Return of the Crowned Heiress

Chapter 518

Felicia whipped around and shone her flashlight behind her, only to see a pair of golden slit shaped pupils staring back at her. The python’s scales glistened under the beam, resembling a suit of grotesque, armored plates. Its reflective, sickly sheen made Felica’s scalp prickle with unease.

Without hesitation, she tumes and bolted forward

The python immediately gave chase, slithering after her at a terrifying speed. Its body glided across the ground as it closed the gap between them.

Felicia yanked the kasite strapped to her thigh and, without looking back, hurled it toward the sound.

There was a briet pause behind her. Then, as it enraged, the python surged forward even taster, chasing her with renewed fury.

That was not an opponent she could handle.

Felicia ran as fast as she could, using the terrain to create obstacles in hopes of losing the python, but this was the python’s domain. No matter how hard she tried, sweating and panting heavily from all the running, she just couldn’t throw the python oft.

And then, the path abruptly ended

likely dislodged by a landslide or

water, undoubtedly filled with crocodiles or piranhas. And to her right? The python

choice, she decided to strike

hesitation at the python’s

left pupil, causing the massive python to thrash violently in pain.

skin crawling from the fear of having that disgusting

her to death Felicia had nowhere left to run. Clutching her last small knife, she braced herself while searching for an opening to break free. But when the python came crashing down, she

was it. She was

a gleaming blade sliced through the air with terrifying precision. The blade struck the python’s neck with immense force, severing its head in an instant. Even

out a curse, she felt something around her waist. At the same time, a deep, magnetic voice whispered close to her

She obeyed without question

herself lifted, and a

an almost impossible maneuver, the man carried her onto the massive boulder. By the

in the middle of the night over the towering iron gates to save a life in exchange for ten

she