This green human-faced snake was none other than Isrig.
Back when he was studying in the Academic City, he accidentally stumbled into a Grand Library.
There, he obtained the Book of Snakes.
The book recorded the ritual of snakes. At first, he wasn't interested in turning into a non-human snake.
But after returning to Lohr and living like this day after day, he gradually grew tired and lost.
Just as he had said, living a monotonous life made him unable to find the meaning of life.
And so, he took out the Book of Snakes that he had kept for a long time and began to experiment with the ritual of snakes.
He needed to use medicine and rituals to help himself shed his skin over and over again, finally completing the synchrony with snakes and shedding his humanity. During this period of time, he was extremely weak, so he created two snake servants to protect himself.
Unexpectedly, there was a flaw in his experiment. The medicine he created was leaked, causing quite a few half-mutated snake monsters to appear in the sewers, which exposed a certain amount of information.
The Night Watchers had a regular task of patrolling the sewers. They had to ensure that the creatures in Lohr didn't flourish too much, which was why they discovered the snake monsters' abnormalities.
Without the help of the ritual, the half-mutated snake monsters couldn't fully absorb the medicine and developed snake tumors inside their bodies.
It was through this that the Sun Shadow church discovered the Green-scaled Snake Skin, and Isrig's pharmaceutical company was in need of this rare material, which was completely exposed during the Day of Spirit Cleansing.
"If not for that leak …" Isrig thought to himself. Although he had completed the ritual of snakes, it was done in a hurry, causing him to appear a bit malnourished, as well as the incomplete power he obtained.
"If that's the case, I'll need to perform a few more rituals of snakes to obtain all of the Snake Deity's abilities" Under normal circumstances, after completing the ritual of snakes, a human-faced snake should be larger than his human form, as well as being able to cast numerous spells.
But now, not only was his body much smaller, he didn't inherit any of his spells, only the powerful defensive abilities of the Snake Deity as well as its ability to resist poison.
Isrig was nimbly moving through the entire secret room, occasionally attacking. His small stature had actually become his advantage, as sharp blades couldn't break through his defense at all.
However, after completing the ritual of snakes, apart from the sudden attack that killed a Night Watcher, he fell into a dangerous situation.
These Night Watchers and Red Sun Knights had plenty of combat experience, so they quickly adapted to his style of attack. He had to admit that he was surrounded by these seven people, so he couldn't escape even if he wanted to.
Right now, he was only relying on his powerful defense. Once he tried to escape, he would be intercepted by the seven people. One of the Night Watchers even had the time to pour a bottle of antidote into the mouth of the poisoned Night Watcher.
Knowing that their opponent was a snake monster or an abnormal snake-like lifeform, these Night Watchers all brought antidotes against snake venom. Although they might not be effective against his green snake venom, the physique of the Night Watchers was also abnormal. It wouldn't take long for this Night Watcher to return from the brink of death.
As for him, he was trapped here. Sooner or later, his defense would be broken. Perhaps what awaited him would be the so-called purification of God.
"This is absolutely unacceptable." The human-faced snake, Isrig, shouted in a frenzy: "It wasn't easy for me to escape from that monotonous life, I still haven't found the answer to my own life, I don't want to die like this!"
"So the forbidden knowledge has already caused your mind to go haywire?" Reid swung his sword to force the human-faced snake back into the encirclement. This was a very common occurrence, as many magical rituals had side effects, such as borrowing power from an Evil God or undergoing biological mutation.
This caused many monsters to appear to be mentally unstable, often doing things that went against human logic.
"Let's purify you just like that" Reid's group had surrounded the human-faced snake, some of its scales had already been broken, so as long as they continued, they would be able to break through its defenses and kill it.
"The positions of the eight people, and that snake monster." Negri pressed his finger against the wall, continuously analyzing the conditions and positions of the people in the secret room, using the feedback of the vibrations to construct the images in his mind to change.
"It's time." Negri's body went from extreme stillness to extreme movement, his viral body erupted with power far beyond that of a human's, the bone blades on both his arms began to vibrate at a high frequency, swinging towards their target.
"Lost black lamb, may you find your path of salvation in the Unrepenting Abyss" The group worked together to force the human-faced snake into a dead end, a knight's sword stabbed towards the human-faced snake's head without hesitation.
The Unrepenting Abyss was a legendary place where non-believers would go, the vengeful souls of that place would regret themselves for not believing in God, but ironically, it was called the Unrepenting Abyss.
However, right at this moment, several inconceivably fast flashes of light appeared, followed by the sound of corpses falling to the ground and blood splattering everywhere.
Negri lightly tapped the wall with his finger, causing it to crumble to pieces, revealing the situation of the scene.
The corpses of the three Night Watchers all had small cracks on them, two Red Sun Knights had small holes on their armor, blood was flowing out from them.
"Someone managed to evade it?" Negri lightly sighed. After making precise calculations, he took advantage of the fact that the enemy's attention was focused on the human-faced snake to launch a sudden attack, but he didn't expect two people to still be able to evade his attack.
Of the original three Red Sun Knights and five Night Watchers, only three of them were still alive, one of them was only outside of Negri's attack range because he was poisoned earlier, which allowed him to escape death.
Negri slowly retracted the bone blade in his hand. It was only now that the surviving Rhett and the last Night Watcher realized what kind of attack they were killed by.
Just now, the person on the other side had swung the bone blade in his hand to cut open the wall, then forcefully broke the bone blade at the very last moment, turning the broken bone blade into a terrifying attack that instantly killed over half of the people who couldn't react in time.
Negri's gaze fell onto the two lucky survivors. Rhett's knight sword had a large crack on it, he had sensed the attack almost immediately and used his sword to block it, breaking the bone blade apart.
The other Night Watcher had a large number of broken gems on his body, which were some sort of life-saving magic tools, without them, he might not have been able to survive.
"Didn't you want to know the meaning of life?" Negri raised his foot to step on a rock, a bone blade shot out from the bottom of his foot and accurately pierced the human-faced snake's wound between the cracks of the rock, restricting its movements.
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