Leo was holding onto a dagger which deeply pierced into the snake's eye . Currently he was being dragged across the cave's floor, but refused to release the dagger's handle. He wanted to push his dagger deeper into the snake's head to kill.
After struggling back and forth the snake decided to get rid of Leo by crushing him to the wall. It quickly threw its head towards the wall and hit it heavily.
Leo noticed the snake's intentions and tried to push the dagger deeper, but didn't succeed, hence let go of his only weapon and sprinted towards the other dagger that bounced off the snake's eyelid before.
While running towards the dagger he felt a tremor across the cave which meant that the snake didn't manage to control its speed and crashed against a wall. Leo then heard a cracking sound.
Crack..
He threw a glance behind and saw that a few stalactites were broken and were falling on the snake's body.
The snake didn't even have a chance to recover from hitting the wall when it felt another pain assault its body.
It started hissing loudly and moving its body in strange patterns.
Hsssss....
A loud hissing resounded across the cave making Leo shudder. He was already holding another dagger in his hand when he heard the snake making weird sounds and doing complex movements.
Suddenly the snake's head was raised above its body. The weird sound resounded across the cave.
Click...
Behind the snake's back a hood emerged, showing off its black scales. The creature opened its mouth, but the two teeth that it had, now turned into huge black fangs that protruded from its mouth. The snake slowly opened its only seeing eye which shined with a bright red color.
' That's not even a fucking snake '
Leo shuddered and got ready to scram, but before he could start running, a Darkness Mana wall appeared out of nowhere and covered the cave's exit.
' Shit '
Leo 's shoulders slumped down and he turned around to face the beast. He really didn't like this creature. It had scales that could not be pierced by his daggers and used a Darkness element. Closely inspecting its face Leo realized that the dagger was still inside its left eye.
Leo felt that after transforming into some kind of Cobra this creature's Rank went up from an Early Elite Beast to a Middle one. While contemplating about its power Leo didn't even notice a strange phenomenon happening behind his back.
Currently the Cobra was trying to manipulate the Darkness element to extend a spike from the Darkness wall and pierce Leo's heart. The process would take a bit of time and a lot of Mana, but it would be worth it if Leo died.
Leo was about to dash towards the beast, but felt a weird sense of dread behind him and turned left to cover his heart with shoulder. A huge black spike pierced through his shoulder, but thankfully didn't reach his vitals.
" Arghhh "
Leo shouted in pain. He quickly used his other hand to grab the spike and remove it from his shoulder. While pulling the spike out, he felt as if his arm was cut off, but ignored the pain and continued. After a lot of effort and pain he finally succeeded, but the creature wasn't going to let him go easily. Even though the creature used most of its mana and felt dizzy it still had physical strength.
The cobra felt that the enemy was in agony and weakened, hence dashed towards him.
Leo who just pulled the spike out of his shoulder had a crazy idea. He held the Darkness spike in his healthy hand and threw it with all his power not minding the pain.
The spike was thrown so fast that the cobra couldn't evade it.
Leo smirked, but soon the smirk was washed off his face, because the cobra used the hood to cover its face. After reflecting the projectile the beast hissed and Leo saw that the darkness spike pierced through its hood, but didn't manage to reach the face.
Evading the creature's dash Leo was constantly being assaulted by the pain from his shoulder and ribs.
' Fucking snake. It ain't even a snake! Now I wish I took the sword with me as well, It would at least damage the creature's body '
Cursing himself for his stupidity Leo suddenly recalled that the cobra was injured by stalactites. His eyes once again shone with hope.
Leo started closely luring the cobra towards the cave's walls. He wasn't very efficient, because the beast tried to keep its face far away from Leo, because he would have a chance to damage its eyes even further, hence mainly used tail attacks.
Being harshly whipped by its tail Leo gritted his teeth.
' Just you wait '
Leo was on the edge of losing consciousness, because of blood loss, but the pain from various body parts helped him stay awake.
Leo finally was standing near the wall, but didn't want to come closer, because it would cause Cobra to suspect something before charging at Leo.
After another 5 minutes of harsh whipping the beast recovered some of its mana and became more confident in winning. Leo's condition wasn't good, but one his broken ribs recovered and he could move his injured arm even though with a lot of pain and difficulty.
Leo once again focused his gaze on the beast and saw it finally getting ready to charge at him head on. Clenching his fist Leo got ready to use [ Mana Enhancement ] on his legs to dodge the upcoming charge.
The cobra started moving its body in S shape and closing in the distance between itself and Leo. When the beast was 10 meters away from Leo, he used his skill and evaded towards the right. The creature tried to turn right, but still hit the wall greatly.
Before blacking out Leo saw some stalactites tremble and fall on the Cobra. He used his [ Draconic Eyes ] to make sure the snake didn't cover its head.
The last thing he thought before the world around him went black was.
' I wonder, how would it taste ? '