V4C83 (2/2)

It looks like in Carol’s eyes, she also considers me to be a world-staggering human being similar to Marina.

At that moment — Haru’s tail stood up.

“Master, I smell movements in the earth … I fear that the Tubifex worms are coming up. Let’s evacuate for now.”

“Eh? The Tubifex worms are coming?”

Why is there a need to run?

Indeed, now, my 「Presence Detection」 had caught it.

The presence seemed like it was heading towards the bird that had fallen directly in front of us.

It was slightly away from where we were.

Very well, I’ll bombard it with spells if it appears.

I had that thought.

“Master! I understand master’s strength but we must evacuate this place first!”

However, Haru asked me to escape with an alarmed voice.

Then — a mere few seconds later — ‘that’ appeared.

“It’s like a giant snake.”

Marina muttered.

I also thought so. It felt like it would be angered if we called it an earthworm.

Just the size of the face was 5 meters tall. I could not even come close to comprehending the total length of it.

However, according to my Presence Detection, it’s center was probably within the ground.

Being unable to predict the size of the monster was the bottleneck for the 「Presence Detection」 skill.

It was a gray-coloured instead of a pink-coloured earthworm.

“Why’s that called a Tubifex worm?”

“This area is called the Ferrite Grasslands and in the past, it was called Ferrite Earthworm (Feruito mimizu) but it was apparently shortened to Tubifex worm(Ito mimizu).”

Uwa, the magic of words appeared. (TL: Misunderstandings due to words/language/speech)

” … Tubifex worms cannot see. They are monsters that look for and devour dying prey by detecting the lowering of body temperature.”

So it eats dead monsters and people by perceiving lowering body temperature huh?

“I wonder if I could defeat it by changing to magic-specialized jobs and shooting it with magic.”

“Tubifex worms are monsters that do not eat healthy creatures and enrich the soil so I think that it’s better to leave it this way.”

“Is that so, I see.”

A beneficial insect or rather a beneficial monster huh?

Just as Haru said, after 10 minutes, the Tubifex worm changed direction in the hole and return into the ground. Just as I thought if it would leave behind a large hole, the hole was closed using other soil.

“I understand how it digs but how does it seal the hole?”

“Using it’s excrement.”

Haru quickly finished her sentence. She was pinching her nose.

Excrement huh …. hmm.

It’s true that my sense of smell is not as sensitive as Haru but it was slightly smelly.

Even though the excrement of earthworms should normally be odorless.

“Evacuate! Let’s go to the forest!”

All members agreed to my opinion.