Chapter 962: The Snake Woman

Chapter 962: The Snake Woman

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"I don't know..." Arad looked at her, remembering Doma's parents. "A medusa?"

"If we're talking about a devil, that would be right." The woman leaned back and Kodono sat beside her, "The child of a human and a serpentine devil would be a lamia." She looked back, "Lamy, come over for a second."

Upon hearing her mother's call, Lamy who was hiding in the upper floor slowly slithered down. The moment she slid through the door, Arad could notice several things about her. First, he looked at the girl's mother, "Lamy? Really?"

"Her full name is Lamina, I did give her a proper name." The mother sighed, "Albeit that wouldn't matter here."

Lamy looked closer to a normal human or an elf with her long ears if you looked from her naval and up. Silky smooth skin, long hair, and glowing yellow eyes. Her portrait picture wouldn't be any different than any other human. Looking down was the problem.

Her hip starts looking human, but then her thighs conjoin right beneath her thigh gape, turning into a 6-meter-long {around 20-feet-long} snake tail of greenish-gray scales like those of her father Kodono.

"She's far stronger than a normal human thanks to her powerful tail and poisonous bite, but she also far weaker than serpentine demons since her human upper half holds her heart and lungs, it's weak, undefended, and can't sustain the large muscles in her lower half." Lamy's mother explained with a deep sigh.

Grambleg nodded, "Her human organs can't handle her demonic lower half. She gets exhausted too quickly and lacks the magic and pain tolerance of demons." He glared at Kodono, "Especially with this fool as her father. I always told him to let her fight and get beaten up often. How is she supposed to grow used to injuries and battle if he keeps her sheltered here all the time."

"Go raise your children!" Kodono growled at him, "She's my daughter and I know what's best for her." While Lamy's lower half can regenerate like other demons despite how taxing that was, her upper half won't. One wrong injury in her upper half and she's dead. Kodono knew this but he didn't want anyone else to know, that's his daughter's weakness and he'll take that information with him to the grave.

Lamy can't fit anywhere, she's too weak to live among demons and too horrifying to be accepted among humans. She had survived for over a century under her father's protection, but eventually, she'd end up dead in a fight.

Her mother looked at Arad, "I know this is too rude to ask of you, but can you grant her protection?" The moment she spoke, Kodono slapped her so hard she went flying across the room. "Fool! Do you want us all dead?!"

Demon lords hate the divines and the humans worshipping them, they'd allow them to exist as long as they aren't a bother, but the moment something happens, they are the first to be killed. Kodono had spent the past century barely managing to keep his daughter and wife out of Sawless's bloodthirsty gaze. Arad is a demon lord, he could reject him when he walked into his home, but Kodono would've hidden his wife and daughter from him as well if he had time.

Asking a demon lord to protect Lamy is like asking the ruler of a kingdom to shield a demon. They would only become the target of suspicions of other rulers and would be often ridiculed or even attacked as potential traitors.

"The pale night, how did you contact her?" Arad asked with a serious face and Hati rolled on her pillow, "I didn't. I asked Kayden and he called her." She flicked her finger and Arad could hear a ping in his head.

"Communication magic, Kayden should be able to hear you." She kept drinking.

'This magic...Hati...no, Arad you're the one calling with her spell?' Kayden's voice rang in Arad's head. 'I'm not telling you about tomorrow's training until tomorrow, give up.'

'I wanted to speak with the pale night. Can you call her for me?' Arad asked and to his surprise, Kayden sighed. 'I'm cooking with my daughter now...if you don't have a good reason, I'm not doing it.'

But before Kayden could finish speaking a kid's sharp voice pierced Arad's ear, 'Uncle Arad!'... [This sounds better! Higher quality than that spell. It's me, Kali.] This was Kayden's adopted

daughter, Kali.

"Wait..." Arad gasped, "The way your voice booms in my head, I've heard it before..." This was the same as when he heard the dark elf goddess or Amaterasu speak.

[We'll do it! Give us a minute, we'll be there.] She spoke and cut the call immediately without giving Arad a chance to respond.

Two minutes later, Kayden walked into Hati's room with Kali sitting on his shoulder and the pale night walking at his side. He had to go bring her from the lower layers of the abyss which took a lot of energy even from a demon as powerful as him. The distance was just too long.

"Uncle Arad!" Kali climbed on Kayden's head and leaped toward Arad, latching onto his face. "It's been a while."

"Since when I became an uncle, I'm not that old." He tried to pull her away from his face, but to his surprise, she was extremely powerful.

"Not an uncle?" She looked at him with a sad face and her eyes suddenly started sparking with

joy, "I know! You aren't an uncle! Grandpa Arad!"

"You made me even older!" Arad cried.