Chapter 1422 The Setting Sun Part 5 Part 2

However, even if I somehow managed to get rid of two of the four dragon-snakes, that would still leave two more of those for me to take care of. And the probability that I might die fighting only one of them is way too big. I can’t really join the other two and help them out, so in this particular setting we are completely divided and our defeat should only be a matter of time the way things stand at the current moment…… Unless!

「I guess it’s high time for me to start accelerating.]

So I do just that, and use the skills that have been stinging on for a while now!!!

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─── The NPC cannot speak for itself.

They are not human in the first place. On that note, they cannot even be described as humanoid.

It has no limbs, no hands in which it could hold weapons.

But there was no need for that. Because in the case of “Snake Maidens”, their entire existence can be categorized as a “Weapon”.

「Sammy-chan! Sammy—chan!]

─── It was completely unexpected.

It was just one huge misunderstanding right from the very beginning.

This misunderstanding was about one of the giant dragon-snakes that were serving the individual that Sanraku was calling “Bossdunine”. It was about the individual that did not actively joined the battle and behaved like a barricade that separated the inside and the outside of the battlefield by winding its giant snake body all across its border.

Everyone happened to misunderstand the principle upon which its actions were based. It was not to “Not let anyone inside of the ring escape, or to not let anyone from the outside in”. That was only half of the correct answer. Because the correct answer here was: “To kill those who try to escape the battlefield”.

The name under which the giant dragon-snake was known at the current moment was Dragon-Snake “Naga”, but of course it was not its proper, system name. It was a mere moniker placed upon it by the Players. Its proper system name is “Blastium Snake, the Snake of Eclipse”, an aggressive species of snake with the function of a scale-shedding and using them as explosive projectiles in response to various forms of vibrations, shocks and traumas.

「No, Sammy-chan…… This can’t be……!!]

What Sammy-chan intended to do here was to melt the ground with her poison and escape from the siege from under the ground. However, since Goldunine and her kin are specialized in “killing”, it was possible for them to supplement the rough location of their target only by vibrations their body was making, even if those vibrations would be so faint that on one would be able to pick them up. And for a snake that was ready to kill at a moment’s notice, picking the right moment to attack was something it could do without even having to think about it.

─── At that moment life has been spilled.

The scales of that particular dragon-snake, which is so huge that its total length can be expressed in kilometers, are no longer mere scales, but rather a weapon of mass-murder and mass destruction. The word “weapon” is no longer able to fully describe the threat they pose.

Because of her stealth ability and power to completely erase her presence, even though she received a full explosive scale right to her face, she did not die right here and there. However, her left eye was now completely gone and about forty percent of her overall body has been torn to shreds by that explosion.

“Her” stealth ability acts on the two things around her body: her scales and the nictitating membrane that covers the eyeballs. This means that when her scales are damaged and the flesh lying underneath is exposed, that area of her body is not going to become transparent again. High Stealth being her most useful advantage so far, right about now it was no longer here. So even though that injury she has suffered was not fatal in and out of itself, it was more than a life-threatening event.

「It’s okay, everything is going to be okay, Sammy-chan…… He’ll do something about it…… I’m sure he’ll do something about it soon……]

─── Their eyes meet at that exact moment.

The eyes of her Master are filled with big tears that overflow from them and drip down her face. But it was also not the eyes of her Lord that were still filled with hope, even if just a little bit. It was the eye of the dragon-snake that keeps on moving, despite her harrowing injuries.

「……………]

「……………]

A ridicule to a fool who tried to escape the tight blockade with her small and limited wisdom. A mercy to her compatriots who both have the same origin but were hostile and as a result of that their lives have come to an untimely end.

Her eyes surveil her surroundings quickly. Up until now the huge snake has been focused entirely on escaping from this place…… No, it was still trying to do just that. But right now…… right now her eyes were filled with a light of hope that was burning bright.

「……Sammy…-chan?]

The worst possible ending is fast approaching. But what can be done here to escape that fate and venture towards the best ending?

For just a moment out there, the dying snake seems to be completely lost in her own thoughts. And then she comes to a certain conclusion.

─── Her “mission” is to save her Master, as well as to save everything that is good for her Lord and what her Lord might hold dear.

「Hey, where are you going? Hey…… Hey! Wait, Sammy-chan! No! No! No! Don’t leave me! Don’t leave me all alone! Please, don’t go…… !!]

In order to let her Master escape the worst fate possible at the current moment, Sammy-chan, the servant and friend of the Goldunine known as Wimp, started to do her best. Her very best in her entire life.