So I'm a Snake, Who Cares?

Abratal, seemingly not afraid of Kadam, burst out angrily.

"Lord Kadam, I came under His Majesty's orders to observe the black and white monsters! I need to see!"

Though Kadam was terrified of the emperor, he wasn't one to be easily swayed.

"Then you should have prepared your own telescope, you fool."

Whether due to the infrasound mixed in his growling voice, or because Kadam's words were logical.

Abratal shut his mouth.

Kadam snorted and looked again.

"Ah. It hit."

Lightning struck the iron bar.

The rabbit and wyvern managed to endure somehow.

"Tsk."

However, the great escape drama they hoped for wouldn't happen.

"I hope they don't die from breaking their necks in the fall."

The restraints had malfunctioned when struck by lightning before.

And naturally, they had repaired and improved the restraints to prevent such incidents from recurring.

It was the moment the wyvern rose above a certain altitude.

Electricity would have been discharged through silver needles that had penetrated into Raota's wing muscles from the restraints.

What happened after was obvious.

Despite enduring even lightning, the wyvern and rabbit fell.

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'Aaaaah! They're falling this way!'

"Waaaaaah-!"

Madam Rila and I screamed and ran away.

For good reason, as the wyvern that had been flying up powerfully was now falling.

And right towards us below!

Everyone domhwangcha!

Soon an enormous impact like a meteorite striking followed.

Kuung-! Kwang!

Dirt and rock fragments flew everywhere.

Several innocent trees in the path were snapped stubbornly.

If not for the heavy rain, there would have been an incredible amount of dust.

'This failed.'

It seemed to have succeeded for sure.

It was a strategy that heated up my heart.

Enough to completely erase any bad thoughts I had about Raota and the rabbit.

It was just heartbreaking that they failed and fell after all that.

"Ra-rabbit..."

Such feelings must be even stronger for Madam Rila.

Seeing her worry about him even after being rejected by the rabbit makes me feel bad.

"Bosssss..."

'Let's go!'

We ran to the fallen Raota.

I was worried the rabbit might have become a flat rabbit patty.

Fortunately, that didn't happen.

The rabbit was curled up and coughing blood.

"Kek, kuhek."

"Rabbit..."

"Rila..."

Did he recognize Madam Rila?

But the rabbit immediately ran to Raota's head.

"Raota, Raota..." Continue your journey at empire

Madam Gorilla made a sad expression for a moment, then quickly went to beside Raota's head.

"Calm down, she's alive."

"...Kuhuk!"

The rabbit struck the ground with a thump as if frustrated.

"Why, did it fail."

The rabbit dripped tears and blood.

Why did it fail?

Hmm, though the plan was cool, in my opinion it had too many holes.

If the restraints malfunctioned from lightning before, wouldn't they naturally have repaired or improved them?

Still, I'm not tactless enough to point that out here.

"Bosssss..."

Madam Rila looked at me with pitiful eyes.

Ah, she means help!

I gladly took out a potion.

When I gave it to the rabbit, Madam Rila gestured for him to drink it.

The rabbit stared at me blankly then drank the potion.

And was amazed as his body healed.

"Ah..."

Then the rabbit's immediate action was to kneel before me.

"MR. Snake, I beg you."

That arrogant rabbit begged with extreme politeness.

"Please, please give that water to Raota too..."

He seemed to regret drinking the potion himself.

I answered as if it was obvious.

"Ssaaak!"

Meaning I would have done so even without you asking.

Look here, I don't know if you're Raota's lover, but Raota and I are siblings.

Though we have different parents and bloodlines.

Raota's body is huge.

That means similarly massive amounts of potion are needed for healing.

I diligently took out potions from my subspace.

The rabbit and Madam Rila received them and fed them to the unconscious Raota.

That's when Isil, who had been resting in the subspace, came out attached to my tail.

'Isil, it's dangerous now so stay inside.'

Isil's answer was 'twitch twitch'.

Now I could understand. It meant no.

Though a parent's role is to discipline when a child doesn't listen, I couldn't do anything with this precious one right now.

Because saving Raota was the urgent priority.

'Oh well, it's raining so come out and drink water.'

I left Isil who had climbed onto my body.

Though we used all the remaining potions, we couldn't completely heal Raota.

But at least she could regain consciousness and get up.

The rabbit knelt and thanked me again.

Raota looked back and forth between me and the rabbit with a confused expression.

Meanwhile, I examined Raota's restraints.

What could those restraints be made of to be so sturdy?

A machine that works perfectly even after being struck by lightning. Moreover, it looked quite precise.

'Really, can't we dismantle this?'

Even Pelerian couldn't properly figure out how it worked.

I thought I'd get a similar answer this time too.

But.

"I think I know now."

'You mean you can remove it?'

"Hmm... seems like there's something quite outrageous inside. Get closer and look."

I went closer to the restraints as Pelerian said.

Raota flinched but didn't go crazy this time.

I knocked on the restraints as Pelerian instructed.

"There seems to be a spirit stone inside."

'A spirit stone?'

"Spirit stone!"

'Ah! So we can summon spirits with this?'

"Rather than that, it would be better to devour it. Especially for you."

According to Pelerian's explanation, it seems to contain a lightning spirit stone holding the power of lightning.

Eat the spirit stone? I thought spirits were friends of elves, but thinking about it, spirits probably didn't like Pelerian much either.

'What do you mean especially for me?'

"You have that Heavenly Thunder Spirit thing, right? Once you contain lightning power in your body, you'll be able to use it more freely."

What!

So I can stop doing that show of electrocuting myself every time I use Heavenly Thunder Spirit?

I wanted to do things like Gunter, putting lightning power in sword qi and such.

"Excuse me, what are you doing?"

The rabbit asked anxiously.

I answered without much thought.

'I was looking at how to break the restraints.'

"What?"

The rabbit knelt again with a thump.

It seemed like he might scrape his knees at this rate.

"Please help us! Us, no, at least Raota."

'Ah...'

I was taken aback.

It's a problem since there's no way to break it, this is why you should listen to monsters' words till the end.

But the rabbit seemed to understand my silence differently.

"I'm sorry for my rudeness until now."

And he bowed with his head hitting the ground.

"My life is yours if you wish."

Another thump.

"Please, at least Raota... So she can be free."

He looks ready to do a full ceremonial bow.

The rabbit offered his neck.

Really now.

No matter how much I need experience points, I have no intention of killing a rabbit like this.

'No, actually...'

Just as I was about to explain awkwardly that I didn't know how to break it.

Isil kept fidgeting.

Looking at what he was doing, he climbed onto the restraints and was putting down roots.

The roots as thin as cotton fluff entered various parts of the restraints.

「Demon Hunter's Vine Grass Isil lv19(-) uses 'Empathy lv3'」

Huh.

No way...

「Temporarily sharing Growth by Absorption lv7」

Hey, are you suggesting we eat the spirit stone together.