Chapter 855 Chapter 854: Terracotta Grottos (16)
?The Wurm let out a long hiss as it tugged back on its whips, retrieving their length and shortening them some as it raised its arms again, beginning its assault once more as it glared down at all of us melee fighters.
Turning my Khopesh, I activated the enchantment on the inner crescent and created a heavy discus of ice, using the blade as a launcher as I slashed at the Wurm, sending the discus flying straight towards its face, catching it in the midst of its swing.
With no time to deflect the discus with its whips - which were snaking through the air horizontally and crashing against the shield wall - the Wurm snapped its jaws shut and tried to twist its head away, aiming to avoid the headshot from the projectile coming its way.
Its eyes were clenched shut as well, the Wurm protecting its weak spots as best it could even as the discus slammed into its wooden helmet, the razor sharp edge cutting into the woven root plate mail and trying to chew through the armor to reach the flesh beneath, only to shatter before that happened, the slivers stabbing into the roots and lodging themselves there for now.
While the discus had been flying through the air, I launched another two, one towards its skull again and the other towards its torso, my projectiles buying the others a few seconds to launch their own attacks, capitalizing on this moment as the Wurm raised its whips up, trying to block anything that might come and attack it whilst it was temporarily blind.
Instead of attacking, it was forced to defend and pull its first blade away, swatting the discus out of the air and hissing once more as it glared at me, only to have its attention snatched by Jahi as she took the opening I gave her and stabbed forwards, her great sword thunking against its armor before splintering the wood, allowing her to stab the flesh beneath and make the Wurm shriek in agony as it was finally wounded.
With another discus heading towards its face, and a few other bolts of magic racing to slam into its body, the Wurm was momentarily frozen as it tried to determine what was more of a threat, staying its hands for just a heartbeat before deciding to target Jahi, deeming her to be the bigger threat.
Sadly, the Wurm wasn't able to make a proper choice as Jahi yanked her sword free and stabbed it forwards again, further cracking the wooden armor around its lower body and revealing the flesh beneath, before it was hidden again as she pierced its skin and buried her blade into its flesh, the Light Mana almost able to shine through its body.
It shrieked again and tried to bring its wooden weapons down on her again in retaliation, but the other Demons stopped it from attacking, blocking its strikes and redirecting them elsewhere, allowing Jahi to twist her sword and yank it back out, another slew of blood erupting from the wounds and drenching the ground in front of her before she stabbed it again.
Then the discus slammed into its helmet, knocking its head back and making its shriek disappear as it tried to hastily shut its mouth, only to swallow a few thick shards of ice and begin to choke on its own blood.
Those bolts slammed into its upper body and splintered the wood, impacting against its flesh and jostling it around some, before the Wurm fell limply onto its back, the sword stuffed into its stomach and the blood in its throat taking it down.
A monster that would prove troublesome for even just half of us was trivialized thanks to the numbers, the sheer amount of attacks and different angles those attacks came from, rendering its incredible abilities useless thanks to the amount of people attacking it.
Something that would not always be the case, but an advantage we were going to make use of in these upcoming days.