So I'm a Snake, Who Cares?

There was a complex drawing on the dirt ground in front of me.

Since doodling has been my hobby since my human days, it should be quite easy to recognize.

I drew a snake with a unique appearance.

This is not me, but a snake described in Deshnan\'s journal.

The small snake drawn next to it is me.

I alternately pointed at the small snake and the big snake.

And then alternately pointed at the centipede triplets and Mrs. Giant Centipede.

\'This snake is my father. Have you seen him by any chance?\'

"As if she\'d understand."

And the giant centipede understood.

"She understood this!"

The centipede suddenly curled up her body. And somehow she seemed scared, clanking her poison claws.

She stared at me intently, then nodded.

She looked towards the east where the sun rises.

There was a rocky area that looked treacherous even at a glance.

\'Is he there?\'

The giant centipede nodded again.

I felt excitement like sparks flying in my head.

I\'ve finally found my father\'s whereabouts.

My mother was an evil Medusa Serpent who turned disobedient children into blood pancakes, but my father is different.

Yes, my father wasn\'t a Medusa Serpent.

When I realized this fact, which might be obvious, it was quite shocking.

The reason they are called \'Medusa\' is because of the numerous thread snakes attached like hair.

But if you think about it, all those thread snakes are directly laid children. They also have a female face.

Naturally, only female Medusa Serpents exist.

My biological father was a serpent, but not a Medusa Serpent.

It was a much cooler name.

The reason I want to meet my father was also because of that special species name.

"It was an individual I had never seen before, a unique species."

Pelerian explained so.

A monster that has deviated from the normal monster evolution tree, a unique species.

It means a species that has evolved and been reborn as a completely new species, not just a rare breed.

"Don\'t expect too much. Not all unique species are powerful and superior."

Anyway, I want to at least take a look.

I have a special skill called Billy\'s Horn.

According to Deshnan\'s records, my father, being a special monster, should have a special skill.

If I\'m lucky, I might be able to borrow it.

I was about to say goodbye to the bug army and leave.

"What\'s that. It\'s creepy."

Bugs were crawling out from the swamp area.

Is this some kind of welcome party for the giant centipede and her group who finished fighting?

I sensed something odd.

\'They\'re all spiders.\'

The bugs were small in shape and size, but they were all spiders.

Especially the big spider leading them.

It had something like a human face attached to its belly.

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[Demon Face Tarantula lv63]

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...That one looks dangerous.

It seemed like I made eye contact with the face attached to its belly.

"Kekekkek!"

The giant centipede made a threatening sound and pushed me.

It seemed to be telling me to leave quickly.

"Saak!"

I called Spot and quickly mounted him.

And I set off towards the rocky area.

"Woof!"

Spot started running, barking refreshingly.

We ran fast and got away from the bug army.

At that moment, I glanced back.

The giant centipede and the face spider were facing each other, having a staredown.

The atmosphere is ominous, as if they don\'t get along.

Oh, it\'s looking at me again.

The face attached to the body of the face spider seems to be looking at me.

It\'s an unpleasant face.

It\'s grinning with a grotesque smile, but its eyeballs are clearly directed at me.

I\'ve never had a good relationship with spiders.

I shook off that gaze and ran hard with Spot.

It was when we were about to enter the rocky area that I noticed something strange.

"There are many spiders around."

Pelerian warned.

The rocky area is not a suitable environment for spiders to live.

Sharp rocks are protruding everywhere.

Yet, spiders the size of fists were hovering around me.

Although damp moss grows between the rocks, it\'s not a place where so many spiders can live.

It\'s been a long time since we\'ve gone far enough not to see the centipede and the face spider.

\'This isn\'t a coincidence, is it?\'

"How does it look to you?"

\'They couldn\'t have followed us from the swamp area.\'

The spiders hovered around, watching from about ten steps away from me.

While being wary of them, I searched for my father, but there were no snakes in the vast rocky area except me.

A serpent of that size couldn\'t go unnoticed.

"Instead of looking for your father, we should find a hiding place first."

It got dark.

When I tried to run away riding Spot, even Spot couldn\'t gain proper speed in the rocky area.

Moreover, the spiders blocked the route and slowly tightened their encirclement.

At some point, spiders as big as wild dogs appeared.

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[Poison Long-legged Spider lv17]

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These are guys who wouldn\'t dare to pounce on me one-on-one.

But they started to slowly approach, sticking to the rocks.

Eight eyeballs per spider.

Hundreds of red eyes float in the darkness.

All those eyes are looking at me.

It\'s like they\'re driving prey for a hunt.

They\'re underestimating me.

"Kyaeng!"

That\'s when Spot screamed.

A fist-sized spider had jumped in to bite Spot.

I quickly leaped and caught the spider in my mouth.

When I crunched and chewed it up for revenge, Spot growled and watched the surroundings.

"It\'s dangerous."

It\'s quite dangerous.

I had a suspicion that this might be the doing of the face spider I made eye contact with.

Could it be that it noticed I took the orangutan\'s fruit?

There\'s nothing I can figure out by racking my brains.

Then I have no choice but to show my skills.

Ullullullu. No, Ouroboros should have come himself if he wanted to do something to me.

I drew my sword.

And I started to create water splashes while spewing fire from my mouth.

Of course, I also started shaking the ground through earth magic.

The goblins of Lunga trembled at this sight.

Rumble-

The effect was excellent.

The spiders approaching me started to retreat hesitantly.

Rumble rumble-

Was the basic elemental magic this powerful?

It\'s almost like an earthquake.

At that moment, something blocked the moonlight and cast a shadow.

A huge shadow covered me and grew rapidly, even covering the spiders.

Only then.

I realized there was someone behind me.

Didn\'t you run away because of me?

I looked back.

Ah.

I wondered where you were hiding.

Were you sleeping under the rocks from the beginning?

The repetition of red light, green light that the spiders and I played might have been on the body of a sleeping snake.

That\'s how huge that snake was.

Thud, boom.

The rocks covering the snake\'s body fell, making a thunderous sound.

He appeared.

A thrill ran through me.

His scales were the same white as mine.

No, is it the color of starlight?

The serpent with stars in its scales looked down at me with two eyes like the North Star.

I carefully tried to address him.

\'...Dad?\'

Or father.

Our eyes met.