War (3)
The mechanic worm had won it for the worms. He was exhausted, he had used up all of the remaining qi he had gained from the breakthrough although he wanted to keep on going, he couldn't and soon enough he passed out on the ground, proud of himself.
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Meanwhile at the battlefield near Luke.
BOOOOOOM! BOOOOOOOOM!
The explosions were going off nonstop, like a rain of bombs on the human side and the worm's side, although about 2000 worms have died at this point and only 70 humans have died they didn't give up hope, they knew that even if they died they didn't want there home to be extinguished.
Although it looked as though both sides could go on forever, the ammo on both sides was running out and soon enough it would turn into a fistfight.
BOOOOM! BOOOOOM!
The last grenade was used at the same time the last cannonball was shot. At that moment both sides stopped, like a deer in headlights, preparing for the chaos that was about to unfold itself to the forest.
"ATAAAAAACK!"
The humans and the worms started to rush at each other and the moment they connected in the middle of the attack the real war began. Something was wrong, Although the worms were trying their hardest they just kept on falling to only one human, she had a similar presence to the wolf king, she was the humans' 3rd beginner spirit realm cultivator, but that wasn't all she was the only one defending from the attack and it was effective.
This made Luke suspicious, why only her? Why is she the only one defending? He then drifted his sight to behind him and immediately saw what was going on.
"WORMS, QUICKLY RETREAT-"
Although he tried to give them a warning it was too late. The humans started to throw molotovs at the worms. A roaring blaze soon came into Luke's sight with hundreds of worms under it, the last worms alive under it, slowly burning. The screams of his citizens rushing to his ears, the complete and uninterrupted despair and sadness in his heart.
Luke was lost in a sea of sadness, he didn't know how to feel, he didn't know what to feel, all he could hear were the cries of his people and the calm sizzling of the fire.
Although he was content with using his people in any way that could benefit him, he had grown attached to them, and in the way they were dying, the screams yelling in him, in the depths of his soul he could feel as though this had happened before, this absolute, complete despair.
Luke felt like he was going crazy.
It came like it always does, without warning, in a cold mechanical voice.
'The host has completed the hidden requirement, 'Watch a civilization crumble.' Will the host please choose one of the option(s) below?'
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1. Worm King
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In the wolf territory, where the mechanic is.
He woke up eventually and started to piece together what happened.
'Let's see, I think I killed the wolf king after unlocking a power in me, I'm not completely sure, it's all kind of fuzzy. Oh yea, I need to head back to the mother tree to inform them all of our victory.'
Then he started to crawl back to the mother tree, along the way he noticed many things, flowers flowing in the wind, gunshots, bombs exploding, the smell of fire, screams, and then silence. Although he had an idea of what happened he still needed to see it to believe it.
When he got there he saw an unbelievable sight, yet somewhere in him, he expected this.
He saw a fire blazing with might, he saw his friends and comrades under it, he saw the mother tree standing sturdy with a despairing silence, and he saw a group of 30-ish humans next to a fire, eating food.
"Look it's here", one of them said calmly as he expected the mechanic worm to return to the area.
"Alright ill go get it", the cultivator said, and after she said it she appeared in front of the worm and immediately removed the cannon and put the worm in a big jar.
"Alright let's camp here for the night, although the worm is in the 1st beginner spirit realm, this jar is made for creatures that are in the 3rd, we'll be fine to leave it in here."
As they began to set up camp, Luke stared at the blue screen in his mind, as his depression, quickly turned into anger, not explosive anger, but a calm and steady one.
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1. Worm King
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'Why that, WHY THAT. Damn this system, damn that HQ or whatever it is, damn this world.'
Soon after thinking about it for a while, Luke began the evolution process.
'System I choose the worm king.'
'Processing...Done.'
'Evolution commencing.'
'3'
'2'
'1'
Luke drifted to sleep this time with a goal.
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Luke woke up, it wasn't that long after he fell asleep he could tell it was a couple of hours because it was night and the camp was in front of him with the soldiers asleep.
'Evolution complete.'
He looked like a normal worm with a pinkish-white colored body, but he had a big body, just standing half up he was the size of a normal-sized man.
Luke didn't care to look at his gains from evolution at that moment there was only one thing he cared about right then. Revenge.
He slowly crept up to the tents, he entered on and used his qi technique for the first time, when he used it he was fast, he quickly crawled up to behind them and bit their neck, almost the whole neck was bitten off. Although they were asleep he still felt like he could still easily kill them if they were awake.
He repeated this to all of the tents in the camp, although the one with the cultivator struggled a bit after using the technique twice he killed her.
Although he got his revenge he didn't feel satisfied, he still felt like something was poking at his heart, he tried his hardest to ignore it, and slowly drifted to sleep for the first time in this life.