The rise of the pervert primordial-Chapter 771: The fourth day of the development trial (part 4)

Chapter 771: The fourth day of the development trial (part 4)

The other gaboon vipers saw in horror how the one leading them, one of the most experienced fighters of their race, was not only bested in stealth by some unknown enemy that seemingly appeared out of thin air, but he was also handled like he was nothing.

Normally, gaboon vipers are not head on combatants, they rely on ambushes to hunt, which is why it was weird that the other vipers entered in the open making a fuss but all of that was so the one that died could lay waiting for the perfect chance to strike.

It was a tactic specifically designed to get one of the adult king cobras while the others harassed the young ones, of course the plan flew out of the window when the little wyrm stepped in.

"Hissss!", after a moment of hesitation, the second in command gave the order and the nearly thirty gaboon vipers all charged towards Espi and that was their biggest mistake ever.

The little wyrm calmly remained still allowing the first gaboon viper to reach her with his fangs.

"Crack!", the five-centimeter-long fangs of which the gaboon viper is so proud, instantly shattered the moment he tried to close his snout to inject his venom into Espi.

Luckily, or not depending on how you see it, the gaboon viper in question didn’t have the time to experience the pain that should have followed to that, because the little wyrm directly used her tail to grab onto its neck breaking it on the spot to then... swing the corpse of the gaboon viper towards the other vipers who couldn’t stop in time after seeing the previous.

"Boooom!", that was Espi breaking the head of a gaboon viper with the body of the one she just killed, in case you think the previous sounds strange, gaboon vipers are actually quite heavy, they don’t grow that much around two meters something at most, however they can weight more than twenty kilograms.

As a reference even the biggest among king cobras at most weights twelve kilograms, so Espi was essentially hitting the other vipers with a twenty-kilogram weighting "club".

"Crack!", of course, since it was a flesh and bone "club", the result was rather gory, because the head of the targeted gaboon viper was crushed and the area of impact of the "club" was damaged due to the impact as well.

But Espi had a solution for that, she simply changed to use the last viper she killed as the next club, in the eyes of the vast majority of king cobras, they only saw a white flash moving through an agglomeration of gaboon vipers whose heads exploded with seconds of difference in between, the fight was over in less than a minute and only the battered corpses of the thirty or so vipers were left.

"Hisss", the little wyrm whose pretty white scales didn’t even have a stain of blood in them despite the slaughter she was leaving behind of her, returned to Aster’s side to then softly hiss at him.

"Mm, I agree, there is no way those guys silently infiltrated, so there has to be a battle going on at some part of the cobra’s territory, the problem is where", said Aster.

The other present cobras who were just recovering from the shocking scene of Espi crushing the gaboon vipers like that, returned to the real world upon listening to her words.

Since thirty enemies suddenly appeared, there must be a breach in their perimeter, the first area that came to mind was the point from which Aster and the others entered their territory, but that wasn’t possible.

"Hisss", the four-meter adult king cobra which guided them explained that the "strange" creature with black hair, in other words Aster, could easily detect the young cobra which was stationed with him despite how much thought was put in the hidden spot prepared for emergencies.

So, if there would have been any other snake, hidden or not the adult king cobra was sure Aster would have seen it as well, and he is right, not to mention that even if Aster’s eyes were to fail, Guardian or Vivian whose smell and overall senses, are as good, respectively, would have noticed.

The system that the king cobras use is simple but effective, the adult one is to come out in order to defend the border, while the young one stays hidden not out of fear but because their role is to observe, the moment they judge that the warrior is at disadvantage, they are to immediately rush back and give the alert.

"Grrrr", with a soft growl, the lynx looked in a certain direction, while at the same time Vivian turned to see Aster.

"Aster, I smell the venom from these vipers and another type of reptile coming from there", she said as she pointed in the same direction as Guardian.

With a nod from Aster, the little wyrm moved like a lightning followed by Guardian, besides Ember and obviously the lynx, Espi was the fastest in the group and she could maneuver the best since obstacles didn’t exist for her, the little wyrm could dig into the ground or leap through the trees if needed, adaptation is her main talent after all.

"Hissss!!!", the young and adult cobras all exclaimed as they saw Espi return with a very bad wounded young cobra a couple of minutes later, the little wyrm placed it on the ground in front of the three adult king cobras, carefully with the same tail with which she was breaking necks and cracking skulls open, not too long ago.

Espi and Guardian found the wounded young cobra a few hundreds of meters away from their current position, she was moving really slowly leaving behind a trail of blood which continued for as far as their eyes could see, originally, she should have been moving at high speed but she must have lost strength in her body at some point and yet she kept advancing for quite the distance.

Seeing the curious young cobra that was with the one that guided them, hiss with a sad tone as she saw the bad state in which this one was, the little wyrm gazed Aster’s way, to which he nodded in response, thanks to that young cobra not stopping even when bleeding, they know knew where to go.

"Vivian, Camila, don’t let that little one die, Ember, Kana, Espi and Alice, we have somewhere to go, the others stay here and guard the children", said Aster.

"Grrrr", Guardian knew why Aster didn’t include her in the group that was going, if she was seen and an enemy escaped, the anaconda will learn about her presence, so it was better to not go confront the snakes that had come, also someone that could communicate with the cobras had to stay behind, as she translating Aster’s words for the old king cobra leader right now, suggested.

"Hisss", with a short order, the adult cobras that were at this point trembling due to anger, opened way for Vivian and Camila who started checking on the wounded young cobra.

’I have learned about detoxing from sister Mylene now, as long as you are still breathing, no good person is going to die due to poison or venom in front of me again!’, thought the white-haired girl as she took out a couple of antidotes and started doing tests using the blood on the two different bitten marks found on the young cobra’s body.

Camila on the other hand, though not as renowned as Vivian or Mylene, has also learned about alchemy, so she was perfectly capable of treating the non-poison related wounds.

With the order and permission of the old king cobra leader, two of the adult ones moved towards Aster because they were joining the group, only for the little wyrm to jump and land on Kana’s lap to then hiss at them.

"Hisss!", that was something along the lines of "It will be faster this way", so while a bit weirded out by the idea of not moving by themselves, they approached Ember and were brought up by Kana.

"Here, grab onto my arms, sister Ember moves quite fast so you might fall if you aren’t used to it", said the little girl, which the cobras after a second of hesitation did by coiling their lower bodies around Kana’s arms.

"We’ll be back in a bit", said Aster and with that the little wyrm guided Ember the way they found the half-dead young cobra, followed by Aster and Alice.

...

Along the way it became obvious that this "attack" wasn’t random at all, Aster had more or less calculated the total area that the territory of the king cobra race occupied, based on the number of adult cobras they had and the distance between the place where they met their guide and the next adult guarding the border, which Aster could spot from afar when they were moving to the living area of their race.

’We have moved more than a third of extra distance when compared to what it took us to reach the living area from where we entered their territory, the enemy chose this entry point because it’s farther from the living area than others, so the alert would come in late if it ever did’, thought Aster.

Also, it was honestly amazing that the young cobra held out and moved such a long distance while also avoiding the enemies.

"We are about to reach the battlefield, besides the leader kill everyone else", said Aster.

"Finally, some fun~", added the wild dragon princess as the group arrived at an area on the border where there was a noticeable smell of blood, which’s origin was a pile of dead gaboon vipers and some shorter snakes.

"I recognize the one-meter ones, those are death adders so be careful of where you step", said Aster to Alice, Ember was fine because if she stepped on one of those snakes, she would instantly kill them, her weight combined with her now stronger legs, courtesy of the war ride manual she obtained, are that powerful.

That being said Alice was no longer listening, she grabbed her spear and started slashing any snakes that she saw, including the ones that were hidden in dead leaf patches.

"Hissss!", the two five-meter adult cobras on the other hand immediately joined the one that was guarding this area, there was another four-meter adult cobra lying on the ground surrounded by dead enemy corpses, while a young one was protecting him.

Apparently, listening to the battle one of the other guards rushed this way to help, and that’s probably why either of the two adult cobras are still alive, considering the nearly fifty dead enemies.

Speaking of which, the remaining fifteen or so gaboon vipers which were about to defeat the remaining guard, saw the larger and obviously angered king cobras appear in the battlefield and they immediately tried to run, but their way of retreat was cut off by a pretty white snake which was dragging a grey "object" with red stains.

That was the leader and a member of another of the four major snake races, a black mamba to be more accurate, a race known by its fast speed which is why the moment he saw the two five-meter adult king cobras also known as "royal guards", he turned to leave and deliver the notice to the one who had sent him, only to see a "small" white snake appear in front of him, he is a nearly four meter long black mamba after all.

And that was also the last thing he remembers; next his battered body was being dragged by Espi who had smacked the black mamba around until he fainted.

The black mamba saw the gaboon vipers freeze and he tried to tell them to move and escape but it was too late, the two adult king cobras whose eyes were bloodshot reached them a second later and basically slaughtered them in a matter of minutes.

"All clear here!", said Alice as she pierced the head of a death adder which was doing his best not to be noticed without realizing that while in terms of overall senses Alice loses to Vivian and Aria, when it comes to detect "fear" in specific, she can outrange Aster’s crazy eyesight, so escaping from a fight with her is but a dream.

Seeing the two adult cobras ready to pounce and dismember the black mamba, the little wyrm looked in the direction of the two guards, they were at the end of the rope, unlike the young cobra that rushed back to let the others know, they are adults and their resistance to other venoms is higher, so they weren’t dying but their other wounds were far worse, being covered in bitten marks basically from head to tail, the young one which came alongside the other guard was in a relatively good state, besides having one of its eyes closed.

"Hisss", Espi told them that if they didn’t get back as soon as possible those two would die and that woke up the two adult cobras from their bloodthirsty states, also this black mamba being here implied that there was something different about this attack, because ever since this dynamic started, they had never been attacked by a member of the other four major races, it’s only middle and small races the ones that always come.

While Espi tossed the fainted black mamba into a bag which Aster carried, Kana carefully placed the wounded cobras in an empty bag which she then placed on top of her lap, the adult cobras held onto her arms like before and the group started moving with the little wyrm smartly erasing any non-snake traces on their way back to the living area.

They couldn’t bring back the corpses of the enemies right away due to the urgency of the situation, so in case someone else came they should only see traces that could be related to snake races.

The travel back actually lasted less, this is because Ember now knew the route to take so not only did she run faster but she was able to avoid obstacles better and before they noticed the living area of the king cobra race was within sight.

"Welcome back Aster~", what welcomed them was the sight of Vivian sitting on the ground surrounded by baby cobras, she even had one on top of her head and a couple moving up and down her arms, they weren’t attacking her of course but were playing with her.

The young wounded cobra from earlier which was stabilized, bandaged and sedated was now safely resting in the underground shelter.

"Did Alice cause trouble?", asked the ice princess to which the dragon princess smirked as she said with a proud voice.

"I killed thirty enemies more than you already, first turn is in the bag~", she said, making Aria softly snort.

"That looks fun", mumbled Kana as she saw Vivian put the baby cobras on the ground while the little girl placed the bag where the wounded guards and the young cobra were being transported, so that they could be treated by Vivian and Camila.

The two adult king cobras let go of Kana’s arms and went to inform the old leader about what they saw, a couple of minutes later the old king cobra invited Aster, Espi and Kana inside of the shelter again, Guardian was hidden there just in case, since she was not to be seen in the open.

"Here, this is the guy that was leading the attack", said Aster as he tossed the bag which contained the black mamba that Espi had caught, the little wyrm beat the enemy senseless but she was careful not to inflict any serious wound so besides a couple of broken bones and a small concussion, the black mamba was fine.

The old king cobra on the other hand was beyond angry right now, only one person had the power to mobilize the four major snake races and that was the anaconda, well it’s not like they didn’t have bad blood with the black mamba race, since they are the only other venomous race besides the king cobras among the major four races.

However, the black mamba race had presented the most challengers for the king position in history and all of them were miserably defeated by the kings of the king cobra race, actually the anaconda was the first one to take the crown from their race, so the black mamba race is the wariest from the king cobra race out of all the snake races.

So, they wouldn’t have taken the initiative to attack them, unless the anaconda was involved, interestingly enough "interrogation" was a thing for the king cobra race, because the old cobra leader approached the black mamba and started hissing at him.

Only for the black mamba to keep his mouth shout, it’s worth mentioning that while this black mamba is not the leader of his race, given his size he must hold a position similar to the three five-meter adult king cobras, second only to the leader of their race, so he was indeed able to understand the old leader to a certain extent despite their difference in race.

In other words, he refused to speak, which made the little wyrm narrow her eyes, however before she started strangling the black mamba with her tail to force the answers out of him, an interesting idea appeared in Aster’s mind.

"Wait a second, I have a way to get our answers and also keep this guy alive, since he will come in handy later", said Aster to Espi who though confused nodded, she completely trusted him after all.

Aster left the shelter and not even a minute later a strange "pressure" filled the cave making not only the black mamba but even the king cobras open their eyes like plates, the old leader included.

"Hissss!!!", of course the reactions were different, while the king cobras specially the old leader were surprised, the black mamba started retorting and panicking it only took a couple of seconds before he spilled the beans.

Unfortunately, while the information he was giving was important, no one was paying him any attention right now, the king cobras saw with interest how Aster returned with Vivian who had a small puncture on her index finger where a single drop of her blood combined with a dark yellow liquid, could be seen.

"Hisss!", the three adult king cobras started discussing among themselves, for a good reason, for a second there they thought that... their king was here.

The old cobra leader looked nostalgic for a moment, he is the last one who actually remembers the actual presence of the previous king, a bit of his venom was preserved by the elder that took charge of their race, the one that started the revolt against the anaconda and the current leader was the last that could feel the presence of the king from it, since it naturally dispelled due to the pass of time, what the three adult cobras knew was an imitation the old cobra could pull off by pushing himself to the limit, since like previously stated just like the mare he could stand up to a king for a short moment, which is why their race has still held out despite their bad state.

It’s worth mentioning that the black mamba kept "talking" and not only that, it was continuously beating his head against the ground towards Vivian’s direction as if he was asking to be spared.

For a good reason, as of current for the black mamba at least, the white-haired girl looked like a giant king cobra.