This was a demon Herag had never seen before.

"Shenlan, query information related to this demon."

Shenlan immediately responded, "No demon information matching the characteristics was found."

As expected, Shenlan's database also did not store information about this demon.

Herag guessed that this should be a demon unique to the polluted area.

Back when the pollution spread, the wizards had retreated.

But the flora and fauna in the polluted area couldn't retreat; they underwent long-term mutations in the polluted area, becoming all sorts of strange demons.

The pollution left by the Abyss Plane had severely impacted the ecological environment here.

However, the adaptability of life is strong. Many flora and fauna perished, but many also survived after adapting to the polluted environment.

The giant subterranean worm before him was evidently a survivor in this polluted area.

Not only did they survive, but they also became stronger, becoming a new kind of demon that had never existed in the Wizard Plane before.

The specifics of these demons were not well understood in the Land of Dawn.

Mostly contact with one would provide more understanding, and the related information was usually with the Pioneers.

Ordinary people in the Land of Dawn generally wouldn't encounter these and thus wouldn't grasp related information.

The giant worm turned to Herag and lunged directly, attempting to bite him.

Herag once more used a Flash to dodge; he certainly didn't want to test its strength with his body.

With a flash of light, the World Tree Bow was in his hand. Jumping backward to increase distance, he bent his bow and shot an arrow in mid-air.

The green arrow struck the worm's body, exploding and tearing out a significant amount of flesh and blood, with bright red blood splattering instantly.

The giant worm shrieked, seemingly in pain; its body bore a noticeable large crater that kept bleeding.

This completely enraged the worm. Its enormous body emerged a long way from the ground once more, pouncing at Herag.

Herag, under the state of Titan Power, was extremely agile.

Combined with Shenlan's assistance, he could predict the worm's action trajectory in advance, calculate its various data, and estimate the time and location of its attacks.

With a light step, Herag swiftly left his original spot, easily dodging the worm's attack.

The worm, due to its lack of vision, could only rely on sound and smell to determine Herag's position.

This made its actions somewhat slower and not as swift as when underground.

In this situation, it was naturally impossible to attack Herag, who instead created several wounds on it with the World Tree Bow.

Herag used another Flash to dodge the worm's bite and casually aimed an arrow into the worm's wide-open mouth.

The arrow from the World Tree Bow exploded inside the worm, and this time its wailing was extremely fierce, indicating severe injury.

The interior cavity of the worm was not as hard, much more vulnerable.

With this arrow shot inside, the worm became somewhat fearful, refraining from attacking again.

The worm's body was already covered in scars, its massive frame not entirely emerged from the underground.

It looked at Herag with some trepidation, withdrawing underground slightly, then stared at him.

Herag also stared back at the worm, with all muscles tense and mind highly focused, constantly aware of the worm's movements.

After a brief standoff, the worm retreated back under the surface and quickly left this area, abandoning its hunt for Herag.

Animal hunts consider the cost of hunting, and demons naturally do too, even more intelligently.

The worm found Herag somewhat troublesome; after some consideration, it simply abandoned the hunt.

Once it burrowed into the ground, its speed increased several times over on the surface. Herag couldn't keep it, only watching it leave.

After confirming the worm had left, Herag also quickened his pace to exit this area.

The noise from the battle just now was too loud; it could easily attract other entities.

As Herag passed the worm's burrow hole, he glanced down— the hole was deep and pitch-black.

A vague sense of unease stirred within him, an instinctive premonition of danger.

"This place can't stay."

The feeling grew increasingly intense, prompting Herag to sprint away from the area at full speed.

He had no idea what might happen here and could only speculate that something powerful was approaching.

Since the giant worm's attack, Herag became more cautious of the underground as well.

After a two-hour trek, Herag hadn't encountered any other living creatures along the way.

He couldn't tell if the polluted area was too vast, or if there were just too few demons.

After walking for hours, he only came across a giant worm emerging from underground.

Herag wasn't sure if this was good or bad, but going too long without encountering life didn't feel right either.

It could very well indicate something wrong with this place, making even demons reluctant to linger here.

As the sense of crisis in Herag's heart faded, he slowed down his pace.

He dared not move too quickly, lest he mistakenly enter a dangerous area and fail to retreat in time.

Proceeding a little further, Herag suddenly stopped in his tracks.

He spotted a plant not far ahead.

After traveling so long without seeing life, spotting a living plant instinctively felt abnormal to Herag.

This was a green broad-leaf plant, standing abruptly on the ground, with broad, thick leaves.

Although knowledgeable, Herag had never seen such a plant, nor did Shenlan's database yield any related information.

This suggested that the plant was likely a new species growing in the polluted area, surviving by adapting to the contaminated environment.

The area around the plant was clean and tidy, devoid of anything else.

Noticing these details, Herag frowned.

At the top of the plant, there was an upstanding bud, seemingly ready to bloom at any moment.

Pop.

A crisp sound broke the silence of the land.

The bud opened a slit, spitting out a black water ball.

The black water ball quickly ascended into the sky and then shattered.

When the ball burst, the sky changed dramatically, with dark clouds quickly gathering.

A gusting wind arose, and rain began to fall from the sky.

"It's raining..."

Herag watched the raindrops from above, caught one with a fingertip, and discovered the rainwater was pitch black.

The heavy rain came with ferocity, instantaneously creating calf-deep puddles on the ground.

Upon closely observing the terrain, Herag realized he was in a depression, with its center being the green plant.

The slope of this depression was so gradual that Herag hadn't realized he was positioned in a hollow.

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