Meanwhile…
During the commotion of the entire battle no one had cared to enter the lower levels of the ruins. Starhorn was still studying the key he had discovered, with the help of Hugo, Zir’an had only just entered the ruins and was already fighting a behemoth of a worm while dragging around an unconscious Abyssian child and the Vetruvians camping on the plateau that overlooked the ruins managed to convince the Scioness who had just recently arrived to not rush blindly into the fray.
On the first level of the catacombs the goo that had once been Vaath had turned into an egg, a rather large egg, that seemed close to hatching. The ruins above shook as the weight of the worm moved from room to room. This disturbed the egg causing plasma to arc from the egg striking the walls, ceiling and floor. The egg had hatched with an eruption of force and Vaath once again was conscious.
Curious about the constant shaking of the ruins, Vaath decided to venture to the first floor of the ruins to investigate. Upon reaching the threshold that separated the catacombs and the first floor of the ruins he noticed several crushed and half eaten corpses.
Vaath noticed that they were not corroded like those eaten by the Horror Bursters. “Where in Eyos are those damnable annoyances?” Vaath wondered. Another tremor in the ruins caught Vaath by surprise. Instinctively Vaath rushed to the source only to be met by a pair of Windblade Adepts. “Green lizard!” one of them shouted as he drew his weapon. Before the other could do much as touch his weapon an Elucidator pounced on the footman and killed him. The Windblade Adept that had his weapon drawn was distracted by the rather messy death of his companion and was summarily killed by Vaath who had taken the chance to fling a rather large stone that had fallen from the ceiling from all of the tremors at the Adept’s head.
Before Vaath could speak to the Elucidator it darted off in another direction to hunt more of the Lyonar footmen scattered throughout the ruins. Vaath decided to continue towards the source of these tremors only to discover the rear end of something rather titanic.
Whatever this creature was it was obviously pursuing something and was inconveniently stuck in the doorway. Vaath had lost his equipment when he had last died, but this did not stop him from attempting to attack the hide of the large beast. His attacks only managed to annoy the creature.
The worm, annoyed by Vaath’s clawing, backed out of the doorway forcing Vaath to move into the next room to avoid being crushed by the worm as it turned to face Vaath. Vaath readied himself as the worm began to squeeze itself into the room where Vaath had moved.
The room was large, probably what served as a cafeteria for the original occupants of the ruins. There was enough space for both Vaath and the worm. As the worm slid into the room Vaath readied himself, he had fought beasts of similar size before and knew his plan of action. He would simply outmaneuver it and inflict as much damage as possible then perform a fighting retreat into the next set of hallways. Then he would begin to use hit and run tactics, only striking at the monster when it moved through intersections.
The worm had settled into the cafeteria, sending its tentacles along the room’s floor towards Vaath. As soon as the Aspect felt one of the tendrils brush his foot he darted towards the worm to begin his attack.
Edit: as per the request of @thefirstgokun something that isn’t about the Vetruvians coming with winter, though to note this is not an attempt at killing the worm but to give whoever is wanting to align with the Magmar Aspects something to go off of.
