Six-Armed Serpent Demon

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She even delegated all matters related to the subsequent negotiations with the Golden Dragon City to the bear goblin Maui and two bronze dragon paladins.

After she completed the "Advanced Teleportation" spell, she first looked around warily.

Ivy Beate found herself in an attic, surrounded by boxes and clutter, all covered in a thick layer of dust. She used "Detect Mortals" to sense the surroundings briefly, finding no trace of enemies on the attic stairs or the floor below, but faint sounds of battle roars and the clanging of weapons could be heard outside the window.

This is a chaotic and unfamiliar place.

Ivy Beatrice guessed that she had arrived in some city-state on the northern coast. It was similar to Keogu, with a strong smell of the sea blowing into the attic.

Her emerald eyes quickly scanned every corner of the attic. She sniffed carefully and noticed the smell of blood emanating from under the heavy wooden table beside her.

With a casual flick of its tail, it sent the heavy wooden table, weighing several dozen kilograms, along with the boxes and miscellaneous items on it flying with a loud "bang."

A jumble of things crashed through the attic walls and clattered as they fell into the courtyard outside, scattering across the ground.

The wind blowing through the hole in the wall told Ivy Beatrice that there were many people fighting each other in the courtyard, and seeing such a commotion, a group of people rushed into the courtyard.

Before long, the sound of footsteps began to appear on the floor below the attic, and the stairs creaked and groaned cautiously.

The six-armed serpent demon ignored them, focusing instead on looking down at Medusa, who had been curled up under the wooden table.

Stewart looked utterly wretched, her head, face, and clothes covered in blood, and she was unconscious. She was curled up, still clutching the communication crystal ball tightly to her chest, as if desperately grasping at her last straw.

Ivy Beatrice noticed that Medusa's extremely unique, edgy snake hair had all been cut off.

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught sight of several figures appearing at the doorway of the attic.

There were six dragon species, two of which were red dragon species, and four of which had multicolored scales; it was unclear what kind of hybrid dragon species they were.

A red dragon spotted Steo lying on the ground and shouted happily, "She's here! We've found her!"

"High-level six-armed serpent demon!"

The dragon with red and black scales exclaimed, "She has eight arms!"

Upon hearing the name of this demonic race, all the dragons tensed up and raised their weapons at Ivy-Beate.

Another red dragon immediately began chanting a spell, which was none other than the sixth-order divine spell "Expulsion," a magic specifically designed to expel interdimensional beings from the prime material world.

The six-armed serpent demon ignored them.

She bent down, reached out a hand to check Steo's pulse, and only after confirming that Medusa was not in mortal danger did she take out a bottle of healing potion and give it to her.

At the same time, the red dragon successfully cast the spell. The next second, everyone watched with anticipation as the "Expelling Spell" accurately struck the six-armed serpent demon's body.

Nothing happened.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the "expulsion spell" struck the six-armed snake demon squarely, and it vanished without a trace, disappearing without a trace.

All the dragon species' eyes twitched, and their eyelids twitched.

This demon's magic resistance is ridiculously high!

Suddenly, they felt a chill.

The six-armed serpent demon opposite them gently set down the bald Medusa who had just finished drinking the healing potion, and its blue eyes turned towards them.

These emerald green pupils were crystal clear, like gemstones, breathtakingly beautiful, but devoid of any warmth, like ice that had never melted.

"We don't need to fight, you devil."

One of the dragons cautiously said, he too was a variegated scale, his body covered in mottled red, blue and white scales, “If you hand her over to us, I swear in the name of the Republic of Dujin, you will be rewarded with a thousand souls.”

The six-armed snake demon tilted its head.

“Great terms,” she said. “I like them.”

The dragons were overjoyed.

Then they heard her next question: "Which of you will die first?"

The red dragon that had just cast the spell roared, "Watch out!"

The six-armed serpent demon slightly opened its mouth.

It was as if the demonic howls of countless women were echoing in the minds of the dragons.

It seemed like a mixture of joy and anger, a mixture of resentment and lamentation, like a thunderous roar, a sharp cry and a howl, but upon closer listening, it was clearly a gentle moan.

Upon hearing that sound, the red dragon felt as if its soul and body had been frozen.

Despite mobilizing all his will and strength to resist, it was to no avail.

When the red dragon came to his senses, he found himself lying on the ground, rolling around lightly several times. Then he saw six headless corpses standing not far away, their bare necks spraying blood straight up to the ceiling, then pouring down, splattering onto the floor and onto his own face and mouth, like a rain of blood.

This is…

That concludes my thoughts on the Red Dragon species.

With a flick of her wrist, Ivy Beatrice sent all eight swords trembling, dislodging the blood that had touched them from their blades.

He then sheathed his sword.

Now, dealing with enemies of this caliber requires almost no effort. With a single breath, she unleashed the mortal hunter's ability, "Cursing Roar," instantly stunning all mortal creatures within a fifty-foot radius. Then, with eight swords striking simultaneously, a series of rapid slashes easily severed the heads of six dragons.

A few seconds later, Steo woke up coughing.

"Oh my god..." Her voice was extremely weak, "Boss? Cough cough, are you dead too, or am I still alive?"

Very good, very energetic.

Ivy Beatrice asked irritably, "Where am I? What's going on?"

"We're in Dukin, a city-state west of Keogu. What else could it be but a fight?"

Medusa said irritably, "The six families of Dukin have joined forces to kill the son of the Red Dragon who rules this place, declared that Hesrati is dead, and that they are now the Republic of Dukin, and are withdrawing from the Northern Alliance."

She glanced at the corpses lying haphazardly at the entrance to the attic.

"Now only five major families remain."

“I’m asking you what’s going on,” Ivy-Beate pointed to her short, broken snake neck. “They’re choking each other, how did they get to your head?”

Medusa's face was covered in dried blood. Upon hearing this, she raised her hand to touch the broken snakes on her head and hissed in shock.

“I can’t even talk about it,” she said, her voice trembling with tears. “It’s all tears when I think about it.”

Chapter 186 The Tragedy of "Father Steo"

Medusa Steo works as a laborer in Ivy-Beate, and her mission is to bring more overseas people to Beate Island.

But no one would move from a prosperous and wealthy place to an unknown island to cultivate the land, so she was forced to live like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Wherever there was war, famine, plague, and death, Medusa would appear, traveling between many coastal city-states on the verge of collapse, guiding and organizing refugees to board ships to the paradise-like island of Beate for refuge.

“Great, my redbeard,” Ivy Beatrice exclaimed.

Steo blinked, confused. "Huh? Redbeard? What does that mean?"

Ivy Beatrice smiled without saying a word.

"Redbeard" was a historical figure from her previous life on Earth, whose real name was "Uruz," and who was a Mediterranean pirate leader.

At the time, Catholicism ruled Spain, and it brutally suppressed Muslims and Jews, among other non-Muslims. Uruz used his pirate fleet to evacuate many Muslims from Spain to North Africa, saving many lives over six years. People were grateful to this chivalrous pirate and addressed him with the honorific "Baba," which sounds similar to "father" in Chinese. When "Baba Uruz" reached the European continent, Europeans, unfamiliar with Muslim terminology, mispronounced it as "Barbarossa." Since "red-bearded" is the Italian word for "Barbarossa," the pirate "Redbeard" was born.

After Urruz's death, his brilliant younger brother Hayreddin succeeded him as pirate leader. Europeans called him "Barbarossa Hayreddin." Hayreddin, a pirate, was appointed admiral by the Ottoman Sultan. With a weaker army, he defeated the combined Italian and Spanish fleets, leading to the dissolution of the Holy League and Venice's surrender to the Ottomans. The Ottoman Empire dominated the Mediterranean, and the name "Barbarossa" resonated throughout Europe.

But that's getting off-topic.

"Baba Steo" arrived in Dukin two months ago, just in time for the city's most brutal and chaotic period: shortly after the Dukin Six Families murdered the son of the Red Dragon who ruled Dukin and declared the establishment of the Dukin Republic, their first act was to carry out a massive purge to eliminate any internal traitors who attempted to restore the Red Dragon.

This was not without reason, because the Dujinliu family, who murdered the son of the Red Dragon, were all descendants of the Red Dragon Lord.

The bloodlines of the six families originate from the descendants of the Red Dragon Lord and his four Red Dragon wives. However, the four female dragons were successively executed by the Red Dragon Lord over the centuries. As time passed, the six families intermarried with other families, diluting the Red Dragon bloodline and making it far less pure and noble than that of the Red Dragon son who currently rules Dujin.

The six families eliminated the son of the Red Dragon who ruled this region, and nominally established a republic. However, many coveted the throne of King Dujin, and by bloodline, they seemed indeed qualified.

"Stop, stop, stop."

Ivy Beatrice felt a headache coming on. "Don't tell me about this nonsense. People involved in politics have dirty minds. My simple and honest personality can't handle all this rubbish... Just tell me, what exactly did someone do to you?"

Stewart was furious when he heard this.

"I curse your ancestors for eighteen generations! These bastards are inhuman, I'm telling you!"

Tears streamed down her face, leaving muddy streaks. "I just arrived, haven't even started working yet, and someone stole all my luggage from the inn, and my communication crystal ball is gone too! Then these bastards surrounded me all over town! As I ran, I kept wondering what was going on, and then I found out what shocked me. Apparently, some idiot saw me on the street and started spreading rumors that I had the aura of the Red Dragon Lord on me! They said they'd capture me, extract my blood, and make a potion that would make their bloodline revert to its ancestral form! Revert to a whole watermelon, my foot! Boss, look at this! Look at what they've done to my hair! My pet snake, waaaaah!"

Ivy Beatrice stared at her bald head, her face contorted as she forced a smile.

She managed to suppress her laughter: "Then why are they fighting amongst themselves outside?"

"Because there's a villain behind it!"

Stewart gritted his teeth, "I was running around the city with these bastards, and then I found out that the person who spread the news was following behind the people who came to arrest me, killing them. So I was just bait, and all the traitors who wanted to restore the Red Dragon were lured by them to rip off my snake and drain my blood. They were a bunch of bad guys lying in wait to fish me out! For two months, I couldn't escape and didn't even get a decent meal!"

When she got to the heartbreaking part, she burst into tears: "The snakes are all dead! If I hadn't been starving, I wouldn't have dared to sneak back to steal the crystal ball. I almost died! Boss, I've worked like a slave for you for so long, you can't just leave me like this!"

Chapter 187 New Uses of Mental Phenomena

The six-armed serpent demon collected the souls of the six dragons, and while examining the six corpses on the ground, asked Steo, "You just said that the six Dukin families have become five families. What happened? Who are these guys?"

At this point, Stewart's emotions had calmed down a bit.

"These guys were all members of the Kantrijab family. This family was one of the six families, but you just wiped them out, boss."

"I've told you, boss, that the Red Dragon King once transformed two loyal guards into women, took them into his harem, and had them bear a multitude of children. Then he sent them out to be governors. One of them was Admiral Zachasa, and the other was the ancestor of the Kantrijaben family. He was the first governor of the Dujin City-State, Kantrijaben, several hundred years before Zachasa. The Kantrijaben family took his name as their surname."

Medusa suddenly started laughing, a laugh that sent chills down Ivy Beatrice's spine.

"This person was an extraordinary individual who died for love."

She said with great interest, "But Canterijabun's mental state has been unstable ever since he became the Dragon Queen. After he turned back into a man and became governor, he killed several of his wives in succession. Later, when he went to Haysconti to meet the Red Dragon King, Canterijabun disguised himself as a woman and broke into the Red Dragon's palace to seduce his former lover. It is said that he was only wearing women's underwear at the time. The Red Dragon King was very moved when he saw this and killed him on a whim."

Ivy Beatrice: "..."

Thanks, but I'm not really interested in that. Also, how do you manage to keep up with all this gossip while constantly being hunted down?

At this point, Medusa pointed out the two red dragons on the ground.

"These two are brothers. This one is the patriarch of the Kantriajaben clan, and also a city councilor; the other is the high priest, the one who just cast a spell on you, boss. The direct line of the Kantriajaben family are all descendants of the Kantriajaben red dragons born in female form, and they call themselves Pure Scales."

"The rest are all from collateral branches of the Kantrijaben family. They are all offspring of Kantrijaben after he regained his male identity and married a woman in Dujin. They are called Spotted Scales in the family to distinguish them from Pure Scales. In fact, the Spotted Scales are now more powerful than the Pure Scales in the Kantrijaben family."

"These three are all leaders among the spotted scales. The one with the most flamboyant scales is the one who just gave you a thousand souls with one mouth. He is one of Dujin's top slave traders and the head of the family's armed group. Recently, his men have been the main ones chasing and intercepting me. The two with red and black scales are both sorcerers and the family's master craftsmen."

The six-armed snake demon gave her a strange look.

Stio, confused, asked, "What's wrong?"

"I'm praising you. I think you did a really good job," said the six-armed serpent demon. "Even though you've been constantly being chased and hacked down by them, you've even figured out their professions. Why didn't you mention that?"

She poked the last corpse that Stewart hadn't described with her sword. This dragon's scales were white with bright red patches on its head, back, and arms.

"I do not know."

Steo looked bewildered. "It should be a side branch too. It's been following the slave trader around for the past two months without making a sound. It looks like the slave trader's bodyguard. Then you, boss, chopped it down... Judging by the color of its scales, it's quite good-looking, like a koi fish."

Ivy-Beate silently calculated in her mind when the visiting delegation from the City of Flame would arrive in Keogu. It would take at least twenty more days... Hmm, she decided to find some fun for herself.

"By the way, what race is most common here in Dukin?"

"Most common?"

"Yes, the most numerous, the least noticeable."

"The most numerous and the least noticeable..."

Steo frowned and thought for a moment, "Dragon species, I suppose. Dukin is a land of dragons. Regardless of their status, almost all the residents are dragons. Humans are very rare."

The six-armed snake demon nodded.

She reached into her dimensional bag, pulled out one of the few remaining "Regeneration" scrolls, and used it to revive Medusa's lost head of hair.

Two minutes later, Steo felt the new weight on her head with tears in her eyes. Hearing the long-lost hissing sound so close to her, she happily reached out her hand, only to be bitten and poisoned again, screaming as she collapsed to the ground, trembling all over.

Ivy Beatrice rolled her eyes, grabbed Stewart's head by her snake hair, and poured an antidote into her mouth.

"I still can't understand why you would be bitten and poisoned by your own snake?"

"Waaah, the boss is the best."

The Medusa girl, now detoxified, said sadly, "It's just that my glasses are gone forever. Even these teeth marks look different than before. Sigh."

Ivy Beatrice ignored it; she was drawn to the newly appearing golden demonic script on the black hole disk of the psychic vision.

Generic name: Steo

Medium-sized humanoid monster

Life Level: d "Medusa" + d "Treasure Thief"