Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 165 The Snake God is Too Small
Although Du Yi has been stationed outside the city for some time now, he has not been truly idle.

Without mammoths, there was nothing to satisfy his appetite. Beef and mutton weren't bad, but they were only good enough to fill a tooth gap—after all, beef and mutton were too small for him at the moment. Even if he stuffed a whole cow into his mouth, it would be no different from a piece of beef jerky.

In fact, this kind of thing had already happened a long time ago. When those Ignivas were still around, their excessive size had already become a burden for Du Yi.

Therefore, shrinking is an urgent matter for Du Yi.

Originally, Du Yi didn't know how he shrank. After all, it's natural for the body to grow bigger as you eat, and shrinking the body was too contrary to common sense and logic, and it challenged his understanding too much.

But for now...

He still has magic, which is a convenient thing.

Yes, it's not divine magic, but magic. After all, he really couldn't handle the faith required for divine magic. In a sense, he wasn't exactly an atheist. If worshipping those gods really worked, he wouldn't mind going over and burning incense. But that's the problem. At least in Du Yi's own understanding, there were no gods who cared about such things.

Fortunately, magic still exists in this world.

Although the fire magic of the Ignivas is unorthodox, it is still magic. The way Du Yi is shrinking himself is also derived from the fire magic of the Ignivas—Du Yi remembers that it was a technique left behind by a savage named Thirty-sixth Generation Akakage.

Du Yi still remembered that the savage named Thirty-Sixth Generation Akakage was missing an arm, but this savage used flames to create an even more useful arm—that flaming arm could both condense flames into the shape of an arm and release the flames completely outward, plunging the entire Great Snow Mountain into a sea of ​​fire.

Although this incident directly led to the destruction of Du Yi's nest, where he had lived for countless years, by a great flood, the underlying idea itself, even disregarding the negative consequences, is still quite valuable.

"If all the flames could be compressed into one piece... then could my body also be compressed into one piece?"

Inspired by this idea, Du Yi began his actions.

It's naturally difficult to compress oneself using only physical strength, but it's a different story when you add the power of magic. In fact, Du Yi himself wasn't sure whether this should be considered divine magic or magic. He only knew that continuously compressing attribute values ​​was definitely not wrong.

However, what he compressed was not the attribute value itself.

Rather, it refers to the upper limit of the attribute value.

The upper limit of the attribute value should refer to the strength of his body itself. So the lower the upper limit, the smaller his body should be. With this idea in mind, Du Yi kept trying various methods. He used everything that could lower the upper limit of the attribute.

Until now, it looks like this.

【The Chaotic Ancient Serpent】

[Class: Ancient God]

【Level: 1】

[Experience: 688/9999]

[Health Points: ? ? ? ? /1]

With only a small life limit, it seems like he could be easily crushed with a handful of his life force—and Du Yi's current posture certainly reflects that.

Its once mountain-like size had shrunk to only a foot long, and its broad body had become much thinner—Du Yi now walked on the ground just like an ordinary little snake.

As for his original body, only a huge snake molt remained in place. To be fair, Du Yi originally had a use for this snake molt. After all, such a large piece of snake molt could be used to make countless things if given to the four priests. However, Du Yi's joy was short-lived after he had completed the molting process. A golden spear descended from the sky and completely burned the snake molt he had left behind.

"Are you coming for me?"

Although Du Yi doesn't usually go looking for trouble, it doesn't mean he's afraid of trouble, especially when it's clearly someone trying to kill him; he won't tolerate that.

"This is really... why is it an eagle again?"

Just as Du Yi used his tail to put on sunglasses and looked up at the sky, he suddenly realized that this time, the one who attacked him was an eagle again.

He had already fought one of the large eagles, back when the Ignivas people were still around, a long time ago—it was said to be some kind of eagle god worshipped by the Ice People, called the North Wind God. However, after a battle, that enormous eagle eventually became Du Yi's meal.

Du Yi could even recall the taste of that giant eagle; he could only say that it was probably the most flavorful bird he had ever eaten in his lifetime.

And now, what appeared before him was yet another eagle.

"Could we get something else?"

Although Du Yi also missed the taste of that giant eagle, if he had a choice, he would still want to try something he had never eaten or seen before.

Instead of sending another giant eagle to eat him again.

However, it was clear that the giant eagle falling from mid-air did not care about Du Yi's thoughts. The giant eagle did not even glance at Du Yi. Before it landed, the giant eagle had already transformed into a human-headed eagle, holding a talisman and a scepter, its scorching and sharp gaze fixed on the four priests on horseback on the ground.

“Rebellion…”

Looking at the four priests, the giant shadow with the head of an eagle and the body of a human spoke coldly.

"You who dare to betray the glory of the sun and immerse yourselves in the chaos of evil...you shall be punished for eternity!"

As he said this, the giant shadow with the head of an eagle and the body of a human swung down the scepter in its hand.

The golden spear that was stuck in the ground suddenly flew up on its own, and this spear, which symbolized judgment, floated in mid-air—but immediately, the sharp spear had already locked onto its target, and the sharp spearhead was aimed directly at the throat of the crowned Ansag!
Ansagh the Crown instinctively lowered his head, a gesture that had once saved his life—but this time, the sharp spear easily pierced the crown carved from snake fangs, and was about to tear open his scalp and pierce his skull!
But at that very moment, something grabbed the spear.

It was a small snake leaping in mid-air, its small mouth firmly biting the spear shaft—then, with a forceful flick, the spear of judgment was plunged back into the ground.

"You didn't even look at me before you killed someone right in front of me?"

Du Yi, who had flung the spear away, narrowed his eyes.

"What do you mean?"

"You...you?"

Upon seeing the snake's body, less than a foot long, on the ground, the giant shadow with the eagle's head and the body of a human immediately burst into laughter.

(End of this chapter)