A Dead Sleeper and a Dead Sleeper

Although the blood point had healed his wounds and wiped his exhaustion, it did nothing for the coming exhaustion! And so before he could process all the notifications, he fell from his sword! Landing on the hard ground, Set slept like a baby. The first hour he was asleep nothing had happened, but the second hour was different. The bush around Set started to rustle, then a massive snake with fluorescent scales came out of the bush. The snake has mesmerizing fluorescent scales with a cloud white horn atop its head. It made its signature hissing noises while it slithered its way towards the unmoving body. As the snake looked at the body, bloodlust and deep hatred appeared in its abyssal black eyes. It circled the body a few times before showing its fangs. The scary thing was that its fangs reached from Set's elbow to his feet!!! But thinking about how its head was as big as Set's body... it wouldn't make sense if it had inch-long fangs.

"HISSSS". The snake hissed and drove its fangs into Set, stabbing him in the abdomen. Its fangs shined with fluorescent light from the root and slowly traveled towards the tip before entering Set's body. As soon as the light entered Set's body, his skin turned ghastly pale, as his breathing became bearly noticeable.

The Sleeper-snake was most known for its venom. Its venom had the effects of paralysis and made a person enter a deep sleep state! And after being injected the chances of survival were slim making it a very scary beast among the Demon-class. But the scary thing was it was known to be able to lay up to five hundred eggs. It would protect the eggs for a year and after they hatch, it would hunt and feed the hatchlings until they grew stronger.

With Set hanging from its mouth, the Sleeper-snake made its way through the forest. Leaving nothing but an oversized golden sword on the ground. After a while of slithering, the Sleeper-snake reached a forty-meter waterfall. It slithered through the waterfall and entered a small cave. The cave was filled with plants and at the center was an opening which the Sleeper-snake proceeded to make its way into.

The opening expanded into a tunnel. The tunnel was dark but was occasionally lit up by a light crystal, lighting up the tunnel in a purple hue.

After about an hour of travel, the duo reached an underground cave. Inside the cave, there were many hissing sounds. That was because the cave was filled with countless baby Sleeper-snakes! The snake dropped the lifeless body on the ground allowing the baby snakes to munch on it.

The snakes made their way towards the body and they all stuck their fangs in Set sucking all the blood from his body, making him look like nothing but a skeleton. And due to their obscene numbers, it only took them a few seconds. But just as they turned around to leave they saw the body looking healthy and lively again, as if nothing had happened! They looked at the strange body and made their way towards it. They pierced the skin with their fangs and sucked all the blood only to find the body looking healthy and normal after a few seconds.

They all hissed with anger and stuck their fangs on the body, sucking it dry. But the skeleton of a body only took a couple of seconds to revert back to a healthy, lively body.

After about half a day, the sky lightened up revealing the morning sun. But this didn't happen in the dark underground cave... for obvious reasons. The baby Sleeper-snakes had been sucking the body dry, watching it heal, and then sucking on it again for the entire duration of the later stages of the night. The body seemed invincible, it would always revert to its original status of healthiness. This was great for the Sleeper-babies, they fed on the body until they were full.

But for some reason, they were drawn to the body and looked as if they felt deep hatred and anger. Driving them to go and attack Set. While all this was happening Set was in deep sleep, countless notifications had rung in his head but he never seemed to wake up. That was until an ultra-loud notification sounded in his head.

. . .

[Blood point deducted]

[Ten blood points remaining]

[If the host wants to keep living you must awaken!]

. . .

Set only managed to hear the second and the third notifications, but that was enough to jump-start his heart. With wide eyes and a shocked face Set screamed, but his day was just getting better. He turned around to look at where he was only to see baby Sleeper-snakes munching on his body.

[Blood point deducted]

"WHAT THE FU...". Set didn't even finish before he went into action. He surrounded himself in red, hellish flames, killing all the snaked on his body.

He held out his hand and the sun mark on his wrist started to shine with blinding light.

. . .

A few minutes earlier...

In the lush forest, a group of three were walking while occasionally chatting amongst themselves.

"Sugiyama Kaori! Are you sure we are going the right way?" asked a woman. She was wearing white battle armor that complimented her beautiful body. She had curves in all the right places, but in contrast to her armor, she had long black hair that flowed down her back. She had a delicate face and snow-white skin. In her right hand was a 3 feet long crystal white sword. Looking at her she looked like a battle angel.

Although her temperament was calm, you could find a hint of pride, too strong to be crushed with the heaviest of mountains!

"I'm sure, Amano Ena!" said Sugiyama Kaori. He was a big-build man. He was a full two meters long with short black hair. He was decked in black Bresurker celestial armor and was holding a meter-long double-sided axe. Although he was only seventeen, he had a stern face and an unbridling arrogance! But he always watched his manners when speaking to the battle angel.

"Why are we here?" said a girl left of him while yawning. She had a petite body with golded long hair. She was wearing a green rob which was reinforced with beast cores. Her temperament was that of the red rose, blooming in the moonlight and bringing happiness to those who behold it!

"I heard that a group of Horny Goats were running towards the northern mountain. And we are here to kill as much as we can!" said Sugiyama Kaori with a murderous grin! After about an hour of walking, the group had not been able to locate a single Horny Goat, let alone the whole gang. But just before they were about to give up, Amano Ena saw from afar a golden light coming from the ground. Out of curiosity, she and her party cautiously made their way towards it.

But when they got close, they were surprised to see it was a sword. The sword was two meters long and was fully made from gold. It sword was decorated by dragons on the hilt and an ink-black sun mark on the blade. Although it was a truly beautiful sword, it seemed impractical for it to be that big.

"What type of sword is that?" asked Amano Ena, as she looked at the sword with interest. Although they tried to identify what type of weaponry the sword was, they couldn't as the sword wasn't giving off an ounce of energy.

Seeing Amano Ena's interest in the sword, Sugiyama Kaori's eyes flashed with cunningness as he said, "Although the sword is a little big, you could melt it down and build it into several smaller ones."

Amano Ena was tempted but ultimately decided to give it up as it wasn't worth the hassle! Seeing that their leader didn't want the sword anymore, Sugiyama Kaori was a little disappointed, but that soon changed as his eyes flashed with greed!

He fancied the oversized sword, but as his leader had her eyes on it he couldn't dare take it for himself. But now that she didn't want it anymore, it was rightfully his! And so he walked up and picked the sword up. Even though the sword was heavy he still managed to pick it up. The sword was perfectly balanced and great to handle. But when he tried to infuse his power, it flat out rejected it. No matter how much he tried not an ounce of power was being infused into the sword. As if the sword was water and his powers were oil! They were two immiscible things!

"Wierd, why can't I infuse it with my power?" but just as Amano Ena was about to ask what was wrong, the sun mark on the golden sword shined with a bright golden-white light, as it excluded terrifying power. Red lines appeared all over the armor Sugiyama Kaori was wearing. The armor couldn't handle the terrifying power and crumbled to dust. Sugiyama Kaori Feeling the full force of the sword coughed up a mouth full of blood. His chest felt like it was on fire, It was as if he was being melted from the inside. Hoping to stop the pain he dropped the sword, but the sword never reached the ground. It floated in mid-air before flying off to the North-East with a red haze in its wake.

The group was completely shaken, the power excluded by the sword was on the level of a... a Celestial tressure. The group looked at each other with shocked expressions and quickly decided to follow in the direction of the sword!