Poison God's Heritage

I took a glance at my bracelet and pinpointed the position of Tao Yang's group, "Let's go, we're going south," I said as I flew forward.

The problem was that we had to move through the open fields to meet with them.

"Keep low, stay within the grass fields," I said as I blasted through them as fast as possible.

Everyone followed close behind, while I made sure to throw several pills and cannisters every now and then.

"What are you doing?" Liang Yu asked.

"Creating backup and diversion, those are rakshasa bombs," I said.

"You think we're being followed?" Meng Hao asked.

"No, but better be safe than sorry, those should stop any rakshasa from following us once they get close," I said.

"What's the situation though?" Law asked.

"I don't have full knowledge, but seems like the worst-case scenario is happening, Tao Yang said that the queen had awoken," I grimaced through the words.

While we flew, the grass felt more and more ominous, especially with the silence that permeated the planet due to the lack of life, something was not feeling too right here.

"Shen Bao!" Law shouted "DODGE!"

For a second my mind seemed to instantly calm the gears running inside it. Because it was Law who spoke.

Now, there are a few issues here…

First things first, we brought Law for a reason, his incredible luck would always help us in times we need it. But the problem was the way he worded his warning. To dodge, but dodge where?

I have no idea what's going on nor what's happening so I cannot simply just 'dodge'

Primordial Serpent Sight, the pupils of my eyes turned to serpentine slits and everything slowed down.

Motion, weak and subtle was mixed within the grass from underneath us, something was hiding in the grass, and the moment I took note of it using the Primordial Serpent Sight, it lunged at me. Almost as fast as the Cryptic Sun's motions when I last fought against him, a tentacle like arm shot out toward me trying to grab me, but thanks to the slowed time and my ability to react fast enough, I twisted my body mid air while drawing Creeping Demise.

The twist and swing came at a single breath, ripping the tentacle in half and eliciting a maddened screech of pain and agony form under the grass.

Another tentacle immediately rose up from behind me. I can't dodge this one, I'm too slow.

Yet, a scar reddened arm grabbed me by the shoulder and yanked me to the side, escaping the tentacle completely.

It was the Slave. Who looked terrified of the situation we're in.

I wasn't going to thank him for doing his job, but the feeling that we're in deep shit didn't leave the back of my mind.

A hundred or so more tentacles immediately emerged out, "SPREAD OUT!" I shouted, "Grow!" and then immediately called out as I pointed Creeping demise up.

Nine metallic serpent heads emerged out of the hilt of the sword, massive serpents of pure metal came to intercept the tentacles gobbling some of them up and burning the rest with pure brute poison.

Flames erupted from the giant metallic snakes of my sword, a hydra of pure metal and flames shot sprays of burning incineration all over the field that pushed whatever creature tried to ambush us to screech in agony.

My crew immediately gathered up front while I followed behind, "We need to leave the grassland, this is a new type of Rakshasa we don't know about!" I shouted as I hurriedly followed behind them.

"Law take the lead!" I added.

"Ahh why me!" he complained but still took the lead regardless.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Thanks to his luck, the tentacles seemed to completely miss him when he went past them, and allowed the rest to easily dodge around the already extended tentacles.

Far from us, you could feel the dead world turning to life, but in the worst case possible.

Echoes and loud screeches of monstrous rakshasa began reverberating through the entire area.

"What the hell is going on!" I heard through my bracelet. It was the Blue Sun. "Problems, Tao Yang's group has been exposed to the Queen, and it seems like we're also being hunted."

"I'm coming to help," she said.

"No, hide away, I can fool them, but you guys would cause even more ruckus, I'll contact you once I meet up with Tao Yang, this plan of spreading out isn't working," the last part I said to myself.

Several more of these tentacular creatures shot more and more of their membranes at us, but now that we're used to them, we easily dodged them.

They had the advantage of stealth and ambush but they seem rather stuck in place, perhaps monsters that cannot move or hunt. No wonder we didn't see them back at the battle against the Rakshasa in the Beyond, they perhaps need soil or a way to hide form sight to be of any use.

"Keep moving!" I called as I heard the sound of more and more Rakshasa echoing through the planes.

Far in the distance my eyes caught a silver rakshasa rushing down a hill and enter the open field. I cursed inwardly, the moment that damn thing gets close enough, it'll call its friends over, and now that we're on their turf, we'll pay dearly.

Yet my eyes couldn't believe what I was seeing.

The moment the Silver Rakshasa sat foot on the grass field, and entered stealth, several tentacle arms shot up from the ground, penetrating the Silver's body and tearing it apart then squeezing its blood for a massive jaw made of nothing but disturbing flesh and fangs to consume it all.

"STOP!" I shouted instantly, and everyone did.

"Why are we stopping," YuYu asked.

"Don't move, for now, just don't move," I said.

The echoes of the rakshasas continued all around us, and soon, it began to die down, slowly but surely.

"Stand down, don't touch the ground hover a bit above it," I said through divine sense, "And look at the north," I said.

More and more rakshasa however approached the field from the far north, there was a small hill that rose slightly above the field and seemed to be extending back far away, the entire hill and its extension didn't have any of the tall grass, but we could see the rakshasa while they couldn't.

A silver rakshasa that came to inspect what was going on hesitated approaching the fields, but when a massive brute rakshasa came in and pushed it forward, the poor bastard had no choice but to move forward. And the moment it moved too far, more tentacles rose up to rip it to shreds.

"I thought they're allies…" Meng Hao said.

"They are, until one of them is hungry. I've seen Silver Rakshasa kill their kin for food, so it's nothing too strange when this happens."

"But what now?" Liang Yu asked. "Why are we not moving, the grass ends there," she said as she looked at the south.

Indeed, the grass ends there, but the concentrating of those monsters is far greater at the rims of the grass field than inside it.

Just as I was thinking of what I was supposed to do, the grass next to me moved a bit, I sliced through the grass with Creeping Demise cutting it apart revealing the terrified face of a young child.