"Legend has it... the Quedis people believed that after death, a person had to pass through a long, serpentine corridor to reach the Underworld... During this process, you must never mention anything related to snakes, or else... the enormous snake bridge will come alive and devour your soul... This snake bridge connecting the living world and the land of the dead is known as—Black Manda!"
"The Jigtel people believed that snakes possessed the divine nature of traversing life and death, and that snake sloughs were the most precious medicine..."
"Near Hadesburg, the Great Serpent God—Vasuki—was widely worshipped and revered..."
Inside the gravekeeper's cottage.
Aaron leafed through the materials Shadow Spider had gathered.
You never knew until you looked—in Adersen Continent, there were quite a few legends and myths concerning snakes.
And if all the stories of uncertain truth were included, the number would become even more enormous.
Aaron turned to the final page, rubbed his forehead, and wrote a note: "Pay special attention to... legends involving snakes, women... flowers, and the like."
He still could not ignore the visions he had seen and the murmurs he had heard when advancing to Grandmaster Demon Hunter.
He intended to investigate every snake legend on Adersen Continent, one by one.
Clearly, this was an immensely arduous task.
Fortunately, Aaron had more than enough time to slowly tease the threads apart and unravel the cocoon.
After finishing all that, he resumed his daily Blood of No Darkness meditation.
It had to be said that after becoming a wife and mother, Ellie had gradually given up pursuing the path of a sorcerer.
Partly because her energy was divided, and partly because advancing as a sorcerer truly was far too difficult!
Aaron, however, did not care about that. Every day without fail, he meditated for several