The two massive insects had reached each other and resulted in a CRASH between the two, both dazing each other for a moment. The dungeon's is the first to recover, and from those purple dots that had been painted on it came a cloud of poison, aiming to immediately poison the centipede. The blue eyes of the centipede made as shocked an expression as an insect's eyes can make, and the giant centipede looks to immediately understand what its foe is trying to do, immediately closing up its spiracles to hold its breath. Safe... for a moment, the centipede skitters away before it shakes itself to be safe and opens its spiracles again, calming down with a new fresh breath.
The many smaller centipedes who had all gathered in a circle around the conflict watching warily the conflict of two much larger and stronger insects, but one specimen with red and purple is watching not warily, but for an opportunity, skittering a bit closer to the right of the massive one. The caterpillar monster slowly gets closer to its foe, still covered by a poison cloud it knows to keep going, but those many tiny legs cannot give it the speed to properly catch its smarter and faster foe, who is keeping its range and waiting for an opening in the poison. The opening came, the poison had to cease at some point and it did, as it was ceasing the caterpillar believed it still had defenses, but the centipede... saw through it easily. Dipping low and to a very small corner in the poison cloud it dashes through without any problem, and delivers a devastating bite to the side of the caterpillar's first segment, causing it to writhe and shake in the cloud.
The purple and red centipede can easily see the opening here, but the poison... it will wait a while longer, but so long as its mandibles are stuck in the caterpillar it is vulnerable, its pack groups up with it as they move even closer to the side, keeping a safe yet easy to capitalize from distance. The caterpillar is in significantly more dire straits, being slammed to the ground by the centipede, with no more poison to spew out, not until it can begin to gather more in its body, it attempts to kick it away but those smaller legs that carry it lack the individual power to even bother the massive centipede who on the other hand is already close to victory. Its mandibles strike again into the caterpillar, this time higher and closer to its more important structures, causing more writhing, before in absolute desperation the caterpillar's end is swung around and strikes the centipede directly in the head, knocking it away but causing it to tear out a huge gash in it.
The centipede was dazed, disoriented, even with such amazing sight it couldn't help but see stars, the blow had knocked it into the poison where its spiracles had inhaled some of the lingering poison, its body was large and strong enough to shake it off, but it did make it slightly sluggish. It skitters backwards, seeing the caterpillar still swinging its body around recklessly it can tell its better to wait it out and wait for either blood loss to weaken it or it to tire itself out, nothing else here has nearly enough strength to challenge it, so it can surely just wait it out. Unfortunately... it did not account for higher intelligence, the red and purple centipede sneaking to the back of the massive one with its group and readying to charge up it as it's distracted watching its main foe. The caterpillar is slowly waning, all that swinging it did with its body had tired it, and it had almost collapsed by now, but it barely stood up with its tiny insectoid feet, and trudged on towards the centipede. Such endurance in the face of extreme wounds made the centipede consider if it was truly safe... but it saw no reason to doubt now, and went in for the kill, charging towards it, but before its charge had started five of the dungeon's centipedes had crawled onto its back, so small it didn't even notice them. Its charge landed right into the caterpillar's mandibles, as was expected but they offered more resistance than what WAS expected, no matter though, the centipede could easily bite from above and finish its foe off. Before any such thing occurred though... the leader of the five centipedes jumped up with every ounce of strength its little body could muster, and its scorching mandibles cut through the bluish glowing eye of the intruder, even cutting and gouging into its carapace.
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It couldn't fathom why half its vision was gone in the first second, until it felt the pain in the second, instantly it thrashed about, knocking the caterpillar away and every centipede on it, driven by pure instinct and fear from losing such a vital part of itself it sprinted away, a bluish glowing blood flowing out of its bisected eye. Immediately the caterpillar collapsed with no more intruders, it was almost a miracle it continued on that long, meanwhile the centipedes of the dungeon all break away from the area, nothing left for them, besides one... who begins draining some of the blue blood that was lost on the intruder's way out.
It was truly a work of art to see an overwhelmingly strong intruder repelled in a moment.
"!!!" "!!!" "!!!" The dungeon core is ecstatic upon the thrill of an active invader being repelled, although some of the excitement comes from a certain panic of losing a powerful monster the dungeon has, so it very quickly draws on the ground in front of the caterpillar, leaving plenty of color for it to drain and heal itself with. "..?" Wondering now, it is curious on how that centipede was moving as it did, because it seemed rather unnatural compared to its centipedes, but it couldn't figure anything out immediately, so it decided to drop the curiosity for now, and instead it chose to make some more caterpillar-like monsters, the first was rather instrumental to repelling the invader. Five more it made, each about half the size of the first, but that seemed like a good amount for now despite the size each could do something, especially with how effective their poison clouds were at driving something away, it was easy to tell it had to be dangerous.
Finished bolstering up the dungeon's numbers a little bit, and the thrill of an invader being repelled... it desired more now, more mana, more thrill, more things to discover, it wants it. A concentrated ball of mana is infused into the paper at the entrance of the cave, more than enough to lure in most animals curious for a taste of such a potent mana that even the mundane can recognize its presence, though instead... only death by biting or poison will await them. In the forest some animals are already taking notice, insects, mammals, birds, the mana was more than enough to lure in plenty.
