Reincarnated as a snake? Chapter 70

"And that is how I turned everybody into a chicken!"

"Hahahahaha, I never knew that a demon lord could be this chatty. I always thought that they were the evil beings that deceived and killed where they could."

"Well, some still are like that, but not everyone stayed that barbaric, or should I say demonic? Shishishishsi~"

Raas only chuckled but noticed the notification that popped up.

*Ding*

[Integrating 1 [Demon lord Zular´s feather] successful!]

"Oh."

"And?"

"It was a success."

"Good good!"

*Ding*

[Checking compatible skills...]

[Cheeking compatible skills...]

[Compatible skills found!]

[DANGER!]

[Host is too weak to gain all skills!]

[Calculating...]

[The host can choose up to two of the following skills:

Self-destruction

Dust bomb

Overheat

Ray of Heat

Sacrifice

Heat Scan

Summon: Ember Bird]

"Wow... what should I choose?" said Raas out loud.

"Hmmm, what abilities are you able to choose?"

"[Self-destruction], [Ash Bomb], [Overheat], [Ray of heat], [Sacrifice], [Heat Scan], and [Summon: Fire Bird]"

"Hmmmmmmmm, a little bit disappointing, you should have eaten the feather when you are stronger to choose stronger and more skill, but no use of crying over spilled essence. You can rule out [Self-dedstruchtion] and [Sacrifice]... hmm [Heat Scan] shouldn´t be too useful for you either," said Scorge.

"I understand [Self-destruction] and [Heat Scan] but why [Sacrifice]"

"The skill allows you to sacrifice your own life to bring others back, a very powerful skill for a phoenix that can revive over and over again, but useless for anyone else that only has one life."

"True, I have no plan to sacrifice my life... what do the other three skills do?"

"[Overheat] makes your body, well, overheat causing you to be engulfed in flames. A good defensive skill, but without a high enough heat or fire resistance you will just be killing yourself, and after the skill ends you will feel cold, sluggish, tired, hungry, and thirsty, not really ideal when you are in the middle of a fight.

'A more or less defensive skill, I can use it with [Crush], or escape when someone is holding me down.' thought Raas.

"[Ray of Heat] allows you to shoot, well, heat rays. It is able to penetrate most armors if they aren´t magical enchanted for heat resistance. It is a strong spell against armored enemies. The downside is that it uses a lot of mana and has a long channeling time. The longer you channel the stronger the attack."

'I already have a channeling skill, but armor penetration seemed nice...'

"Next, [Dust Bomb], is quite a versatile skill, you can spew fine dust to irritate and cloud enemies' vision and then ignite it to make it explode. Not many know about dust explosions so it is a perfect skill for a trap or distraction. The downside is that wind can easily blow away the dust and if you are too close you will be caught in your own explosion. The amount of dust you spew out is depended on your mana."

'Oh, dust bombs, it can also be used as a smokescreen... But the potential of getting myself and allies caught in the explosion is quite offputting.'

And lastly, [Summon: Ember Bird] is a basic summoner's ability, as the name implies, you can summon up to 5 ember birds. They are mostly used for scouting, distraction, or setting things on fire. The skill consumes large amounts of mana per summoning and they are very weak, but they can sustain themselves up to 3 hours. A good skill, but don´t know how much it will be of use to you. Your fighting style seems more like a battlemage or a fortress destroyer."

'Ohhh something new! Summoning little bird scout sounds nice, and they last for quite a while. But what is a fortress destroyer build?'

"A fortress destroyer?"

"Yes, your skill is powerful with a long cast time, and you have decent resistances to tank a few hits. They usually specialize in doing large amounts of damage in a short time. You can think of them as mobile siege towers. So which direction do you want to go? Of course, there are also many other paths you can go. Just make sure you have a rough build you want to go with."

"I never have thought about which direction I want to go... I always just fought to survive."

"Then now it´s the time. Choose wisely as there aren´t many opportunities like that. Heck, only a few have ever had such an opportunity as you have now. So think hard, you don´t want to later regret your decisions, just because you took a skill on the whim." lectured Scorge with crossed arms.

Contemplating his choices. Raas thought 'Ahhh, they all seemed good, but [Ray of Heat] is just a laser version of my [Sun Breath] so don´t really need it... [Overheat] looks quite useful, but I am not really happy about the drawback after the skill ends. Hmmm, but I have [Mental Foritute] to resist it... Nah, I don´t want to set myself ablaze, if I can just use [Ash Field] to turn enemies into ash when they are too close. So, [Dust Bomb] and [Summon: Ember bird]... A distraction and a scouting ability... hmm, I can also use the birds to ignite the dust... heh it will also look quite funny for a snake to have birds flying around it... No, stop jocking Raas this is important!'

In the end, Raas still stayed on his decision. He didn´t want to be a bruiser if he can avoid it, and a pure focus on a fortress destroyer build wasn´t to Raas liking, but a little bit didn´t hurt...

So wanting to be more versatile, he chooses [Dust Bomb] and [Summon: Ember bird].

*Ding*

[Host has chosen [Dust Bomb] and [Summon: Ember bird]!]

[Skill successfully integrated!]

[The injected energy is changing your body, mutations are occurring!]

[Procesing mutations...]

[Colorful Movement Sensing Eyes --> Colorful Infrared Eyes]

[Regenerating Solar Scales --> Regenerating Flexible Solar Scales]

...

Raas feels his eyes getting set aflame and his scales being broken and mended at the same time. But that didn´t stop the notifications to ring in his head.

*Ding*

[Due to the strong bloodlines, the host´s species stays unchanged!]

[Host´s body is processing the changes...]

Scorge watched as Raas´ scales bend and break while taking a more fiery color, and his iris got a slight golden hue to it. Even his body is slowly growing an additional meter, making him now a 5-meter long snake with beautiful white scales with red and orange tips in a diamond shape. He looked more intimidating than before and his now emerald green and golden eyes shined with life.

"I am not dead..." was the first thing Raas mumbled when his mutations finished, but he felt like he got weaker. Could also be the exhaustion that he felt after having his scales remade and his eyes changed.

Now even Wendy got curious and stride next to him, and stared down at Rass' "new form", sniffing him a bit she let out a small growl. "Hmm, you aren´t as little as you are before. But still too small to be a worthy prey."

"And you aren´t as intimidating as before..." shooted Raas back with a smirk.

His emerald eyes stared into the glowing red eyes of the wendigo. She let out a small smile and mumbled under her breath "Hmpf, he grew some balls too."

Raas now able to see infrared could see Wendy´s body temperature but she was not emitting any kind of heat and blended in with the environment perfectly, almost invisible to his eyes. 'So this is infrared vision. Wait, some snakes should normally already be able to see infrared, why am I just gaining it now? And rather than seeing it with their eyes, they have an extra organ between their noseholes and lower jaw to see with... Whatever, now that I have it I can see in total darkness!' Raas' delight didn´t last long as he was still recovering from his body being reshaped.

Scorge then walked behind Raas and asked, "So what skills did you choose?"

Raas glanced at Scorge seeing his whole chest swirling with some kind of energy that is pulsing like a heart. Too tired to question him he laid down before replying, "[Dust Bomb] and [Summon: Ember Bird]. Quite useful and are good in many situations if [Sun Breath] doesn't work."

"Wished you would have committed to being a full fortress destroyer, but this is not bad either. Did anything else happen? Like mutations, race changes, or stat increases?"

Forgetting to check his status he eagerly opened his status, "I got a mutation in my eyes and scales, but let me check my status real quick."

[Status]

Name: Raas

Species: Menacing bright youngling Serpent (Sun-Eater/???)

Level: 20

Strength: 120 --> 110

Agility: 103 --> 118

Intelligence: 90

Mentality: 111

Hp: 410/410 --> 420/420

MP: 0!/220 --> 0!/250

Title:

1. Limit Breaker (Increases your stats gained from evolutions)

2. The Survivor (25% increased resistance to all kinds of debuffs!)

3. Royal guard (Gain 30% damage and damage resistance when protecting someone, but betrayals will give you the curse Betrayer leading to a permanent decrease of 10% from your max stats for each betrayal and death after 3 betrayals.)

[Skills:]

[Physical Skills:]

Venom Fang lv 8, Launch Attack lv 4, Slither lv 7, Swimming lv 1, Poison Affinity lv 4, Healing Fang lv 3, Crush lv 3, Intimidation lv 2 --> 3,

[Magical Skills:]

Poison Whip lv 4, Conceal lv 4, Sun Breath lv 3,

[Deffensive Skills:]

Pain Resistance lv 5 --> 6, Poison Resistance lv 4 --> 5, Healing Affinity lv 2 --> 4, Harden lv 2, Fire Resistance lv 5 --> 8, Corruption Ressistance lv 1 --> 3, Mental Fortitude lv 9,

[Racial Skill: Grey Out lv1, Solistic Venom, Ash Field lv 1]

[Evolution Path:]

[Regenerating Solar Scales --> Regenerating Flexible Solar Scales]

[Venomous Fangs]

[Colorful Movement Sensing Eyes --> Colorful Infrared Eyes]

[Danger Smelling Tongue]

[Vibration Sensing Ears]

[Healing Glance]

[Crystal Core Shield]

[Sol´s gem]

'Oh, that is a pleasant surprise...' thought Raas seeing that his skills are now categorized. Reading quickly through it he said, "I lost 10 strength but gained 15 agility, my health increased by 20 and my mana by 30. Also, all of my resistance skills leveled up."

Wendy´s eyes widened hearing Raas going on and on about his improvements. Growling in jealousy she barked, "That is not fair! I had to fight numerous battles and collect rare plants all over the continent to even achieve a fraction of what you have just gained."

"Life isn´t fair Wendy. But I agree, I am a little bit jealous too to see what a single feather did to you. Maybe I can ask Zular to give me another one." Scorge held his hand on his chin and continued, "It has been a while since I helped to create such a monster. Hope the angels won´t start a war because of me again..."

Raas was not sure if he got used to hearing absurd things, but he could only sigh at Scorge´s remark.

"I wish I could finally get my core repaired and get out of here..." lamented Raas. "Then no time to waste, Wendy, carry Raas we are going west. There should be a river that will take us directly to our destination."

Seeing the piercing eyes of Scorge she obeyed and transformed back into her wolf form.

Raas jumped up to her back and slithered towards her head. Waiting for Raas to wrap his tail around her antlers, she raised herself and started with a slow jog while gradually speeding up. Scorge turned himself into a crow again but now sat on Wendy´s other antler.

The toxic wind brushed Raas´ face, but this time it was far less irritating, and with great strides, the group of three abnormal monsters headed east.

Chapter 70: Feather (2)

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