89 A White Horned Basilisk (1/2)
Ryuu awoke early the next day, after he got ready his sisters took him to the sea to play, he spend the entire morning playing with his sisters splashing the water, trying to make a sand castle and as it was nearing the midday his sisters stopped him from playing.
Antariskh, ”Ryuu it is time for us to leave so go and wash yourself.”
Ryuu was depressed as such he tried to protest but was shot down by Sylvana before he could speak, ”Ryuu you will get to play in the sea many times but for today we have prior engagement such as hunting, I am sure you will enjoy hunting with us.”
Ryuu felt giddy on hearing that, he will go on a hunt with his big sisters, and the beast that they will hunt will be their lunch.
Soon they reached the place of their hunt, Ryuu was giddy as well as a tad bit nervous what if he makes a mistake and embarrasses himself, he will never hear the end of his sisters' teasing.
Antariskh ordered a few of their maids who themselves were dressed accordingly in proper attire for the hunt as they had discarded their maid attire, ”Lure the creature out of its hiding place.”
They did not have to wait for more than quarter of an hour, as the sea itself exploded as the maids shot out from the churning and frothing sea, and then a loud roar shook the sea beach a few hundred miles away from their camp as Ryuu tried to cover his ears which were hurting from such a loud roar, as he fell on his butt while staring with a mixture of awe and fear at the majestic creature a few hundred feet away from him, a creature which his sisters decided to hunt.
Ryuu stood up as he looked at the serpent in front of him a majestic being of at least a little over half a dozen miles long and his jaws were a hundred feet at least. The great beast was known as 'White horned Basilisk', a descendant of the world eating serpent 'Jörmungandr', a serpent of incredible strength as well as poison the beast was already spewing its poison causing a putrid smell to spread throughout the area.
He turned his back as his shoulder slouched he so wanted to create more sand castle by the sea side why did he agree to follow them during their hunt, as such he murmured something akin to 'Stupid older sisters'.
Shamiran stated in a faux scolding manner, ”That is why I told you to not waste you energy and go early to bed yesterday.”, which immediately earned her a stink eye from Ryuu.
As Ryuu fumed while thinking, ''Early to bed', it does not matter how early I go to bed I doubt that I a simple Wanxiang Adept level cultivator could even put a scratch on an Immortal level beast even if the beast gave me a couple of hundred free hits.'
A maid came forward as she spoke, ”Young Prince, please use this bracelet it will form a protective bubble around you which will filter out any form of poisonous fumes.”
Ryuu nodded in acknowledgement before put the bracelet on his left hand as he activated the array inscribed on the bracelet which immediately formed a transparent barrier with light blue hue protecting Ryuu completely.
The 'White Horned Basilisk' shouted out his voice shaking the entire sea beach, ”Who dares attack me I will eat you mongrels.”
Ryuu deadpanned at the beast's words inwardly thinking, 'What a lame intimidation line, oh well one should not insult someone's last words.' with that he quickly made a small prayer for the safe passage of the poor beast's soul.
Antariskh spoke out loud enough for her beautiful voice to be heard by everyone present, ”Well so who will get the show started.”
Shamiran giggled as she replied off handedly, ”Normally I should have started the show but I would love to give the small worm a free hit so that it does not claim to be bullied by us.”
The beast was enraged by Shamiran speech as it gave another earth shaking roar, ”As it spewed a blackish substance which covered the entire area, the sand seemed to dissolve as even the sea had turned black because of it, a maid quickly put her hand on Ryuu's shoulder and soon they were on air a little further away from their initial position.