52 Meet The Mother

__________ POV Ashton__________

Zeno, Silva and I all gathered around Maha as what remained of the snake kept struggling to get its teeth released from the vice grip Maha's muscles held them in.

Its poison might as well not be a factor in this fight. Maha likely trained to a sickening extent to be able to resist it.

Of course, out of every human in the world, he must currently be the most resistant to poison.

I am still lacking in that department, at least compared to Maha.

"I think it's only reasonable you get the finishing blow..." I said to Maha, he was looking at the snake intently.

I grabbed its head and forcefully separated its fangs from Maha's arm. He also let his muscles relax in order to ease my endeavour.

I held the snake tightly there was no escaping, its struggle was fun to watch.

Maha eventually took it from me, grasped its head tightly, crushing it into mush. I took no little amount of pleasure looking as the light was snuffed out of its eyes.

I will find a different specimen to study on the continent, this one deserved to die by this old man's hand.

He finally released a sigh. Zeno still looked at what remained of the snake with hatred.

If only it could come back to life so he could kill it again.

Silva only looked a bit satisfied, that punch he delivered probably worked off a lot of his stress.

Slowly, we all started heading for Zigg's body. I already knew that he kept his piece of the key on a string around his neck.

He said it made for a 'sick necklace'. What a special idiot... I kind of miss his cheerful attitude. He was the upbeat one of the group, Netero was the muscle head, and Linne was the scared cat.

I was the old guide taking them through the most treacherous of places with ease. Although, they became my guides after we left my homeland...

This fight was a bit easier than I thought it would be. And, maybe this thought jinxed what happened next.

As we approached Zigg's remains, I could hear a distinct bell chime. I quickly released a powerful explosion and sent the three Zoldycks flying away.

In front of me, three different snakes stood on top of the tree Zigg's body was resting under.

Something I hoped wouldn't happen.

Even worse, one of them seems to be just as big as the tree itself. Its tails were coiled around two different trees.

This is a specimen that hasn't been observed before. Growing in what is technically the backyard of the Zoldyck family.

I can only hope my explosion sent the Zoldycks back far enough to avoid their thinking getting altered.

Still, am I even safe from three Hellbells at once? Well, the short answer is, of course.

The ant king grew too strong too fast, you can't even begin to compare these grass snakes to a king.

Meruem. He may not be the first opponent able to beat me around with ease... But he was the youngest by far.

He was a newborn when he fought against me. Not even two months old.

This led me to write down a line underneath my last page of research on the Ants.

'They are by far, the species with the most potential for world domination.' By that, I meant the Dark Continent included.

Now, the three snakes in front of me won't be an easy fight. But they are still agreeable odds.

It should be noted that I am far from being alone.

Above me, hundreds of meters into the sky. A giant, angry-looking Nen dragon was floating around menacingly.

On it was the three Zoldyck family members. They were looking down at the snakes that had made a nest in their backyard with pure rage.

But they knew better than to attack without any opening. I'll need to create one for them.

And I have just the perfect thing. Pretending to be charmed won't work on three enemies at once, but I have something that just might.

It should also be able to take the bell off of one.

I picked up a small stone from the ground and harmlessly threw it towards one of the smaller snakes.

The big one looked a bit too tough to be taken out with a simple explosion.

The snake didn't react much, even flicking the stone with its tongue in curiosity. Until it exploded and burst its bell to pieces.

I couldn't use a powerful explosion due to them being too close to Zigg's body, but the dust this raised was more than enough.

The Zoldycks closed in on the snakes like hawks to a pack of mice.

Zeno took the smaller one, a rain of dragons swooping in, pulverising it in seconds, the dragons weren't directed at the ground, it seems he didn't want to harm his father's remains.

This also meant that we were now going all out. Not playing around to prolong the suffering of a single snake. We now had an entire family of snakes to slaughter.

Silva crushed the other small snake, the one I exploded, under his fist. Performing a perfect superhero landing and a crater big enough to fit both the crushed snake and himself.

Maha, the strongest of the three, decided to take out the bell of the strongest one. Killing it in just one blow might be more of a pipe dream honestly.

Even the usually unguarded bell seems to be covered in thick scales and skin. But the old assassin knew what he was doing.

Using his entire body as a whip, he slapped his claw on the bell so hard that he pierced it almost instantly. Ruining its greatest weapon against him and his family.

All of that was done at the same time. It was difficult to follow even to me, this is why they almost killed me a few times. Perfect coordination and extremely swift movements.

Maha quickly jumped away from the bigger snake, which I can only assume is the mother in this case. And came to my side. His aura flaring up to match his anger.

Zeno also jumped away from the snake, preemptively dodging a tail that came crashing down in his previous location.

Small dragons danced around him, all in different sizes, two of them covered each of his hands as he took his stance.

Silva was not going to let himself go unnoticed either. His aura started forming two large spheres of Nen. They were volatile, probably explosive too.

This fight won't be too difficult now that I think about it...

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You thought the hunt was actually over? You really think I'd let the moment I built up to be so anti-climactic? Ho HO, You're approaching Me?! Am I Having a MENal BEraeEk down? Should I stop asking questions?

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