Six-Armed Serpent Demon

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The screams stopped abruptly.

Instead, there was a crunching sound of chewing.

Tankred stared at the shadow on the stone wall and could see it clearly: the human body in the big guy's hand was now only half there.

He was covered in cold sweat and wished he didn't have that ability to make connections.

Just then, the demonic voices of the reborn suddenly rang in his mind, almost scaring his heart out.

Do you still remember the creatures in those cages in the basement?

She sensed his presence telepathically.

"Uh, yes—"

She interrupted him impatiently: "Don't make a sound. Just think it through. I can hear you."

Yes, there is, the supreme master.

【explain】

[I remember there were two owls and owl bears; a cloaked flying ape; a dinosaur and an earth giant; and, and two lizardmen.]

What does Herbert need so many creatures for?

Tancred said uncertainly, "[It might be a backup sacrifice for the initiation blood sacrifice—]"

She suddenly asked, "How did you know?"

Caught off guard, Tancred was caught off guard and before he could mentally prepare himself, he subconsciously began to think about the reasons:

[Because these creatures are bait we prepared for him… We tracked him here, but couldn’t find Eric van Boto’s laboratory. According to the initiation scrolls, he needs to sacrifice some large or intelligent creatures, but—]

But Herbert, an unemployed good-for-nothing, couldn't possibly grasp something like that.

That's why Tank Red brought so many soldiers.

They captured some creatures and, posing as adventurers, sold them live at the market in a nearby town. Sure enough, they attracted a buyer, the elusive Herbert.

However, compared to Tankred, Ur was clearly superior.

The court sorcerer, scheming for Eric's inheritance, actually used his own apprentice, Herbert's sister, as bait. Thus, both sides found themselves at this place and naturally began their collaboration.

OK, I understand.

She interrupted him again.

The next voice message transmitted to his brain made Tancrede's eyes widen in horror: "Now go in and take a look. Then tell me, have those things escaped from the cage?"

He swallowed hard: "...Supreme Master, this..."

The reborn ignored him and gently tapped the heavy brass door with his greatsword.

The six-armed serpent demon wasn't known for its sheer strength among the many demons, but its power was still among the best. With her extraordinary strength, the brass door rattled and creaked, opening even wider into the basement.

"Go ahead," she said calmly.

Tancred held his breath, watching the shadow on the stone wall with bated breath.

The shadow had stopped moving—the burly man in the basement had put down the human body he was holding and was slowly turning his head toward the brass door.

He gritted his teeth and raised his sword forward, but his feet honestly took a step back, then another step back.

However, he didn't notice that the six-armed serpent demon's colorful black snake tail had already quietly risen behind him.

The next second, Tankred felt a powerful slap on his back, almost knocking him unconscious.

To his horror, he found himself flying straight forward, his feet off the ground.

"bang"

The two brass doors were flung wide open by the humanoid cannonballs, crashing heavily against the stone walls on either side with two deafening bangs.

Tankred saw a dark shadow flash in front of him, and it actually let him pass, allowing him to fly straight towards the stone wall opposite.

He tried to scream in panic, but after only managing to utter "Ah!", he slammed his body against the wall.

Immediately afterward, with a loud "boom," a large hole was smashed open in the wall that Tankred had hit!

The dazzling sunlight shone in from outside the cave, instantly illuminating the entire room.

Tankred disappeared into the cave entrance, leaving only a long, drawn-out scream that faded into the distance.

The reborn six-armed serpent demon was taken aback by this unexpected change, then put the vanished man out of his mind and focused his attention on the creature in front of him.

She felt a chill run through her body after just one glance, and started shivering uncontrollably.

The monster had an exceptionally ferocious appearance.

Not counting her own snake body dragging on the ground, the monster standing in front of her was about the same height as her.

It's hard to describe what this creature is. Is it a gorilla that has turned into a cockroach, or a cockroach that looks like a gorilla?

Its round, insect-like head has two insect-like antennae, a pair of huge lower jaws, and a row of triangular teeth. The area around its mouthparts is covered with blood from its raw food.

On either side of its head were two large compound eyes that looked like flies, and in the very center of those large compound eyes were two small eyes that looked like ape eyes.

At this moment, all four eyes are staring at her.

This upright cockroach had an incredibly robust, gorilla-like body covered in a grayish-brown keratin layer. Its upper arms were long and slender, while its forearms were round and thick, the shape of which reminded her of the protagonist from an old cartoon on Earth in her past life, "Popeye the Sailor Man." Countless bristles, seemingly trembling in the air, grew from its thick forearms.

She noticed that the upright gorilla cockroach also had a pair of huge claws that looked exceptionally sharp.

She quickly glanced around and saw a broken iron cage with its gates twisted off not far from the monster. It seemed it really was one of the escaped sacrifices.

The reborn beings raised six greatswords at the same time as the gorilla cockroach.

All six hands trembled simultaneously.

She let out a bloodcurdling scream: "You...you stay away!"

In her past life, Chu Shixin was afraid of many things besides social anxiety, including giant insects, especially the American cockroach, which could fly.

Every time I see them in the rented room, it causes chaos.

And now, the one in front of her has grown to be almost the same size as her!

Meanwhile, the gorilla-cockroach opposite it made rapid clicking sounds from its mouthparts while retreating.

What does that sound mean? Is it a threat, or a snicker?

The clicking sound grew more and more rapid.

She started shaking even more violently.

Suddenly, the monster turned around and faced her with its rear end.

Before the reborn could understand what was happening, they saw stone dust flying everywhere. The monster's sharp claws swiftly scratched at the stone slabs beneath, digging a large hole in less than a second.

She couldn't understand what the monster was trying to do; perhaps no one could follow the train of thought of a cockroach taller than a person.

She could only stand trembling, sword drawn, ready for battle, while keeping a close eye on the gorilla-cockroach, trying to guess what it was.

However, the next second, it darted into the hole it had just dug and disappeared.

She widened her eyes.

Large amounts of stone dust and soil continued to be thrown out of the hole at high speed, like a fountain gushing from a well. The basement was filled with smoke and fumes.

After a while, seeing that no more stone powder was being thrown out, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

With the six greatswords hanging down, she still felt weak all over, and her six hands were still trembling slightly.

Except for the creatures still chirping in the remaining cages, the basement was completely silent.

Listening to the various squeaking and screeching sounds coming from the cages next to him, the reborn felt as if he had returned to the wonderful time on Earth in his previous life, picking ducks and chickens at the agricultural market.

However, the "chickens and ducks" in the cage all looked strange.

There were large, black crustacean creatures with bird heads and arms connected to a pair of large hooked claws; and monkeys hanging upside down in cages, their bodies wrapped in their broad wings.

What caught her attention were the last two little ones.

They were kept in a cage, each with a head like an eagle owl, a round, grayish-white face with a short beak and two large, bright, round eyes—they were simply adorable. Their plump bodies were covered in soft, thick gray fur, and they had short, stubby limbs, making them resemble a bear cub.

The moment they realized the six-armed serpent demon was watching them, the two little creatures screamed even louder.

She heard a very distinct emotion in that scream.

Beneath the bluff of anger lies loneliness, helplessness, fear, and resentment.

Four black ear feathers stood erect on their heads, making them look like two frightened gray rabbits. They tumbled and crawled backward, huddling together in the corner of the cage, as if they had squeezed into a big fur ball, shivering incessantly.

“Owl Bear,” she said softly.

Thanks to her experience playing a famous game from her previous life, she recognized the two animal cubs without any difficulty.

I briefly recalled Tankred's words.

Two owl bears, one cloaked flying monkey, and this creature with hooked claws attached to its arms must be the Devilclaw Monster.

The earth giant and two lizardmen he mentioned were not in the cage.

That giant gorilla-cockroach obviously couldn't be a lizardman, so it must be an earth giant?

She waited a while longer, lost in thought.

Seeing that there was no further movement in the hole, she swam her snake body, enduring the itchy feeling in her nose and the urge to sneeze from the dust, and came to the hole that was probably dug by the earth monster to look down.

But I didn't see anything.

The cowardly earth monster dug a hole that only went down one foot before turning to digging horizontally, and no one knows where it led.

She could hardly believe her good luck.

That vicious alien cockroach actually ran away?

She breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at the spot where Tancred had disappeared.

A humid, hot wind blew into the long-sealed house, while the warm sunlight was dazzling.

It turned out that the spot where Tankred crashed wasn't a stone wall, but rather a ventilation shaft in a circular basement. A pile of wooden chips and pieces of wood were haphazardly nailed to it, and after hundreds of years of neglect, a thick layer of dust had settled on it. So much so that no one had noticed it was actually a small window.

The wooden window was already rotten and dilapidated; when Tankred rammed into it, he was sent flying through the broken window.

The reborn swam to the ventilation shaft with a large hole, only to find a sheer cliff outside.

It turns out that the building above her was built on the edge of a cliff, and this circular basement went deep into the mountain, so the outside of the ventilation shaft was the cliff.

The reborn one silently sheathed the six greatswords, then awkwardly touched the tip of his nose, feeling somewhat embarrassed.

So... by a twist of fate, the "supreme master" whipped the "loyal servant" off a cliff with his tail.

Tsk, what a waste of a high-quality soul tonic.

Looking further afield, the mountains rise one after another, a breathtaking green world. Amidst the endless expanse of green, in varying shades and intensities, the clear chirping of birds echoes everywhere, and in the distance, the faint roars of wild beasts can be heard.

The reborn one took a deep breath, looked up at the sky, and his emerald-like vertical pupils contracted sharply.

She sighed softly, "It really is another world..."

Outside, the sun blazed high, radiating boundless light and heat, but the sky around the sun was a pale, steely gray.

Chapter 8 The One Who Will Eventually Return

The reborn looked with lingering fear at the hole left by the earth giant, then at the creature in the cage, and an idea popped into his head.

Can you understand what I'm saying?

She used telepathy to sense the creatures in the cage one by one.

The two owl bear cubs received a telepathic connection.

The huddled balls of fur seemed a little confused. They stopped squealing and stared wide-eyed in surprise. After a few seconds, one of them tried to let out a soft "coo-coo," its voice becoming gentler. It just kept cooing while looking around.

Clearly, they don't know where the voices in their heads are coming from.

The cloaked flying monkey, hanging upside down in the cage, remained motionless, as if it hadn't heard anything.

The reborn creature discovered that its cloak-like membranous wings, which covered its body, had secretly opened a crack, revealing a pair of sinister eyes that cautiously peered out from the wing gap.

The bipedal, armored bird, which looked the dumbest, reacted the most.

The languishing, half-dead Terrorclaw monster in its cage instantly raised its vulture-like head upon hearing the sound, its hooked beak pointing towards the six-armed serpent demon, and light gradually emanated from its bewildered black eyes.

It struggled to its feet, hunched over and took a step forward, its forearms hooking against the iron cage bars with a "ding".

I understand.