I was once weak, now look at me

Chapter 13: Weapon of the Planet

South Corel Region, Day

After getting over the fact that the portal dropped him up in the air again, Jaune used his flames to safely fly to the ground, not wanting to have a repeat of how he first arrived in this world and accidently squish someone again.

"Alright, time to see where I am and then find Cloud and the others." said Jaune. Looking around he saw that he was in a desert area with some rock formations and occasional man-made objects. Not having any idea of what direction he should be heading in, he expanded his hearing and managed to pick up some noise coming in one of the directions. It was quite faint, so it means that he'll have a long walk ahead of him.

"Let's see if I can speed run this." Jaune said as he started to stretch his limbs. Once he was done stretching, he faced towards the direction he heard the noise was coming from and got into a running position. A thought crossed his mind that he should time himself to see how fast he could get to the location. Jaune pulled open his inventory to see if he purchased a stopwatch that he could use for said idea, though as he was focused on looking through his inventory, he didn't sense a dune worm approach him underground. The dune worm leaped up from underground and swallowed Jaune as it then dove back into the ground. Jaune blinked in the dune worms' stomach as he realized that he has just been swallowed by a worm with two things running in his mind.

The first was bewilderment. How did he not sense the worm coming? He has the senses of a dragon, he can hear things from miles away along with being able to pick up a scent that was almost dissipated.

The second was rage. How dare a worm eat him! He was Acnologia in his last life! A name that struck all inducing fear in anybody who heard it! He was so powerful he could destroy the world whenever he wished and now that he regained his dragon slayer magic, he could become stronger than that! He fought against many powerful enemies, either triumphing or surviving as he grows stronger with each battle! To be reduced to nothing but food for a worm was nothing short of embarrassing and aggravating!

Jaune charged up all his magic and aura that he could, even activating critical claim in his anger, as he then unleashed a devastating explosion the evaporated the worm and everything around him. 

[Critical Hit!]

[You gained 1050 EXP and 1450 Gold for killing the Dune Worm]

Jaune was standing in a giant crater from the explosion he triggered. He was breathing heavily, not from the attack he unleashed but trying to calm himself down from the ordeal he had just suffered.

"Fucking worm." Jaune growled. He then looked around at the damage that he caused in his rage but couldn't care less at this point. The worm was dead, and his honor had been avenged, though nobody could ever know of this. Jaune then jumped out of the crater and started to walk off in the direction he was headed, he was no longer in the mood to time himself and the walk could help him relax.