Reincarnated As A Snake?

Hearing her dreadful words I slumped down and rested my head. "No. No, I don´t think I am."

I could practically feel the disappointment oozing out of her, but my body still hurt, and my muscles feel like they are being melted away. It's probably because they were melted away just a few moments ago...

"5 minutes!"

Raising my head slightly, I saw the giant Wendigo turning into a 5-meter high wolf with a reindeer skull. Pacing around the bolder I was sitting at she impatiently glared at me. I don´t understand how someone could be that battle-hungry, but at least she has some restrains.

Not taking a no for an answer she just turned away ignoring me..

Too tired to argue with her I just laid back down. My health may be full but my mind was exhausted and my body still send phantom pain all over my body.

"Hmm, you two seemed to enjoy yourself quite well~"

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"KYAAAA!"

My eyes widened into sausages hearing the high-pitched girly cry from the wendigo. She even jumped back like a frightened cat seeing a cucumber. The person that frightened her to such an extend was the scarecrow that Sahra and I faced. It hasn´t been that long since I last saw him, but it felt like a lifetime. He still was the scrawny-looking scarecrow with on op arm, his scythe dragging behind him leaving deep gashes in the soil.

"I told you to watch over him and you take him to go hunting? I think I need to reteach you to listen to orders again!" The scarecrow smiled grimly while black crows circled around us.

'I am not even gonna ask where they came from.'

His crimson red eyes glowed menacingly at her. I had menacing in my name, but that was on a completely different level.

"I- I am sorry... I just showed him a little bit around. You were taking too long and I got bored..." said the wendigo in a whimper.

With every step, her form shrunk, till he was looming over her and starring down on her with his soul-piercing gaze.

He slowly reached out and grabbed the antlers and lifted her up. He turned towards me and stared at me for a second before sighing, "You are lucky that, he is at least at full health. If you pull another stunt like this I will personally "teach" you some manners."

"Y- Yes.." stammered the now small wendigo. He dropped her down and walked towards me. She coward away and hid behind a stone. It was strange for me to see the haughty battle maniac behave like a scared cat.

"You look well, Raas. Already tier 2, I am quite impressed, but sadly that made you the target of the Seekers. You are lucky that the old hag was near when they broke your soul and core."

'Did he just call the shadow dragon an old hag?!'

"How do know my name and who are you!?" said I suspiciously.

"Ah, where are my manners? I am Scorge Wrath Demoneater, the first floor guardian of the woodland dungeon and co-creator of the fifth layer of hell. Don´t worry I will personally take you in if your soul lands in hell. Shishishishishi~"

"Ah, yes I feel quite lucky..." said I monotonously, too overwhelmed to even show emotions. Internally I was crying 'What the HELL is even a demon lord doing inside a dungeon playing floor guardian!?!?!?! Why is such an endgame boss here?!'

He let out a boisterous laugh, but quickly composed himself "Anyway, let's stop joking around and fix your core and soul."

"You interest me. It has been centuries since I last saw something as unique as you. But that is not all, I found out that a certain star-shitting mage took interest in you and I want to rub it in his face since he has caused me so much trouble over the years."

Seemingly sensing my worries and doubt he added, "Don´t be on guard so much. If I wanted to I could have killed you without lifting a finger, and I am not going through the trouble of fighting the old hag and a whole platoon of murder plants. You have made quite some allies in that short time."

I was confused by his answer but relaxed a little bit and nodded. "Now let´s go. We have a long journey in front of us. We have to visit a certain someone, but you are too weak to stand in his presence so we will level you a little bit up along the way."

"Where are we going, and how long will it take?" asked I.

"We will go to the soul prison in the east. It would probably take a few weeks at least."

"Wendy stop cowering and make yourself useful!" shouted Scorge.

The small frightened "kitten" whimpered and slowly turned back into her wolf form. "Get on her back, we don´t want to stay in one place for too long. The monsters here are absurdly strong, even I have troubles with some of them. Shishishishi~" said Scorge lightheartedly.

'Bruh...'

Quickly nodding my head I sprang on her back and wrapped myself around her antler to avoid being tossed down.

Wendy quickly followed suit.

The landscape slowly turned from a dead wasteland into a burning forest with thick green smoke polluting the air. The heat was unbearable and breathing the toxic gases made him lightheaded.

Wendy thanks to her [Perfect Adaptation] slowly released a frosty aura, shielding us from the harmful environment, but also making me sleepy. All in all, I was in a bad spot and the worse of all a horde of suicidal inflated sprinting infernal zombies were chasing us. They periodically collide with some burning trees and exploding into a giant mushroom cloud.

The first time I saw one of them blew up I thought they were carrying nukes. Turned out they ate so many damned souls that they turned really unstable and with the dens corrupted fire mana in the area they practically became giant bombs that made the soil corrupted... so yes they were walking, no... sprinting nuclear warheads.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!*

Another one just exploded, sending a wave of hot air pressure at us. Even with Wendy´s deep-frozen whɨnė wall, we could feel the power behind the explosion. But it didn´t even end with that, of course, there were after-effects. Some of the burning trees mutated or corrupted, turning semi-sentient with ugly paint faces crying in agony while flinging purple flame around. I wondered if I will ever be able to sleep again if I escaped this place...

This zone was even for the battle-hungry wendigo too much, "Shit shit shit shit, what in gods name are we doing here? This doesn't even make fun anymore!"

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!*

Another deafening explosion sounded behind us as Wendy sprinted as fast as she could.

I don´t even know how I could understand them as I am pretty sure I was deaf already.

"This is pure madness! Can´t we take another way- Watch out!" seeing a "nuclear bomb" leaping at us from the side I palled.

"I am not dying today!!!" cried the wendigo jumping over the "bomb". "Hold tight, we are going to fly!"

"WHAT?!"

Not responding, her form adapted, changing her underside into sturdy armor while carapace-like wings covered me. Her body bulked up with a ton of metal platings covering both of us.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

Feeling the extreme force on our bodies I nearly blacked out. The explosion caused her armor to overhead and even melt on some parts, I felt like being in an oven while being launched into orbit.

(3rd POV)

""AHHHHHHHHHhhhh....""

Meanwhile, the two were flying through the air like a rocket and screaming.

"WTF WERE YOU THINKING!!!???!?!"

"I THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD PLAN!!!"

"CLEARLY NOT!!!"

"DON`T CRAP YOURSELF! I´VE GOT THIS!"

When their speed slowly decreased, she slowly sprouted wings from her back, sailing through the air and stabilizing their flight. Her body quickly regenerated and soon adapted. With a lean bird-like form they calmy flew high above the ground, only a few dark clouds were in their path.

The protective shield around Raas retracted, at least what was left from it, revealing a nauseous snake that was pale as snow.

"look down little one." said the wendigo.

Raas looked over her shoulder, seeing the sea of fire, explosions, and carnage down there. He was wondering how they survived this madness and was really impressed by her [Perfect Adaptation] skill. It was truly a cheat-like skill.

Looking up Raas saw a giant eyeball staring at him from behind some black clouds.

""Ah shit..."" said both of them at the same time.