Chapter-74: boss room with a giant serpent coiled in it
Another fortunate thing is it did not coil around the stairs leading to the next floor instead it coiled around a place with a treasure chest. Ratika noticed it and with her good eyes she saw that it is actually a bronze treasure chest.
If it is a bronze treasure chest then the snake will be stronger of the current floor level. This means her chances of clearing it hard. In her past life she passed through this place but it actually ate up many men that belong to Robert at that time.
He directly sacrificed those other useless people directly to the snake and poked accidentally at a place to kill the snake after injuring it over and over many times. Ratika was sure that he cannot do that with her luck.
But she has to do it if she wanted to get the better end of the deal later. Thinking of this she gritted his teeth and took out the bow and arrows. She wanted to shoot at that specific place of the snake through the gap between its scales when it is still sleeping.
Also she whispered to the people around her. "The stairs are clear. If you move safely you might succeed in leaving this place. If the snake wakes up I will shoot to distract it. But once it is completely awake we cannot leave until we kill it.
You can make your choice. I can only provide you with cover fire from this place. If you want to survive take this step and go to the stairs without making much noise." Ratika said to the group the group looked frightened but what Ratika said is reasonable.
They can only grit their teeth to leave this place. In the group the one that took the chance to leave first is actually Martina. She led her men to walk slowly towards the stairs. She made the decision really quickly without a second thought.
She knows the risk involved and she plans to end this quickly. Staying here will only lead to death. So she decided to take the small risk and leave here. She and her group moved slowly without making any sound.
Soon they reached the stairs successfully and the first person left through the stairs. This made other people the freeloaders wanted to move quickly to follow the group. With the fear of life they still moved quickly and tried their best to not to make any sound.
Unfortunately behind them is the protagonist Robert. Where ever he is there is a problem. Martina's group left and the freeloaders almost made it to the stairs when Robert stepped on a twig along the way.
"Twitch…"
Originally there is no twig in the pathway. But for protagonist things would come out of nowhere. As soon as the small sound was made the snake sensed those vibrations. Well it cannot listen to the sound because of structural problem.
But it can clearly sense some vibrations in the air like the sound wave. This is not an ordinary snake but a snake monster of the dungeon. So the moment the sound happened the snake opened its eyes. Silently it got up with its tongue coming out to check.
Others are frightened and stood still on the spot at this moment. The first one to react is actually the protagonist that pulled Ginny and Aisha with him on a speed run. Jake followed along as the group pushed the people in front of them to the stairs leading to the next floor.
Ratika saw the situation and no longer hesitated. She carefully pulled the bow to the maximum extent and shot the first arrow to the jaw connection region that is connected to the inner eardrums of this snake.
Not all snakes will have the 7 inches location. If it is a small snake this kind of thing would work. How can you tell where the fatal location is to this kind of big snakes? Also not all snakes will have this kind of location. Anaconda is one such species.
So she targets its head region and eyes as her targets. First attack is its jaw bone so that it would lose its function to bite. As soon as she made the spot she quickly hid. The snake sensed the coming threat and ducked its head back.
But Ratika took this into calculation and made the attack to slightly drift in the back direction. So the attack hit and the snake grasped making a soft but loud noise. Others that saw the situation reacted quickly and ran towards the stairs.
They did not show something like the good will or other things to Ratika. The plan of Ratika to poke few girls has once again failed. She felt sad that she could not get any woman to play even in this kind of situation.
After she stayed hidden she did not come out for 3 minutes. During this time the snake recovered and its target is still those people running for their lives. By the time she came out the people that could have escaped have escaped.
The people that could be killed were killed. Even though it cannot bite them it still rammed into them and tried hard to swallow them. Arrow that Ratika shot is like a rock between the gears. It made the snake unable to close its mouth properly.
It stuck at a point where its jaws connected and the lower jaw cannot be closed because of its hindrance. Because it is an iron arrow it could not be broken. Since the arrow is surrounded by muscle, it cannot dent or break the arrow.
It is a tricky position that made the snake annoyed. It tried to slam around but the arrow went deeper instead of falling out. After all, Ratika made the shot with special piercing arrow that pierced deeply.
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