The end result was that he still fell into the swamp.
However, the monster that had tried to devour him was already dead. Naturally, the ordinary wild beasts didn’t dare do anything.
Using the vines, he climbed onto another tree branch.
Fortunately, this one was genuinely sturdy.
Just as he was about to move forward, he suddenly felt as though he was being watched by a dangerous and piercing gaze.
He imdiately stopped.
After causing such a disturbance, it was impossible that he hadn’t attracted attention.
This was exactly what he had hoped for.
"Mm!"
Suddenly, he saw nurous whirlpools forming in the swamp.
More than ten of them appeared, surrounding his location.
Shua! Shua! Shua!
From each whirlpool, a giant black centipede with crimson eyes and red stripes leaped out, lunging toward him.
DING!
(A Level 20 Boss Monster!)
A notification appeared.
It was supposedly only a single monster, so why were there so many?
Could all of them be the sa centipede?
The centipedes opened their mouths.
They weren’t particularly wide, but their rows of teeth looked incredibly sharp.
A black liquid coated them, giving off an extrely threatening feeling.
In response, Mateo released Ghost Wave toward them.
The distance was too short for them to evade.
The fire ghosts burned them into ashes.
Even the portions of their bodies hidden beneath the swamp were burned away as the swamp water evaporated.
However, Mateo soon beca confused.
There was no notification indicating that he had killed the monster.
As the swamp recovered, new whirlpools appeared.
More centipedes erged from each one.
Shua! Shua! Shua!
They charged toward him again, trying to swallow him whole.
How was this possible?
Mateo was bewildered.
This ti, he chose to dodge.
Buzz!
He released Primordial Wind through the soles of his feet.
Even without proper control, rely releasing wind downward instantly propelled him upward at trendous speed.
The centipedes chased after him until their entire bodies erged from the swamp.
Each was roughly twenty ters long, with hundreds of legs that seed to be running through the air.
’It seems this boss can split itself apart,’ Mateo thought.
As soon as that thought crossed his mind, more centipedes erged from those centipedes, using the bodies of the first ones as platforms to leap even higher.
Once.
Twice.
Three tis.
Four tis.
By repeating this process, they managed to catch up to Mateo despite the height his wind had propelled him to.
"Ehhh..."
He watched as every centipede’s body suddenly swelled up like balloons being filled with air.
Then they all exploded soundlessly.
A foul-slling black liquid spread through the air.
Just slling it caused Mateo to feel his blood flow slowing down.
His vision swayed and beca filled with shadows.
Shua!
He imdiately teleported to the edge of the swamp forest, realizing the danger.
The poison felt capable of interfering with the use of his powers.
That was why he chose teleportation instead of counterattacking.
Once he could no longer sll the poison, he quickly recovered.
However, he wasn’t given any ti to relax.
The swamp before him suddenly churned violently, forming whirlpool after whirlpool.
Centipedes shot out from each vortex.
Whoosh!
He unleashed a wave of flas filled with ghosts, incinerating the centipedes.
If he didn’t destroy them quickly, they would likely explode again right in front of him.
Yet, just as before, there was no notification that he had killed the monster.
This only further confird that he was rely destroying fragnts of the centipede’s body.
The question was where the real body was hiding.
The swamp was simply too vast to search manually.
When he scanned the area with the Star Wheel, what he discovered instead were nurous large lifeforms spread throughout the swamp.
Although he couldn’t confirm they were all centipedes, it couldn’t be anything else.
There certainly hadn’t been that many before.
No wonder they had located him so quickly after he appeared.
He teleported again, moving farther away from the swamp forest.
Opening the Magic World forum, he searched for information about this centipede and quickly found it.
Endless Centipede.
One of the most troubleso Boss Monsters due to its ability to divide endlessly, combined with its highly dangerous poison.
To kill it, one had to locate its true body.
However, there was a trick.
Like the Forest Chaleon, it was fond of Life Power.
Life Power could be used as bait to lure out its true body.
Mateo’s uneasiness vanished, replaced by a faint smile.
If that was the case, then this centipede would soon be finished.
Taking a deep breath, he teleported once more.
This ti, he appeared inside an underground chamber at the edge of the swamp forest.
There, he released a considerable amount of Primordial Life Elent.
Trees rapidly grew until they filled the entire underground chamber.
He hid behind them, prepared to teleport and attack the mont the centipede appeared.
It didn’t take long.
Soon, the cracks in the ceiling darkened, indicating that sothing enormous was blocking the light above.
This had to be the centipede.
And its true body.
Shua!
Mateo imdiately teleported upward.
The mont he saw it, his expression beca serious.
What an enormous centipede.
It was perhaps fifty ters long, though only around four ters wide.
Thousands of legs supported its elongated body.
However, what astonished Mateo most was the armor covering its entire body.
The forum hadn’t ntioned anything like that.
The armor was probably sothing the centipede had obtained on its own.
A magical armor capable of adapting to the shape of its wearer.
The centipede still hadn’t noticed Mateo.
Its attention was completely focused on the holes in the ground that were emitting Life Elent.
Its countless legs dug into those holes, widening them further.
Mateo swung his dagger.
It was coated with condensed fire and wind, producing a slash that descended like lightning toward the centipede’s back.
So what if it wore armor?
Could that armor withstand two Primordial Elents at once?
Mateo didn’t believe that was possible.
Boom!
The slash struck the armor and exploded.
Mateo, who had been completely confident, frowned.
The armor rely scratched.
That was all.
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