Big Brain Little Brain Part 3

Like a war drum Krug's heart beat vigorously. He was excited about the tough opponent in front of him, but was also worried he would lose most of his equipment if he continued the fight.

As many thoughts crossed Krug's minds he said out loud, "No, to much thinking make Krug axe weak. Axe weak then Krug weak".

To many problems hurts Krug's head. Krug doesn't like when his head hurts because that showed weakness. Not wanting to be seen as weak Krug decided to simplify all of his problems.

"Krug not weak Krug strong. Kill bestie show Krug's strength".

Krug no long cared about his equipment or sought to exchange words with the rock worm because his axe would do the talking for him. Both sides charged towards each other Krug held his mighty axe up high while the rock worm bared its teeth downward in an attempt to eat Krug whole. Krug dodge to the left when the rock worm came crashing down. The rock worm missed Krug narrowly it could now only burrow underground then come back for another shot at Krug.

As the rock worm burrowed underground Krug took the opportunity to land powerful blows on the rock worm's long body. Each hit chipped away a piece of the rock worm's armor, but was nothing serious to the rock worm. Krug didn't like tickling his enemy he wanted the rock worm to hurt.

So, Krug activated his axe's ability and waited for the rock worms return. The sound was muffled but Krug could hear the rock worm moving underground it wasn't attacking yet so Krug stayed patient with his axe that softly glowed and left a chill in the air. When Krug felt his feet rumble he knew that it was time. Without hesitation Krug lept away before the rock worm popped out of the ground were he once stood.

Once the rock worm burst out Krug swung his axe like a baseball player at the rock worm's head used his skill [Two axe] along with the enchantment on his axe to create a marvelous effect. In that moment the entire battle field turned white. Snow covered the tree tops while the ground and rock worm were encased in a thick layer of ice.

Krug axe has a freezing effect that Krug can greatly magnify with his skill [two axe]. But the feat Krug performed had drawbacks and limitations. Krug had to use an equal amount of energy equivalent to the feat he performed, the skill damaged the rune engravings on Krug's axe, and Krug can only enhance something he's familiar with. So, if Krug used a weapon that was attuned to darkness there was nothing Krug could do to improve it.

Krug looked at the frozen rock worm and gave it a devilish smile.

"Bestie to weak to challenge Krug. Krug strongest there is".

As crug was enjoyinging his victory it soon came to an end. The ground beneath Krug's feet cracked and rumbled. The terrain was changing at a visible rate breaking all the ice on the ground and on the rock worm.

Krug had a bad feeling after witnessing the change that made made Krug run towards the trees as fast as he could. When Krug reached the safety of the trees he was happy he got there quickly because the entire ground turned into a swirling vortex that broke all of the ice and freed the rock worm. The rock worm was at the center of the vortex everywhere it went the vortex followed.

The ground was now to dangerous for Krug it heavily limited what he could do. The rock worm even more enraged then it was before quickly found Krug and charged at him. Krug seeing that the rock worm wanted to run him over made a strategic retreat. He move quickly but the rock worm was somehow even faster. No tree, rock, or passing beast slowed down the rock worm as it followed Krug everywere he went. After a short 10 minutes of resistance the rock worm fully caught up with Krug. It surrounded the tree Krug stood on inside the vortex of sand weakening the trees support making it fall down with Krug along with it.

Krug didn't cower as he fell towards the rock worm's mouth he flipped himself upright in the air and swung his axe downward at the rock worm's face. The axe burst with a splendid light that froze the rock worm's head. The rock worm reeled back in its head as it tried to get the ice off Krug was happy at that sight, but the rock worm didn't let Krug off easy just because its head was frozen. It knew Krug location, so it swung its tail at him sending him flying a long distance away.

Krug spun in the air like a football he had no control over his body. The spinning made him disoriented and nauseous when Krug came crashing down Krug hit a tree and nearly split it in half. As Krug laid on the floor he found it a bit difficult to get up three of his ribs were broken and the rock worm almost broke his left arm.

Krug's ribs didn't puncture anything, but he still coughed up some blood because he was bleeding internally from somewhere inside his body. To treat his injurys Krug took out a purple leaf from his pouch called a rot leaf and ate one. The rot leaf is not a naturally found plant it can only be made inside of a lab. Once someone eats the leaf the person goes though a weak zombification process. It slows down the rate of blood loss and numbs pain inside of a persons body, but at a cost the user's body will increasingly rot away faster until they take an antidote.

Krug has used many healing potions before, so much that now healing potions have no more effect on him. Unless he uses a higher grade healing potions like the ones Desmond has in his possession Krug is forced to use other methods. Many people suffer from the same problem especially those of a higher rank than Krug.

Once the leaf melted inside of Krug's body he could feel it taking effect, but he needed a few minutes for the effect of the leaf to spread every were, so he had to wait. At least Krug didn't have to weight alone. He had many corpse keeping him company keeping him company.

As Krug looked around he saw many skeletons and rusty weapons littered all around him. Lizard men, orc, human, beastmen, and more were all there. Where Krug got launched wasn't any kind of animals den it was just another forgot battle field. People fight and die in clover forest all the time finding places like these were nothing special.

Krug only gave the place a quick once over before turning his attention to the rumbleing sound in the distance. The rock worm was coming for him and Krug knew it.

"look like were not to late that dumb orc actually managed to keep the rock worm above ground for, so long".

Krug's attention was attracted to who produced that voice. Once he turned around he saw 3 figures standing a short distance behind him.

"Soft skins"

Soft skins is what Krug called humans Krug never had much time to learn big fancy words. So most of the time he kept things practical and called things how they were instead of what they are actually called.

Krug didn't have any love or hatred for humans he traded and fought them with them equally. Krug had a feeling that the humans didn't want to trade, so that left 1 option. But Krug was at a severe disadvantage the rock worm was coming and he had to face 3 humans without his axe. He had lost his axe when the rock worm sent him flying along with most of his arrows leaving him with only 10 arrows. Krug still had his trusty shotgun, but he wasn't sure if that was enough.

As Krug geared up for an even bigger fight then before a rusty longsword that was imbeded the rib cage of a dead dwarf a few feet away let out a soft cheerful shimmer.