The Witch Hunter System
chapter-764

Abaddon scrutinized the abyss on the surface of the moon but failed to see through its veil of infinite darkness. Even though he had perfect night vision, he still couldn't see the bottom of the hole.

Just as he moved closer to check, he finally saw what was emerging from the moon's abyss – It was an enormous moving body of earth.

Roar!

The pure earth elemental worm roared, causing the surrounding space to tremble like frail glass on the verge of shattering.

'What the…!'

Abaddon immediately retreated several thousand meters back, eyes widened in shock at the thing before him.

"What kind of earth elemental is this?!" Abaddon exclaimed.

He was instantly taken aback by the powerful spacequake the pure earth elemental worm generated.

However, he soon realized it was only an Early Rank 6 Divine Being.

The spacequake made the pure earth elemental worm appear more powerful than it seemed. But since it was only an Earth Rank 6 Divine Being, he had nothing to fear.

"Is this your trump card, human?" Abaddon uttered with contempt.

After the pure earth elemental worm locked onto Abaddon's figure, it instantly pursued him in a frenzied state, greatly attracted by his powerful blood energy.

Abaddon immediately narrowed his eyes.

"You dare challenge me? Know your place, worm!" Abaddon thundered, eyes shimmering with a dark glow.

Darkness swiftly surged into the area, weaving around the pure earth elemental worm's colossal body like a web cocoon.

"Die!"

Abaddon clenched his fist.

The dark cocoon immediately shrunk in that instant, crushing the pure earth elemental worm caught within its countless threads of darkness.

Bits of grounded rocks and soil oozed out of the tiny gaps while the rest of its earthen body was either diced up by the constriction or compressed to the limits. It was reduced to a fifth of its original size.

Although it still seemed whole, it had already been diced into thousands of pieces. Only the constricting threads of darkness held it together.

After the darkness dissipated, the pure earth elemental worm slowly floated apart.

However, the pure earth elemental worm quickly reformed its broken body moments later. All its missing parts were returned to their original place and state within seconds and didn't seem to have been damaged in the first place.

Shortly after, the pure earth elemental worm resumed its pursuit of Abaddon.

"What!"

Abaddon's eyes widened in surprise, not expecting the pure earth elemental worm to survive such an attack.

Divine-rank elemental spirits were immune to physical attacks but not magic, let alone the power of law, which, in a sense, was a stronger form of magic. As such, the Divine-rank earth spirit should have been destroyed by the Darkness Law.

However, the reality was quite different from his expectations.

'A variant species?' Abaddon suspected.

Nevertheless, variant or not, the earthworm was just a little more tenacious than normal Divine-rank elemental spirits. It would still die once its energy was exhausted.

Abaddon quickly followed up with another darkness attack – an enormous spear of darkness. It was immediately hurled at the earthworm's mouth shortly after forming.

Since the last attack failed to destroy the earthworm from the outside, Abaddon intended to destroy it from the inside next.

However, a large spatial portal suddenly appeared between the two. It immediately swallowed the spear of darkness before disappearing. The moment it did, Abaddon felt a sense of danger from behind.

"This trick again?" Abaddon uttered gloomily.

Abaddon blew away the spear of darkness with an equal opposing power of darkness he had gathered in an instant.

However, in the next instant, his figure soon disappeared into the gaping maw of the colossal pure earth elemental worm. He was quickly greeted with thousands of razor-sharp teeth threatening to tear his body apart.

However, under the protection of the Darkness Law, the pure earth elemental worm failed to break Abaddon's defense.

From the outside, Vaan silently observed the situation from an obscured location among the floating space debris. After watching the earthworm swallow Abaddon, his expression remained unchanged.

He knew the pure earth elemental worm was not enough to deal with Abaddon.

Just as Vaan expected, the pure earth elemental worm's colossal body soon exploded from the inside out, sending its huge masses of earthly debris shooting into the depths of the dark void.

At the same time, Abaddon emerged from within, eyes sharply scanning the dark surroundings in search of Vaan.

"Come out! I know you are hiding around here!" Abaddon barked.

Nevertheless, he didn't have time to continue searching for Vaan as he noticed the pure earth elemental worm reforming itself, albeit at a slower pace.

The speed of its reform did not change, but it took longer due to its body parts being further away. That said, not all of its body parts returned to become one whole with its main body again. They were blown too far away to be recalled.

However, parts of the moon were quickly absorbed to make up for the missing parts.

"Still not dead? Truly tenacious," Abaddon frowned.

Following Abaddon's displeased look, the pure earth elemental worm was destroyed another six times through different means of attack. Each time it reformed, Abaddon became more and more surprised.

Even after he used the Asura Law, Abaddon still failed to slay the pure earth elemental worm.

"What the hell is this thing?! Why won't you die!? What the fuck do you want from me?! You're just a damn worm!" Abaddon cursed with dismay.

The pure earth elemental worm was like a piece of shit he couldn't get rid of once he stepped on it. No matter how many times its body was destroyed, it would reform itself and pursue.

"Piss off!" Abaddon roared, increasingly furious and annoyed.

Abaddon became so preoccupied with the pure earth elemental worm that he seemingly forgotten about Vaan.

Meanwhile, Vaan continued to lurk nearby, observing in silence.

Abaddon's cultivation was dropped to the ninth stage of the Divine Blood Realm after he descended into Pangea. But after following him to the sea of stars, it rose back up to the tenth stage of the Divine Blood Realm.

The worldly suppression was only limited to the Pangea planet and didn't extend outside of it.

Although Vaan was aware he had to face Abaddon at his full strength in the sea of stars, it was necessary if he wanted to make use of the pure earth elemental worm to delay him.

And by the looks of it, his plan was quite effective.

Abaddon felt like his authority was being challenged by the pure earth elemental worm's relentless pursuit and refusal to die.