If Skynder had eyes, the world would have rapidly darkened. However, his vision was essentially the sa as before.
The snake's skin and scales could not stop the imnse vibrations occurring from reaching him. He could still see three hundred feet outside of the snake's body.
However, Skynder focused on the inside. He saw an incredible sight, one he could hardly believe.
As he traveled down the snake's throat, he saw none other than a small town. A literal small town. It had houses and shops, but no people.
The snake was surely big enough to house people, so this wasn't impossible, but the fact that buildings existed inside of the snake was unbelievable.
The small town clearly had not been inhabited for many years. Few of the buildings still had roofs, and so were eroded to a single wall.
Saliva dripped from above like a constant rain. Skynder felt it sting every ti he was hit. If he stayed here for too long, he would eventually be digested.
Skynder thought of escaping, but before any of that, he wanted to explore this place. He may not have another chance.
He walked around until he spotted a relatively intact building. Inside, there was rusty tal and rotten furniture. However, it clearly represented that sothing humanoid, most likely human, lived here long ago.
Skynder saw a book on a table. This was exactly what he had been looking for.
It was in horrible condition, but he tried his best to read the words through vibrations.
He could only make out a few words.
"Serpent. God. Ho. Benevolent."
These were the important words he had picked out of what remained of the text, which was surprisingly in english.
These words seed to indicate that this Mountain Serpent had once been seen as a god by these people. They lived inside of its ho. Clearly, back then, it must have been sothing akin to benevolent.
As for how this small town ended up abandoned, he did not know.
He left this house, looking for more information in another.
Skynder visited many houses, but few had anything to offer besides signs that soone had lived here many, many years ago.
Near the end, he found another group of writings, though these were also barely intact.
"Anger. Lightning. God. Fear."
These were the important words he managed to pick out this ti. Clearly, sothing had happened. It was obvious that this was referring to whatever caused this place to beco damaged.
Intense shaking was occuring outside, and Skynder did not waste any more ti. He examined everything else, finding nothing of importance.
He did not imdiately try to cut his way out. Instead, he opened up a small container on his side. Inside were a few vials of Deprivation poison.
This was absolutely the ti to use them.
Skynder had long understood that one did not necessarily have to inhale or drink this poison for it to work. It seeped into one's very being.
Skynder threw two of them far away with a strength that ensured they would break upon landing, before running far away. He then began to slowly carve into the side of the snake with his sword.
Clearly, swallowing things was not a very effective thod of killing for this snake, against humans at least, so it was no wonder why it had tried to smash them on multiple occasions.
Perhaps he was only eaten to temporarily lessen the amount of targets. He had no way of understanding the snake's intelligence and could only make guesses.
As Skynder began to carve his way out, the snake started to act out. However, this wasn't due to his carving, but because of the Deprivation poison.
Sword Master Yi Shuzanhao and Sword Master Gargantuan, who had been struggling to survive, noticed these changes imdiately. They began to retreat, and the snake had no intention of following them. It was thrashing around on the ground, obviously in pain.
Of course, no matter how far they got, it wasn't much of a distance to the mountain sized snake.
It was after a few minutes of trashing that Skynder escaped the snake through a hole.
He climbed on it and began to run on its back. It was quite hard to stay balanced, but he managed to slowly move towards its head.
The two Sword Masters saw him and were relieved that he was alive.
The giant snake already had a few scars from their attacks. Despite everything else, they were still first rank Sword Masters. If they were unable to at least injure the snake, they wouldn't be worthy of such a title.
On the landmass atop the snake's head, the three important mbers of the Ancient Empires were ragged. As the snake trashed around, nothing moved more than its head. They were constantly struggling to even hold on, much less notice Skynder coming towards them.
It took nearly five minutes before Skynder jumped on the landmass atop the snake's head.
From afar, Sword Master Yi Shuzanhao and Sword Master Gargantuan noticed this. They also noticed that the snake was beginning to move slower. Blood was pouring out of its eyes, creating a literal river of blood.
Suddenly, the Serpent Master noticed Skynder. He was not too far from him anymore.
He picked up his flute and began to play. It was a calming lody. Although it would not usually affect the snake, in its current weakened snake, it had an effect.
It slowly stopped swinging its head.
Suddenly, the Serpent Master blew hard into his flute, so hard that it began to crack. This was not a lody, but a command.
In its ti of weakness, he was using everything he had to issue one command. And indeed, it worked.
A tail as large as a small mountain flung from the back, slamming so quickly on Skynder's location that he could not react.
This was the most dangerous situation he had ever faced.
In an instant, he made a last ditch decision, resting his fate on the snake's response ti.
He grabbed a vial of the Deprivation poison and smashed it down where he stood.
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