating a faint sizzling sound.

The young man shook his head slowly. As though not feeling anything at all, he looked at the strange worm on the ground with the same ferocious smile. “Compared to the King of the Sierras, the temperature and acid of your body fluid is not worth mentioning at all, little fella!”

Even though he said so nonchalantly, the blood and flesh that was exposed through his burnt scales still caused his anger to rise. Gritting down on his teeth, he grabbed another flesh tube of the strange worm and tore it out from the root again.

In an instant, the red giant worm wailed even louder. However, he still received no sympathy from the young man. One after another in succession, he tore away the flesh tubes from the strange worm and by the time there was only one head left on the giant worm, he transformed the spider web wrapping around him to become Ghostface again, before grabbing onto the strange worm’s brain.

After the dying red giant worm was released out of its restraint, it summoned its last ounce of strength and wrapped itself tightly onto Zhang Lisheng, tightening like a python, suicidally squeezing blood from its own body as it burned Zhang Lisheng till he was entirely wounded.

At this time, the young man still seemed to feel nothing. With a mutter of “I hope this time it’d work,” he casted the ‘assimilate’ spell again using his mind.

Black blood drifted out of Zhang Lisheng’s pores and gently drifted along the sea breeze before finally wrapping around the strange worm to infuse into its body through the torn open wounds.

The giant worm became stiff and loosened its long body that was entangling with all its might, before falling to the ground powerlessly.

After a while, a strange hissing sound resonated from the strange red worm as its bones began to emit a cracking sound. Slowly, white bones began to grow out from the seven huge wounds that were torn from the neck and not long after, seven cylinder-like bone frames were formed.

After the bone frames were formed, blood and flesh buds began to diffuse and slowly cover them. A few minutes later, tattered flesh that was bloody red in color began to wrap around the bone frames completely.

The blood and flesh growing on the strange worm’s newly born flesh tube gradually thickened. Red skin gradually appeared on its surface too. Zhang Lisheng who felt that the refining was about to success breathed a sigh of relief, and began to patiently wait for it to transform into a wizard gu.

Finally, by the time the strange red worm was completely restored to its original state, after its color had become more vivid, Zhang Lisheng eagerly focused his attention and gazed on it. Right away, two Chinese hieroglyphic words ‘Seismic Mountain Drill’ appeared clearly in his mind.

Although he did not understand the meaning, an ecstatic expression still appeared on the young man’s face. Clenching his fist tightly, he burst out laughing loudly and shouted, “It’s a success! It’s a success!”

When the tens of thousands of Tudenan warriors saw the tribal Raider’s insane acts, they lowered their bodies on their partners and dared not look at him. Zhang Lisheng, on the other hand, did not care about losing his cool and casted the ‘transform’ spell seven times in his heart.

After seven blobs of black blood left his body, the young man’s face became more pale. After the black blood entered the newly refined wizard gu’s body, the five flesh tubes on its neck entangled with each other and continued to elongate. Numerous wounds cracked open on its skin and exposed fresh red flesh and blood. In the end, they turned into five snake heads.

When the wizard gu was transforming, through his vague perception, Zhang Lisheng’s blood and vitality continued to deplete. At once, his body became so skinny as if his bones were merely wrapped with a layer of skin.

The young man had not let himself fall into such a weak position for a long time. Enduring the dizziness of his head, he stroked the wizard gu that had turned to become a giant six-headed snake and muttered in excitement, “The nine-headed fireworm among the ancient strange worms, no. It looks more like the eight-branched giant snake, the king of the ancient outer sea demon worms… Ah, no matter what you are, since your omniscient power is the Seismic Drill and that you’re fully red in color, I’ll just call you Red Mountain. Now that I have you, I have more buffering time now. At the very least, I don’t have to worry about transforming any wizard gu before reaching Rank-9 Wizard. Ah, I feel more at ease now…”

Zhang Lisheng could not help but mumble for a while. Then, as he gradually felt that his mind was getting more and more groggy, he waved his hand to call upon the dispatch warrior and ordered half of the Tudenan warriors to stay behind in the nearby jungle to hunt and guard the Kamando’s dwelling that was about to be Tudenan tribe’s new separated tribe. The other half of the Tudenan’s conquering army, on the other hand, would rush back to the tribe and convey the news of victory without battle, while simultaneously mobilizing craftsmen, laborers and women to come and build a new dwelling.

He, on the other hand, sat on the roof of a collapsed bark house that had not yet burned, cultivating the secret method to keep his remaining energy from depleting while waiting for the warriors to hunt for wild beasts’ meat for him to nourish his vitality.

In the next few days, under the hard work of the newly migrated Tudenan craftsmen, laborers and women, a newly built Hellfire dwelling was slowly erected and took shape on the former Kamando’s dwelling.

After nourishing himself with a huge amount of meat during this period, Zhang Lisheng’s complexion had finally recovered a lot. At the very least, he no longer looked as though he was dying at first glance. At this time, he finally contacted the US Army troops stationed on Shrimp B1 Island.

Knowing that he had delayed the time for too long, the instant the screen of the communication device turned into the map of the island, the young man tapped on the icon of the human gathering place and called out, “Eagle’s Nest! Eagle’s Nest! I’m Compass. I’m… Ah what the hell? This alias is really a mouthful. I’m not even a professional soldier! Is General Cole right there at the other end of the communication device? If it’s not General Cole, please connect my call to him please.”

“I’m Cole Cowain, Mr. Zhang. You haven’t contacted me for about ten days. What happened?”

“Everything went smoothly, general. Five days ago, Tudenan launched an attack on Kamando and I’m sure you must have witnessed the situation that time from an unmanned reconnaissance drone long ago right?”

“I didn’t see anything, Mr. Zhang. If we were to deploy planes on the air of Shrimp B1 Island, it’s still okay if it’s a fleet but if it’s a single plane, it’s entirely depends on luck whether it could return or not. You may not know this yet but in order to maintain this call with you, my troop has lost more than ten AWACS already…”

“I’m sorry to hear that, General, but I’ve also helped you save hundreds of planes, haven’t I?” Zhang Lisheng became silent for a while before interrupting Cole’s words. “Since you still don’t know the situation, I’ll update you then. The Kamando tribesmen have fled, they were driven out of Shrimp B1 Island by Tudenan. You should fulfill your promise now, Sir.”

“The C1 tribe has driven B1 tribe out of Shrimp B1 Island? Where did they go?” Cole was stunned for a while before asking.

“I have no idea about that. These natives have sturdy wooden ships that can drift thousands, or even tens of thousands of nautical miles away. Who knows where they would land. I can only assure you that you’ll never see these cruel barbarians in your lifetime ever again. Not only that, they have also paid a sufficient price for attacking the human gathering place. According to the legend of the island’s natives, the tribes that usually flee across the island would often have at least half of their tribesmen sacrificed.”

“I hope all of them die!” Cole fell into silence for a while before saying in a deep voice. “Tell the C1 tribe to send the second ‘gift’ over, Mr. Zhang. I’ll immediately send their ships over too.”

“Okay sure! But, General, it’s with regret to tell you that the second ‘gift’ is much more inferior to the first ‘gift’. The Kamando is a tribe ruled by the King of the Sierras. It doesn’t allow the tribe to have too many powerful monsters. Adding on to the fact that they fled and not defeated…”

“It doesn’t matter, Mr. Zhang. I just want to know, what happened to the King of the Sierras that has killed 157 soldiers of mine!”

“He’s Kamando’s leader so of course he has fled too. However, he has suffered from serious injury and in fact, seven out of eight of his, erm, organs, that he uses to drill holes and swallow people have been torn out forcefully. Who knows, perhaps he has already died in the ocean,” Zhang Lisheng shot off his mouth without restraint.

“Great! As long as I see those seven monster’s organs that devoured my soldiers, I can immediately dispatch 12 steamships to the native tribe!” It was apparent that in Cole’s heart, the over 100 attacks on the soldiers under his leadership carried out by the King of the Sierras was much more devastating than the tens of thousands of casualties caused by the attack on the human gathering place.

“Oh that’s lovely, General!”

“It’s nothing. I’m just keeping keep my promise,” Cole replied in the communication device. “Oh by the way, Mr. Zhang, can you arrange for the leader of the C1 tribe to meet me? Either he comes to the human gathering place or I go to the native tribe.”

“I’m sorry, General. I’m afraid I can’t. According to the tradition of the natives, the leader who determines the fate of the tribe will not meet strangers casually. I know what you’re worried about but please rest assured, Sir. From now on, the natives on Shrimp B1 Island will never hurt the Earth people any more. Of course, the Earth people must also learn to treat these indigenous people with an equal attitude. As for communication, if the human gathering place is opened to the natives once again…”

“The gathering place will not open to the natives for the time being, Mr. Zhang!” Cole interrupted with a decisive and resolute sentence.

“I think so too,” Zhang Lisheng said with a smile. “If that’s the case, I’ll explain to Tudenan’s leader and let them set the human gathering place as a restricted area.”

“This is for the best, Mr. Zhang. Some things are hard to tell via the communication device so I hope that you can talk to me after you come back.”

“You can’t talk to the Tudenan tribe’s leader so you’d just randomly look for the god with the lowest position and talk to him?” Zhang Lisheng had expected for Cole to say so. Jokingly, he replied, “Alright, let us have a good talk later on. I’m just worried that you might be disappointed.”

“Impossible! You’re a very magical and charismatic person, Mr. Zhang. I think I will never be disappointed,” Cole answered solemnly. “The steamships will arrive at the native tribe in two weeks at most. We’ll see you soon.”

“Good, General. By the way, there are more natural harbors on the original site of the Kamando tribe so the natives want the steamships to be sent there.”

“Send it to the old site of the B1 tribe? Alright, Mr. Zhang. Goodbye!” After Cole finished speaking, the screen of the communication device turned black, indicating that the call was over.