The rise of the pervert primordial

“Hisss”, listening to Kana’s words, the young leader anaconda added.

“They aren’t as lax over the control of their territory like the green anaconda race as well, there must be at least ten border guards at each designated area, and a second post that is capable of looking at the situation from the rear, waiting to go give the alarm at all times”.

“And even if we get past them, before we can even catch a glimpse of the king of water beasts, we’ll have to go through at least half of the guards and knowing the leader of the reticulated boa race, he’ll throw all the adult non-guard members of his race our way if needed”, said Kana as she translated the young anaconda leader’s words.

Those would be a lot of boas, what’s more, while in terms of weight the reticulated boas are no match for the green anacondas, in terms of size they do surpass them, to the point that to be appointed as normal guards a boa has to be around five meters at least.

That’s the size of the royal guards in the green anaconda race and obviously their royal guards are even larger and also greater in number as well.

‘More than two hundred reticulated boas ready to fight, and a total race size that at least doubles that, it would have been hard to believe that they could find food for themselves as well as the other members of their race, without others noticing a decrease in the available prey, if it wouldn’t have been for the downsized king cobra and green anaconda race numbers’, thought Aster.

To raise such a large number of reticulated boas, the king of water beasts pushed the king cobra race to the verge of disappearing, she even laid her hands on the members of her race, as it wasn’t hard to guess what happened to the corpses of the female green anacondas that were killed in secret.

So, the king of water beasts injected all the resources that became available into the reticulated boa race, however, Aster has always been a believer that while working hard is important, working smart is better.

“Don’t worry, I said we are going to enter through their front door, not that we are going to fight in their turf”, said Aster to which the young anaconda leader still shook his head.

“Hisss”.

“He says that what we did here won’t work with the reticulated boa race, the moment they see anyone of us, they’ll know something is going on and will aim to solve it themselves since their top priority is keeping the king of water beasts unbothered, they are past loyalty but are closer to fanatics”, said Kana, she adapted the explanation of the young anaconda leader to something easier to understand.

Which simply made Aster laugh, he didn’t blame the young anaconda leader for his wary attitude, he knows what the king of water beasts is capable to do, that being said, he doesn’t know what Aster and the girls can do.

Aster turned to see Alice who nodded in response to then say.

“Come in “Sandbag”, every second of delay between the questions you are asked and your answers means a round of beating”, with the order of the wild dragon princess, the panicked sole remaining royal guard entered the cave where the meeting was taking place.

Naturally, being someone that not only openly followed the king of water beasts which had become a sworn enemy of the green anaconda race as of current, but also having enjoyed the benefits of the previous, the now former royal guard as he was obviously stripped from such an honorable title, has been facing numerous murderous gazes while waiting outside of the cave.

Still, he didn’t dare let alone say something but even glancing the way of the other green anacondas, one misspoken word out of turn or even a slightly defying gaze and he’ll be back to a world of pain at the hands of the strange creature with red eyes.

And unfortunately, since everyone knows that he killed another one of the royal guards, he can’t go back to the side of the king of water beasts either, so he’s got no choice but obediently do as he was told, in this case answer to the questions of the creature with black hair.

‘T-The one with red eyes is looking at the one with black hair with admiration, that means it must be much more terrifying than the one with red eyes!!!’, thought the former royal guard also known as Sandbag as of current, as he answered as if his life depended on it.

The previous lasted for around half an hour before the group left the cave to then move to follow their respective instructions, all this while the young anaconda leader still had a shocked gaze in his eyes.

A few areas away from the territory of the green anaconda race, we can find a specially tree abundant area, this is where the territory of the reticulated boa race starts.

And just like the young anaconda leader stated, the border guards here aren’t lax in the slightest, because while four five-meter sized boas could be seen guarding the border in the open.

There is a patch of dead leaves behind them where another four are hiding, while the remaining two have climbed up into two separate trees from which they can see farther than their companions.

It’s a though basic, well thought and organized defensive formation, with guards in the open, some waiting to ambush and two watching over their assigned area, not to mention that a couple of hundreds of meters away there is a group of smaller boas ready to disperse in different directions at the slightest notification from the border guards.

“Hissss?”, one of the reticulated boas that was stationed on top of a tree, looked confused for a second as he saw a black figure rushing at high speed towards them, however just as he was about to tell the boas on the ground, a strong impact landed on his head, making him fall from the tree.

The last thing he saw as he was falling from the tree was that the other boa stationed on the tree a few meters away from him, was falling alongside him with just a few centimeters of difference, meaning that the time between when he was hit and when his companion was hit should have been extremely short.

“Thud”, listening to the dull sound of the two boas landing on the ground, coming from behind of them, both the four boas hidden below the patch of dead leaves and the four boas in the open turned around and that moment of distraction prevented them from noticing the black figure that the two boas on the trees saw, getting too close to them.

“Hissss!”, by the time the boas realized that something was coming, the black figure in question was practically above them, literally since the large black figure stepped on the boa’s heads killing them on the spot.

Of course, the previous alerted the five younger boas that were a couple of hundreds of meters away, but when they tried to spread in five different directions to inform of the situation, they all saw a white stream flashing through their eyes before lights went out for them.

The little wyrm who had knocked out both boas on the trees as well as the secondary team alone, nodded to herself to then jump into the air, landing on the back of the black figure who continued running as if its life depended on it.

Now, having surpassed the border guards didn’t mean that Espi had successfully infiltrated the territory of the reticulated boa race, their living area was further inside their territory and unlike the green anaconda and king cobra races, one could see boas spread around occasionally.

If even one of them were to see and move ahead of them to give the alarm, the plan could go wrong, so the little wyrm while camouflaging herself used her tail to break a capsule containing a black-red liquid on the back of the black figure on which she was riding.

“Hissss!”, panicked hissing sounds could be heard as Espi advanced through the territory of the reticulated boa race, every boa they met suddenly seemed to lose their mind, they either started retorting on the ground or lost their balance and fell from the trees on which they were resting.

So, the little wyrm left behind a trail of incapacitated boas wherever she passed, thanks to that, she could reach the living area of the reticulated boa race which was a massive tree surrounded by comparatively smaller trees, that were still bigger than the vast majority within the forest.

“Neeeighhh!!!”, the black figure whose real identity is the large black horse also known as “Mule”, let out a loud war cry as he said something along the lines of “You miserable slithering creatures, how dare you try and trick the king of fangs, from this moment onwards we’ll kill one of your side every minute until we get a satisfactory answer!”.

The black horse then shook his back a bit and a small and bloody object fell from it, it was a snake’s head which had been bitten off by the black horse fangs, it was the head of a black mamba to be more accurate.

Without waiting to get an answer, the black horse rushed back from where he came from making sure to leave behind a trail of destruction as he killed specific selected boas among the ones that had fell from the trees earlier, with his hoofs.

“Hisssss!!!”, an angered hiss echoed through the sky not even ten seconds after the black horse had left as an eight-meter large reticulated boa whose eyes were bloodshot descended from the massive tree at the center of the living area.

That is the leader of the reticulated boa race and also the main mate of the king of water beasts, the large boa heard panicked and angered voices coming from all over the living area, but that’s not why he was furious.

Despite he not being a king of beasts, the leader of the reticulated boa race actually could understand what the black horse said, and also saw the severed head that was left at his front door, which belonged to the royal guard of the black mamba race which was in charge of watching over the group that was supposed to get the escape goat they had to present to the former king of herbivores, who had renamed himself as king of fangs by the way.

That name was chosen because he now has the capacity to inject venom, an ability that completely defies his race.

‘Damn it, something must have gone real wrong, that stupid black mamba had the bad luck of running into that horse and confessed that our king was planning to just pin the blame on the king cobra race… still, judging by the fact that they didn’t charge at us like before, they must not know that we have no idea who caused that ruckus in their territory, so we can still solve this without much trouble’, thought the leader of the boas to then return to the real world as he heard a calm hiss coming from a cave behind their living area.

“Hisss”, a large head peeked out of the cave as a giant green anaconda came out of it, from head to tail the thing actually surpassed the eight-meter mark and while reticulated boas can reach that length normally, for a green anaconda she was massive.

In terms of weight, a nine-meter reticulated boa can reach up to 150 kilograms and we are talking about specifically huge ones, but then, green anacondas which rarely surpass the seven-meter mark, can weight up to 220 kilograms and then the king of water beasts is of the same length as the leader of the reticulated boa race, and she weights almost a hundred more kilograms than him, so the boa looks small in comparison.

Despite the previous, the anaconda seemed much more pacific than the reticulated boa as she passed her orders, which resulted in a lot of boas descending from the trees to then form a circle with the king of beasts at the center of it, while the leader of the reticulated boa race was in front of them.

“Hisss!”, guided by the leader of the reticulated boa race, the group of eighty boas escorting the king of water beasts started moving at high speed, following the trail of destruction left behind by the black horse.

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Naturally, a group of eighty, five meter sized boas, with a massive eight meter anaconda in the center of their formation, occupied a large space to move so it took them a long time to reach their destination, which was the end of the destruction trail.

‘Luckily that black horse is quite arrogant, believing he is the master of the forest now, so rather than calling an all out war he instead worried about his image in front of his subordinates, let’s say that we simply wanted to help the black mamba race who are loyal but it was one of their race members the one that killed his subordinates, those fools are at fault for not completing their assigned task anyway…’, the inner thoughts of the leader of the reticulated boa race, suddenly stopped in cold as the black horse which they saw earlier appeared in front of them.

However, unlike the threatening and arrogant aura he was radiating earlier, he looked miserable and was laying down on the ground with multiple biting marks on his body.

The leader of the reticulated boa race felt his body tensing up as he saw one of the few animals that alone represented a threat for him in the whole forest, a six-meter old king cobra, that shouldn’t be here by the way, since they are far from the territory of the king cobra race out of which they are not supposed to come out.

“Hissss!”, the reticulated boa leader, menacingly hissed at the old king cobra leader, saying something along the lines of “What are you doing here, is the king cobra race planning to revolt!”.

To which the old king cobra snorted as he looked at the black horse which laid below him, defeated and with obvious biting marks that came from him.

“Hissss”, the old king cobra explained that their territory was attacked earlier but that when he was chasing after the culprit, he saw an “unknown” snake getting slaughtered by the black horse, an animal which he doesn’t remember exists in the forest so he has been tracking it down since then and got a chance to ambush him a couple of minutes ago.

The frown on the reticulated boa leader further grew as rustling sounds came from two different directions, imagine his expression of disbelief when he saw a group of green anacondas appearing at the right, while a group of black mambas appeared at the left, the four major snake races had gathered in a single place for the first time in decades, what’s more all the leaders were here and so was the king of the water beasts who now was frowning as well.

‘The black mamba race is far so I would understand if information about them moving didn’t reach me, but why didn’t those four bastards inform me that my foolish younger brother was on the move?’, thought the king of water beasts, only for her to be further thrown into confusion as the young anaconda leader came out form his group.

“Hissss!”, he said something along the lines of “The green anaconda race wants to issue a duel with the current king of water beasts”.

To which the reticulated boa leader snorted as he asked who was supporting his claim to a duel, which of course made the black mamba race stand back, they didn’t come here for this.

In fact, they were confused themselves, earlier the royal guard which they sent to watch over the secret attack on the king cobra race came back saying that not only they had managed to kill one of the king cobra royal guards, but that the old king cobra leader had gone mad over the previous, so he managed to lure him out of his territory, which was a perfect opportunity to kill him and finally get rid of the king cobra race.

But then, midway through the chase, for which even the leader of the black mamba race came, the royal guard who had brought them disappeared, while at the same time they saw the old king cobra leader far into the distance, following him only to be welcomed by a group from the reticulated boa race, the green anaconda race and the king of water beasts herself.

“Hisss”, listening to the mockery of the reticulated boa leader, the old king cobra stated that he seconded the young anaconda leader.

“Hissss!”, the reticulated boa leader nearly lost it on the spot “Nonsense, you bastards from the king cobra race can’t challenge the king since you pulled that stunt back then, only after your isolation ends can you ask for a duel”, he said to which the old cobra smirked.

“We can’t “participate”, however nothing prevents our race from supporting a claim to a duel”, he said with a cunning hiss, which made even less sense for the reticulated boa leader.

Realistically, the only one in both the green anaconda race and the king cobra race that could even qualify to challenge the king of water beasts, is the old cobra leader himself, the young anaconda leader is too young and too “small”, and even then, chances were 80-20 that the old cobra was going to die, with the 20% possibility of him winning if he somehow managed to inject all his venom in the bloodstream of the king of water beasts.

Now imagine the expression of ridicule when the young anaconda leader moved aside to open a path for a pretty white snake which seemingly wasn’t there, or more accurately should have been hidden behind the larger anacondas in the group.

“Hisss”, the young anaconda leader then said “We present the champion of the green anaconda race for the duel”, he said.

“Hisss”, the old king cobra leader indifferently nodded as he added “The king cobra race supports the claim made by the green anaconda race”.

‘Tsk, damn old cobra, he doesn’t care whether this is just a waste of time, he probably just wants to cause trouble’, thought the reticulated boa leader as he shook his head.

“Hisss…”, however just as he was about to say something along the lines of “Your champion is unworthy so the duel is the denied”, a loud roar followed by an invisible “pressure” which rained down from above interrupted him.

“Roaaar!”, while the vast majority of the present snakes were forced to look downwards, the king of water beasts as well as the leaders of the four major races, and of course the little wyrm looked upwards, where a lioness sized lynx with a small scar on her face, who was standing on the branch of a tree, was.

Now, lynxes can’t roar, but the lynx we are seeing is quite a special one, of course it’s Guardian who while letting her pressure rain down in the vicinity, said with a strict voice “Duels are sacred, a claim was made and supported by those representing half of those subordinated to the king in question, I declare that the claim is valid, may the challenged issue the first of the three conditions”.

The reticulated boa leader tried to complain but a single gaze from Guardian made his words stuck in his mouth, his head very much against his wishes lowered as he looked towards the ground.

For a good reason, he was now in presence of the actual master of the forest, the lynx who is said to have lived as much as the devil that lives far beyond the forest, and also the reason as to why his mate, the king of water beasts is trying to strike a deal with the black horse.

“Hisss”, with a hiss from the king of water beasts, the reticulated boa leader who was frost in place, became able to somewhat move again, the massive anaconda came out of the defensive formation as she not without glaring at her younger brother, who was already dead in her mind, said.

“As the king of water beasts, I accept the duel, the winning condition is… fight to the death”.