Ch 45 - The Black Snake

A humongous black serpentine head, covered in sharp thorns the size of a ship, and with pitch black eyes that resemble the dark abyss, motionlessly staring right at me.

"Huuh" I catch my breath as I forget to breath or move out of pure unadulterated fear.

My entire body freezes, my heart skips a beat, hell, I think I even shat myself due to how much fear I'm currently feeling.

However, just as I think I'm about to have a heart attack I hear a loud reverberating voice in my head, while the huge snake head moves closer to me.

'Μικρή θνητή..HSS.. Αναρωτιέμαι γιατί ya ήρθε ere' it speaks in my head.

'Αναρωτιέμαι γιατί ya ήρθow..hss..MORTAL..HSSSS' continues the loud reverberating voice.

Hearing this and finally registering what was happening brings me back to my senses and I quickly jump back towards the end of the large stalactite, trying to get as far away as I can from the head, for all the good that would do me, and proceeding to cover myself in Limitless; immediately building up all of my energy for a huge compression attack.

However even as preparing to attack, I don't believe for a second that I will even be able to scratch the scales of this monster, so I do the smart thing and try to respond to the snake that seems to want to talk to me…

"Y-y-yes, h-how c-can I help y-you s-sir?" I ask while stuttering like crazy, not even minding how fearful I sound, because guess what! I'm still fucking petrified.

'HSS… εμείς WILL SEE,' it speaks in my mind once again and suddenly, all I can see is the hard ground, and that's due to my face actually being imprinted onto the ground.

I try to change this, but I can't, it seems like something is holding me to the ground, making me unable to move even a muscle in protest.

However, I fight this, there's no fucking way that I'm simply going to let whatever the snake did continue without resistance, nor am I going to die without giving it my all, not even to a giant Sea King.

"UGGHh"

"AAAH"

I scream as I push myself to the limit and past it, trying my hardest to get off the ground, just get off the ground, even an inch!

And with time and perseverance I'm doing it! I'm beginning to be able to lift myself off the ground, slowly, very slowly, but I'm fucking doing it!

By this point my hands seem to be bleeding and my forearms are covered in thick protruding veins, and I would imagine my entire body isn't any better, likely covered in veins and turning blue from the pressure.

That's how much strain I am currently in.

However, this doesn't seem to be the end of it, because just as I was about to push myself onto my knees, I am once again forced down onto the ground, hard.

*Thud*

Seeming as if gravity itself is telling me to stay down on my face and prostate myself to this ginormous serpentine creature.

Yet when this happens, my head slams onto the floor which causes my vision to gradually darken and a stream of blood to trickle down and hit the floor in front of me. It all adds up until I feel as if I'm slowly losing my grip over my consciousness and consequently my hold in the struggle as well, but I don't give up, I push past it with all of my will.

Because I have a bad feeling that if I give up and black out now…it will be the last I ever get to lay my eyes on this world again.

So, I inhumanly hold on with all of my might to simply not lose my life.

"AAAHHHH"

I scream with everything I have, trying to push myself past my limit, trying to do something! And miraculously this does something!

For a split second, I feel weightless, like I'm floating in the air and the world is under my will…until the pressure returns, and I'm once again planted face first onto the floor.

'SHHASHHASHA… YOU ARE INTERESTING MORTAL…HIISS…MEMORIES OF THE PAST…AND THE FUTURE…' the snake speaks into my head like an overbearing god.

'HISS... SURVIVING VISIONS OF YOUR LOWEST MOMENT…HSSS…SURVIVE 5% OF MY KINGS PRESENCE! SHASHASHA…INTERESTING TRAVELER!' it continues roaring in my head while laughing in its unique laugh.

I don't fully register his words either, as I'm still under the pressure that seems to be gradually increasing as time goes on, but just as I believed I couldn't hold on any longer, it finally stops, allowing me to gain clarity once again, as well as the strength that seemed to have left me.

And when I do and look up, I immediately feel like passing out again because the serpentine Sea Kings giant pitch-black eye is staring right at me, closely inspecting me.

'HSSS…GIVE ME A MOMENT' it says to me again before it suddenly turns its head away from me and towards the entrance where I can hear loud sounds coming from once again.

As I see this action I immediately wonder if I should risk offending this creature by bolting out of here and trying to get away, but just as this thought arrives, it immediately vanishes… 'F-fuck! What the fuck is that!' I internally scream to myself as I see the abomination that just walked through the only entrance and exit of this place.

*ROOAR*

*HSSS*

*CRASH*

Out of nowhere an abomination comes in through the passageway, having to squeeze through it because of its size, it's about 500 meters in length! About 2 times bigger than the Skypean Snake Nora, which while nothing compared to the black snake which seems to be miles long, still manages to look scarier and much more grotesque due to its disgusting appearance.

It looks like a giant fleshy, bleeding worm, with sacs of puss and parts of its skin peeling off the bone.

"CHILDREN…HSSS… BRING IT HERE" the giant snake commands out loud…looks like it could speak the whole time… The giant snake then proceeds to set its ginormous head on the floor and open its large maw as wide as it can go, making it take a 90-degree angle.

And just as it commanded, suddenly something macabre occurs, the worm like creature, that I just noticed is actually a giant flayed snake due to noticing its giant boat sized fangs, seems to move to the command of the black snake…thrashing and hissing the whole way there.

Yet it still moves, and as I look closer, I notice something disgusting, millions upon millions of tiny red Blood Snakes seem to be inside the creature's body.

Commanding and controlling its movement through their own, forcing it to move forward…and right into the gaping maw of the Black Snake.

And once it's completely inside, the large black snake shuts its mouth with a loud *Boom* entrapping its prey whole.

*Gulp*

I gulp as I witness this… that was one of the most horrific things I've seen so far if not ever, a creature forcing another to move into its own mouth for digestion by controlling it like a meat puppet…

And just as I think it couldn't get worse… the black snakes ginormous head once again slowly turns to my direction…observing me…