Yarra’s Adventure Notes

Chapter 41 - 41 31 Fatal Bait_1

?41: Chapter 31 Fatal Bait_1 41: Chapter 31 Fatal Bait_1 (As usual, two updates today, with the first one being released.

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The demonized giant python has been quite unhappy lately.

Since twenty days ago, when an animal, which could have only served as food, broke into its nest and woke it up from its deep sleep with an attack, it has been far from pleased.

The giant python, which had been dominating the underground cave for many, many years, had not felt pain or injury for a long time.

However, the attack from that piece of food made it taste this long-forgotten flavor again.

This unusually intelligent creature perceived a threat from the fleeing food.

Therefore, it did not give chase as usual.

But who could have thought that the food would just stay at the entrance of its nest, and stayed there for twenty whole days?

With such a threatening entity guarding the entrance of its nest, it had not dared to sleep soundly for twenty days.

This was simply unimaginable in its long life.

The python’s forked tongue kept flicking in and out, its red tongue exploring the air.

Its nostrils huffed loudly.

That threatening smell seemed to be gone.

That’s great; it can sleep again.

The python rhythmically hit the ground with its tail, sending out a muffled thump to vent its joy.

After that, it laid on the ground lazily, ready to sleep for a few more months.

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Barefooted, Pannis stood still at the entrance to the Frost Realm, enduring the piercing cold, silently watching the demonized giant python prepare to sleep again.

He knew that the python’s sight and hearing were just decoration, but its sense of smell and touch were extremely sensitive.

He had scattered a lot of smell concealing powder on himself, which could avoid the python’s sense of smell.

But, if he moved too quickly or put too much pressure on the ground, the vibration would definitely alert it.

Thus, he only stood still, not taking any action.

Only when the python once again laid on the ground, other than its lazy rhythm of sticking out its forked tongue, did it not make any more movements.

Pannis relaxed slightly and moved slowly, almost imperceptibly slow, to the side of the rocky wall.

He pasted his hands on the rocky wall, adhering to the wall with a small trick.

His arms slowly exerted force, causing his feet to leave the ground.

In this way, he was pasted to the wall, moving inch by inch.

One step at a time, Pannis slowly shuffled to the area directly above the python.

He hung upside down on the top of the cave and waited quietly.

‘Sss’, seemingly feeling something, the demonized giant python raised its puzzled neck and stuck its tongue out to explore the air a few times.

Not finding anything unusual, it finally laid back down properly.

‘Phew.’ Seeing the python lay down again, Pannis finally exhaled.

Under the light of the noctilucent moss, which none of the magical creatures dare to eat, he looked at the python’s entire body from above for the first time.

This python isn’t considered giant in the category of giant magical beasts, only about thirty meters long, and its thickest part is only about three meters in diameter.

Of course, it is not considered large compared to the gigantic magical beasts that reach tens of meters in height.

But for the magical creatures that live in narrow cave environments, it is absolutely a gargantuan presence.

In the underground world, probably only these types of pythons can grow to this size and still be able to move freely in most environments.

Although not overly large, the defense of the demonized giant python is startlingly strong.

A layer of scales tougher than steel covers its skin, gleaming metallically under the light.

Underneath these hard scales, there is a layer of tough, thick skin.

This two-layer defense makes the python near invincible.

No wonder even Indulgence can’t beat it.

This kind of tough magical creature is a moving big trouble for everyone, including Indulgence.

Of course, Pannis himself is not an exception.

If not necessary, Pannis definitely would not want to mess with such a thing.

But now it’s necessary.

Observing the python becoming less and less alert, the frequency of its tongue-flicking also becoming slower, Pannis took a deep breath.

His eyes sparked, his muscles tensed up suddenly, his legs forcefully kicked the top of the cave wall.

His whole body, propelled by the thrust of his legs and the force of gravity, fell rapidly towards less than half a meter from the python’s mouth.

The highly sensitive python immediately detected something and subconsciously stuck out its tongue to explore the information carried in the wind.

At the moment its tongue came out, an ordinary dagger suddenly appeared in Pannis’s hand and swiped heavily across its tongue with great impact.

A dull sound, like a bowstring breaking, heavily echoed.

The small dagger cut almost half the depth of the python’s tongue, and the black blood contaminated by demonized energy sprayed out like a fountain.

The hissing sound that represented the python’s heavy breathing filled the entire cave.

Using the recoil when the dagger hit the tongue, Pannis bounced up again.

He hugged his knees in the air for seven or eight backflips before landing back on the ground.

He stayed against the wall and quietly watched the almost mad python.

The pain-stricken python raised half of its body, its tail heavily hit the ground and the wall.

The loud impact made several caves rumble, rocks kept falling from above.

As if feeling that the stimulus for the python was not enough yet, Pannis quietly let out a hint of life energy.

At first when they entered the cave, they had scattered demonizing disguise powder on themselves to mimic the aura of demonized energy and disguise their life energy.

After a few days of adventure, the effectiveness of the disguising powder had passed.

But since they had been in areas where the demonized energy was dense, they had already been heavily contaminated with demonic energy, and they no longer needed to use the disguise powder.

However, at this moment, Pannis deliberately released a hint of life energy.

Because demonized creatures instinctively hated ordinary creatures, when demonized creatures sensed life energy, lower-ranked creatures would madly attack their opponent.

As for high-ranked legendary creatures like the python, they could retain some sanity.

But at this moment, the pain-stricken python was already mad, and its hateful instinct was ignited by the life energy, so it recklessly launched an attack on Pannis, just as Pannis had predicted.

The giant python didn’t think at all, its gaping mouth unleashed a torrent of freezing air towards Pannis, who was in the corner.

Even before the icy breath arrived, the penetrating chill had already struck.

In the blink of an eye, the cold air reached Pannis’s face, but the next moment, Pannis had disappeared from his spot.

The aimless icy breath hit the wall heavily.

The thick ice covering the wall began to crack under the impact, quickly refreezing and making the ice armor even thicker and harder.

In the next moment that the icy air arrived, a human-head-sized crystal struck the ice armor again, throwing off glinting shards.

The Demonic Crystal that the python originally held its mouth was spit out along with the freezing air and hit the wall.

Luckily, the Demonic Crystal was sturdy enough not to shatter.

Pannis, who had leapt upwards at an angle before the arrival of the chilly air, reached the apex of his jump.

Scarcely had he paused when a huge tail, almost taller than him, whipped towards his face.

Pannis was seemingly prepared.

He hadn’t left himself completely in mid-air, his body was always close to the rock wall.

Spotting the snake’s tail whipping towards him, he slightly bent his body and lightly leaned his back against the rock wall.

The ice layer on the rock wall shattered under what seemed to be a very light touch.

Pannis easily changed direction with the help of this collision, and landed smoothly on the ground.

After landing, Pannis didn’t stop.

His right foot stomped heavily on the ground.

With ice fragments flying, Pannis disappeared at the entrance to the Frost Realm.

The crazed giant python had no interest in the treasured Demonic Crystal at this point.

Profound hatred had consumed its senses, only allowing it to track Pannis’s scent.

It twisted its massive body and quickly slithered into the tunnel, pursuing Pannis relentlessly.

“I finally got it to chase me out.” Pannis thought to himself, sensing the movement behind him.

“With the intelligence of this Upper Rank magical creature, this was the only way.

But what now?

Indulgence over there is indeed talented, thinking about stealing the creature’s treasure and then simply leading it away as if it were a common beast.

That’s too naive.

If we steal its treasured possession, as long as we’re still underground, it will relentlessly pursue us.

Indulgence can get away, but Catherine and the others still need to spend some time in the cave.

From that point onwards, they could be attacked by the giant python at any moment, eliminating all possibilities of safety.

Seems like there’s no other way.”

Pannis, who had made up his mind, didn’t realize that the faint killing intent seeping from his eyes was making the nearby Lower Rank magical creatures scatter in terror.

None of them dared to approach.

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“Looks like Pannis was successful.” A person with enchanting figure walked slowly through the doorway, which Pannis had just left, into the python’s former den and looked around.

Following behind, Catherine didn’t seem like she was in the mood to scope out the surroundings.

She had a creased brow, clearly worried about Pannis’s safety.

“There’s nothing to worry about,” Indulgence reassured Catherine casually.

“Your teammate is much more capable than you imagine.”

Catherine looked at Indulgence, “How do you know?”

“Look over there.” Indulgence pointed at the frozen bloodstain in the middle of the cavern floor.

“Given the amount of blood here, it’s definitely the snake’s.

Hehe, the scattered wounds I managed to inflict on it a fortnight ago, could not even make up a tenth of this blood.

Look at the shape of these bloodstains and think.”

“This…” Catherine looked at the bloodstain after being reminded by Indulgence.

“The ground is flat, but the blood is coagulated into a pool.

Does that mean it wasn’t from scattered injuries, just one wound?”

“And it’s probably inflicted in just one hit.” Indulgence pointed at the bloodstain on the ground, her expression complex.

She still maintained her smile, but one could not gauge her inner feelings.

“Think about it.

With all the effort I put in, I only managed to inflict a few scattered wounds on it, but Pannis with just one hit, achieved this.

Passion did indeed find the right person.

Silver Rank?

Hehe, that’s quite the joke.”

Hearing Indulgence’s analysis, Catherine finally relaxed a little.

“Let’s find the crystal quickly and leave as soon as possible.”

“No need.” Indulgence’s gaze fell on a spot on the wall, marked with icy traces.

“Over there, where there’s the most demonic energy.

The crystal must be there.

Let’s go and claim our spoils.”