Chapter 12: Chapter 10: Hatching of information

The snake silently passed through the camp but this time no eyes were on her… On account of being perfectly untraceable. Didn’t make her happy but she had no one to blame but herself since she literally made herself.

As Midas rushed back to the centre of her oasis (specifically the water) she couldn’t help but have a conflicted look on her face for a second before returning back to her usual sly grin. While she should be happy that her daughter was being born and very very quickly at that. Yet it was a pain that it was happening right as she was about to experience some dick finally. That was supposed to be her reward for working hard!

<Well they do say being a mother is a thankless job ohohoho~!>

She didn’t wait to enter the water before her body was engulfed in a golden light; once again transforming her into her true serpentine form. From there she slithered into the water as well as the depths of her ‘little’ lake. There she of course made her way towards her clutch of 420 eggs where she instantly spotted the smaller than average one with her very own Ankh. Using the currents of liquid gold to gently lift up the egg and place it in front of herself - only upon seeing herself in the shiny little egg did she realise she forgot to lower her eye scales once more.

Before her little one could awaken she quickly did just that causing the ‘ripples’ to vanish once again.

<Huh, dangerous, don’t want to accidentally hypnotise everything around me ohohoho~!>

With that last thought Midad proceeded to do… Nothing. Absolutely nothing. She just lay there silently watching the egg with excitement visible in those large serpentine eyes and her black forked tongue occasionally flickered out and across the surface of the egg. Got to make sure her child wakes up nice and clean as the next head of their clan (not that she planned to ever hand over all control).

The egg probably did more than Midas did as it occasionally fidgeted about but was always put back into position by the giant snake. To an outsider it probably looked like a sadistic snake waiting for the egg to hatch in order to swallow it whole… So a snake being a snake. It was technically more innocent than that yet a giant snake hovering over a tiny egg is hard to make look innocent. Snakes and eggs only brought one thing to mind for most - vore. Despite common mistakes, many species of snake had the mother actually abandon her own health (not even going out to eat) to ensure her eggs would hatch safely. Although Midas was far more selfish than most snakes she still cared for her direct heir and certainly her descendants a lot more than many dragons do.

Though their race was all greedy so in the future they also made use of each other as long as it caused no harm. In the near future they would quickly spread around as a shameless race that were more greedy than humans yet somehow more unified than Phoenix; in a way their sheer greed was a far sturdier binding than mere ‘racial pride’. It was more efficient to work together with people you understood and nobody understood each other better than a family with a common goal; money!

At current though the {Golden Eulogy Amphiptere} was just a rumoured appearance in the literal middle of nowhere from a few travelling groups. No one even knew a beast such as a ‘Amphiptere’ existed but Midas wanted to change that quickly. Yet nothing else happened above water so the giant snake literally just stared at the little snake without blinking - not that snakes needed to blink. She didn’t need to sleep which was good as it took a few hours for a crack to appear.