Roar!
A resentful, shrill scream pierced the night sky, which had only just grown quiet.
The overly sharp, nerve-jangling sound waves swept through every corner of the forest, branding every living thing that heard them with fear.
"Since when did food dare lecture me?!"
Amid a deafening roar,
the Hundred-Foot Centipede was slammed viciously onto the hard ground once more. This time, it could no longer struggle to rise.
A powerful snake tail coiled around the middle of the Hundred-Foot Centipede's body.
The force unleashed by contracting muscles, combined with the immense momentum of the downward fall, folded the Hundred-Foot Centipede in half at its middle. Its head and tail nearly collided.
It was now in a miserable state.
The carapace all over its body had been shattered, exposing its succulent flesh beneath the bright crimson moonlight.
"You... you're not a Monster at all..."
Its bones and shell had been crushed, and most of its tens of thousands of sharp limbs had been snapped at grotesque angles during the battle. Its protected internal organs were now completely exposed before its enemy.
For the first time since becoming a Monster, the Hundred-Foot Centipede felt fear.
"You bastard... you're a monster!"
A monster that had touched that level!
In the final moments of its life,
the Hundred-Foot Centipede realized this fact.
But it was useless. The golden snake tail descended like a heavenly blade, carrying a piercing shriek through the air as it struck its head.
In an instant,
an unstoppable force, like a raging dragon, coursed through the Hundred-Foot Centipede's entire body. Its soft organs were churned into pulp, and every trace of life was utterly extinguished.
Crack!
The Hundred-Foot Centipede's head, larger than a house, flew high into the air and was hurled deep into the forest in a trail of thick blood.
Gamia opened her mouth to its widest extent.
The venom glands, capable of producing enough poison to kill an entire city, were swallowed first. Then came the tender meat paste containing the Hundred-Foot Centipede's life essence, followed by its broken limbs.
The Hundred-Foot Centipede's body was considerably larger than the Little Boa's.
Yet devouring it was no trouble. Once the obstructive black carapace was peeled away, Gamia swiftly swallowed its nutrient-rich portions into her stomach.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The scales that had been damaged and shattered earlier began to fall from her body.
As the Hundred-Foot Centipede's life essence was digested, immense amounts of nutrients flowed into the Little Boa's body, merging with the muscle groups spread throughout her body.
Under the moonlight,
the golden Anaconda grew at a rate visible to the naked eye.
After more than an hour, as the Red Moon's power gradually faded and the stars returned to their places, her growth finally began to slow.
Gamia was now over one hundred and twenty meters long. Her golden scales gleamed in the deep darkness, illuminating half the forest with an almost sacred radiance.
On the ground,
black smoke rose from the remains of the Hundred-Foot Centipede, whose nutritious organs and flesh had been devoured, leaving only shattered black carapace scattered across the ground.
The remaining part of its body vanished before Su Heng's eyes.
"The surroundings seemed to have changed a little just now."
As a Supernatural Creature with remarkably sharp senses, she could not miss even the slightest change in her surroundings.
"Mm."
Su Heng responded. Just as he was about to say something, his thoughts were interrupted by a line of faintly purple glowing text that suddenly appeared before him.
Congratulations, Host. Devour Talent has activated successfully. You have obtained a new talent. Limit Breaker (Excellent): Second heart, skeletal scale armor enhancement organ, muscle enhancement organ, ganglion, Super Healing gland.
After that long description, there was another separate note.
The more one grew, the more one discovered that a snake's strength had limits.
"So, you don't plan on being a snake anymore?"
The battle with the Hundred-Foot Centipede had not been part of Su Heng's plans, but the gains had been exceptionally plentiful.
"I'm so sleepy. Can I... go to sleep now?"
After the great battle, she was full and satisfied. Combined with the effects brought by the Limit Breaker talent, lazy Gamia felt increasingly drowsy.
"Not yet."
"Why... but I'm obviously so sleepy now~"
By the end, Gamia's voice was already barely audible.
"Because of the ritual."
Su Heng sighed. He sensed that Gamia's consciousness had already fallen into a deep sleep under the influence of exhaustion and her talent.
He could only take control of the Golden Boa's massive, majestic body and gaze down upon the vast forest before him with the bearing of a god.
With the Hundred-Foot Centipede's death and disappearance, the Red Moon's power receded rapidly like a morning tide. Gale-force winds swept in dense black clouds, plunging the entire forest into absolute darkness. Only Gamia Great Serpent emitted a faint golden glow, drawing everyone's attention.
"What is that Great Serpent doing?"
"Maybe it's just an illusion, but that giant snake seems to have grown another size larger."
Though they were separated by a great distance,
the monks and warriors who had traveled from Moon Country to another battlefield deep within the forest did not dare discuss it loudly.
They were Moon Country's peerless warriors, daring enough to venture deep into the forest beneath the Blood Moon's radiance and confront the endless Crimson Tide head-on.
Yet when they saw that unimaginably enormous World-encircling Serpent, everyone remained fearful and reverent.
Just as people were all guessing what the great snake that had defeated the Hundred-Foot Centipede intended to do, Su Heng controlled Gamia's body and began his work under countless watching eyes.
"Next, it's time to witness a miracle."
The gathering clouds gradually covered the once-clear night sky. The surging wind grew fiercer, sweeping through the battered forest like invisible blades.
Rumble...
Muffled thunder rolled from far away.
Then Su Heng began to inhale.
The Great Serpent's chest swelled high, and even the howling winds and churning clouds around her abruptly stalled under that whale-like inhalation.
The forest suddenly fell silent for an instant.
Then, a terrifying roar capable of shaking the heavens and trembling the earth burst from the great snake's mouth.
"Lok! Vah! Koor!"
It was an utterly unfamiliar language, yet everyone could sense an invincible majesty in its rising and falling cadence.
The dense black clouds scattered with a single blow. The lush trees all around bent and fell away like waves, revealing the tranquil black night sky above. The full moon, which had disappeared not long ago, appeared before everyone once again.
Completely different from the Red Moon that heralded disaster, the moon now cast dreamy, pure white light, carrying a power that calmed the heart.
Silver radiance fell upon Gamia's long, powerful body, condensing into a faint halo behind her.
The sight was as beautiful as a fairy tale, bearing scenery utterly unlike this increasingly mad world.
At that moment,
Gamia was the New God who summoned the Silver Moon.
And every refugee in this forest who witnessed this scene would, in the future, worship Gamia as the god who drove away the Red Moon.
Su Heng believed that, in this world tormented by the Red Moon, it would not be long before
Gamia Great Serpent's followers spread to every corner of the forest.
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