Toxic Empress

The Unknown Man

“I can't fight it. Damnit damnit! Why am I this weak? And again, why is Alina good at fighting? Wasn't she just a weak woman who didn't understand fighting techniques? She was too strange and changed a lot from her old self,” muttered Derryl staring pusher at Xena.

Meanwhile, Xena, Xander, and Liam were various assault formations, they decided to attack separately from all directions. The giant snake they were fighting right now had much stronger strength so it was likely that they would need more strength against it. After explaining about the assault formation, the three of them immediately carried it out. Their movements darted rapidly to the surface of the snake's extremely hard body.

Xander's sharp sword attack was able to injure the snake's body, Liam also tried to exert his magic repeatedly and managed to injure a little of the snake's body. While Xena also reacts alone, the poison is much more dangerous than the snake can, Xena poison can also release heat, and this is his latest move. At a glance from Xena's poison attack, a red light flashed over the poison Xena. Xander's focus was sidetracked when he saw his red light.

‘Without realizing Xena has activated the power of the Demon Queen,’ Inner Xander.

Xena's poison, which had become stronger than before, had blistered her snake skin and slowly melted the body of the snake that was as strong as iron. Without more resistance, the giant snakes successfully they fell together easily. However, Xander was surprised by the snake they easily defeated, the snake was stronger than at that time.

‘Why is the snake so weak? Wasn't this snake much stronger? What the hell is it? Is it not because of the red light wrapped with poison Xena?’ thought Xander.

Xena looked very tired, her legs could no longer bear the weight of the body, apparently using the red light was draining her strength more, because Xena was still not used to using it. After that, Xander immediately became a backrest and a pedestal for Xena to stand, Xander did not want Xena to fall to the surface of the ground that is not flat and a lot of rocks.

“Good work, Xena,” praise Xander.

“This is thanks to you and Liam, you two also work well,” reply Xena while giving a thumbs up.

In between they were talking, the body of the snake that had not moved showed a strange reaction. The snake wriggled unsteadily, almost Xena was hit by the wind created from her writhing body. It turned out that the snake had not died completely, even the snake seemed more energetic.

“True to my guess, this snake is not weak.”

Before they launched another attack, the snake had already spouted its venom. Xander immediately held Xena to take her away from the snake, the snake's eyes were originally white, now turned red. There is something different about the snake than the previous condition, Xander and Xena realize.

“The solution looks even stranger, why is he weird like this?” ask Xena.

“It looks like someone is controlling this snake in the back,” replied Xander.

Xena also has the same conjecture as Xander, thinking that the giant snake is not an ordinary snake but a snake that has been given special control on his body. Xena ordered everyone to stay away from the snake because her premonition told her that the snake would unleash a dangerous follow-up attack.

‘I'm sure this was the work of the Barbarian King, only he had control over magical beings other than the Demon King. The man was so crazy that he sacrificed his own daughter for self-greed,’ Xander murmured inwardly.

Xander tried to exert another attack, but the result was nil because the snake's defense turned stronger than before. Xander planned to increase his power, but he couldn't do that in the open like this. Then the snake reacted strangely again, this time it was too strange, its tail spitting fire everywhere accompanied by can from its mouth. Suddenly a fire broke out in the capital area, when the fire began to spread, the snake also rampaged violently.

“Hey, you two! See the snake's behavior getting weird!” exclaim Liam.

This time the snake was preparing to issue a follow-up attack, from its gaped mouth, a large black ball appeared and allegedly as a ball could. The size of the ball is not small, if the ball erupts then it is certain that the entire capital city becomes ripped apart.

“Isn't there anything we can do? If we leave it alone, then we will also become victims!” xena panicked.

“Au—”

“Xander, let me handle it with my poison. Although my body is not powered, but I can not let the snake make Charise more chaotic,” said Xena.

“No, Xena, what if you were the victim? I don't want to lose you,” reject Xander.

Xena sighed, Xander treated her like someone who would die tomorrow. Though he only intended to help, but Xander rejected the offer from him.

“I won't die, so you don't have to worry about me. Quickly put me down,” whine Xena.

Now that the ball could belong to the snake is very large, anxiety increasingly haunting each other. Suddenly in between the commotion, tension, and fear, a man wearing a black robe came out of nowhere. The man's face was covered with a cloak hood, so that no one could see his face. The man stood upright before his snake eyes, not forgetting he took out a black sword.

“Disign!” The man pointed his sword at his snake venom, from the tip of the sword flashed like Xander's purple flame. The purple fire was absorbing its venom to the end, now the snake looks confused due to loss can be large. When the snake let his guard down, the man jumped and landed on the snake's back, and he drew his sword into the snake's back. In an instant, the snake shattered into dust.

As soon as the snake was confirmed to be gone, the unknown man disappeared to nowhere. Xena and Xander question the man's identity, moreover he uses the same purple flames as Xander's.

“Who is he? Do you know?” ask Xena.

Xander thought for a moment, he thought that the man also felt familiar, but Xander still did not remember who he was.

“Don't know, but it looks like he's not our enemy. I'll find out about the guy later, moreover he has the same purple flame as me,” replied Xander.

“Mean me somewhat surprised, could there be others who also have the same power as you? That's not important. Now quickly put me down, you seem like you'll carry me on!” pinta Xena while rubbing Xander's cheeks.

“Aduh, stop pinching me,” ringis Xander in pain, “Alright, I'll drop you.”