Epic of Caterpillar

I immediately hit the giant red jewel when I saw it, jumping over it and unleashing the truest might of Roll alongside Mighty Caterpillar Bite, biting and tearing apart the entire jewel, cracking it and shattering it into tiny pieces!

Crack… crack!

CRAAAAASSSSHHH!!!

“GRYYYYAAAEEEEEGGHH…! M-My core…! MY DEMON CORE!!!”

Pereza suddenly began to scream in agony as her Demon Core was broken into pieces. I do remember that all the other Demon Lords I fought had this organ somewhere within their bodies. It grants them their insane amount of magical power and also act as an organ to regulate mana and produce it in large quantities. It is one of the “cheats” that all demons got compared to other races. And because it is similar to monster cores, other races have even more justifications to call them monsters. Well, this one was really a monster based in her appearance alone!

CRAAAAAASHHH!!!

Her demon core shattered, and her entire body suddenly began to tremble, her energy was destabilizing, and now all the power she was getting from the dungeon was coming back to her even stronger than before, I saw as her entire body began to explode, blood and oozy liquids coming out of her wounds which stopped regenerating. If we didn’t wanted to get buried in all this meat, we had to escape, and what’s better now that she lost her regeneration capabilities due to a lack of total energy?

“Y-You bastards…! YOU BASTARDSSSS….!”

The screams of Pereza resonated through the entirety of her fleshy interior as I spread out several limbs made out of my divine aura and phantasmal aura and grabbed Luminous, Elfina, and Fiere, moving them with me as I rolled my way through millions of kilograms of flesh!

FLAAAAASHHH!!!

“Come on…! Come on…!”

TRUUUUUMMM…!

The flesh behind me began to quickly fall apart, if we get buried here, I and Luminous might survive, but there’s no way Elfina and Fiere will! Shit, shit, shit! I did this a bit without thinking of how Pereza would end up dying, but collapsing into a pile of dead flesh wasn’t what I expected it would happen, seriously, I can’t eat enough, not even Overeating grants me such a big belly, I feel full already! Ugh…! I have to continue rolling through and break through the flesh! I’ll continue using my bite but I won’t swallow, throwing away the flesh if necessary!

CLASH!

CLASH!

CLAAAAASH!

Suddenly, I finally managed to break through the last layer of flesh caging us inside of Pereza, as I found the stairs that lead to Floor 9 once more, and continued rolling through them while I occasionally looked behind me, a mass of flesh was constantly coming my way like a huge explosion! Is her body so big that not even Floor 10 can sustain her corpse? Seriously?!

TRUUUUUMMMM…!

“GYYYAAAAH! I don’t wanna die crushed by disgusting flesh!” Cried Elfina.

“Come on, Kireina, hurry! FASTER! ITS COMING!!!” Cried Luminous.

“Uwawawawaahhhh!” Even the composed Fiere began to panic.

“UUUGGH! SHUT UP! I AM DOING MY BEST!” I cried my lungs out, as I continued rushing.

I had to think I was Sonic to concentrate into my Agility…

I am… Speed!

I continued infusing Mana into my own body, suddenly discovering the ability to enhance my stats through this, it was nothing much, but I think this is a way to enhance the body, the [Body Strengthening Technique]! It is different enough from the Aura Skills, but it gives a direct enhancement to the body, the fleshy body of mine!

BOOOMMMM!!!

I suddenly clashed over the ground of the floor nine, as I saw that the fleshy explosion stopped behind us. I think… it was over. My entire body was already half-cracked, Aquamarine was shattered into pieces, but he turned into liquid water and kept like this until he fully repaired, and everyone else seemed to be alright as well.

“Phew… That was really close.” Sighed Elfina.

“Yes… We almost didn’t made it.” Sighed Fiere.

“I-I have to admit it… You’re strong.” Luminous directed his gaze to me as he seemed to be happy.

“Hahaha… Yeah, I am pretty amazing but you guys did great at supporting me.” I said. “Your barriers come in very handy too, I can’t even fathom to make such strong barriers as you, lizard.”

“Don’t call me lizard!” Roared Luminous angrily, as I laughed and looked into the System’s notifications.

…?

But there was nothing.

Huh? Where’s the EXP?

“You guys got any EXP out of this?” Asked Elfina.

“N-No…” Said Fiere.

“Wait a minute… Is Pereza still alive?!” Asked Luminous.

“No way! That thing’s still kicking?!” Elfina cried.

“That’s the only possibility!” I said, moving towards the stairs and seeing her flesh, it was immobile, and there was nothing, really. I quickly decided to unleash [Holy Flames] combined with [Fireball] and [Cutting Wind] together to form a vortex of holy flames, burning through the entire flesh as the delicious smell of grilled squid began to permeate the environment. I used Appraisal over the flesh, but it all was dead.

Where the fuck is Pereza?

“GYAH! L-Luminous?!”

Suddenly, I heard the cry of Elfina, as I quickly directed my gaze to the trio, suddenly finding something strange happening! Luminous head had a giant squid stuck to it, and his eyes were completely red, his entire body was trembling, as the squid continued to spread its fleshy tendrils and veins over his body, infecting and parasitizing him!

“Unngghhh…! Akkkhhh…! I-I lowered my guard!” Luminous kneeled in the floor as he tried to take away the squid from his head, but the possession over his body was stopping him. Elfina and Fiere quickly began to step back.

“W-What is happening?! Is that a parasite?!” Asked Elfina.

“Damn it…! Blaze Arrow!” Fiere took an arrow and fired it at the infecting parasite, as a burst of flames exploded around Luminous!

BOOOOMMM!!!

“Heheh…”

However, Luminous began to laugh rather ominously, as he suddenly appeared unscathed, he had defended the parasite with a light barrier. And his eyes were now completely red.

“Ahhhh~! This body is really something else! I don’t even want to have that disgusting body again, this body… the body of a god, rather suits me well, isn’t it? Fuahahahah!”