Devouring World Dragon

Chapter 34 Escaping the Giant Serpent's... Stomach

"call……"

A massive column of air erupted from the serpent's nostrils, mingling with the seawater and creating a violent underwater whirlpool.

The colossal creature sleeping on the seabed was not fully awake; it remained drowsy, its seemingly calm, transparent pupils filled with a deep sense of bewilderment and disorientation, completely unfocused.

Although this world is very strange in many ways and does not conform to the knowledge Meng learned when he was a human, and snakes do not even have the distinction between warm-blooded and cold-blooded, it is in many ways similar to the habits of snakes that Meng knew before.

According to human knowledge, snakes in that world are mostly cold-blooded animals that easily lose heat and must bask in the sun to obtain heat. Otherwise, if the temperature is too low, their bodies will gradually freeze, becoming sluggish, unresponsive, or even hibernating and motionless. However, this also gives snakes the characteristic of being able to go without eating for a long time after eating their fill, thus maintaining their low energy consumption.

However, this is strangely reflected even in Jormungandr, who is neither warm-blooded nor cold-blooded at all.

For a period of time after waking up, Orochi's body will remain in a low-energy state, and its thinking, reaction and movement will be extremely sluggish, making it difficult to quickly recover its fighting power. It will only gradually become clear-headed over time, which can be considered one of Orochi's weaknesses.

However, generally speaking, the giant snake can usually recover in less than two or three minutes, so it doesn't matter. Right now, the giant snake is in a state that is somewhere between being suddenly awakened by a thunderclap in the middle of the night and being completely dazed.

The reason for being awakened is quite simple...

The source of heat in its belly is not in the right place.

No matter how deep his sleep was, or how slow his reaction was, the fact that the warm furnace inside his body was gradually moving from his stomach to his throat was enough to make the drowsy snake instinctively sense something was wrong and wake him up.

"It feels like... somewhere... somewhere... my stomach... is not right..."

Having just been startled awake, the serpent's still-drowsy brain was struggling to process information. Its already sluggish mind, combined with this slow reaction, made the serpent's logical thinking extremely fragmented and incoherent.

The snake's body could clearly sense that something was wrong, but its brain couldn't immediately figure out what was happening.

The restless body thrashed unconsciously in the depths of the sea, causing the entire ocean to boil and triggering countless tsunamis and giant waves on the surface.

The night, with the bright moon high in the sky, gradually grew darker, and dark clouds began to gather in the heavens...

……

The serpent's movements, however, are manifested in another way within its body.

The crimson flesh walls and the solid fleshy ground beneath their feet, which had been sleeping peacefully, began to writhe restlessly as the giant snake awoke.

It is quite obvious that these fleshy creatures, in the process of restless writhing, gradually tend to shrink, as if a strange living thing has awakened.

"what happened……"

Thor looked around, puzzled.

"Jormungandr seems to be awake... Run!"

Loki looked at the writhing flesh and disgusting blood vessels, as if realizing something, and suddenly shouted loudly to the sun goddess Sul, who was holding the reins beside him.

"what?"

The sun goddess Sur, who had not yet responded, couldn't help but ask.

"Run! It's awake! If we don't run, its intestines will trap us here and then digest us!!!"

There was no time for further explanation, Loki shouted urgently.

As if to confirm Loki's words, suddenly, from the flesh-and-blood walls, tentacles made of solid muscle, resembling whips, emerged, each topped with a slender, sickle-like, metal-like hook, looking extremely ferocious.

"Hoohoo!"

With a sharp whooshing sound, metallic hooks with metal appendages collided with the solar chariot, pulling, ramming, hooking, and tugging, creating dazzling sparks from the friction. These tentacles then nimbly crawled forward, wrapping around the solar chariot like vines, quickly and tightly binding it, making it unable to break free.

Even the heavy chariot, which could bear the weight of the sun, creaked under the brutal drag of these tentacles, as if it could no longer withstand the strain, and was slowly pulled down by these ferocious tentacles. "Hmph!"

But with a cold snort, countless bolts of lightning suddenly roared, striking the fleshy tentacles mercilessly. In an instant, countless tentacles broke apart.

The sun goddess Sur reacted immediately, flicking the reins, and the two fiery horses galloped forward like dragons, the previously stationary sun chariot speeding through the air at an unimaginable speed.

"What are those!"

Because the wind was too strong, the sun goddess, who was driving the sun chariot, had to turn around and shout loudly to Loki behind her.

"do not know!"

Faced with Sue's question, Loki had no choice but to shout at her helplessly.

Everything around him flashed by like fleeting shadows. In the dark and vast intestines of the giant serpent, which was as deep as an abyss, only the sun chariot, shining with countless brilliant lights and flying through the air, could illuminate everything around him.

Under this light, all sorts of strange things that had been dormant began to awaken. Tentacles of flesh and blood of varying thickness whistled as they extended from the fleshy walls, like lassoes trying to hook the sun chariot, preventing its departure and dragging it back into the deepest part of the giant serpent's intestines.

However, these alone might be enough to deal with most ordinary creatures, but they are clearly not enough to face three renowned gods.

Without even moving, the countless lightning bolts enveloping the solar chariot were enough to sever all those tentacles that dared to invade.

However, there were simply too many tentacles. Those lifelike tentacles kept rushing towards the speeding sun chariot, so many that even Thor found them extremely annoying.

"Damn Loki! I'll settle this score with you once we get out of here!"

With a casual flick of lightning, Thor severed a large, suddenly attacking tentacle. His anger, now blazing and with nowhere to vent, roared at Loki.

Thor's logic is simple: the giant serpent is Loki's offspring, so if it weren't for Loki, none of this would have happened.

Faced with Thor's rage, Loki could only shout helplessly.

"Let's wait until we escape first!"

He was right. As time went on, the once extremely wide fleshy intestines were writhing and contracting, as if they were being trapped and killed here. This also meant that the escape route in front of them was becoming narrower and narrower.

……

The outside world, the deep seabed.

Feeling something amiss within its body, the giant snake, amidst its chaotic thoughts, unconsciously raised its head. The enormous tremor caused by its massive size stirred up silt buried at the bottom of the sea for tens of thousands of years, instantly turning the once clear seawater into murky water.

"Rumble..."

On the calm sea, billions of tons of seawater suddenly erupted amidst the roar of collapsing mountains and tsunamis, revealing a low, dark mountain peak, followed by ten, a hundred, a thousand...

A vast landmass, dotted with countless mountains and still expanding, gradually emerged from the sea.

No, it wasn't land; it was a colossal behemoth, too enormous to be described.

Those peaks were not peaks, but rather its black scales, and that land was the enormous, indescribably massive serpent head of that colossal creature.

This enormous creature unconsciously raised its head, and it breathed in and out the long-absent air towards the gloomy sky covered with dark clouds. Then, two huge tornadoes spewed out from its nostrils.

“Crack!!!”

In an instant, lightning flashed and thunder roared in the dark, cloud-covered night sky, the lightning dancing across the heavens and illuminating the dim, dark night.

A torrential downpour then fell, landing on the surging sea with its towering waves, and on the enormous monster that had caused it all. It was as if the entire sky was in awe, feeling fear and trembling before this colossal monster, unlike anything ever seen in the universe.

(End of this chapter)