Sandy

First of all, Sandy's body had actually grown a little smaller, now "only" about a hundred meters long. The body was also less bulky, with the entire form quite slender. Color-wise, Sandy had taken an odd black-purple hue with the occasional small, glimmering dot here and there, looking like small diamonds were embedded in the skin. The skin itself also looked far tougher than before, now more like rock than simply rough skin. ^[2]

Sandy was good at three things. Like a Sand Worm, a Cosmic Genesis Worm was incredibly good at moving about. Jake thought his new Wings skill was good at escaping, but Sandy had several skills that allowed escape.

Secondly, Sandy was incredibly resilient. The rock-like hide was not for show, and Jake found that even with Arcane Powershot, he could not break through, even if Sandy did say “ouchie” when he hit the massive worm. That was the upgraded version of Arcane Powershot too.

Thirdly was finding and collecting resources. Jake could sense natural treasures due to his boots and Sense of the Malefic Viper, but damn, Sandy was on a whole other level. The worm picked up on things of value up to thousands of kilometers away, and Jake had a feeling it could be even further.

What Sandy was not good at was fighting, but the worm also sucked at detecting enemies. Luckily, or unluckily, it was nearly impossible to find a natural treasure not guarded by something powerful, and Sandy had a good sense of how valuable a natural treasure was and, thus, what kind of power-level one could expect the protector to be. Sometimes Sandy was still wrong, but that is where numbers one and two came in, allowing the worm to just leave. Even the one time they accidentally bumped into a mid-tier C-grade, probably around level 250. Sandy just flew away as the beast chased for a while until it realized it was wasting its time.