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Chapter 143
Chapter 142: The Arrival of the Western Dominator, Demon Snake Naga—Shock and Suspicion
2024-12-08 Author: Amnesty L
Chapter 142: The Arrival of the Western Dominator, Demon Snake Naga—Shock and Suspicion
Rustle, rustle!
Swish!
In the depths of the great forest, thick vines entwined around all sorts of bizarrely shaped trees. Mottled and fragmented specks of light pierced through the foliage, landing on a forest floor paved with thick fallen leaves and moss.
In the gloomy and profound environment,
A common troll walked at the very front, its massive body easily pushing aside the shrubs and foliage in its way, forcibly carving a path through the surroundings.
And behind this troll followed a ghost bear, covered in brownish-black fur, its size comparable to the troll leading the way.
Its scarlet eyes and the ghost-faced patterns in its fur proclaimed its status as one of the apex predators of the Great Forest of Tob!
Its powerful limbs pressed down on the thick fallen leaves, making a continuous rustling sound.
“Your leader summoned this old man. Did something happen?” a weathered, hoarse voice sounded from the ghost bear's back.
There!
On the back of the ghost bear following the troll, a strange figure was riding. Its lower body was that of a snake, and its tail was covered in a layer of fine, pale white scales that faintly shimmered with a viridian luster.
His upper body was that of a gaunt old man with dry, blackish-green hair. His face was full of wrinkles, all tightly packed together, giving him a somewhat ferocious and terrifying appearance.
This was none other than the Demon Snake of the West, Demon Snake Naga, one of the three dominators.
Bang!
The troll in front broke a thick tree branch blocking the path with a single punch from its strong arm, making a dull thud. It continued to forge ahead with its head down, showing no intention of answering.
The wrinkles at the corner of Demon Snake Naga's mouth twitched.
A brainless lump of useless meat!
He had already given up on further questioning.
Trying to get any useful information from the mouth of an arrogant troll with whom even basic communication was difficult would be harder than trying to communicate with an animal.
Demon Snake Naga had no intention of trying to guess what a creature whose head was filled with nothing but muscle was thinking.
However!
Something must have happened on Troll Gu's end.
Demon Snake Naga guessed as much, but he was more curious than anything.
As for worry?
He didn't believe there was any existence in this forest capable of threatening them. The only thing to worry about was that Troll Gu's brain had gone haywire and he'd suddenly decide to kill him.
That was why he had brought this ghost bear along. With it here, even if Troll Gu truly lost his mind, it could hold him off for a while, allowing him to retreat with ease.
“I truly wish your brains were as developed as your muscles. Of course, if that were the case, this old man would probably have a terrible headache.”
Demon Snake Naga swung his snake tail, striking the ghost bear on the rump to make it speed up and keep pace with the troll ahead.
The three dominators of the Great Forest of Tob.
Troll Gu was a foolish, brainless fellow. Despite having a large number of subordinates, he had no idea how to make use of them.
The Wise King of the Forest was an even lazier monster who did nothing but eat and sleep.
If just one of those two had been as clever as him, they could have ruled the entire Great Forest of Tob long ago.
“How vexing,” Demon Snake Naga let out a low, hoarse chuckle.
As they gradually approached the forest fissure where Troll Gu lived.
Demon Snake Naga could clearly smell that the scent of blood in the air had grown much thicker.
Here...
Demon Snake Naga narrowed his serpentine eyes, observing many remnants of darkened blood on the tree trunks and ground throughout the forest.
This dried blood had been here for some time!
The dense trees began to thin out, and the wide area of the forest fissure appeared before them.
As Demon Snake Naga looked over, he couldn't help but widen his eyes. The squalid area, which should have been littered with the gnawed skeletons of wild beasts and swarming with mosquitoes and flies, had become surprisingly clean.
“What is going on?”
Demon Snake Naga found it incredible. “What in the world happened?”
He would rather believe this pack of trolls had truly lost their minds than believe that these creatures, who loved living in filthy, dark environments, would clean their own living area.
Wait!
A hint of confusion appeared in Demon Snake Naga's eyes as he noticed the soil in the area was somewhat reddish.
Those were the traces left by blood!
It was just that the area covered by these traces was too vast. Even though the blood had long since dried, the foul, bloody stench in the air still lingered persistently.
So, just how many creatures had that fellow, Troll Gu, killed?
"Faster!"
Demon Snake Naga whipped the ghost bear with his tail, urging it to go faster.
"Roar." The ghost bear let out a cry, its powerful limbs pumping as it quickly overtook the guiding troll and rushed toward the cave.
A crude wooden shed, built haphazardly from thick trees, was the first thing to enter Demon Snake Naga's field of vision. Inside, there was a medium-sized evil spirit hound.
This evil spirit hound was lifting its head to look at him.
Troll Gu's food?
Or a pet he was raising?
Faced with the gaze of such a weak creature, if this were any other time...
Demon Snake Naga would not have minded casually dispatching it to display his power as a dominator.
But now!
Demon Snake Naga inexplicably sensed a certain strangeness pervading the area. His heart tensed, and his serpentine eyes scanned the surroundings with a hint of cunning and caution.
At the ghost bear's running speed.
The enormous cave appeared up ahead. Troll Gu's massive, three-meter-tall figure also came into view at the cave's entrance, his back turned to him.
Upon seeing Troll Gu, Demon Snake Naga raised a withered arm and pressed down on the ghost bear's head to make it slow down. At the same time, his taut nerves relaxed slightly.
“Gu, for what reason did you send someone to summon this old man?”
“And what has happened here?” Demon Snake Naga straightened his upper body and asked in his aged voice.
Out of some cautious intuition.
Demon Snake Naga remained steadily mounted on the ghost bear, maintaining a distance of about fifty meters from Troll Gu.
*Splash, splash—*
A sound like splashing water came from in front of Troll Gu. It wasn't loud, so Demon Snake Naga didn't notice it at first.
"I know you don't care for etiquette."
"But doing something like that right outside your own cave is something this old man still cannot comprehend." Demon Snake Naga's eyes widened a fraction, and he spoke with a look of disgust.
Troll Gu still didn't answer, just standing there in a daze.
It was at this very moment.
A somewhat gentle voice drifted from in front of Troll Gu.
“My apologies, you must have misunderstood.”
It wasn't Troll Gu's voice; the tone was completely unfamiliar.
Demon Snake Naga was stunned.
*Thud!*
Troll Gu's massive body moved aside, revealing the figure that had been in front of him.
A weak human?
Demon Snake Naga's serpentine eyes froze, a look of shocked disbelief spreading across his face.
It was a young human male in a white robe. Compared to Troll Gu's enormous frame, he was so minuscule he could almost be ignored.
The man was sitting on a wooden stake with a large wooden barrel placed before him. The *splashing* sound was not at all what he had imagined.
It was the sound of blood flowing from Troll Gu's body!
He saw.
On Troll Gu's thigh was a fist-sized wound from which blood gushed continuously, flowing into the wooden bucket in front of the human.
Such a bizarre scene appeared before his eyes.
The sight caused Demon Snake Naga to subconsciously tighten his grip on the ghost bear's fur.
With Troll Gu's regeneration ability, a wound of that degree should have healed in the blink of an eye. Why was it still bleeding?
Wait!
That question isn't important!
"Who are you? A human?"
Demon Snake Naga's wrinkled face twisted into a sinister expression as he glared at Tang Zheng. Simultaneously, he glanced at Troll Gu and immediately noticed the troll's dazed state.
*Charm-type magic? A human magic caster. This idiot actually got controlled by a human!*
Several thoughts flashed through Demon Snake Naga's mind.
"The one who invited you wasn't him. It was I, Your Excellency, Demon Snake of the West."
Tang Zheng looked up at Demon Snake Naga and smiled. "It’s a pleasure to meet you for the first time..."
“Don’t be ridiculous, human! Who do you think you are!” A contemptuous look appeared in Demon Snake Naga's serpentine eyes. Before Tang Zheng could finish, a flash of magic power flared around his body. “This is a place under our dominion!”
“Charm Human!”
“Undying Spirit.”
Tang Zheng raised an eyelid, nullifying the other's charm magic. He immediately followed with his own chant: “Charm Species!”
A viridian luster flashed across Demon Snake Naga's entire body, but his gaze remained unwavering, completely unaffected.
The brief exchange ended in the blink of an eye.
"See? You weak human."
“Your charm magic is useless against this old man.” Demon Snake Naga’s eyes glinted as he sneered, “So what if you can control Gu? You can’t kill him.”
“This old man will make you understand the consequences of daring to invade our territory!”
A dazzling red light bloomed at Demon Snake Naga's fingertip.
“Fireball!”
A mass of flames the size of a washbasin rapidly condensed, transforming into a fireball in the blink of an eye and shooting towards Tang Zheng.
"You keep calling me a 'weak human.' Perhaps humans are indeed weak."
Facing the incoming fireball, Tang Zheng single-handedly lifted the magic greatsword that rested beside him. A translucent gleam condensed on the sword's blade.
"But that's only because you haven't met me!"
Mana Slash!
(end of chapter)
2024-12-08 Author: Amnesty L
Chapter 142: The Arrival of the Western Dominator, Demon Snake Naga—Shock and Suspicion
Rustle, rustle!
Swish!
In the depths of the great forest, thick vines entwined around all sorts of bizarrely shaped trees. Mottled and fragmented specks of light pierced through the foliage, landing on a forest floor paved with thick fallen leaves and moss.
In the gloomy and profound environment,
A common troll walked at the very front, its massive body easily pushing aside the shrubs and foliage in its way, forcibly carving a path through the surroundings.
And behind this troll followed a ghost bear, covered in brownish-black fur, its size comparable to the troll leading the way.
Its scarlet eyes and the ghost-faced patterns in its fur proclaimed its status as one of the apex predators of the Great Forest of Tob!
Its powerful limbs pressed down on the thick fallen leaves, making a continuous rustling sound.
“Your leader summoned this old man. Did something happen?” a weathered, hoarse voice sounded from the ghost bear's back.
There!
On the back of the ghost bear following the troll, a strange figure was riding. Its lower body was that of a snake, and its tail was covered in a layer of fine, pale white scales that faintly shimmered with a viridian luster.
His upper body was that of a gaunt old man with dry, blackish-green hair. His face was full of wrinkles, all tightly packed together, giving him a somewhat ferocious and terrifying appearance.
This was none other than the Demon Snake of the West, Demon Snake Naga, one of the three dominators.
Bang!
The troll in front broke a thick tree branch blocking the path with a single punch from its strong arm, making a dull thud. It continued to forge ahead with its head down, showing no intention of answering.
The wrinkles at the corner of Demon Snake Naga's mouth twitched.
A brainless lump of useless meat!
He had already given up on further questioning.
Trying to get any useful information from the mouth of an arrogant troll with whom even basic communication was difficult would be harder than trying to communicate with an animal.
Demon Snake Naga had no intention of trying to guess what a creature whose head was filled with nothing but muscle was thinking.
However!
Something must have happened on Troll Gu's end.
Demon Snake Naga guessed as much, but he was more curious than anything.
As for worry?
He didn't believe there was any existence in this forest capable of threatening them. The only thing to worry about was that Troll Gu's brain had gone haywire and he'd suddenly decide to kill him.
That was why he had brought this ghost bear along. With it here, even if Troll Gu truly lost his mind, it could hold him off for a while, allowing him to retreat with ease.
“I truly wish your brains were as developed as your muscles. Of course, if that were the case, this old man would probably have a terrible headache.”
Demon Snake Naga swung his snake tail, striking the ghost bear on the rump to make it speed up and keep pace with the troll ahead.
The three dominators of the Great Forest of Tob.
Troll Gu was a foolish, brainless fellow. Despite having a large number of subordinates, he had no idea how to make use of them.
The Wise King of the Forest was an even lazier monster who did nothing but eat and sleep.
If just one of those two had been as clever as him, they could have ruled the entire Great Forest of Tob long ago.
“How vexing,” Demon Snake Naga let out a low, hoarse chuckle.
As they gradually approached the forest fissure where Troll Gu lived.
Demon Snake Naga could clearly smell that the scent of blood in the air had grown much thicker.
Here...
Demon Snake Naga narrowed his serpentine eyes, observing many remnants of darkened blood on the tree trunks and ground throughout the forest.
This dried blood had been here for some time!
The dense trees began to thin out, and the wide area of the forest fissure appeared before them.
As Demon Snake Naga looked over, he couldn't help but widen his eyes. The squalid area, which should have been littered with the gnawed skeletons of wild beasts and swarming with mosquitoes and flies, had become surprisingly clean.
“What is going on?”
Demon Snake Naga found it incredible. “What in the world happened?”
He would rather believe this pack of trolls had truly lost their minds than believe that these creatures, who loved living in filthy, dark environments, would clean their own living area.
Wait!
A hint of confusion appeared in Demon Snake Naga's eyes as he noticed the soil in the area was somewhat reddish.
Those were the traces left by blood!
It was just that the area covered by these traces was too vast. Even though the blood had long since dried, the foul, bloody stench in the air still lingered persistently.
So, just how many creatures had that fellow, Troll Gu, killed?
"Faster!"
Demon Snake Naga whipped the ghost bear with his tail, urging it to go faster.
"Roar." The ghost bear let out a cry, its powerful limbs pumping as it quickly overtook the guiding troll and rushed toward the cave.
A crude wooden shed, built haphazardly from thick trees, was the first thing to enter Demon Snake Naga's field of vision. Inside, there was a medium-sized evil spirit hound.
This evil spirit hound was lifting its head to look at him.
Troll Gu's food?
Or a pet he was raising?
Faced with the gaze of such a weak creature, if this were any other time...
Demon Snake Naga would not have minded casually dispatching it to display his power as a dominator.
But now!
Demon Snake Naga inexplicably sensed a certain strangeness pervading the area. His heart tensed, and his serpentine eyes scanned the surroundings with a hint of cunning and caution.
At the ghost bear's running speed.
The enormous cave appeared up ahead. Troll Gu's massive, three-meter-tall figure also came into view at the cave's entrance, his back turned to him.
Upon seeing Troll Gu, Demon Snake Naga raised a withered arm and pressed down on the ghost bear's head to make it slow down. At the same time, his taut nerves relaxed slightly.
“Gu, for what reason did you send someone to summon this old man?”
“And what has happened here?” Demon Snake Naga straightened his upper body and asked in his aged voice.
Out of some cautious intuition.
Demon Snake Naga remained steadily mounted on the ghost bear, maintaining a distance of about fifty meters from Troll Gu.
*Splash, splash—*
A sound like splashing water came from in front of Troll Gu. It wasn't loud, so Demon Snake Naga didn't notice it at first.
"I know you don't care for etiquette."
"But doing something like that right outside your own cave is something this old man still cannot comprehend." Demon Snake Naga's eyes widened a fraction, and he spoke with a look of disgust.
Troll Gu still didn't answer, just standing there in a daze.
It was at this very moment.
A somewhat gentle voice drifted from in front of Troll Gu.
“My apologies, you must have misunderstood.”
It wasn't Troll Gu's voice; the tone was completely unfamiliar.
Demon Snake Naga was stunned.
*Thud!*
Troll Gu's massive body moved aside, revealing the figure that had been in front of him.
A weak human?
Demon Snake Naga's serpentine eyes froze, a look of shocked disbelief spreading across his face.
It was a young human male in a white robe. Compared to Troll Gu's enormous frame, he was so minuscule he could almost be ignored.
The man was sitting on a wooden stake with a large wooden barrel placed before him. The *splashing* sound was not at all what he had imagined.
It was the sound of blood flowing from Troll Gu's body!
He saw.
On Troll Gu's thigh was a fist-sized wound from which blood gushed continuously, flowing into the wooden bucket in front of the human.
Such a bizarre scene appeared before his eyes.
The sight caused Demon Snake Naga to subconsciously tighten his grip on the ghost bear's fur.
With Troll Gu's regeneration ability, a wound of that degree should have healed in the blink of an eye. Why was it still bleeding?
Wait!
That question isn't important!
"Who are you? A human?"
Demon Snake Naga's wrinkled face twisted into a sinister expression as he glared at Tang Zheng. Simultaneously, he glanced at Troll Gu and immediately noticed the troll's dazed state.
*Charm-type magic? A human magic caster. This idiot actually got controlled by a human!*
Several thoughts flashed through Demon Snake Naga's mind.
"The one who invited you wasn't him. It was I, Your Excellency, Demon Snake of the West."
Tang Zheng looked up at Demon Snake Naga and smiled. "It’s a pleasure to meet you for the first time..."
“Don’t be ridiculous, human! Who do you think you are!” A contemptuous look appeared in Demon Snake Naga's serpentine eyes. Before Tang Zheng could finish, a flash of magic power flared around his body. “This is a place under our dominion!”
“Charm Human!”
“Undying Spirit.”
Tang Zheng raised an eyelid, nullifying the other's charm magic. He immediately followed with his own chant: “Charm Species!”
A viridian luster flashed across Demon Snake Naga's entire body, but his gaze remained unwavering, completely unaffected.
The brief exchange ended in the blink of an eye.
"See? You weak human."
“Your charm magic is useless against this old man.” Demon Snake Naga’s eyes glinted as he sneered, “So what if you can control Gu? You can’t kill him.”
“This old man will make you understand the consequences of daring to invade our territory!”
A dazzling red light bloomed at Demon Snake Naga's fingertip.
“Fireball!”
A mass of flames the size of a washbasin rapidly condensed, transforming into a fireball in the blink of an eye and shooting towards Tang Zheng.
"You keep calling me a 'weak human.' Perhaps humans are indeed weak."
Facing the incoming fireball, Tang Zheng single-handedly lifted the magic greatsword that rested beside him. A translucent gleam condensed on the sword's blade.
"But that's only because you haven't met me!"
Mana Slash!
(end of chapter)
