Devouring World Dragon.

Chapter 2 Hunger is a big problem

Meng still doesn't know what happened.

He appeared out of nowhere, inexplicably turned into a snake, and was inexplicably thrown away by a strong man. The man's strength was beyond Meng's imagination. He only remembered that after being thrown away, he was completely dizzy and disoriented, not even knowing which way was up.

However, the only thing that made Meng feel fortunate was that he hadn't died...

Of course, Meng, who had no interest in or knowledge of Norse mythology, was unaware that the creature he possessed was the World Serpent, later regarded as the Serpent of Midgard, which wrapped its body around the entire human world and was the earliest origin of various later settings such as the World Serpent.

Even though it was only recently born, as a descendant of Loki, Odin's sworn brother, and a major supporting character in the Ragnarok war, ordinary damage was meaningless to Meng. This is why Thor dared to disregard Loki's attitude and throw him directly from Valhalla at the top of the World Tree to the human world, because it was completely unharmed.

However, Meng was completely unaware of all of this. Even now, he still doesn't understand the situation and has no idea who those people are.

Although thanks to the unique rules of the Norse mythology world, he could understand the conversations between the gods without any difficulty and hear names like Thor and Loki, for someone who neither watches American comic books nor reads Norse mythology, the transliterated name Thor was completely incomprehensible to him as the name Thor spoken by the gods. Therefore, even now, he was still trying hard to figure out who those guys really were...

However, he soon stopped needing to think about it.

because……

He was hungry.

"Gurgle gurgle..."

Although he didn't actually hear his stomach rumbling, the feeling of hunger made Meng feel as if he could hear the sounds his stomach used to make when he was still human.

Generally speaking, snakes are cold-blooded animals and usually eat only once every ten days or so, but Meng was strangely hungry very quickly.

It felt as if his stomach was being constricted, his intestines were churning and twisting, and an intense hunger spread rapidly, as if he hadn't eaten for years, causing Meng to involuntarily drool a few drops of snake saliva from his mouth.

"drop……"

The highly venomous snake saliva dripped into the sea, instantly turning the originally dark water beneath Meng into a deep black. If there were any living creatures nearby, they would probably have been poisoned by Meng's venomous saliva.

However, this is the bottomless deep sea where no life exists.

"Hungry...hungry...hungry..."

Every part of their body seemed to be shouting the same thing at Meng.

"Wait...wait..."

With his hazy memories as a human being and a sliver of reason, Meng instinctively tried to resist the urge to succumb to his instincts.

"What's going on...?"

Meng tried desperately to break free from the hunger and primal instincts that were surging from his body to his heart.

But at the same time, the tongue that had been extended immediately and keenly detected a strange smell in the damp, salty sea breeze, a smell that was, at that moment, simply the most delicious thing for Meng.

Delicious, and hungry...

In an instant, it was as if an insignificant mantis was trying to stop a chariot by wielding its scythe. Without any suspense, human rationality was completely defeated by instinctive bestiality.

"Hiss~"

Its eyes were bloodshot, and snake venom flowed down its mouth like a waterfall. Without any hesitation, following its instincts, the snake darted directly towards the direction from which the scent was coming.

Its speed was exceptionally fast; in the blink of an eye, it darted dozens of meters away and disappeared into the sea in no time, leaving behind only a series of ripples that appeared and disappeared.

……

Meanwhile, nearby...

"Splash..."

The wooden oars lapped against the sea, creating ripples on the dark, murky surface and propelling the boat forward slowly.

Under the sunlight, on the vast, dark sea, a middle-aged man dressed in rough cloth slowly rowed a long, narrow raft.

Beside him, another young man with a full beard stood at the bow of the boat, looking up at the sky and gazing at the sun, occasionally looking into the distance.

"Kyle, stop looking. No matter how anxious you are, your Lina won't appear in front of you right away."

Looking at the young man, the middle-aged strong man rowing the boat couldn't help but laugh.

"Damn old Buzz, if it weren't for your insistence on catching some more fish, we wouldn't have been lost in the fog for so long."

However, the young man immediately turned his head and said angrily.

Among the Norse people, there is a long tradition of fishing at sea in canoes. It is for this reason that Kyle, who had just gotten married, accompanied the old fisherman Buz to fish at sea in early summer.

After several days of fishing, they had caught quite a few big fish. However, the ocean is always so unpredictable. A sudden thick fog left them unable to find their way back for half a month. Before they knew it, their boat had been blown away by the wind to an unknown location.

The ocean beneath them was completely different from the azure ocean they were familiar with; it was incredibly dark, and they couldn't even find any living creatures, let alone any land or islands. It almost made them wonder if they had unintentionally entered the underworld.

If it weren't for the old fisherman vaguely recalling the legend of the desolate, bottomless deep sea, neither of them would have known what to do.

But now, all they can do is helplessly steer this raft, looking at the sun by day and the stars by night, hoping to find a way to leave this desolate deep sea, a place even the god of the ocean is said to avoid.

Old Buzz, who knew that his greed had caused him to miss the deadline, gave an awkward chuckle and did not refute the young man's anger.

After venting his anger, Kyle took a deep breath, suppressed his dissatisfaction, and calmed down.

At this moment, although the ship had caught quite a few fish, it was still limited. After more than half a month of eating, almost half of them were gone, and even the fresh water they had brought with them when they set sail was running low. If they couldn't see land again, they would be in big trouble...

"Lina..."

He couldn't help but mutter it, and then his heart suddenly tightened.

Lina was his childhood friend, and the two had always had a very good relationship. He and Lina had been married for less than a month; if he…

"No, no."

He murmured to himself, his hands unconsciously clenching around his chest a necklace made of straw rope with a roughly carved stone hanging from the center.

He lowered his head and prayed silently.

"O merciful Nyod, may you protect us and help us return home safely."

However, as he bowed his head and prayed silently, he did not notice something faintly appearing on the horizon.

However, just because Kyle didn't notice doesn't mean that old Boots, who was rowing, didn't notice.

"Kyle, look!"

A hurried voice came from beside his ear, and Kyle subconsciously looked up, and then...

He then witnessed the most terrifying scene he had ever seen in the world...

"Splash!!!"

A tremendous roar of water leaping out of the sea suddenly resounded, the waves rolled, and countless splashes of water reflected a rainbow of colors under the sunlight.

The enormous monster that leaped out of the sea almost completely blocked all light from Kyle's sight.

In Kyle's astonished pupils, he saw jet-black scales, a robust body, and those ferocious snake eyes...

And in his sight, there was the enormous maw of a snake, growing ever larger... like an abyss, trying to devour everything.

"roar!"

Then, Kyle's vision was plunged into darkness...

(End of this chapter)