Culling

Nolan moved his torso by 3 inches, his eyes watching in slow motion the claw strike of the 10th monster that reached him, a curious look on his face, he put his hand in the monster's sharp mouth.

The monster instantly chopped his hand when it felt it enter, but it couldn't move past his skin, some of its thick teeth shattering on impact.

'What kind of defense is this?' Nolan thought bewildered, his hand forming in claw shape as he penetrated the inside of the throat of the monster, his fingers emerging from the top of its head.

'it seems they don't have the crystals in their head.' Retracting his hand from the monster, he let another one slash at his arm, feeling a little pressure from it, like running the point of a pen on your arm. A little uncomfortable only.

'Is their power weak or is it just my tough defense?' putting both of his hands in the monster's mouth, he pulled from the sides, the monster's mouth began to tear off in 2 parts, and its entire body split like paper in half.

'Utterly weak...' Nolan began his massacre killing brutally every worm monster that came at him, half an hour into it, he found himself yawning, stomping on the head of one that clawed at his leg, ripping his already ripped-up pants more.

Crunch!

'Ugh, disgusting,' A crawling sensation went up his leg as he squashed its head, seeing the remaining worm monsters beginning to retreat hurriedly into the tunnels.

Nolan didn't bother chasing them, focusing his attention back on the monster as he squashed his head with his boot.

Crouching down, he slicked its middle section with his fingernails, cutting the hard shell and flesh under it smoothly.

'Were they always this sharp?' Nolan worried a little, wondering if he might slice an important vein by an incident in other people.

Rummaging through the disgusting and steaming inside liquids and organs, he touched a hard yet soft thing, a smile appearing on his face,

'Found you,' Pulling his hand back covered in an unknown colored liquid, his vision not able to discern what color he was seeing in this total darkness.

'hmm... it looks a little different than the ones I got from the sewer tunnel monsters.' Nolan inspected the size and shape of the crystal he found, a little bit bigger than a pebble, it was shaped like a rhombus crystal, different from the random shapes of the sewer monsters.

Nolan decided against eating this crystal, tossing it back to the floor, he stepped on the hundreds of dismembered and brutally murdered worms, going into the tunnel most of the retreating worm monsters went into.

He walked through the spacious smooth tunnel, looking no different than the one he emerged from at first. in the end, another intersection appeared, this one had more tunnels connecting to it.

Standing at the center of the intersection, he tapped his legs on the ground repeatedly, simulating hurried running steps, and soon enough, clicking sounds coming from the tunnels, one of the monsters emerging and checking the situation out.z

Nolan didn't wait for it to come closer, appearing in front of it in a second, he kicked its torso in a stomping kick, and his kick pulverized the monster's torso,- splattering its insides into the small ditch formed by his kick on the ground.

The Clicking intensified, and more and more monsters run directly at him, or at his leg that impacted the ground, Nolan's face having an understanding expression.

'They seem to sense the vibrations in the ground, it's the sense they use in this dark environment,' He threw a little punch at the worm monster that came crawling at his at great speeds, sending it back with a blown-up torso toward the tunnel it came from.

'They are smart enough to retreat, yet more of them came into this intersection again when I killed one of them again. Do they not have any other sense to distinguish me from them?' Nolan inspected the worm he clutched by the neck, or what he thought was the neck, holding it in a tight grip right under its mouth.

'ah doesn't matter, they seem to have established a nest here, they must be the reason there was not a single person on the ground, they must have dug tunnels in a straight line as a trap that when pray fell in, they would be too injured and become easy kill. Clever and dump creatures.' playfully dodging a claw strike that became a direct collision with its brethren, ripping apart its brethren shell and flesh with its claw strike.

Crushing both of them with a downward punch, he looked around the still-pouring worms, wondering how long they would keep coming before they begin to retreat again.

His estimation stopped when a loud clicking resounded from deep in the tunnels, the worm monsters instantly spreading in all directions and away from him.

'Seems a boss is managing this place,' Nolan accurately traced the tunnel the deep clicking came from, running in a relaxed posture toward it.

This tunnel was the same, just a bit bigger than the second tunnel he passed through, its end seemed to be the center of the nest and tunnels filled the entire walls and ceilings of the large room he found himself in.

Nolan looked at the darkness-filled tunnel, knowing an untold amount of worms were waiting for him to emerge from the tunnel.

He stepped out causally walking to the center, stretching his grey-shaded arms coated with the colorless liquids of the worms he culled like parasitic animals.

"Come on! don't make me wait for you, you already wasted enough of my time." He said out loud, tapping his legs on the ground repeatedly.

The loud clicking from before reverberated in the quiet room, getting drowned by the biggest volume of the clicking sounds he heard.

Waves and waves of the bigger-sized and more menacing worm monsters merged endlessly from the tunnels, catapulting themselves to where he was with their bigger-sized claw arms.

Wanting to test this new breed, he let a claw strike hit him in the arm, his hand getting pushed back by 2 inches, the pressure of the force stinging a little only.

'Ooh, that must have packed quite a force, normal people would have been pulverized by it,' Nolan held the arm that struck him, using his other hand to hold the base of the arm while the monster kept bombarding him with its other claw arm, he ripped it out of its fleshy attachments.

Holding the claw arms base, he swung the claw hands at its previous user, slashing a large gash on its torso.

'these claws are surprisingly sharp, they could sell extremely well,' Nolan calculated how much each one would cost as he swung the arm randomly, ripping into the flesh of the monsters that were recklessly charging at him.

Throwing the monster's arm into a wide-mouthed worm, he began to use his hands again for a faster kill rate, the constant battering of their arms annoying him a little, having found out his hair could be easily cut from the sharp claws.

He cut them down like a wolf in a sheep paradise, no sweat appearing, as he experimented on the shortest way to kill them, as they endlessly poured from the tunnels.

The shorter and less stocky versions began to appear to fight him as he stood on a hill of the monster's corpses, at the moment they tried to retreat a loud clicking stopped them, following their brethren into the growing hill.

'When is this boss going to emerge? I'm getting tired of killing these weaklings.' he held a worm by its end, whipping it around like a rope, throwing its brethren over the large hill they climbed toward the bottom again.

Standing naked on top of the giant hill, he killed the last reaming worm he could see, spitting out some of its liquid that entered his mouth accidentally.

'eww, tastes awful.' he spat more, throwing the monster he squeezed to death in his hands.

He looked around, still not finding the boss. Sighing a little in disappointment, he fell backward and on top of a worm, sitting on a naturally formed throne of corpses.

He took a deep breath, coughing instantly as a deep rotten, and disgusting stench registered in his nose after all this time.

'ugh, have to get out of here,' He had a gagging reaction, as he hunched over in what would seem a painful experience.

As he was hunched over, he heard the loud clacking closer than ever before, raising his head, he stared at the ceiling as a 30-meter long and 10 meters wide worm monster dropped from it, falling on the edge of the huge hill of worm corpses.

Nolan watched quietly as he still hunched over with his hands covering his mouth, the boss climbing the rest of the hill to finally finish the strong prey that annihilated its children.

A strong prey filled the prim with life energy, the greatest nutrient they could ask for. With it, it could advance by two ranks of evolution, or so said its instinct, its mouth dripping liquids that sizzled the corpses it fell on.

"You're finally here." Nolan stood up calmly, not expecting the boss to appear on its own like that.

Crouching down in a jumping position, tremendous force pulverized the corpses under his feat to mush, as he rocketed toward the 30-meter height of the monster's sharp teeth-filled mouth head.

The boss tried to stop the incoming attack with its two huge claw arms, Nolan dodging them to not damage their quality, flipping mid-air, his ascend barely slowed down.

Floating for a second above its head, Nolan readied a punch, instinctively using everything he had, his hand began to glow, releasing ghostly white color in the darkness.

"It was nice meeting you. Goodbye." Then he fell, his punch landing on the monster's head, a rippled shock-wave spread, shell, flesh, and what else ripped apart like water, the whole upper head turning into mist.

Landing on the throne, he threw himself on the seat, hands clasped on his stomach, he watched with uncaring eyes as the huge worm monster fell next to the side of the big hill made from the corpses of its children.