"Finish it."

Lucien gestured at the spider queen and the queen lowered her head, her fangs glinting as she moved towards the worm.

"Hisssss!"

The worm tried to stand up but its head was ringing. Its body once again slumped to the ground.

The spider queen’s fangs flashed and dug into the worm’s head.

Crack!

The fangs easily bypassed the broken shell, digging into the worm’s flesh.

As the spider queen slowly lifted her head, the worm’s body was dragged up, dangling.

"H-hissss!!!" It thrashed around, but its movement slowly slowed down.

Lucien secretly sighed in relief.

Hahaha! Finally! The boss is dead!

Lucien slowly turned around and walked away but behind him—

The worm’s tail suddenly split on its own and fell off.

Thud.

"Hmm?" Lucien turned his head around again and saw the separate tail, less than a tenth of the big body.

Somehow, a strange four-petal mouth slowly grew from the "tail".

The sight was a very familiar one.

An ominous feeling suddenly struck Lucien.

"Kill it— "

Before Lucien finished his words, the smaller "tail" suddenly twitched and dived into the ground at lightning speed!

At the same time, the weak big body in the spider queen’s mouth suddenly thrashed around, its lower body slamming against the spider queen’s legs.

Thump! Thump!

The intact shell on the lower body hammered the spider queen and the bite on the worm’s head loosened.

The worm fell down but instead of diving back, it immediately slammed its body towards the queen.

Thump!

"Kiikkk!"

The queen shrieked, her huge body stumbling back by several meters.

A split second later, the big worm lunged at the spider queen, its petal-like mouths contracting.

"Hisss!!"

The queen with her big belly couldn’t dodge fast.

Splat!

The worm’s teeth drilled into the queen’s front leg and the queen subconsciously shrieked.

"Kiikk!!"

The queen opened her mouth and a ball of white threads formed inside.

As green blood burst out of her leg, the web ball shot out like a bullet, straight towards the worm’s head.

Swish!

The web ball bloomed into a web net and completely covered the worm’s head.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

The queen quickly wrapped the web around the worm’s mouth, gagging it, but the worm’s teeth tore the web in one go.

Tear. Tear.

As if injected by something, despite its trembling body, the worm clung to the queen, entangled tightly.

"Hisss!!"

"Hisss!!"

Thump. Thump.

Tak. Tak.

The two colossals were locked in a heated battle and Lucien silently stepped several meters away, avoiding the chaos.

His face was calm, as if watching two kids rolling around in the mud but inside, Lucien was tearing his hair apart.

Ahhhh!

How come the dying worm suddenly comes back to life?

And the tail that suddenly grew a month...

Lucien had a bad feeling.

He casually glanced at the hunter and the hunters immediately jolted awake, their scalps tingling.

The humanoid monster is asking them to deal with the smaller worm.

That must be it!

"F-find the small worm!"

Visor quickly scanned the ground and found the small tail moving away with difficulty, its movement several times slower than before.

"There! Earth hunter!"

Visor pointed at a certain range and the earth hunter who was overworked to the bone used his newly recovered skill.

[Earth Dig]

Boom!

The earth underground erupted and the small worm was thrown into the air.

Without any commands, the hunters who had recovered their skills immediately blasted their skills onto the small worm’s body.

Boom!

The small worm’s shell cracked to pieces and the flesh was instantly charred, falling off.

Blood burst out, splashing onto the ground. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

"Hisss!"

The small worm shrieked as dust billowed, covering its body.

Everyone’s eyes widened, holding their breaths.

I-is it dead?

It must be right?

As the dust slowly settled...

Swish!

The small worm’s silhouette squirmed and slowly dived back into the ground.

Its figure vanished once more.

!!

"Impossible!"

The attack had clearly landed!

At Lucien’s side, Lucien also saw the spider queen’s fangs once again piercing the worm head.

Brain splattered, blood burst.

It’s done for.

But...

The worm twitched like a zombie and the next second, it continued to entangle the spider queen, its mouth relentlessly biting at her.

"Kiikkk!"

Alongside the piercing cry, Lucien’s heart sank, his inner self fainted.

A zombie worm? An immortal?

Why are they not dead?!

Even worse—

[Territorial Descent: 00:59]

No, no, it can’t end now!

Outside, Lucien merely frowned, but inside, his inner soul was pacing back and forth.

There must be a secret here!

Lucien’s mini dungeon boss at the corner slowly rose, its small tail slapped the ground impatiently.

—Kill...both...

Ugh, of course he knew he had to kill both!

Lucien rolled his eyes but then he paused.

His inner soul grabbed the dungeon boss Lucien and shook him hard.

What did you say??

The mini dungeon boss frowned, its tail whipping irritability.

—Kill...both

Not kill two.

But both.

A flash of light appeared in Lucien’s mind.

A linked health?

Or a linked damage?

So—

He had to kill both at the same time?

Lucien’s eyes immediately snapped open and his aura twisted, making the big worm paused for a split second.

The spider queen took the chance to bite down again, but like before, no matter how she bit it, the worm’s head just refused to fall.

On the contrary, the worm tore through the queen’s flesh and her body visibly slowed down, her belly leaking with green liquid.

The queen is struggling.

[00:30]

Lucien looked at the hunters—

The earth guy had just used his skill.

The others too, had just used their skills to attack the small worm— to no avail.

Then...who could kill both worms simultaneously?

Lucien’s inner soul shook his head hard, trying to stop Lucien, but— that sentence still came out of his lips.

"It’s me."

Yeah.

He’s the only one who could kill both worms simultaneously.

Lucien immediately looked at the system panel and this time, the system that always reacted a beat late, flashed three skills shining in gold.

[E-rank possible acquired skills: ]

[Landlord’s Inspection: Appraisal Skill]

[Heart Is Where The Heart Is: Passive Skill]

[I Am You, You Are Me: Borrow a tenant’s body part]

And there, at the bottom of the three skills, a skill glowing with an ominous red light flashed.

[Dungeon Boss Partial Transformation]

[Right/left claw:

- 10% main dungeon energy]

[Tail: -20% main dungeon energy]

[Spider legs: -20% main dungeon energy per leg]

The system panel flickered and a bold exclamation mark appeared.

[Warning! Warning! For every body part transformed, there will be one side effect!]

Lucien’s inner soul flinched at the word side effect and wailed.

No, no, don’t do that!!

But if he wanted to get the dungeon core...

He had to kill the boss monster.

There’s no choice.

Lucien, fully aware of what might happen to him, resolutely closed his eyes and imagined his dungeon boss appearance.

The mini dungeon boss in his mind immediately sprung and the inner soul was kicked to the corner.

Simultaneously, a deep, hoarse voice rang in Lucien’s mind.

—Eat....

"Ughhhh!"