Death Game: Starting as a Trickster, Pretending to Be a God

Chapter 818 Mental Force Probe

After that creature fully rose from the water, its massive body nearly filled Lin Yu’s entire field of view.

Lin Yu also got a clear look at the enormous beast’s appearance.

Although the pupil pattern and what Raymond had called “snake descendants” had already given Lin Yu a vague hint that this might be some kind of giant serpent or reptile,

when that thing truly appeared in front of him…

Lin Yu couldn’t help but comment.

“So it’s a snake-person! But… why does it look like this?!”

A half-human, half-snake being, like something out of myth, towered before Lin Yu, yet it had subtle differences.

In myths, the common half-human half-snake—whether Medusa, Echidna, or even the ancient Chinese Nuwa—usually have a human upper body and a snake lower body.

But the giant before him was different.

It was… human below, snake above.

Although most of what protruded from the water was the pitch-black, scale-covered snake god; its huge head, somewhere between serpent and lizard, looked extremely imposing, and the bright yellow twin pupils and forked tongue made it seem dangerous.

However…

if you looked at the part of it mostly submerged in the water, it didn’t feel terrifying.

Those were two strong, dark human thighs—there was even a wide hip and waist.

It was even wearing a huge pair of shorts.

“Is this what the snake-descendants look like,” Fish said calmly, “or rather… the dark creatures in the Abyss mostly all look misshapen and suffocatingly oppressive.”

“This is way too dark,” Lin Yu sighed lengthily, “Actually, if it had a snake head on a human body I could accept it—after all, other ancient cultures like India and the Mesopotamian myths also have similar images… but a half-snake with two human legs, or a huge snake grafted onto a human waist, is seriously beyond normal darkness.”

“More than oppressive, it’s kind of ridiculous.”

As Lin Yu spoke, Raymond said, “I can’t laugh about it, Brother Schreiber. This thing is a real Monarch-tier—even that earlier attack, the Wrath of Yesterday level strike, didn’t seem to do much to it!”

Lin Yu nodded.

Although he had joked a bit in the identity of Schreiber, Lin Yu also understood in his heart…

This “Monarch-tier snake-descendant” in front of them was a big problem.

Fish’s earlier all-out strike didn’t have no effect; watching closely, many scales on the creature’s head had flipped up, stretching down to roughly what would count as a vital point, all with torn, grisly wounds.

But those injuries… could hardly be called fatal.

At least the monster’s state didn’t look like it had been critically injured.

Yet…

its pupils fixed on the group, and it made no further move.

Beneath it, the black flames still rolled and boiled in the pool, but it seemed oblivious.

It simply stared at everyone, standing in the center of the pool like a statue.

Now that Lin Yu was playing the role of Schreiber, he could ask questions aloud without worry.

“But what is it doing? Why won’t it move?”

“I don’t know either,” Raymond said gravely, “Normally, snake-descendants feed on souls and mana, and their attacks mainly use venom targeting the soul, plus toxic mists… their bodies are also very tough, and they sometimes ram directly as a means of attack.”

“But… none of those behaviors should involve just standing still.”

Fish spat at the giant snake looking down at the three of them.

“Screw that, I don’t like anything looking down on me!”

Saying that, she twisted Yesterday’s Wrath half a turn and sheathed it on her back, then said, “Raymond, I don’t know what Cass taught you—anyway, use everything you’ve got!”

She braced the dark Grace in both hands, then…

“Bang!”

A scorching white light flared as Piercing Sacred Might shot out!

Almost at the same moment her words fell, the attack had already been launched.

Fish had always been like this—if something annoyed her, she answered with raw violence!

The white light struck precisely at the snake’s protruding tongue. Although the scales were tough, the tongue clearly wasn’t that hard.

Raymond, surprised by Fish’s attack, hesitated for a moment, then raised his spear and fired to follow up!

Although Raymond didn’t use Piercing Sacred Might, his technique seemed similar.

White light also burst forth from him, but Raymond’s volley split in the air like a meteor shower, scattering toward the target and finally detonating together!

This move was clearly not weak either.

Two members of the Holy Relic faction, trained in the same school, fired in quick succession. Lin Yu tightened his grip on the Soul-Chasing Life-Severing Spear and went on autopilot in the background.

Partly because he had no ranged attack method to give Schreiber, and partly because…

Lin Yu was observing.

“Snake-descendants, they feed on souls, Monarch-tier…”

He stared at the giant snake, whose body staggered under repeated bombardment and whose surface kept showing wounds, and felt increasingly that something was off.

This giant snake…

seemed a little wrong.

Although the wounds weren’t fatal, why would it just stand there and take the hits?!

After thinking for a moment, Lin Yu spoke to Fish.

“Sister Fish… I feel like this giant snake is off—it seems overly ‘clumsy’!”

“I noticed that too,” Fish raised her hand and fired a shot straight at the creature’s eye, and when the giant snake desperately shook its head and couldn’t dodge, the shot hit the eye and it painfully shut its left eye, “Who cares, hit him while he’s weak!”

As Fish said that, Lin Yu murmured, “But this is really strange. What if this is a trap?”

“Sister Fish, I have a way to probe, but I need you to protect me.”

Facing Lin Yu’s request, Fish kept firing and swore out loud, “Don’t be ridiculous. If you’ve got a trick, use it. You saying it beforehand means you don’t trust me?!”

“This thing is stuck like a post, you want me not to protect you?!”

“Even if it’s holding back some nasty trick that explodes the moment you start probing, I can take it!”

Saying that, Fish fired with one hand and produced twelve iron talismans from her bosom.

“Clink!”

With her other hand she tossed the talismans into the air. They flew up on their own, hovering and forming a circle around the three of them.

“Hurry up, my Meteor Iron Talismans’ formation can’t hold for long—but during it, you are absolutely safe!”

Hearing Fish, Lin Yu added a sentence.

“Then I hope you can… keep it a little secret.”

As his words fell…

a tide of mental force spread outward!

Lin Yu poured out his mental energy without reservation!

With such a high output he could only sustain it for a minute—and even so, he couldn’t see through the snake-descendant’s trick.

But Lin Yu hadn’t intended to rely solely on his own mental force.

After he had been outputting for over ten seconds and already felt slightly fatigued…

he quietly took out Old Zheng.

“Old Zheng, connect!”