The Goddess Of War

Chapter 144 - Damballa (2)

Moments after all the Hunters had exited the Dungeon, the black clouds that were above the Dungeon gates suddenly released magic energy back.

The magic energy was even much greater than it had previously felt, while still actively sending out ancient beings.

From within the clouds, magic lightning again sprung up. His magic power was also stronger than before, even far more terrifying than the previous one. The magic flash exploded everything on the ground that was hit by his strike.

However, the magic lightning that connected did not happen for long. Not until a minute later, the lightening that was snatching disappeared as if it was just a bearer of news regarding something else to come.

Shortly after, from within the black hole that was in the middle of the black clouds, Anna saw black smoke pouring out like a flood that was flowing so profusely.

The black smoke looked like a living being moving through the air like a snake shaft, then flew towards Anna very quickly.

Anna shook her hand, intending to exterminate the black smoke containing magic energy, yet her actions only made the black wisp of smoke scatter into pieces, then it gathered into one again in a place a little far away from him.

Black smoke continued to flow out of the gate and continued to fly towards Anna.

Anna was feeling a little panicked. The black smoke contained a far greater amount of magic energy than Damballa's magic. That's why he couldn't concentrate on the circumstances around him and just focused on the smoke coming out of the black hole in the middle of the clouds.

The more Anna got rid of it, the more smoke came, until finally the black smoke that was now near her body, managed to surround and wrap her whole body until it disappeared in it.

However, just a moment later, Anna managed to get rid of the smoke with even more powerful magic power.

Although he had already used more Mana energy to get rid of it, the black smoke could not be annihilated like he used to get rid of the flying dust after the magic explosion.

The only option is to get rid of the smoke as before, just to stay away from him.

Busy with the waves of smoke that always arrive, Anna is late to pay attention to the circumstances that occur in a place that is actually not too far from her.

Another pile of black smoke gathered at one point then turned into a dense form that resembled a giant snake.

The longer, the more obvious the shape became and turned into the figure of a giant snake-headed human.

Anna who finally realized the figure was surprised, when she saw and recognized the face of the human-headed snake.

The form that resembles a blonde human who is none other than Damballa.

'Is he still alive?!'

Slowly, the hairs on Damballa's head fall out. From his head sticking out two horns that are getting longer and longer.

Scales that resembled snake scales started popping up all over his body.

Although Anna was surprised shortly after seeing her opponent was still alive, but Anna did not want to lose the opportunity like before. He instantly exerted his magic energy and charged towards the creature before the change of its form became perfect.

Wusshhhhhc... Nudist!!!

However, his attack was broken by hundreds of snakes that incarnated from the black smoke Anna had removed to stay away from him.

The snakes, which had a body width of 2 meters and an average length of over 10 meters, blocked all of Anna's attacks at the expense of themselves.

Surprised by the sudden appearance of hundreds of snakes because the focus was shifted when he saw the change in the form of Damballa, Anna now watched where the snakes came from and finally realized that the black smoke that kept coming out of the gate in the clouds had turned into a snake.

The snakes surrounded Anna and sprayed poisonous liquid from their mouths.

In the rain of poisonous liquids containing magic energy, Anna could feel her Mana energy decreasing fairly quickly as the golden protective covering of her body was greatly affected by the poison from the snake.

Realizing that all the smoke coming out from the clouds had turned into a snake, Anna immediately recalled the Dungeon gate that was still open. Of course he became very worried and turned to look at the gate and saw the snakes had gone out from there, into the human world.

"Damn it!"

The snakes possessed Mana energy that was at least equivalent to an S-ranked Hunter.

Although they are not as strong as Ty-Rex and red-skinned creatures who are opponents, however, if hundreds or even thousands of snakes it to invade the human world, Anna could already guess what would happen to the human race.

Anna ignored the snakes that surrounded her. He stomped his feet and flew towards the gate.

However, just as he was halfway to the gate, his body was suddenly sucked in by a force that pulled him very strongly from behind.

Anna looked behind her and saw the figure of a huge tall creature that was among the hundreds of snakes.

The creature had a pair of long horns sticking out of its bald head.

A long tongue protruded from his wide mouth until it almost touched his ear lobe. On the upper and lower sides of his mouth was filled with small, pointed black fangs.

Anna also saw in each of the hands of the creature that had a height of four times that of her body, there was a wooden puppet and a small spear.

The creature looked at Anna with a sharp gaze with both of its eyeballs that resembled snake eyes.

"This is his real form? Snake man?" Anna looked at Damballa who was already in his original form with disgust mixed with horror.

Anna tries to counter the suction power she knows comes from Damballa's tongue swirling in front of her face.

By breaking the magic of the sucker, Anna can now take control of her body again and stand some distance away from where Damballa is.

Damballa looked a little surprised when his magic broke easily and he looked at Anna with great anger.

'uh? What the hell's going on?'

After looking at Anna, Damballa then looked at the wooden doll in his right hand and blinked once. Then, the form of a wooden doll in his right hand was changed into a puppet figure that resembled the form of a woman.

Anna furrowed both of her eyebrows as she saw the puppet's form change to resemble her.

"What's that?"

As she was still wondering about the object in her opponent's right hand, Anna was startled by the sudden stabbing pain in her chest, as soon as the creature before him thrust the small spear in his left hand at the puppet.

“Ukh…! Wh-what happened?!”

Anna held onto her chest and felt an increasingly intense piercing pain as the creature twisted its spear and thrust it deeper into the body of the puppet.

"Akhh...!"

“Now, you are just a useless doll that fell under my magic.” Said Damballa who then chuckled.

Seeing Anna's agonized face, Damballa laughed out loud in a mocking tone.

“What is this voodoo magic?” anna thought, sending magic energy into her aching chest as if someone was piercing and twisting her.

“Lower creatures like you, must kneel when meeting a great god like me!”

After Damballa spoke, he pulled out a small spear from the chest of the doll, then thrust it again into the two legs of the doll in turn.

Sutts... Sutts...

At the same time as each stab, Anna felt pain in both legs which then made her lose strength on her footing and fall to her knees.

Seeing her opponent fall down, Damballa laughed again in a louder voice.

The sound of laughter accompanied by magic energy shook the land and made cracks on the rock hills around them.

While Damballa tortures Anna with powerful voodoo magic and also binds her movements, hundreds of black snakes again go to attack Anna and then surround her.

However, the snakes did not directly attack Anna. The snakes kept their distance from Anna and surrounded her from a considerable distance.

Damballa continued to thrust a small spear into the puppet in his other hand. This time, he stabbed the head of the doll and made Anna feel a pain in her head.

Anna held her head with both hands until she finally fell to the ground while unable to feel any more pain as Damballa twisted the small spear on the doll's head.

The torture did not come there. Hundreds of snakes that had surrounded Anna began to spit out toxic liquid again until a flood of poison enveloped Anna's entire body which was now not protected by her magic protector.

°°°

At that moment, from within the clouds, came out 2 human beings with each of them also having blond hair like Damballa, before he changed to his original form.

"What's going on? Who made you fuss until it changed to your original form?" Asked one of the creatures while staring at the puddle of poisonous mucus that covered Anna's entire body.

He and his partner who were still in 'headquarters', were curious when they felt the cave walls where they were starting to lose a lot of magic energy which means their partner, Damballa, was, he used a lot of power to fight. Because of that curiosity, they finally went to see the circumstances outside the 'headquarters'.

"The lowly creature that used Ann Arnix's body" Damballa said. His tone sounded a little harsh as he still felt angry at Anna who had made him to the point of having to show his true form.

"What?! There's another creature that uses Ann Arnix's body?!" asked the other creature with a surprised facial expression.

"Yes. He also has his Mana energy" Damballa said.

The two creatures stared towards the puddle of poisonous slime with a look of disbelief.

They get information that Ann Arnix was killed a decade ago as she fights unfairly against 13 of their comrades.

Although Ann Arnix, who had fought only one of her younger siblings, was killed, they also killed 13 supreme generals of the group of creatures.

"You're saying that he might be another creature that uses Ann Arnix's body?" ask one of the creatures to Damballa. "She's not Ann Arnix, is she?" ask again because he was horrified if he had to fight with the great enemy of his people.

"I'm sure it is. If it was Ann Arnix, I might have perished long ago. He did have the same Mana core as him, but he couldn't use that Mana power like Ann Arnix."

The Damballa fellow stared at the puddle of poison slime with a horrified look. He now became more afraid of Ann Arnix when he learned that the power of the great enemy of his people was still very terrible even though it was not used perfectly by other creatures, "Luckily he was dead." Her thought.

"Do you think I can't use my powers properly?"

The three creatures were shocked when they heard a clear sounding voice as if they were talking close to their ears.

They turned left and right to look for the whereabouts of the owner of the voice but did not find it at all.

While they were still confused, the three were startled again when the place they were standing on was suddenly shaded by a golden light that was getting brighter and brighter to the point of blinding the eyes.

The three looked up and looked towards the golden light with narrowed eyes, only to be surprised again after seeing the form of light in the form of a giant palm was already only 10 meters above them.

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