While the worm was transforming, the bolts of lightning that Arthur had thrown earlier arrived. She tried her best to evade them, but they were too fast. She could only block them.
But she was also struggling to block the lightning bolts. Even if she smashed them, they would explode in her face. The worst outcome is if she couldn't smash them before they reached her and let them strike her body.
The direct hit from a lightning bolt was enough to kill her. If not for the worm wrapping around her, she would have died many times over. Even then, the explosion shook her to the core.
The worm sucked her blood and used the energy within it to strengthen itself. The surface of its body had hardened into a layer of chitin that would make ants and crabs blush with inferiority.
This change to the surface of the worm increased its defense and was what was responsible for saving her life. But the worm had also undergone more drastic changes.
