The Gelmir God-Devouring Serpent stretched its body to its heart's content. With a body that enormous, it was fortunate it was a magical creature; otherwise, one might have to consider whether its own flesh would crush its bones.
Compared to it, Zhao Si was like a little mouse. Honestly, the Gelmir God-Devouring Serpent had not even noticed Zhao Si, the little person who had entered its cave. As the apex predator of Mt. Gelmir, it could afford to let its guard down, confident that nothing could threaten it. It was not as though Maliketh would suddenly come over to kill it.
It had merely grown tired of lying there and decided to stretch. The Gelmir God-Devouring Serpent was quite lazy, though perhaps many snakes were simply lazy by nature, preferring stillness to movement. A snake's body was not actually very convenient for getting around. Slithering along the ground was not slow, but it was ultimately not as satisfying as moving on legs. Snakes lacked the good fortune of beasts, with their five fingers, and could not spread their wings and soar like dragons.
No matter how large they grew, they still had to crawl along the ground eating dirt.
That was why the winged serpent Effigies were said to express Rykard's ambition: even a serpent wanted to soar into the sky!
The serpent gazing up at the sky harbored the ambition to devour the heavens, but ultimately lacked the strength to match that ambition. Nor could a serpent grow wings.
Then it lowered its head, its pupils contracting to adjust, and discovered a little person standing before it. The Gelmir God-Devouring Serpent possessed intelligence, but lacked the ability to speak. That made it seem even less capable than beasts.
Of course, it had no need to communicate through language. Every