Chapter 279 - The Quest For Distractions (Part Three)

Now, with the barrier undone, I flew over to the direction Remia pointed. 

Though I knew where to go- I didn't know how to find the monster. 

After roughly half a kilometer distance, I stopped and hovered about two meters above sea level. 

Alpha particles were kind of useless so I switched over to Beta. I couldn't use Gamma to locate and since there was fish here, using Gamma was going to, well, sterilize everything and I certainly didn't want that. 

I used the beta particles but with the limited range, I didn't quite get much of a reaction. 

'I guess I'm just not cut out for this.'

And now the sun was scorching hot too. 

I wiped a bead of sweat. 'I guess I can just call it a day.'

I was giving up a bit too easily.

Well, the purpose of this journey was mostly to waste time and forget about reality for a while anyway. So, technically this wasn't a failure. 

"AHAHAHHA!"

And just when I thought I'd leave, a group of lizard men came swimming and with their songs too….

"I tried to stop them but they got too excited to see you in battle," Sig popped his head out. 

There were about a dozen or so lizard men. 

I'd forgotten for a second that I was kind of a God to them. 'Shit.'

SPLASH!

A massive mountain of water erupted and it literally rained. 

Waves upon waves came this way. Even though I was like two meters above the water, it still got my knees wet. 'Well, I did need a shower.'

All the lizard men were now behind me, and in front was a snake. 

"You can't be frigging serious." My eyes twitched as I looked ahead. 

There was a snake in front of me, us. It was roughly half a kilometer high. The width was maybe four meters? How'd I know?

Cause the damn thing was coming to swallow me whole and even though it stretched close to half a kilometer just above the water, its tail was still below the damn sea. 

"RUN!" I yelled and soared through the sky. The damn thing was coming to eat me for some reason. It was following me like crazy. 

If the lizard men disturbed it, then why the hell was it targeting me?

Seriously!

Teeth came from behind me. It was fast alright! 

And it could swim above water!?

I could almost feel my snot dripping. That thing was a hundred times bigger than Enira- no doubt about it. 

And it wanted to eat me. 'I'm so dead.'

But- but my heart pumped and I got excited. "Alright!" I formed a plasma ball and threw, evading a close shave. 

The scales were tough! Blue scales refracted light and almost made me go blind when I hit it. But the explosion merely scratched it. 

Shave!

I almost got bitten!

The sea was glistening and the wind was blocking my senses. And this damn thing was really fast. 

Even one of the fangs were like bigger than half of my body. And it had like thousands! All sticking out from its already large mouth. 

SCREECH!

Instead of hissing and stuff, it screeched like a frigging rat on steroids. An almost half a kilometer long rat on steroids that was. 

But it didn't have a head like a cobra. Rather it looked more like a water snake. A water snake with a friggin dolphin sized bulb on its head and the damn thing glowed too! 

'Are you getting ideas or something from that?'

And it wanted to eat me!

Swoosh!

Oh! Another close shave. 

I tried to use my saber and slash at it, but I only went in like an inch, the rest were too hard. 

This thing was oddly faster than me. No, that wasn't quite it. I was actually not trying that hard. 

'So, this is having fun?'

My blood boiled, my heart raced, adrenaline pumped: I was excited. 

To me, the snake wasn't even worth taking seriously. This was more of a hunting game than an actual fight. 

But no, this wasn't fun for me. 

'Then are we just not worth to be taken seriously by them?'

It kind of made sense in an odd way. Maybe we were prey to the aliens just like this snake was to me. Maybe we did pose a threat to them but, at the end of the day, we were just a game.

But I didn't quite understand it. 

"Look out!" Sig screamed. 

And I realized, I was spacing out midair and a frigging snake was coming for me. No, it wasn't coming for me, it was already here. And the mouth was about to close. 

'Shit…'

But- I focused, made a barrier over my head, and before anything else, threw a massive plasma ball straight for its internal organs. 

The snake's mouth closed and the teeth were blocked by the barrier- just barely. There were three layers of barriers protecting me from the fangs.

But a massive explosion resulted and flames came rushing this way. I made more barriers but I had a feeling, it'd at least singe my hair. 

'Why the fuck am I so stupid?'

After all that training, after all that yelling, after all that everything, I let my guard down midair? The fuck was wrong with me!?

BOOM!

Another explosion followed and- no, not an explosion but the sound of a slash. A mighty slash!

The fire got cut off midway as a massive axe sliced the snake's head off. The head was now falling toward the sea, I was falling, just like the rest of its cut-off body was also falling. 

And the fire kind of still rushed this way. 

I got a grin from the guy who cut the snake- Sig. But he was about to be toast- so I formed a barrier. 

But I knew it wasn't going to be enough. 

And yet, that expression… he was trying to save my life….

Damn.