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The noise that the sandworm made was long, drawn-out, and echoing.

With a loud boom, the wind was sent flying as Wynnyd exploded a hole in its side. Eugene held on tightly to himself as his body was thrown out of the hole.

His surroundings were pitch-dark. This couldn’t be helped. After all, he had crawled through the long, winding body of the sandworm and torn a hole at its tail end before being expelled from it. Since the sandworm had tunneled up from beneath the quicksand, the place where it had come from and where Eugene had now arrived was obviously deep underground.

“Ugh,” Eugene groaned as he got up from where he had fallen.

He had been thrown quite a distance. Eugene was lucky that he hadn’t hit a wall or any sand while flying through the air. He had been prepared to be buried in sand in the worst-case scenario, but as per his prediction, that hadn’t happened.

The only things summoned by that summoning spell were the quicksand terrain and the sandstorm. The sandworm itself hadn’t been summoned. Although it may have been enticed, the sandworm had to have been inhabiting the ground beneath the desert beforehand.

Since that was the case, there would obviously be a sandworm’s nest deep underground. The place where Eugene was standing now was precisely that sandworm’s nest. Eugene looked around with a disgusted expression on his face.

The first place Eugene looked was up top. He could still see the sandworm’s tail wriggling and twitching. He had pierced the sandworm a new anus, but would it die from that? He had no idea. Well, anyway, thanks to it, Eugene had been able to dive underground as he had been hoping to do.

The tunnels underneath the desert were… extensive. But that was also what he had been expecting. They were created by the sandworms burrowing through the ground beneath the desert with their massive bodies. Earthworms would at least have made the soil fertile in the process, but the sandworms didn’t provide any such benefits.

These sandworms sucked up all the water sources beneath the desert, draining any oases. Then the bodily fluids they excreted would solidify the sand as they burrowed, creating these complex and useless tunnel systems deep beneath the desert.

This meant that a sandworm was just a useless, vicious monster. This nest may have...