Keeping Company with Snakes! Drinking Beneath the Moon with the Queen Medusa

"Do you have the courage to return to the Holy City with me?"

Medusa's voice rang exceptionally clear beneath the silent night sky.

Hua She'er's snake tail instinctively tensed, her emerald vertical pupils filled with killing intent.

To her, the Queen's words were already the greatest sincerity she could offer.

The Holy City was the lifeblood of the Snake-People Tribe. Let alone a human, even the emperor of the Jia Ma Empire would have to consider how many lives he had before entering the Holy City.

This human should have been overwhelmed with gratitude and agreed at once.

Yet Lu Heng looked at Medusa.

"Why wouldn't I dare?"

He stretched, rose from the stone platform, and brushed away the dust marks left on his robe from their earlier clash.

"But it's too late today. Let's talk tomorrow."

Hua She'er already had her Snake Blade in hand.

And that was not all.

Lu Heng tilted his head toward Yue Mei, who sat on the other side of the stone platform, then continued.

"Commander Yue Mei and I were just drinking and chatting away, and we were having a great time. Since Your Majesty is here, why not sit with us?"

The air in the square froze.

Hua She'er felt a string in her mind snap with a pop.

She had followed the Queen for more than ten years.

Over those years, she had seen countless humans tremble before the Queen. She had seen Jia Ma Empire generals at the negotiating table who did not even dare breathe too loudly. She had seen so-called Dou Emperor experts break out in cold sweat beneath the Queen's serpentine gaze.

Never had anyone—not a single person—dared speak to the Queen in such a tone.

"Drink together"? Did he think this was his own backyard, inviting