After killing the butterfly, Grandpa Worm went in search of a new enemy. He wandered around for what seemed like forever, but was only around five minutes. He finally decided to rest underneath the shade of a tree. He layed there relaxing in the shade. And then he was overcome by a sense of thirst. His whole body was thirsty. Luckily there was an ocean nearby him.. 

He crawled there towards that large body of water pondering something.

'If it was an ocean, wouldn't the salt have dried me out? Yeah! It really would have! This just proves how small I am. It's probably a small lake.'

Yep, it's a lake! Good job Grandpa Worm.

A few minutes later Grandpa worm came upon the lake and then submerged himself in it. The green ring around his neck started to shine brightly. 

'Turn off you stupid light! You might attract the fish!'

Luckily after a minute of being in the water he got out. He started to head back towards the area he was at when he killed that butterfly but then he saw a sight scarier than anything else. It had needle-like hairs on it's four legs, it's claws bigger than his whole body and a body so spiky that a snake would die if one tried to squeeze it to death. It's body glistened in the sunlight as a liquid dropped down from it's claws. It was a 6 inch tall purple praying mantis, sitting on a stump in some meditative position.

It hadn't noticed Grandpa Worm yet, but as he tried to scoot away he faced another dilemma. There was another mantis blocking his path!

'Its alright, I can just head back to the lake.' 

He turned around and saw a third mantis.  Being surrounded by the trio of venomous mantises, Grandpa Worm instantly made a decision. He began to dig! 

As soon as he got started however, he heard a clicking noise.

"Klik klik klik.......... I'm afraid that will not do my prey. Klik klik klik klik........... You see we have you in a dangerous predicament. One that you cannot escape with your life. May death have mercy on you." This was all said by the purple meditating mantis, or as the other mantises call him, Grandmaster Manty. 

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Grandpa Worm lifted his head up. ' How the fuck am I supposed to get out of this now? Damn son of a whore can't read my mind and I sure as shit can't talk!'

"Hah, klik klik............ I feel as though you are a warrior. Interesting....... Face my grandson, the one on the left, and defeat. Do so and I'll let you live. Does that sound fair? Grandmaster Manty would not want to take advantage of the weakest. You have an opportunity to deem yourself worthy, don't waste it!"

Grandpa Worm looked to his left and was dumbfounded. He saw a mantis just like the others speeding towards him at an unbelievably fast pace.

"Faster than the wind, faster than the waves, faster than the lightning, my life it saves" The mantis repeated this chant over and over as it was rushing to kill the worm. Less than 10 inches from the worm. 9,8,7, Grandpa Worm could only look on in astonishment. 6 invhes, 5 inches, 4 and a half inches. The mantis reaches out with his claws when he was no less than 3 inches away. 

'Thislooks like the end of my hallucenogenic dream. It was nice knowing you.'. 

A moment passes.

'I'm not dead yet?! I'M NOT DEAD YET!?' 

Grandpa Worm looked around for the mantis. He layed not 6 inches behind him. Two of his legs broken off and a third bent at an odd angle. 

As the mantis was chanting and running, he payed no attention to the ground below him and stuck his foot in the small hole Grandpa Worm tried to escape in. 

'HAHAHAHAHAHAHA MY CHANCE HAS COME!!!!!' Grandpa Worm crawled as fast as he could to the mantis. Wary of it's claws, he went behind it where he knew it couldn't reach him. He the repeatedly Worm Punched the purple mantis in the head.

"Hehe it tickles." The mantis being punched said. As the minutes went by, the punch became gradually tougher. The laughs of a dying Purple Martial Mantis slowly drifted into terrifying screams of pain.

[Criteria met: Would the host like to learn the 'Torture' skill?

' I don't like the looks of this one..... Fuck it, hell yeah, give it to me!'

[Torture a sentient being to death: Accomplished]

[Integrating skill]

An orange light washed over the worm.

[Integration complete]

[Torture: 10% more pain is caused when inflicting physical injuries. Brings a slightly intimidating aura. Congratulations you can torture people more than Mikey Cyrus!]

Grandmaster Manty watched all this in shocked silence. He never believed that his grandson, the next head of his clan, would be so humiliatingly tortured by a worm. He could have intervened but then he would be going back on his word. He watched the worm as it slowly crawled towards the pond, already plotting his revenge.