Fighting the Dracoworm, Sound

They traveled for close to an hour until they finally got to a colossal hole. The diameter was fifty meters wide, and they couldn't even see how deep it went.

"That's a wide hole. Are we sure the worm is within the blue rank?" Floyd asked

"Yeah, the adults have already scoped it out. There were others, but they were already taken care of. I specifically told my dad to make sure this one was not killed so we could hone our strength," Ragnar said. "Apparently it's a peak blue draco worm, which means it can face several red ranks. Watching our dads fight against two purple-ranked beasts made my blood pump."

"Julius, you know you can't use the earth, so you have to be careful. If it gets too dangerous, hop on Maverick and retreat," Garr said like a big brother.

Julius was the only one of the barbarians that could not use the earth ether attribute, and since he was also the youngest , the three of them always made sure that he was safe.

"I don't know, but I feel I might be able to utilize the attribute today. It's just a gut feeling." Julius said encouragingly:

"That's the spirit, little one." Ragnar rubbed his head. "Are you guys ready?"

Everyone nodded. Ragnar ran to the edge and jumped in.

They were all surprised and face palmed. All of a sudden, a loud shriek sounded from within the hole. It was louder than Garr's father, making everyone cover their ears, but Julius stared at the cave because a weird phenomenon was happening.

He could hear the shriek. He could physically see the sound wave. He stretched his hands to touch it, but before he could, a giant red scaled behemoth came out of the hole like a bullet train.

Julius was pushed back but got up immediately. He retrieved his mace from Maverick and took a battle pose.

Floyd withdrew what seemed like a giant fang. They were the fangs of a deadly viper that Floyd's father gifted him, so he now wielded them like daggers.

Ragnar sat in the draco worm's head as he continuously clobbered it with his fist, but to the worm, they were like deep tissue massages. It flung Ragnar off of its body. Ragnar was sent flying, but a giant hand made from mud emerged, catching Ragnar.

" Thanks Garr," he said.

"You're welcome. Now let's focus and get this fucker." Garr ran forward, and all the fat in his body shook with every step. Around his body, the earth started to connect until he was like a running golem. He jumped and transformed into a ball with giant spikes all over his body. He rolled at high speeds towards the worm, creating a ramp and giving him massive air.

He collided with the draco worm, causing its scales, which looked as hard as diamonds, to crack. The draco worm roared in pain and used its tail to smack Garr away. Floyd had managed to successfully sneak onto the draco worm's head, and he stabbed his dagger into one of its two tiny eyes. There was poison on the dagger, but it could not kill the massive beast. It rolled and coiled, shaking its body to throw Floyd off of him, but Floyd held steady. Ragnar joined the party again. Wearing giant rock gauntlets with spiked knuckles, he attacked the worm.

While they were all attacking, they realized that Julius was not among them. Looking for Julius, they saw him by the hole where the worm came out of; he was stretching his hands and twirling them as if he were playing with water.

What they couldn't see was that Julius was moving the waves from the monster's shriek. Normally, it should have disappeared as they could no longer hear it, but to him, it was like a still pond.

As he was moving his hands through it , he felt like he could take it in, so he tried it. He absorbed the loud shriek, and the wave was gone. As he did, he felt full and felt like he needed to release the wave, so he yelled in the direction of the draco worm.

The three guys were still attacking the worm and also worried about their friend, but all of a sudden, they saw him open his mouth, and what came out wasn't words or even his voice but the loudest shriek they had ever heard.

It pushed them off the worm, pinned the worm to the ground and also pushed Julius away as he wasn't properly grounded.

Ragnar, Floyd, Garr, and even the boar, Maverick, stared at Julius like he was some freak while Julius lay on the ground, clearly shocked but excited.

'I knew something good was going to happen," he screamed in his mind.

He swiftly got up and said, "What are you guys looking at? It's getting up."

They shook out of their reverie and continued their attack on the creature. Julius walked about the battlefield, absorbing sound waves. He felt the shriek attack could still be done, but he had emptied out his ether reserves. As he could not use the earth and ether elements, he was never taught how to increase his reserve, but now he needed it. His ether reserves were slowly increasing. He looked at Ragnar as he jumped from the ground into the air, and he felt he could do the same thing.

He manipulated a bit of the recovered energy toward his feet and

BOOM!!!

He dashed forward and was unable to react as he tripped over a boulder. His energy was exhausted again, so he just sat and watched his friends fight the worm .

They fought it for over an hour and were slowly getting tired, but the damage to the worm was negligible. Ragnar had a crestfallen expression as he felt he was still very weak.

He looked at Julius, who was getting up into a running position. He was confused, but he knew his friend wanted to do something spectacular again.

He yelled, " Guys, get ready to retreat."

The others were confused, but they still nodded. Ragnar yelled the word 'now' and jumped away from the worm, as did the others.

The draco worm entered a state of confusion until it heard a massive boom sound. It faced in the direction of the boom sound and roared.

Julius was already in the air with his mace in a striking position as the worm roared. He absorbed the sound waves entering the open mouth of the worm and then

BOOM!!!

Another boom sounded out within the worm. Julius tore through the back of the worm, covered in yellow goo. He rolled on the ground, as he could not have a proper landing yet.

The worm gave a final sad shriek. All it wanted was to be with his family. The barbarians had killed its entire pod and left it alone, and when it thought it would be alone with at least some peace, it was attacked and then killed.

Ragnar, Floyd, and Garr ran towards Julius.

"What was that, Julius?"

"How did you do that?""

"It was insane. You're insane"

They all spoke with amusement and recognition. Rubbing his hair and lifting him up, they walked in the direction of the worm and started to remove its teeth and scales.

As they were removing their trophies, they saw a carriage coming in their direction. They were instantly on guard. The carriage stopped in front of the giant hole. They sized up the female coach driver and instantly knew what she was.

"Vampire"

They all whispered. Vampires were really strong, one of the strongest races in the Daemon continent, and they also fed on blood or energy, so immediately they noticed it was a vampire. Garr brought out a horn and blew it.

Everyone in the barbarian clan heard it. Immediately, Vollen and several other barbarians, over hundred of them including the fathers of Floyd, Julius and Ragnar rushed out towards the noise of the horn.