Chapter 58 - Sneaking Out (1/2)

Sailles waited until she was certain the vampire was in hibernation before sitting up. She got off her wide bed and closed her eyes. When she reopened them again, she was in her snake form.

Stretching her form, her purple-dark eyes furrowed in confusion as they swept over her black-gold striped tail.

Last she remembered, her snake tail was gold.

So how did it become black-gold?

Serpentine color scales never changed. They were a part of the serpentine's identity, giving a glimpse into the serpent's true identity and ability. And as a mirror to the serpentine's character and personality, the color never changed, only slightly deepening with time.

In her past life, Sailles was a red serpent well known for her fiery temper. She neither took no for an answer and nor ever allowed any beast to wrong her. As such, whenever any beast saw her, they would stir clear of her.

Over time, she was given the nickname fiery serpentine.

In this lifetime, her tail was gold. Whether it was due to her getting bitten by the golden snake or her being reborn, for whatever reason, her tail was gold.

She remembered her first time transforming after her rebirth. The bright beautiful golden scales that gleamed under the brilliant sunlight of the Sybil realm. Her awe and delight at finally getting her serpentine powers back and finding her scales gold. Her pride at the lustrous scales.

Now, those same scales were tinted with black. And she did not know or remember how...

”Did this happen because of the attack the vampire was talking about? Is it connected to my foggy member in any way?” Quietly wondering, she tried to recall what had happened for her to lose such an important portion of her memories.

As she thought deeply, she focused all her mind and heart on unlocking the clogged memories. Flame-hair flowing, purple-black eyes glowing, her mind entered her sea of consciousness, her core.

What she saw was not her usual glowing fiery soul, but a dull red ball enveloped by a cloak of dark mass. The instant her senses fell onto the black mass, her heart thumped in fear, shivers spreading down her spine.

”What in the Nar is that black mass? Why do I perceive the same eerie feeling from it that I perceived from the dark shadow in the Snowy plains of the Sybil realm?”

Letting her mind focus, she tried to rouse her enclosed soul, but there was no response. This had never happened before.

Perplexed, she tried again but was met with the same blank.

Slowly opening her eyes, Sailles stared unblinkingly into the red walls of the glass mansion, her sharp eyes spewing enough ice to freeze an erupting volcano.

”Someone or something broke the connection between my spirit and soul. Whatever this is, if I am to go by the reference of the eroded Snowy Plains land of the Sybil realm, is nothing good. Right now, my soul is only disconnected from my spirit. But if I do not find a way to repair the rift between the two, I would lose myself for good.”

Losing her eyes, Sailles inhaled and exhaled deeply, forcing herself to control her emotions. It was not time yet. Not time for her to take action.

In order to get to the bottom of whatever was going on, she needed to appear ignorant and uninformed. She needed to appear obedient to let the beast out of the shadows.

Deeply sighing one last time, Sailles opened her purple-black eyes, resolution, and determination flashing in their depths.

”But first, I should accomplish the task I was setting out to do.” Without hesitation, she transformed into a full black-gold snake from head to tail, before shrinking her size. Once she was about the size of a flame bug, her tiny snake form rose into the air, flashing through a tiny hole on the red glass window.

A few moments later, Sailles stood on the outskirts of the Vampire City, slithering her way through the burning rocky terrain of the Nar realm.

Her destination was the Floating Flame Island of the Snake clan.

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In the entire Nar realm, it was only the Floating Flame Island that had flaming trees and nether flowers. Its bright glory combined with the bursting flame dragons and phoenixes from the erupting volcanoes were enough to enchant even the most enchanting beasts of the realm, the iirifeys.

At this moment a black-gold little snake appeared before the Floating Flame Island, its purple-dark eyes shining with radiance as it took in the beauty of the flame trees and nether flowers.

Excited, the little snake's form dashed forward and bumped right into an invisible wall.

The snake tumbled back, falling roughly on the flame rocks, before rolling on the flame ground for a long while and coming to a stop. It lay motionless for a few heartbeats, black smoke coming out of its body.

The instant it regained its senses, the black smoke disappeared.

Hissing, it slowly slithered back to the place of the invisible wall again.

Hesitating for a moment, it attempted to fly into the Floating Flame Island.

Bang!