Aaron looked up and met a pair of amber vertical pupils!
Behind him, at some unknown moment, a giant snake as thick as a bucket had appeared, coiled upright with its head hanging low!
"There are no dream fluctuations!"
"It's a conceptual creature! The Legendary Serpent... it lives in the stories and legends passed down by the villagers, not in dreams!"
Aaron's thoughts raced. He raised a hand.
A string of sunflames blazed toward the giant snake.
At the same time, he exerted all his strength to sense the Legendary Serpent's blood!
Unfortunately, this Legendary Serpent seemed not to possess the concept of "blood." All Aaron could sense ahead of him was utter emptiness!
Hisss!
The sudden flames seemed to enrage the Legendary Serpent.
Bang!
It shot out of the flames, its enormous head like a giant hammer as it slammed viciously into Aaron.
The instant the snake's head struck, a giant hand appeared around Aaron, gripping his entire body.
—Zorro Protective Palm!
This spell, modified from Mage Hand, could effectively protect a sorcerer's entire body.
Even so, he was sent flying, crashing through a farmhouse and drawing screams from a young man and woman inside.
"Damn it!"
Aaron felt the pain of his broken ribs and shook his head. "I've laid low for so long, finally became an official sorcerer, and got to swagger around for once... only to run straight into an iron wall."
"Could it be... I was never born with the fate of a dragon among men?"
He rapidly chanted a spell. Wings of Hermes emerged behind his back, and his body shot into the sky.
The next instant, two massive halves of a serpent's jaws snapped shut where he had been.
In midair, Aaron flapped his tattered Wings of Hermes and sighed.
He was getting