Chapter 58: Sneaking Out

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!

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The same incident took place, the little snake lying motionless on the ground as it was flung back once again.

"Hisss...what is going on here? The Floating Flame Island has an invisible shield?"

The snake's head changed, revealing the shocking expression of Sailles who hissed in disbelief, as black smoke came out of her eyes and nostrils.

She moved towards the location of the invisible wall again. Raising her hand, she placed it tentatively on the place she estimated the wall to be.

This time, she felt the wall reacting to her touch, sending out a powerful force that pushed her back. Painfully holding her hand, she saw black smoke flow out of it.

"What is this?" She shrieked in fright.

Not only was she not able to enter the Floating Flame Island, but there was also black smoke coming out of her hand. Thinking of the black mass engulfing her soul, her purple-dark eyes lit up comprehension.

"Maybe the black smoke is being released from my soul? From the looks of it, it seems to be reacting to the invisible wall. Could that be the reason why I am not able to enter the snake abode?" As she asked out loud, her eyes wandered in thought.

If the black smoke is reacting to the shield, maybe the shield was built to guard against the black smoke?

If that is so, then who built the shield?

Were the builders expecting someone like her to appear?

The questions running through her mind had no answers, but seeing the black smoke reacting to the shield, a crazy plan formed in her mind.

"This might be my only chance before the beginning of the Battle of Wars!" A determined light flashed through her dark purple eyes, her delicate lips set in a firm curve.

In the next instant, she unreservedly ran into the shield again.

Painfully crawling onto her feet, she looked down at her body.

'Just as I expected! It works!'

There, a black smoke slowly flowed out of her trembling body. Raising into the air, it mixed into the dull red sky.

Sailles closed her eyes and sent her spirit into her core. Arriving before the dull red ball, she saw that the black mass enveloping it was thinning out. The dense black smoke slowly flowed out of her core through her meridians, before pouring out of her limbs and seven orifices'.

Seeing the result she expected, Sailles did not stop. Moving forward, she flung herself onto the invisible wall again. Again, black smoke came out of her body the instant the wall got in contact with her body.

This painful process continued until Sailles could no longer move a single limb. Tired, exhausted, and in pain, she laid powerlessly on the charred ground, her rough pants the only sound in the silent region.

"Thanks to that invisible wall, I was able to extract a lot of black fog out of my core. Even though the black mass is still cloaked over my soul, at least it is not as dense as it was before."

With the thinning of the black mass, the dull red ball now had a little bit of shine. As Sailles watched the flowing black fog hover over her soul, a spark of disgust fiercely surged into her heart, disappearing as suddenly as it surfaced.

As the repulsive feeling vanished, she looked thoughtfully at the dull red ball, turning her gaze back to the black smoke.

Whatever it was, there was no doubt in her heart that her soul abhorred the thing.

"It is about time that I returned. Even though I was not able to achieve the goal I came here for today, I was still able to accomplish something. Maybe, once the black smoke is completely cleared out of my core, I would be able to enter the Floating Flame Island."

Crawling back to her feet, Sailles transformed into her serpentine form, then completely changed into a black-gold snake. Hissing, she flashed into the distance.

After a few miles of travel, pain shot through her body.

'I must have gone a little overboard with the extraction method.'

Thinking grimly, her figure violently slammed onto the flaming ground of the flaming valley.

Unbeknownst to Sailles, the place her figure dropped was right at the location of the flame cave leading to the Underworld Palace.

The instant she fell to the ground of the flaming valley, the tiny bright light on the crack of her dull soul brightened, before trembling fiercely as if in reaction to something.

And at that exact moment, the motionless black wolf in the Underworld Palace finally stirred, trembled, before waking with a start.

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