Legend

It was suddenly a blown ray, but fortunately I didn't have to do anything like hit my body against the trunk of a tree by twisting myself in the air.

Kick the trunk of a tree at the edge of the square before landing on the ground, erecting the Death Size and Dusk Spear you were holding.

That's how he checks his physical condition, while making sure that only a minor bruise and no fractures, slashing wounds, etc., is received, he confirms the person who attacked him.

... No, it didn't have to be confirmed, its existence was there.

Huge...... yes, huge snakes.

I don't know if I can describe it in one word: huge.

It was as huge a snake as that.

First, the thickness of the torso would be about three meters in diameter.

I mean, it's almost as long as Seto's body length.

If the torso is naturally that thick, the body length is also long.

It is a square, so there is no shade of tree that blocks the sun's rays.

The black scale of the brilliant snake in the light shines so that the expression glossy is as wet as it deserves.

(From where? Should I miss such a giant... optical camo? No, even an optical camouflage can't possibly have any sense of being this intimidating)

Optical camouflage is only about making your appearance transparent and disappearing.

If you can detect signs, you can understand things like disappearing opponents being there.

And Ray and Seto had naturally reached that level of strength.

Now, there was no indication that a giant black snake could be detected even if it emitted an optical camouflage.

(I mean, it's nice that you attacked me, but why didn't you pursue me?

The giant black snake that exists ahead of Ray's gaze is clearly a high-ranking monster.

That was the rank A monster Ray should defeat in this promotion exam, which had the power to tell just by looking at it.

Alternatively, Rank A or better...... it's not strange that it's a Rank S monster, giving off such overwhelming signs that it seems so.

Such a giant snake just stares at Ray as he is currently wrapped around him for some reason, and he doesn't look like he's going to make an attack.

"Gru."

Next to Ray, who couldn't take his eyes off the snake, Seto comes.

I guess he's been following a blown ray.

That gaze had a color that worried Ray, but when Ray finds out there's nothing wrong, that gaze is directed at a giant black snake who did harm to his beloved Ray.

In terms of size, Seto is overwhelmingly smaller.

Usually in the whole city it was even a difficult seto to get into the building with a giant three m, but it was overwhelmingly small compared to a black snake.

"Phew... Well, I expected it because it's the Devil's Forest, but I still didn't expect to suddenly encounter such a high-ranking monster"

In the short time since entering the Devil's Forest, it has been raided by various monsters.

But still, until now, none of them, except Dragonfly, were enemies enough that Ray could easily defeat them, but this black snake is clearly not the same monster he's ever encountered.

"... why aren't you attacking me?

Staring at each other, for a few minutes.

After all that time, I doubt and squeal at the black snake, who has no way of attacking me at all from being wrapped around a tunnel.

Next to Ray, Seto's sharp gaze also disappeared until earlier, pointing the gaze of doubt at the black snake.

"Shaaaaaaaa"

And, accidentally, a black snake makes such a squeal.

It was a sudden act, so I thought it was a sound for the raid, Ray, but from what I've seen, it doesn't look like that in particular.

On the contrary, he stared at Ray with snake-specific eyes, as if to say something to Ray.

(intelligent?

Ray also understood that there was definitely intelligence in the snake's eyes… it was also inhabited by a very high intelligence.

If you realize that, you also have doubts about when you were blown away earlier.

Ray was blown out of his mind, and he sustained damage with a light bruise.

But if you think about it, a high-ranking monster like the one in front of you made an unexpected hit towards Ray, though I don't know what means.

Beyond that, wouldn't it have been strange to have been seriously injured instead of lightly bruised?

Once again, if you have such questions, why is that happening? I'm not convinced.

(I tried to do deadly damage with one blow, but couldn't imitate that with the effect of a dragon robe? No, but still, if you chased me from blowing me away, you'd have done a lot of damage over here. I mean... isn't this black snake going to be hostile to me?

If this were a lower ranked monster, he would have imitated things like coming on offense at the time he found Ray.

But the black snake currently at the end of Ray's gaze is undoubtedly highly intelligent.

It's obviously odd that a monster with such intelligence doesn't attack Ray and Seto... even if he's in front of as many opponents as a black snake can swallow.

(They think you're not the enemy? No, that can't be right. Whatever I am, Seto is equal to or better ranked than this black snake. Well, I don't think you recognize that this black snake has a rank in the monster)

Still, you could definitely understand that Ray and Seto are strong.

If so, Ray can also somehow predict why the Black Snake isn't attacking.

(I mean, if you get in combat with me or Seto poorly, you take a lot of damage yourself. You don't attack me and Seto because you want to avoid that?... or because, in fact, black snakes with this high intelligence are pacifists?... Impossible)

When he immediately denies the thought that came to his mind, Ray ponders what he should do now.

This black snake is rank a...... definitely a rank s monster in some cases.

Either way, I guess I'm lucky to have encountered such a black snake on the first day of two or three nights than at least two of them have to defeat a Rank A monster in the Devil's Forest.

But on the contrary, I guess I'm unlucky in the sense that I ran into a monster with so much strength.

Either way, the problem for Ray now was how to deal with the person in front of him.

(Fight? Well, I don't think you can fight and win. I don't think so, but the problem is it still seems difficult to win intact)

If you try to lay it, the black snake that exists at the end of your gaze is nothing but a mighty enemy.

But at the same time, the opponent Ray should defeat is a Rank A Monster... that's at least two too.

Beyond that, I also had the thought that I could run away without fighting this black snake that I had encountered because of it.

I couldn't be sure that I would fight immediately in such a situation, because I still had a high intelligence in the eyes of a black snake, and I could understand that the other person didn't want to fight me.

Now if the Black Snake had attacked without question, then the battle would have taken place in the form of a counterattack on it, too, Ray.

But they don't want a fight over there.

It was Ray who was suddenly blown away at first, but that's why if the other guy really attacked him, he would have taken a lot more damage.

That means the Black Snake didn't mean to make a serious attack on Ray from the start.

(What do we do? fight here or not...... no, I shouldn't do this)

Ray's decision not to fight is still the biggest reason because the Black Snake didn't attack him from himself.

Ray doesn't even know what the other side thought and reacted like that.

But if we fought, we would have a good fight with Ray and Seto, but the Rays attacked us in a situation where they didn't attack us because they thought something was different.

"We're going. Just don't attack each other like this. It means we're breaking up, okay?

Ray didn't care if he could understand his words.

Because the light of intelligence present in the eyes of the black snake, when he understood without a doubt the intent of his words, was so judging.

And the fact is, you must have understood Ray's words, the black snake, slightly but nodding and showing.

(So is Seto, but you're smart about high rank monsters. Of course, not all monsters are perfectly smart because they are high rank monsters)

Regardless of intelligence or anything, Ray wouldn't be surprised if something had purely high combat power and became a high-ranking monster because of its dangers.

No, I would have naturally been more convinced that there were fewer monsters with Ninglo intelligence overall.

In Ray's case, just by chance, he says he knows Seto or this black snake.

In the first place, it is said that ordinary griffons that are not Seto are high ranked monsters with high intelligence, but it would still be as subtle as whether they can understand people's stories as Seto.

(Well, whatever rank A monster you need to defeat this time, I don't think it's weird if you're also a rank S monster assuming you have a high intelligence)

I thought so, Ray, but that's just Ray's imagination.

Though, Ray himself, who thought so, didn't even think his predictions were so wrong.

"Grrrrrrrr?"

Seto was waiting on Ray's side, are you sure? and honking his throat.

If you try Ceto, he's the one who's been attacking Ray.

On top of that, is that what you think makes Ray better off fighting Black Snakes here than knowing the circumstances that Ray has to defeat two or more Rank A monsters? I guess I asked.

Did you feel something about how Seto looked, the black snake moves his head slightly from a tummy wrapped state?

(I don't want to fight us if I can. But if you're trying to fight me, you don't imitate me by avoiding it?

I didn't understand everything from the look of the black snake.

However, it was still possible to imitate the situation of the black snake in such a way that I felt what I thought.

"Let's go, Seto. First, we need to get to the safe house where we're based... Whoa?

Ray couldn't say the words until the end because Black Snake, who had been watching the Rays wrapped around them until a moment earlier, moved unexpectedly.

That's what I thought it might be like to make an attack, but I knew enough that the way the Black Snake moved wasn't hostile to Ray.

Why did you react like this all of a sudden? Anything wrong?

I remember when the Black Snake reacted... of what I said, there was only one word I cared about.

"Safe house"

The moment I said that, the black snake moves pickly again.

There was no more mistake.

To be sure, the Black Snake responds to the word lair spoken by Ray.

(What? Why do you react to the word safe house?

Words...... no, there is nothing particularly surprising about the very fact that I understand Ray's words precisely.

That's because, given the light of intelligence in this black snake's eyes, I thought I could normally understand people's words.

"Safe house"

Just in case, I try to say that word again, but the black snake still reacts.

If you go on and on like this, that's for sure already.

This will mean that this black snake knows the lair of a Zeppyre gate Ray spoke of.

The Black Snake also stares at Ray with the word safe house in his mouth.

That gaze seemed to Ray to have the kind of color you'd expect somewhere, of course the high intelligence up to earlier.

Given how such a black snake looks, there's something I think might be...

"You, maybe you know a safe house at the Zeppyre Gate?

"Sher."

Black Snake responding to Ray briefly, but surely.

Obviously, it seemed like you said you were right about Ray's words.

I would ask such a black snake from the thought that maybe......

"Instead of a safe house, you know a Zeppyre gate or something?

"Sher."

Black snake responding to Ray's words again.

But that wasn't surprising to Ray.

It was a long time ago that Zeppael Gate actually lived… in some cases it was so long ago that it was not strange for anyone to describe it as ancient.

Zeppyre prepared the body Ray is currently using in this lair, and I don't know how long after that, but it became the light sphere Ray saw to find who would be the heir to Warcraft, waiting in what should also be called the narrow of the world, the narrow of death and life.

In other words, when this black snake knows one gate of Zeppyre, it means that he has lived for so long...

(Rather than rank a, was it a rank s monster without complaining,)

When he saw the black snake at the end of his gaze, Ray thought it was smudging.