Chapter 12 Beat the Snake

A few days later, the wolf king took a few other wolf pups limped towards Neigher. They bowed their heads and swore allegiance to him. They all had dog-like flattering smiles on their faces as if it had not happened that Neigher had killed their companions a few days ago.

If it was a human being, he would feel that such loyalty was very unreliable. But this was the world of beasts. The rules of humans were not applied. Only strength was the foundation of all relationships.

"Where did you sleep at night?" Neigher asked the wolf king.

"Just sleep wherever we like." He answered.

"Aren't you afraid of the ghosts at night?"

"When we first came to this forest, we were a little scared. But when we found that the ghosts didn't attack us, we were relieved." The wolf king said.

"Did the ghosts only attack me?" Neigher thought. "Was it because they hated the red dragon?"

"You can come to me after I give the order. Now get out of here." He ordered.

"Young master, I have to remind you. The snake you are going to deal with is very powerful. The poison she shot can corrode everything. We wolves have never dared to provoke her. And I heard that her poison can even poison the giant to death."

Neigher nodded.

Then the wolves went into the hidden places in the forest obediently. Neigher swung his arms and legs, heading for the region of the next magical beast.

He was going to challenge a female viper named Lily. She could also speak because of the strange characteristics of the forest. The original owner of the little red dragon's body was lonely, so he always wanted to make friends with Lily.

Unexpectedly, the snake only agreed with the request of making friends superficially. In her heart, she was thinking about how to tease this little dragon.

She told the original owner of this body that there was a place full of delicious food. As a result, she tricked the little dragon into an acid pond. His scales became fragile for a long time. She also deliberately deceived him into the middle of the wolves. But after the wolves came, she escaped and threw the little dragon to the wolves.

The original owner with a low intelligence even thought she was his friend. It was just a trick.

At the thought of this, Neigher was burning with anger. The red dragon was fooled around by a snake. He must let that snake pay the price. He also hoped that defeating her would give him a better reward to deal with the future battle with Tiffany.

But he couldn't take it lightly. He didn't know if his scales could resist the snake's poison. If he couldn't, his life would be in danger.

"Neigher, I'm looking for you. You haven't come to play with me for a long time." A black snake poked her head out of a branch and said.

"Hi, Lily!" Neigher said with a smile.

"We haven't played together for a long time. Let me take you to the east of the forest and cross the lake in the south. There is beautiful scenery over there."

"Isn't that the territory of a magical beast? Do you want me to be slapped to death?" Neigher continued with a smile.

Lily was stunned for a few seconds. Neigher didn't say anything but looked at her with a smile.

"What's wrong, Neigher? Why can you talk? In the past, you could only follow me and call my name." She changed the topic easily. "Anyway, go with me. I won't lie to you."

"Lily, I also found beautiful scenery. I want to take you there." Neigher said with a stiff smile.

"What scenery? Are you repeating my words? When did you learn the common language?"

"No, it's not like that. Anyway, come with me for a while." Neigher said while walking. "It's very close. I'll go with you to the place you want to go after a while."

The snake hesitated for a while on the tree and finally followed up.

After walking for a while, Lily finally couldn't hold her breath anymore and asked, "Neigher, where are you taking me?"

"Here it is." Neigher turned around and said, "I've been curious about what you think of me, Lily."

"Of course we are good friends." The snake stuck out its forked tongue and said, "I have scales too. You have a forked tongue too. And we both have erected pupils. We are so similar. We must be a family in our ancestors."

"Well, if I believe this nonsense, my middle school biology teacher will probably pass through and beat me up." Neigher thought.

"You are lying to me. You don't take me as a friend at all. You just want to tease me." Neigher said calmly, staring at her eyes.

After a few seconds of silence, Lily stared at his eyes for a long time. Then she raised her body, which was no smaller than Neigher's. Her eyes had already acquiesced in the truth. The beast was simple. It was much simpler than the humans Neigher had met before.

"Humph, you become smarter. It's not interesting. I thought that I can tease you like that all my life. But even if I can't tease you, I can still make you suffer!"

The next moment, Lily opened her mouth, and two streams of venom shot out from her teeth.

Even if he was prepared to keep a distance, Neigher still couldn't dodge. He quickly took a step back with the power of dragon wings. But his front paw was still hurt by the venom that splashed from the ground.

The venom slowly corroded the scales, causing them to curl up. Neigher knew that it would take a long time for such an injury to recover. The blessing of physical defense given to the dragon scales was unable to resist Lily's venom.

"Haha, if I were you, I would play dumb and feel at ease to be cheated. I will give you a chance to go to another territory of the magical beast so that I can see how badly you are beaten. Anyway, you can't defeat me. Or I will make you lose all your scales." Then she spat out the venom again.

This time, Neigher dodged because of the distance. He smiled because he had prepared for several days to defeat Lily.

"Order the stones in the treetop to float in the name of Klais!" He raised his head and roared in dragon language.

Sensing the danger, Lily looked up in horror. Countless stones fell from the treetop. And she was too late to dodge. Countless falling stones fell like heavy rain. Fallen leaves and branches flew in the air.

Neigher had used the floating magic to block many huge stones into the branches of the tree before. He deliberately led Lily to this position, and then deliberately kept a distance from Lily. In this way, he could use the floating magic to move the stones slightly. As long as he pushed the stones horizontally, they would fall quickly.

"I'm not a complete beast. Human intelligence is still guiding my actions." He thought.

The inherited memory told him that if the other red dragons came over, they might just fight head-on.

After a few seconds, Neigher saw a badly mutilated Lily in a stone heap. She didn't die. Instead, her neck was pressed by a pile of stones. And she was struggling to retreat.

Half of Lily's body was squeezed out of the stone pile and blood seeped out from her back. She dragged half of her body and crawled on the ground with difficulty. The next moment, she saw Neigher approaching her slowly, so she tried her best to run away. However, she stopped not far away. She was badly injured.

In a trance, Neigher came to his dream again. Several options were placed in front of him.

"Blessing: Scales of resisting the evil permanently. The scales of the red dragon could resist most low-level magic. Humans had used these scales to make armors a long time ago."

"Blessing: Decay. Let us be one..."

Why were there only two options this time? Without any hesitation, Neigher chose the first blessing. But this skill was quite good. It should be useful when fighting with Tiffany.

In an instant, he felt that the scales on his body had become shinier. The part that had just been hurt by the snake poison wasn't so soft and fragile. Was there magic on the snake poison that the scales couldn't defend against?

The next moment, the dream came to an end. Half of Lily's body was lying on the ground, looking at the sky helplessly.

"I'm jealous of you..." Lily said faintly. "Why can you use magic in the future and have strong wings? I want to tease you because I'm jealous. But it seems that snakes can't beat a giant dragon in the end."

Neigher took a deep breath. She had been defeated. And Neigher had given vent to his anger. She was useless.

"You didn't hurt my life. So if you can survive, I won't care about you. The half of your body is the price you tease the red dragon." As he spoke, he used dragon majesty to increase Lily's fear of him. "If you can survive, get out of this forest. Or I will kill you next time."

Lily stuck out her tongue and stared at Neigher silently for a long time. Then she dragged half of her badly mutilated body and climbed into the depths of the forest.

Neigher had a hunch that she would survive.