Su was laying sight on a smaller steel skinned worm that had at so poi t crawled its' way to the surface. However, it had not survived its' injuries long. "It has so of the yellow sli bodies on it and it appears that it did not counter that well."
The party moved towards one of the holes made by the worms and found one that had mostly co out of the ground. It was significantly small than the long skin they had purchased in the auction. Yet, it was still many tis larger than any normal earth worm.
"Walker, you should store it away. It might be damaged but I am sure there's is still a use for it." Gil was thinking that the pieces of damaged steel worm skin can be used for repairs or just sold in general.
"Good idea. We can make use of it. It does worry that the sli sare obviously the reason for the steel skinned worms coming up to the surface where they would never normally be." Walker tapped the worm body to store it away but found that it was still there. "It didn't store away…"
His quizzical look started to let way for understanding as he could see so parts of the worm moving as if sothing inside was moving. "This might be gross, but what would happen if a steel skinned worm which is blind accidentally ate an acidic sli along with the rocks and ores?"
His question put everyone on guard. They could hear the slight sizzling sound of sothing within the steel skinned worms body and also saw the strange motion of the body. None of them needed to answer Walkers' question. They already knew the answer.
Before any of them could move to attack The skin of the worm started to beco thinner and thinner until a smaller yellow sli lted its way through. It was followed by two more that were trying to encompass the entire steel skinned worm.
"Everyone back! We need to stick to ranged attacks." Walker shouted this but Rey and Su were already retreating since they had spoken about this possible danger.
"What do you think will work on them? Fire? Or should we try water elental attacks to freeze them?" Gil wasn't sure what elental arrow would be the best to attack. He knew that Wind could cause acid to fly in the air and harm the others while earth would just temporarily stop them. These slis were enemies of the earth in the sense that they ate away at the ores within so he knew that trapping them or stabbing them with an earth spike wouldn't be as effective.
"You try one of those fire wither spike arrows. We will retreat far enough to stay away from the attack." Walker knew this was risky, but since there was no dry grass or trees they were able to take a shot at burning the slis.
"Sorry Rey, but these things should burn away." Gil said a quick apology to Rey since he was not sure he would avoid defeating all the slis with this arrow. The wither spike fire elental arrow was a larger area attack after all.
The retreat was smooth since the sli had not noticed the party due to their fixation on the steel skinned worm they were eating. Walker knew that the body most likely had a lot of ore within it and that was what they were after. Not to ntion it had absorbed the ore for its entire lifeti.
"Ready," Gil gave the warning before releasing the fire elental wither spike arrow. It threw off heat as he used his mana to activate it and let it fly through the air.
Gil had aid for the center of the steel skinned worm so that he could burn the entire thing. This proved to be the right move because as soon as the arrow made contact it burst in to a ball of flas.
Walker watched this and saw that the yellow slis were contorting in to strange shapes as they realized the danger they were in along with the slow disappearance of their food. He took the chance to send off three fire bolt spells to make them burn more.
The fire bolts were right on target and hit the slis and steel worm with three loud bangs. "They are still moving in the flas. They seem agitated." Su was making sure she had the shields ready for the worst case scenario of an acid spray attack.
However, instead of an acid spray attack, the three slis burst out of the flas and were moving as fast as their bodies could roll at the party. They had lost the ores they wanted to eat inside the worm due to the burning fire and could feel the tal of the partys' armors and weapons.
"Gil, use the water elental arrow now!" Walker yelled and Gil fired the arrow he had prepared. The two were a perfect team since they were already prepared without needing to say anything before hand.
The water elental wither spike arrow made contact with the leading sli which seed to be fusing with the other two while they moved toward the party. The arrow imdiately started to break down in the acid of the yellow sli's body but this only hastened the release of the water elental mana.
The mana that gathered brought with it the moisture in the air and in a few seconds a series of ice crystals had sprouted from where the arrow pierced. Without the arrow being intact properly it was more of a large ice crystal that spiked out and pierced the slis acidic body in multiple places at the sa ti. The loud sounds of sizzling acid were the only thing the party heard while holding their breath for the result.
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