Ordinary fantasy adventure in Faerûn

Chapter 509 Green-footed Dragon Snake
A bolt of lightning suddenly pierced through the deep darkness of the Glock Mine and shot straight towards Noshil, who had just crossed the corner of the mine and was walking with a huge axe on his shoulder.

But this sudden attack did not make Noshir panic at all. His eyes flashed quickly, and he instantly caught the movement trajectory of the lightning. He used his wings and lower limbs to exert force together, and dodged the sudden attack with a speed that was only slightly slower than lightning.

In the end, only a tiny bit of the aftermath of this extremely powerful lightning ray reached Noshil, but thanks to his extremely strong physique, the lightning didn't even make him feel the slightest bit of numbness when it hit him.

He immediately looked up. The mine was covered with stones and some fixed frames left by the previous underground gnomes when mining. On the cliff over there, Noshir saw the culprit who attacked him and was also the fundamental purpose of his trip.

An adult green-footed dragon snake.

Nosher turned his head as if preparing for a battle and slammed the giant axe on his shoulder into the rocky ground under his feet. As he had said before, the underground dwarves made the interior space of the mine too large. This approach has both advantages and disadvantages. He has explained the good side before, and the bad side is just like it is now.

Whenever the underground gnomes have mined all the precious metals in an entire vein, these careless little guys will quickly leave the area like a cat whose tail has been stepped on, completely abandoning these worthless places.

However, this behavior means that once the mine is abandoned for too long, it will most likely gradually attract some plants or creatures to settle inside. Eventually, these small animals will always attract larger animals, or even dangerous monsters to live in them.

For the underground gnomes, even if some monsters are attracted to the mine and choose to stay in it, it is not something difficult to accept or dangerous. The underground gnomes are very pragmatic. This pragmatism prevents them from wasting any time or money on worthless things. For this reason, simple abandonment becomes a quick and convenient way to deal with the aftermath without any additional consumption.

In addition, they have abandoned the mines very thoroughly. Once the underground gnomes judge a mine to be waste, they will never come back even once after leaving. Therefore, as long as the monsters lurking in the mines are not powerful enough to exceed a certain limit, or even so powerful that even the small ecosystem formed in the mines over a long period of time cannot meet their survival needs, they will not choose to leave their territory and go out to threaten the lives of the underground gnomes.

But for the derivatives who now need these mines as shelters, strongholds, or even homes, it has become very troublesome.

When negotiating the contract with King Snitker, Noshier deliberately selected two abandoned mines that were neither too far nor too close to the Stone City of Blingden, but with very large mines. One was the Glock Mine where Noshier was now, and the other was the Moranden Mine which he had not yet visited.

Noshier went to these two mines first in order to explore the real situation inside and see if there were any particularly dangerous monsters that the derivatives could not deal with. Unexpectedly, he hit the jackpot in just the first cave.

The Green-footed Dragon Snake, this monster looks like a combination of a centipede and a crocodile, with a slender, winding and powerful body. Its six pairs of twelve strong claws allow it to ignore walls and gravity. Its body is covered with smooth scales that have extremely strong defense and can completely block electric shocks. Its appearance is also quite beautiful.

This kind of scales make up the outer skin of the green-footed dragon snake, and the color of the scales of the monster in front of us is also very consistent with the standards of their tribe. The scales on its head, body, back and claws gradually transition from cyan to dark blue, and the abdomen is a very obvious light blue.

Green-footed dragon snakes like to sneak attack their prey like snakes. When hunting, they rely on their swift and silent movement to quickly approach the victim from the blind spot of the prey's vision, then suddenly jump up, bite the prey and swallow it whole.

Even if they encounter a difficult prey, the Green-footed Dragon Snake can strangle it with their powerful limbs, or use their innate lightning breath ability to incinerate it. Generally speaking, there are very few creatures in nature that can withstand these two tricks of the Green-footed Dragon Snake, and apart from these skills.

"Hiss~ I never thought that a shabby little place like mine could actually welcome a distinguished guest like you. Hiss, please forgive my rude attack just now. If I had recognized you as a powerful devil at the first sight, I would never have taken any risk of doing anything that might anger you. Hiss~ Yes, sir, please believe me no matter what, sir, believe that what just happened was just... a small accident."

The green-footed dragon snake raised its strange head, which looked like a combination of a crocodile and a python, with a pair of curved black horns. Then it turned its head and spoke with its seemingly long and thin mouth.

Yes, the Green-footed Dragon Snake is a very cunning but extremely intelligent special monster. Their intelligence is even enough to support them to speak. Most of the Green-footed Dragon Snakes can speak fluent Common Language, Dwarven Language, and even Abyssal Language when they grow up.

Therefore, some scholars even believe that the reason why the Green-footed Dragon Snakes are so knowledgeable is because this race also possesses special abilities similar to real dragons, the so-called dragon inheritance. However, no scholar has been able to provide evidence to confirm this speculation. However, Noshil learned through the help of the panel that the Green-footed Dragon Snakes do possess some special abilities similar to the dragon inheritance.

At this moment, on the rock wall of the cave, the green-footed dragon snake in front of Noshir suddenly moved, using its 12 claws to quickly and alternately wave on the rock wall. In less than two seconds, it moved its nearly 30-foot (-meter) long body to the ground, then gathered all its legs to its sides, changing to a snake-like posture, slithering on its belly, and slowly approached Noshir.

Seeing the green-footed dragon snake make such a move, Noshil's eyebrows twitched. The monster knowledge given to him by the panel allowed him to easily recognize the background of this green-footed dragon snake, but his intuition from having been through many battles told him that the monster in front of him was far from being as friendly as he said verbally.

This guy seemed to have stopped attacking because he mistook Noshier for a devil, but Noshier knew in his heart that the cunning monster in front of him was only admitting defeat verbally.

It just chose the strategy of flanking after seeing that Noshir could easily dodge his lightning breath and swing that ridiculously large axe.

If Noshir really let down his guard because of a few nice words from it and let it slip to his side, this guy would definitely turn against him the next moment, bite Noshir's head hard, and then defeat him with lightning breath or powerful entanglement.

However, although he had completely seen through the sinister plan of this green-footed dragon snake, Noshil did not take any additional action to interrupt this guy's conspiracy, quite the opposite.

Noshir just stood there, maintaining his previous posture without moving, trying hard to suppress the smile that he could hardly hold back, while silently watching the Green-footed Dragon Snake trying hard to use words to lower his vigilance, while at the same time, as if it was very natural, it slowly approached him.

"Hiss~ Sir, why don't you speak? Are you angry because my behavior just now was too excessive? If so, please give me a chance to make it up to you. I will cherish this act of kindness, even if it means exchanging it for my greatest collection." The green-footed dragon snake slowly stopped 12 feet away from Noshil. It seemed to realize that something was wrong, but the distance between them was only 12 feet. In the eyes of the green-footed dragon snake, this distance was even far beyond its usual hunting range. Even with the terrifying reaction speed that Noshil had shown before, he had full confidence that he could keep up within this distance.

It didn't want to let go of such a good opportunity and let go of this competitor who dared to invade its territory, but the opponent was too weird and too... silent.

Although the green-footed dragon snakes cannot use the micro-expressions of humanoid creatures to judge their current thoughts, after all, in their eyes, the faces of humanoid creatures are exactly the same, but even if they cannot judge Noshir's true emotions, just through his previous performance and his current abnormal silence, the green-footed dragon snakes dare to conclude that this guy must be no simple one.

At this time, Noshil also noticed the change in this guy's mentality, but maybe it was because of fun, or maybe it was because of other emotions. In short, Noshil became interested for the first time in a long time, and even began to actively cooperate with the Green-footed Dragon Snake's trick.

“The greatest collection?”

Noshir finally spoke. He acted like a curious child, asking the Green-footed Dragon Snake hopefully, asking curiously where it had buried its treasure.

Seeing this, the green-footed dragon snake put away its doubts. It slowly raised its body so that its height could slightly overlook Noshil, and then slowly spoke.

"Hiss~ Yes, yes, I can give this collection to you now, and it will definitely satisfy you..."

Watching the Green-footed Dragon Snake's body rising higher and higher, Noshil raised his eyebrows again, but this time, his action seemed to trigger a switch, instantly detonating the Green-footed Dragon Snake's reflex nerves!

The Green-footed Dragon Snake, which had already prepared and found a good angle, suddenly jumped up, opened its bloody mouth, and bit Noshier's head fiercely! There was even a faint flash of lightning in the depths of its throat!
‘Succeeded! ’

The Green-footed Dragon Snake thought so. At such a close distance and at such a good angle, it could not imagine any possibility of failure. As long as it could successfully bite this guy's head, it could immediately strangle him tightly with its body, and then discharge electricity at zero distance, using an extremely powerful electric current to directly incinerate his head!
Yes! The Green-footed Dragon Snake had foreseen this future! It also succeeded! In less than 0.1 seconds, with this lightning-fast sudden attack! It successfully bit... Noshier didn't know when to pull out the giant axe in front of it?
The green-footed dragon snake was stunned for a moment when he realized the taste was wrong, but in the next moment, Noshil's sharp comments brought him back to his senses.

"A little slow."

'what? '

The Green-footed Dragon Snake only had time to think of this word, because in the next moment it was violently dragged to the ground by Noshir who suddenly exerted force! Its lower jaw was first cut by the sharp battle axe, and then it was hit hard by the ground, and its skin was instantly torn apart.

The green-footed dragon snake was not defeated by the sudden trauma. On the contrary, injured wild beasts are the most dangerous, and this green-footed dragon snake obviously inherited this characteristic.

The moment it was pulled to the ground, the Green-footed Dragon Snake, which didn't even have time to charge up, quickly and hastily blew a breath of lightning at the axe in its mouth! The lightning instantly passed through the steel weapon to Noshier's body, but because there was a real conductor in its mouth, and its lower jaw was injured and bleeding, the Green-footed Dragon Snake, which had excellent resistance to electric shock, was also paralyzed by the strong current contained in this breath! But it didn't matter!
Even though he suffered such a strong backlash from the electric current, as an expert in using lightning, the Green-footed Dragon Snake had full confidence that his recovery speed would definitely be much faster than the guy in front of him. As long as he could seize the opportunity now...

"It's a little numb."

'! ! ! '

The Green-footed Dragon Snake's eyelids, which originally looked sinister, suddenly became dull, and its heart was even more turbulent than what it showed on the outside. At this moment, it was completely unable to understand the series of situations that were happening now, but it didn't matter, because it would soon no longer need to think about it anyway.

Noshier moved his fingers slightly, dispelling all the feelings of numbness, and then sighed in disappointment.

When he discovered the Green-footed Dragon Snake, he was still vaguely expecting it to bring him some excitement or surprise. Even if it didn't, this high-level monster, second only to the dragon in legend, should at least allow him to experience the feeling of battle for the first time in a long time. But in fact...

"It really disappoints me."

Noshier suddenly pulled his battle axe out of the mouth of the green-footed dragon snake, bringing out a large piece of blood, and also cut a large wound on the mouth of the green bamboo dragon snake again. Then he suddenly stretched out his left hand and clamped the horn of the green-footed dragon snake like an iron clamp. He exerted force on the spot and threw the giant monster into the air! Quick rotation!
The body of the green-footed dragon snake also kept hitting the rock wall beside it during this process. In the end, after just a dozen rounds, all of this guy's limbs were broken and he lost the ability to resist.

Upon seeing this, Noshier immediately stopped his actions. This guy had lost the ability to resist today, so there was no need to torture him any further. However, this thing was too weak. Both its strength and speed were unsatisfactory, and even its lightning breath could only be considered a tickle.

Fortunately, Noshir had expressed his expectations for this guy before, but fighting with such a weakling could no longer arouse any passion in him.

(End of this chapter)