How (not) to fight a divine beast

As the triple domain met my life domain I sensed my domain be pushed aside. Then, with a crunch, the snake's teeth sank into me, easily penetrating my bark. I felt the pressure on my body increase as it was crushed by the jade snake dowager and the spots where the teeth had pierced my bark started to sizzle.

So to sum up my situation, my domain was overpowered, I was about to be partially crushed and the snake's venom has acid properties that were dissolving me...

My first priority was to get that maw off me and heal otherwise this fight would end quite prematurely and with my death.

Taking advantage of the snake's direct contact with me I channeled as much lightning into her as possible. Luckily, the dowager didn't seem to have expected me to have a second innate understanding and use it at such close proximity.

Arcs of lightning ran along with her head and the scent of charred meat filled the air. Wishing to escape the shocking touch she snapped back her head, taking a good amount of wood along with her and leaving me with a gaping hole.

To see the good things, all the venom was within the lost wood and didn't affect me anymore. Internalizing my domain I quickly sought to patch up the hole while the jade snake dowager was still reeling from the pain.

Unfortunately, my hard-earned break didn't last long. A grayish mist emerged from her dark, green scales and painted them in a dull luster, driving out any remains of the lightning within her.

Still in midair, the jade snake dowager's gaze fell on me and made me freeze up for a moment. Before, her gaze had been filled with killing intent and slaughter lust but now a new nuance was added. Her gaze was dripping with hatred.

I had actually managed to do harm to her. Despite being clearly inferior I had managed to bypass her defenses and make her feel pain. It made her furious.

Now I became worried that my rash action might have just served to speed up my inevitable doom. Her triple domain increased its intensity and was now meant to harm me just by being inside it. I had triggered her full annihilation mode.

From the foot of the mountain, a group of colorful light was approaching and made me see a ray of hope. Reinforcement of any kind was very welcome.

Jade snake dowager had noticed them too but didn't pay them any heed. Their strength was not even on my level so to her they were little more than ants. But so was I until I'd managed to hurt her!

As the group approached a flash passed by and hit the snake's side. A fountain of greenish, grayish blood shoots out from a newly created wound at her side prompting me to take a second look at the newcomers.

"Leaving us alone in that cave wasn't really the kindest thing to do, you know."

'Since the source of despair was gone I figured you would be safer in there. On another note, you look a lot better now, Sigmund.'

"I finally realized that I was going to overthinking. I'm not the greatest strategist so it's best for me to just fight head-on and leave the thinking to Loki."

"You dare ignore me? Just because you injured me doesn't mean you stand a chance!"

The jade snake dowager's wound had already closed and her mood had definitely not improved. She was positively fuming with anger, her body coiled in midair akin to a spring and ready to be fired straight at us.

'Don't touch the cloud around her and keep attacking from a distance while I distract her!'

Flying around in the sky as a large tree wasn't really my forte but I figured that no one beside me could afford to take a hit from the raging serpent before us.

These thoughts, however, were quickly pushed to the back of my mind as a giant maw with scary teeth came barreling for me. I knew better than to try and block with just my domain again and began to hastily condense a sphere of lightning with as much power as I could.

As the triple domain clashed with the sphere of lightning there was a short stalemate. Lightning naturally restrain the power of death and thus managed to rattle the integrity of the triple domain.

However, this only lasted a few seconds before the domains stabilized and pushed through. Enough time for me to maneuver out of the serpent's trajectory and avoid being bitten. The human king magi under Sigmund's lead fired a volley of attacks but the jade snake dowager's tail whipped our and reduced all their efforts to dust.