509 Earth Elental
Shortly after Vaan escaped the sudden attack from above, his gaze flickered with a severe glint as he watched the spiral cone-shaped stalactite formation move.
They weren't just simple stalactites hanging from the ceiling; they were part of a much larger earthen entity - one that didn't seem to possess a shred of life force.
Rumble...!
After the giant earthen entity slamd into the ground, it continued drilling deeper into the earth. It moved so quickly that it was like a fish in the sea; the hard rocks in the earth failed to impede its movents.
They were simply like soft tissues in front of the giant earthen entity – easily torn apart.
Nevertheless, as the giant earthen entity continued drilling deeper and deeper into the depths of the subterranean region, Vaan could see the rest of its hard rocky body passing through the vast underground space.
At the sa ti, a three-dinsional image of the giant earthen entity's body slowly ford in his head.
However, it was only after the giant earthen entity completely disappeared into the deeper depths of the subterranean region did Vaan form a complete image of the giant earthen entity's whole body.
The giant earthen entity's form resembled a rock worm - its outer body was completely covered in hard rock-like scales, and the countless thousands of stalactites were actually its teeth.
The Stalactite Milk was sothing like drool excreted from its mouth.
Nevertheless, the giant earthen entity's outer appearance was the extent of its resemblance.
Beyond that, the giant earthen entity was anything but a rock worm. At the very least, it wouldn't be an ordinary rock worm if it was one.
Its body was simply huge to an unprecedented scale!
Based on Vaan's visual asurent, the giant earthen entity asured just a little over 100 kiloters long and 4 kiloters wide!
Calling it colossal would still be an understatent of its sheer size!
And because it wasn't just enormous beyond belief but also very fast, Vaan imdiately viewed it as a considerable threat.
"What kind of creature is this?!" Vaan frowned.
Rumble...!
'It's coming back!' The slight tremors in the ground imdiately alerted Vaan. His eyes instantly flickered with a sharp glint.
Boom!
Vaan's figure disappeared from the location with another spatial shift just monts before the solid ground beneath him shattered, giving way to the giant earthen entity.
After the giant earthen entity missed Vaan, it continued shooting upward and entered the dinsional crack hanging above.
Vaan had retreated a great distance, and yet the giant earthen entity still managed to locate him.
If the first attack was just a coincidence, then the second attack was a certainty. Vaan was the target of the giant earthen entity's attacks.
After the giant earthen entity completely left the dark underground space, Vaan discovered the two newly-ford abysses the giant earthen entity left behind.
They were around the sa dinsion as the existing underground space.
In other words, the dark underground space must have been ford by the giant earthen entity passing through the earth. Unfortunately, all traces of its movent had faded away over the terribly long years.
As such, Vaan failed to discover how the dark underground space was truly ford.
Nevertheless, after the two attacks, Vaan got a deeper understanding of the giant earthen entity's bodily structure.
It might look like an oversized rock worm, but it had no life; it was purely inorganic and entirely made up of earth elents.
"This thing is very powerful, but it's not an earth spirit..." Vaan muttered with a frown.
If the giant earthen entity were an earth spirit, it would have been possible for it to be a divine earth spirit.
However, higher-ranking spirits would have greater intelligence.
Vaan made several attempts to communicate with the giant earthen entity. Unfortunately, none of his words seed to have reached it. He didn't get any responses other than its attacks.
As such, he couldn't classify it as a divine earth spirit. He could only call it a pure earth elental worm without intelligence.
After all, if he died, the Stalactite Milk would be lost in his Heaven-Swallowing Space, drifting off in so subspace between the dinsions.
If communications were possible, he could have negotiated to return so or even all of the Stalactite Milk to the pure earth elental worm.
However, since it was non-intelligent, all forms of negotiations were off the table.
'It's coming again!' Vaan's gaze sharpened.
Boom!
Once again, Vaan escaped the range of the pure earth elental's attack, monts before it shattered the hard rocky ground and drilled back into the depths of the subterranean region.
No doubt, the pure earth elental worm would co for him again.
Each of its movents was huge and shocking, causing enormous tremors throughout the expanding underground space.
It wasn't the kind of attention Vaan wanted to draw onto himself.
'I can't stay here, Vaan's frown deepened.
Once he made up his mind, he imdiately flew through the dinsional crack. He left Chaos and returned to the surface of the moon.
Even without looking back, Vaan knew the pure earth elental worm was coming for him.
As such, he didn't linger on the surface of the moon. He quickly took off and ventured into the void of dark space, creating as much distance from the moon as possible.
In order to lose the pursuit, Vaan circled to the other side of the moon, where he would be out of sight once the pure earth elental worm erged from the dinsional crack.
After drawing a safe distance, Vaan observed the surface of the moon for changes.
Ti passed, but they felt longer than usual.
Seconds felt like minutes.
Nevertheless, several dozen breaths soon passed without any changes on the surface of the moon. Alas, it didn't keep staying that way.
Several more breaths passed before the pure earth elental worm erged from the moon.
However, the pure earth elental worm didn't go around the moon to find him. It directly drilled through the entire moon, from one end to the other, in order to reach him!
Rumble!
Right after the pure earth elental worm fixed its maw of stalactite teeth in Vaan's direction, the entire region of space around the moon shook!
'Spacequake!' Vaan's pupils shrank into slits.
The pure earth elental worm's silent roar could cause temblors in the moon's magnetic field and scatter it.
It was a different kind of spacequake compared to the ones generated by the explosions of azure energy during the clashes of asteroids.
There was no sound or anything that indicated the pure earth elental worm roared at Vaan. And yet, he still had the feeling that it did.
More importantly, it was a roar without any sign of anger or emotions, for that matter.
Since the pure earth elental worm lacked intelligence, it also had no feelings or expressions. It wasn't mad at Vaan or anything for stealing its Stalactite Milk. Or rather, the Stalactite Milk was irrelevant to it.
It just wanted to devour him.
The pure earth elental worm was simply an inorganic existence that acted to hunt all other lifeforms on instinct!
It was a life destroyer!
'I can't bring this thing back to Pangea!'
Vaan decisively flew away from Pangea the mont he witnessed the pure earth elental worm travel through the void in order to reach him.
It would be a catastrophe if no one could slay the pure earth elental worm. And even if they could, it wouldn't happen without Pangea suffering devastation on a seismic scale first.
Nevertheless, it truly surprised Vaan that the pure earth elental worm had a magnetic field, which it could manipulate for interstellar travel.
'I've truly stirred one hell of a hornet's nest this ti,' Vaan thought.
As he used spatial shift and pyrokinetic thrust to venture deeper into the depths of space, further away from Pangea and closer to the asteroid field, he glanced back occasionally to check on the pure earth elental worm.
Although the pure earth elental worm was very powerful, it was fortunate that he was still faster than it.
However, it was too soon to increase their distance.
He had to drag the thing further away.
...
Sixteen hours later...
After Vaan traveled through 2,000,000 kiloters of void space, he encountered a small debris field of shattered asteroids. It didn't have any azure crystal deposits, but it was rich in minerals.
Although unfortunate, the large mineral deposits were still very useful for forging various items.
Nevertheless, he decided to make the debris field his standing ground. We would face the pure earth elental worm there.
Throughout the entire trip, the pure earth elental worm had chased him without giving up.
'You chased for so long. I hope you are prepared to suffer for it,' Vaan conveyed to the pure earth elental worm with earth spirit telepathy, knowing it might not understand.
Rumble!
The surrounding space trembled with spacequakes as the pure earth elental worm responded with a silent roar.
'Is that your answer? So be it. Co! I will use you to test the extent of my power!' Vaan raised his battle spirit and appeared full of vigor.
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