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A graceful and exquisite figure slowly rose from the deep pool.

She had skin as pale as snow, a face so exquisite it was breathtaking, and long, dark green hair like seaweed clung to her cheeks. She possessed a wildness tinged with vulnerability. Gold ornaments and dark green gemstones adorned her key features, and beneath the water's surface, instead of legs, lay a thick and powerful python tail.

Divinity and demonic nature seem to be perfectly intertwined within her.

Queen Vanessa's golden vertical pupils fell upon the unconscious snake-man before the pool, and she lazily swam closer, her more than five-meter-long python tail moving casually.

Her slender, fair fingers gently touched the wooden stick.

"There's... a lingering trace of life on it..."

She murmured,

The ethereal voice echoed through the palace, seemingly seeping directly into the soul.

The next second, she closed her five fingers together, and the wooden stick was violently pulled out.

"puff--!"

Cold blood spurted out, and the unconscious snake-man convulsed violently a few times, on the verge of dying on the spot.

"His Majesty!"

Vanessa didn't even glance at her dying subordinate, but simply extended her other hand.

A Naga maid, also with a human body and a snake tail, immediately swam over and presented a raging lizard monkey.

"!@#@!￥......"

Queen Vanessa, holding the Angry Lizard Monkey in her hand and pointing at the dying Snake Man, chanted obscure syllables.

An eerie green light connected the snake-man and the angry lizard monkey.

The horrific, penetrating wound in the snake-man's abdomen was visibly shrinking.

The angry lizard monkey let out a shrill scream as its abdomen burst open without warning, its internal organs and blood spilling onto the ground before it fell silent.

The Naga and snake people inside the palace seemed to take this for granted.

The transfer of life,

Here, it's nothing more than the power that their Naga queen can wield at will.

In one of the rows of black cages in the corner, Jack Morrison had a complete view of what was happening.

These cages, though resembling iron, were incredibly sturdy.

He had already tried, but it was impossible to break.

Now, the Naga queen has once again demonstrated this almost divine ability. His fingers tightened around the railing, and a hint of fear flashed in his eyes.

Queen Vanessa casually tossed aside the corpse of the Angry Lizard Monkey, then admired the emerald necklace around her neck before flicking her finger, sending a drop of water landing on the dry, cracked face of the snake-man who had just been rescued.

"Hiss—hiss—"

The snake-man awoke in terror.

When it saw the alluring yet majestic figure in the pool, it struggled to kneel down.

"Hiss~ Speak, my people."

She swam out of the pool and climbed onto the high platform. "What made you look so disheveled?"

"It's...it's our nemesis! The great Queen!"

The snake-man's voice trembled, "Not a caveman...it's...it's a flying monster!"

It described its experience that night incoherently.

In his account, the place was full of traps that could devour lives.

Meanwhile, Renyi is depicted as a ruthless god with black wings who swoops down from the sky to reap lives.

"They...they can summon divine punishment (Ivan falls to the ground), they can hide in the shadows of trees (Klaus hangs from a tree), and the leader of that monster, its claws can tear through our toughest scales, like...like tearing through a leaf!"

"Its eyes are black abysses, containing only death!"

Queen Vanessa listened to this mythical description with amusement.

Natural enemies?

God?

These two words haven't appeared in the Naga territory for a long time.

There was no fear in her golden eyes, but rather a hint of pleasure. She swam down from the throne, leaving faint watermarks on the stone slabs as she glided across them.

"What does this god you speak of look like?"

Queen Vanessa's slender fingers hooked the snake-man's jaw.

Her voice had a magical power to soothe fear.

"Black...wings...and eyes...look very much like His Majesty..." The snake-man was caught in a nightmare of memories, speaking incoherently.

"waste."

Queen Vanessa straightened her upper body, her slender fingers slowly grasping—

"puff--"

The snake-man, who had just returned from the brink of death, stiffened for a moment, and then a wound appeared again on his healed abdomen, with green blood flowing from his seven orifices.

The remaining Naga and Serpent Guards remained silent, as if they had long been accustomed to the Queen's capricious nature, and that life was nothing more than a toy to be kneaded and discarded at will in her hands.

"Hiss~ Hiss~"

"That's an idiot."

An unfamiliar hissing sound rang out from the cage in the corner, immediately drawing everyone's attention in the hall.

Queen Vanessa slowly turned around, looking curiously at one of the intruders she had captured a couple of days ago.

Morrison didn't know why he could suddenly understand the monsters' language.

Perhaps it's some kind of function that comes with the sequence?

Or perhaps this benefit was included in the "price" they paid.

But none of that matters.

The important thing is that he must seize this opportunity.

"you,"

Vanessa swam over with interest, examining the creature through the cold bars. "A prisoner, yet he seems to know quite a lot."

"I not only know about them, but I've also fought against them."

Morrison met those inhuman vertical pupils without flinching.

"I know their background, their capabilities, and their schemes."

His gaze swept over Elijah, Situ, and Ethan, who were also imprisoned in the cage. From the snake-man's words, he could confirm that the one who had seized the cave dwellers' territory was his target—

Any.

"That's not some god, just a human being like me."

"His power is only based on information asymmetry, while I can eliminate that asymmetry."

A disdainful smile appeared on Vanessa's exquisite face.

"A few small insects,"

Her fingertips lightly traced the cage, and a deep scratch appeared on the indestructible black iron.

"What makes you think... I would need the help of a prisoner?"

"Because you value efficiency, Your Majesty."

Morrison remained calm.

"You can assemble a large army, or you can take action yourself, but both will consume your time and energy, and may even... cause unnecessary casualties among your people. But I can help you achieve the greatest victory with the least cost. We... have an inside man on their territory."

"cost……"

Queen Vanessa smiled enigmatically.

She looked at the human before her with great interest, seeing the barely suppressed ambition and scheming hidden deep within his feigned composure.

How interesting...

Like a rabbit that thinks it's clever, trying to negotiate with a lion.

"So what kind of reward do you want?"

"We don't need any reward. The enemy of my enemy is my ally," Morrison replied.

This creature, which can understand their language and calls itself human, is quite interesting.

Unlike prey that can only roar or lower creatures that kneel and beg for mercy,

He will calmly negotiate with the predator.

But he was too arrogant, daring to play tricks on me?

"interesting."

Vanessa finally spoke; she loved the game. "The Naga accept your surrender."

"Click—"

The cage door opened with a click.

Morrison came out, stretched his stiff body, pointed to Elijah's cage, and said to Vanessa,

"Please release him as well; we still need a map of this land."

With a "click," Elijah's cage opened.

Vanessa swam to the edge of the pool and gestured for them to come over.

Watching them leave, Ethan moved closer to Situ's cage and whispered:

"Sido, I just heard Morrison speaking in the language of those monsters, saying he wanted to cooperate with them to kill the Dragon Kingdom's contestants."

Sita opened his eyes and stared warily in the direction of the pool.

"Perhaps this is an opportunity for us to escape in the chaos."