The landing was terrible but he didnt even have time to cry, before he stood up the serpents pulled out their sharp teeth and aimed for his neck.

He managed to block few with his blade but his legs were defensless and were bit visciously .

"Blood Crescent Moon "

A red crescent slash was released from his sword and cut 5 serpents who were now covered with his blood and their own blue colour blood .

"Who knew you could smell blood, my nose is about to explode "

He didnt know if it was the parchment helping him out or the adrenaline had kicked in, but he ignored all his wounds and started to throw Blood Crescent Moon attacks everywhere, the queen was the only one untouched by them since everytime his attack came, her minions would jump towards it with no care for their own life.

" Tch this bitch plays dirty " complained Irwin as he tried to cut through her massive fireball.

In all honesty he would rather evade instead of cutting through however he had no space, the pit wasnt large enough. He also didnt have enough time to activate his green barrier, the fireball was nearing his face .

" I will fucking kill you "

He activated his 'King's Wrath' and all the aura leaked from him and startled the serpents.

Even though the skill was for appearances sake only, it still added the fear element on the monsters, however with all the times he was bit his arms were unable to hold a blade, his legs were about to abandon him as well .

With nothing else to do he jumped on the serpent queen as if he was trying to hug her, but she quickly escaped his 'embrace' and imitated a rope around his body, in attempt to strangle him .

" Haha got you now bitch "

His plan was always to cover her with his own blood, just like he had done to her minions.

And when they were all bloody he activated his blood webs that started popping up all over their bodies almost covering the serpents like clothes.

" Rot in the underworld Bitch " but just as he was about to order the explosion, the parchment tried stopping him.

- Dont do it kid you will blow yourself up, I cant protect you from an explosion that close .

The parchment tried to warn him but he had no other choice, if he was going to go down he might as well take these bastards with him .

" Explode " he yelled, and all those blood webs gave the fire breathing serpents a death they had not even imagined of, a death by fire and explosion.

There are times in your life where you use up all your remaining luck, and this was one of those moments.

What he thought to be an inevitable death did not happen since he managed to open his eyes again, his vision was blurry and his nose could not handle the heavy smell of blood.

" I'm still alive? What the... Thanks for helping me brother parchment "

- It wasnt me

"What happened then? Or could it be that the webs exploding only damages my enemies .

- your original innate ability upgraded your passive skill fire immunity, you are now completely immune to fire.

The pain was unbearable so he couldnt even be happy for being alive, all those wounds on his body were making him wish he was dead.

" So why arent you healing me then "

- you have too many life threatening wounds so you will pass out, and by the time you come back to your senses the energy would dissipate from the queen's corpse and become unable to be extracted . Your hard work would go to waste .

" Shit are you telling me I need to crawl there ? Cant you extract it on your own? My pain is becoming worse "

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He took 3 deep breaths and started crawling, the pit wasnt large so he quickly managed to reach the serpent queen's corpse .

" Such a shame her minions died from the explosion and I cant devour them, I am surprised her body is still intact.... "

The parchment floated above her body that dematerialised into raw green energy and sucked her entire being .

" you know, you and 'Egg' might be relatives, just like him all you do is absorb energy "

- we arent relatives idiot I made him, he can barely mimick a tiny fraction of my power. Comparing me to your devouring skill is a huge insult.

" Sorry okay. Can you please just make the statue now I cant take this pain much longer "

The parchment began healing him immediately since he was no longer needed, as previously said Irwin passed out from the pain and since it was a human mechanism that was activated everytime the human body had to heal itself .

He came back to his senses 8 days later which didnt come as that much of a surprise to him seeing as he was almost bit to death by the serpents.

Even with the otherworldy healing that came from the purple parchment, an 8 day sleep was necessary for him to even start functioning again.

That day he also learnt that the body could sustain itself by consuming energy points or mana, which was something he previously didnt know .

" So thats why I dont feel hungry even after not eating for more than a week. Being strong is so cool, I still cant believe I fought to the death with a serpent queen "

- I got to say your resolution to blow yourself up just to secure victory surprised me, not bad kid maybe i misjudged you .

" Thanks for the compliment brother parchment but is it really necessary for you to communicate through text with me? I am unable to read whats written on you during battles "

The parchment's answer this time came to his head, it wasnt an acual voice it was like the parchment was sending signals to his brain.

- I am too lazy to communicate like this though, you havent proved worthy enough for me to spend my precious energy just to communicate with you.

His attitude was beyond understanding to Irwin, just why was the parchment so obsessed with consuming energy all the time? What was even the point of it? He had so many question but everytime he brought them up the parchment simply said that such information didnt concern him.

The good news however, was that the parchment had been so impressed by him that it gave him a new passive skill for free called 'Speech' , which gave him the ability to understand and communicate with any creature or human in any language existing. And he had to admit that such a skill would prove to be super useful in convincing the orcs or even in the future if he ever decided to explore Elysium again. But that option would remain a distant future for now, he knew that he was super weak to even think of going to Elysium .

The serpent queen was considered fodder over there yet it almost killed him, he was not ready to even dream about conquering that place.

His plans for now were to remain in Thesos, form an army of humanoid creatures and make a country in the wild hoping that in the near future, he would have the necessary power to conquer.

He had also not forgotten the people who killed Melissa, that maid who ambushed him and whoever that Madam of hers was.

He maid an oath on Melissa's grave that they would fall victim to a bloody revenge!