The Primal Hunter

Chapter 534

Miranda’s mind was a bit jumbled from the powerful aura, and it took her a moment to formulate a response. This resulted in her not being the first one to answer.

”I sincerely apologize for disturbing your area,” Mahowny said as he bowed. His party members followed suit, their nervousness palpable. Sweat was pouring down their brows as they also realized that the monster that had appeared was more than any of them could handle.

It had to be mid-tier C-grade… which meant it was above level 250. The group from the United Cities Alliance could probably handle a weak C-grade using their hounds, but the snake was an entirely different issue. It was leagues above anything they could even touch.

”We are only here for this woman and will leave once done,” Mahowny further said. “And we are more than willing to compensate you for allowing us this.”

The snake did not even turn to him but kept staring at Miranda. Miranda felt the pressure and finally came up with an answer. ”Miranda Wells… I work for the Malefic’s Chosen.”

As if a switch had been flipped, the humanoid snake’s eyes opened wide. ”Really? Is he here?”

”No, sadly not,” Miranda said, the pressure on her instantly alleviated.

”Oh…” the snake deflated.

Miranda saw the Mahowny and the others had turned white as sheets, now matching the complexion of the snake girl. They looked like they were about to plan their escape already, having realized they were in a very perilous situation.

”I was being chased here by enemies of the Chosen,” Miranda quickly pounced on the opportunity to remove the elites from the United Cities Alliance. ”They aim to kill me and hurt the Chosen through that.”

This got a response out of the snake as she turned her head to the party of five.

Mahowny instantly raised his hands in defense. ”This is all a misunderstanding, I-”

He didn’t get further. Miranda wasn’t sure what happened, but one moment he was talking, and the next, there was no head on his shoulders. The movement had been too fast for her to see. It wasn’t even certain if it was teleportation or just incredibly fast movement.

”Did you know that humans have these unwanted movements in their aura when they lie? I learned that from the ones I acquired to perfect this human form,” the snake said in an insidious voice. It looked like she hadn’t even moved as she now stood there with a severed head, parts of the spine hanging out.

Her rhetorical question did not have a chance to be answered as movements came from below. The aura of the Alabaster Snake had completely masked them as three C-grade snakes shot up from the water, and within less than five seconds, the hounds and human party were all dead.

Miranda could only stand there and stare as it happened. She had hoped for assistance, but the response had been prompt and unexpectedly harsh. There was no questioning or doubt in the snake; she had simply acted and wiped them out unceremoniously.

that Hank looked incredibly worried, and Neil’s party still had defensive positions. It was a sloppy one, as they all knew that if any of the snakes that had just appeared chose to attack, none of them would

already knowing the answer. He had mentioned it so casually like it was no big deal… but the

had appeared were all far larger than the small and delicate-looking Alabaster Snake, but they

Miranda. “Ah, but not you. Just the normal humans, if you know what I mean. Anyway! You said you are here because of the Forefather’s Chosen? Why are you here if he

mood and emotional state of the powerful C-grade. “There is a conflict going on right now, and the Chosen is preoccupied with handling other matters, including an enemy Chosen that serves a god who is antagonistic towards your Forefather. Due to this, the city I managed for

tilting her

he trusts that you can keep us safe

strongly than Miranda had expected. With starry eyes, the snake clenched her fists

Miranda promptly answered. “It is truly my pleasure to meet a confidant of the Chosen. As

given her a name, and no matter how dumb it was, she didn’t doubt the female snake with her personality would be all giddy and proud of it. She swore that if he had named the snake Snakie or Scaley or anything like that, she would be unable to hold her poker face and would smack him over the

all happy about what Miranda had said. “I sadly do not have one of those. Most simply call me by my race as I

all professional and like she was welcoming guests into her humble abode. Which was exactly what she did in her mind,

we even have

with genuine surprise. Humans living in a C-grade infested danger zone? She had a hard

towards the water for a moment before the three large snakes emerged again. Alongside them, a wooden barge had also appeared, seemingly out of nothing. “Get on for a quicker trip.

the hell did Jake end up making friends with nearly every monster he didn’t just kill?

faster than expected. The snake girl ended up joining them on the barge and was

should have any right to be. It was likely spatially expanded somehow, and so were some areas of the Grand Mangrove River

was one such clearing. It was close to the center of the Grand Mangrove River and the lair of the Alabaster Crimsoneye Snake. Miranda also learned along the way that the snakes had

was astonished when she saw it. After entering a clearing, the area opened up and revealed what looked like a massive clear lake with sunlight coming down from above. Floating barges and platforms with buildings filled the clearing, making it look like a small city had been

the barges, and there was clearly too much space for the number of people. She also noticed something else… the moment they appeared, all the humans

people are here?” Miranda

the river but were captured. After the Chosen was here, I realized that I didn’t truly understand the world or the humans, so I decided to get some. While humans are dumb, they can

are staying here against their wills?” Hank asked curtly. Miranda threw him a glance to shut up,

them here against their wills, but I guess they can try and leave? Not that I see them make it out without getting eaten or recaptured,” the Alabaster Snake laughed,

see,” Miranda said before anyone else could speak. “Could you please bring us to a place where we can relax? We

special place in case the Chosen returned! Humans are really good at making

a feeling that the snake girl wasn’t going to leave them alone, though, so she would bite the bullet and handle the C-grade. She feared what any of the others could say, and if the snake got

Chosen, I am more than willing to share. In fact, I will have to contact him soon using one of my skills, and you are more than free to come along. I can even relay a message,”

the snake asked with

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