First kill
[Ace POV],
As I waited for the Asmodeus Serpent, I tried to calm the intense unfamiliar feelings I was experiencing and wondered why in the world I would be anticipating something and excited in this situation.
My mental state was unstable because I had never experienced anything this intense before.
Though everything appeared to be under control, it was actually me attempting to ignore my feelings.
Without giving me a chance to think, I was interrupted by a loud noise that reminded me of the part where I still had the death reaper on my neck, but this time he was stairs away rather than a door.
I tightened my grip on the steel rod in my hand, waiting for the monster to appear.
As the monster got closer, my grip on the steel rod tightened even more.
I didn't have to wait long before the monster showed up in front of me.
The monster did not approach me, staring at me with its black eyes from afar.
'Snake vs. man, or perhaps snake vs. young man,' I thought as I looked back at the monster.
After a few seconds of staring at each other, the Asmodeus Serpent lost patience and violently swung its massive head left and right while hissing at me in an attempt to intimidate me, which was futile if it was trying to do so because I can't feel fear in the first place.
The Asmodeus Serpent charged at me quickly after seeing that its attempt to intimidate its prey was futile.
As I watched the monster get closer to me as it got closer to the heating pool that held the Calcium Cyanide, I realized where the feeling of anticipation came from but not the excitement.
I knew it was only a matter of time before the Calcium Cyanide in the pool take effect and thankfully, I didn't have to wait for long as the monster entered the pool that could barely cover it as nothing happened to it in the beginning while it stared at me with its black eyes or, more accurately, as it glared at my hand that was still bleeding.
The reaction I was hoping for arrived before the monster could cover half of the pool with its massive body.
Because of the Asmodeus Serpent's activity in the pool by violently shaking the water with its large body, the Calcium Cyanide I had previously poured into the water but did not mix finally mixed because of the monster, creating the effect I desired.
Hydrogen Cyanide.
Also called Formonitrile [HCN], a highly volatile, colorless, and extremely poisonous liquid.
Normally, putting Calcium Cyanide in water would not have resulted in the formation of Hydrogen Cyanide, but it was a different story if we had the Calcium Cyanide, water, and moisture.
The moisture here was created by the heating hot water in the pool and the water, well, that's why there's a pool in the first place, and adding Calcium Cyanide created the reaction I was looking for because Calcium Cyanide can react with water or moisture in the air to form Hydrogen Cyanide gas.
And my goal was to use the gas's effect to attack the Asmodeus Serpent.
Everything was planned from the start.
Looking at the monster that had slowed its charge in the pool, I took a sudden turn as I waited for the monster that was closing in on me while it was experiencing the effects of being in contact with Hydrogen Cyanide, well, I was experiencing some of the effects as well, but they were mild because I wasn't in the midst of where the gas was created and dense.
A small amount of Hydrogen Cyanide in the air can cause headaches, weakness, nausea, and vomiting. A higher dose may result in gasping, irregular heartbeats, seizures, fainting, and even death.
And among these things, I was experiencing a slight headache and dizziness, and the monster, I won't know what it was feeling because I am not the Asmodeus Serpent, but from its irregular movement, I could tell that it was dizzy and perhaps just coming to my general direction by using its pit organ to sense me, and since this Asmodeus Serpent is clearly mutated, it's no surprise that it might be able to sense me from its distance there.
Reading myself when the monster was only a few meters away, I jumped with all my strength as I collided with its head in mid-air.
The monster, as I suspected, was unable to sense me well because, based on its appearance, it was currently experiencing some lethal events.
The Asmodeus Serpent was about to open its mouth wide in an attempt to bite me when it raised its head because it sensed me close to its head, but I had already struck before it could.
I jumped, holding the steel rod in my hands, and aimed for the only place on the Asmodeus Serpent's body where I could launch an attack.
The eyes.
When I first saw the Asmodeus Serpent, aside from its size, I noticed that the snake's skin had hardened to the point where it appeared that its scales were made of metals. Though I didn't know how tough its skin was at the time, I didn't want to waste my time attacking its body and failing, allowing the monster to finish me off.
Instead, I went after the eyes because it seemed logical that the eyes were the weak point in most creatures, including the weakened snake.
Striking its left eye as I used all of my strength to push the steel rod deeper into its eye, I felt the sensation of tearing through flesh, and to make matters worse, some of Asmodeus Serpent blood touched my hand and it was acidic.
I felt pain for the first time in my life as a painful expression appeared on my face, but I did not let go of the steel rod as I tried to push it deeper.
The steel rod in my hands was quite long, and half of it was already inside the Asmodeus Serpent's left eye, causing it immense pain as it began to shake its body in an attempt to get it off.
This didn't help the situation much because my body was now all over the place and more Asmodeus Serpent blood had leaked onto it, not just on my hands. I was also starting to burn in multiple places from the acid as my body was absorbing a lot of hydrogen cyanide, which made me weaker and queasy.
It was now a race against time to see who would perish first-me or the Asmodeus Serpent. This didn't help the situation much because my body was now all over the place and more Asmodeus Serpent blood had leaked onto it, not just on my hands. I was also starting to burn in multiple places from the acid as my body was absorbing a lot of hydrogen cyanide, which made me weaker and queasy.
It was now a race against time to see who would perish first-me or the Asmodeus Serpent.
This went on for a while until the snake violently shook its head, causing me to lose my grip on the steel rod as my body flew in another direction, colliding against the wall by the pool's side as I felt more pain.
'I must have suffered internal injury from that, I thought as I tried to stand up but couldn't as I spilled blood out of my mouth and collapsed on the ground facing the incoming Asmodeus Serpent, who at this point was in a miserable state not only from the injury I gave it from its left eye but also from the Hydrogen Cyanide in the pool, which also had some acid in it.
As I watched the monster get closer, I was thinking that maybe I was going to win this race when I noticed something coming our way, and from the way the Asmodeus Serpent was slowly approaching my side, I assumed it didn't notice the thing coming.
I knew at this point that the monster was going to die soon, but the question was who would go down first, the monster or me.
And I had assumed that I would be the one to do it down first until I noticed that the incoming thing was actually Anna with a delicate resolve on her face.
She was already by the head of the Asmodeus Serpent, which still had the steel rod in its left eye before the monster could reach me as She grabbed it and pushed it deeper with all of her strength until only a small portion of the steel rod was visible.
But she did not escape unscathed as a result of this.
The monster used its last strength to send Anna in another direction as her back collided with a meter pole before collapsing and knocking her unconscious.
'She'll definitely have internal injuries from that attack right now,' I thought as I watched the Asmodeus Serpent shake its body weakly in an attempt to avoid death, but it was futile as I watched the monster take its last breath.
As soon as the monster died, the Primordial Chronicle appeared in front of me, and notifications continued to flash in the panel as I fell unconscious.