Talk:Elder Centipede/@comment-124.13.85.145-20171207074340/@comment-78.144.214.185-20171217205102

Dragon-level monsters are no joke indeed. But even for one, Elder Centipede was exceptionally hard to eradicate.

The case was this. Elder Centipede was in the middle of moulting, so what Bang and Bomb's amazing attack did was to help it shed its old carapace, revealing the new one, which quickly expanded and hardened, leaving them with an even bigger, tougher monster.

What Genos did was not only to incinerate its innards, but also burn through its head... only Elder Centipede has an amazing ability to regenerate himself, including growing new heads.

In short, only a blow like Saitama's, which destroyed his entire body in one go, could have sufficed. Anything less and his remains would have at least crawled away and regrown.