While celebrations were being held in the goliath on its opposite direction in a large river swam Jharkhon, the scales on his massive body glimmered in the sunlight with his monstrous Serpentine head sticking out of the river which was adorned with a beautiful jewel on his forehead and a long red mane sticking out of his head and extending 5 meters which also reflected sunlight making it seems like its was ablaze.
Another change as occured on my body as now hair is growing on my lower jaw and beneath my nose as if im growing a beard and moustache, Although the hair isn't much noticible right now but chances are that it'll also grow the same way the hair on my head grew.
Today I caught an unfamiliar scent which caused me to investigate. Upon patrolling the outskirts of my territory I finally found the culprit which gave off the unknown scent.
Barely 15 meters below the river there swam a rather strange looking frog. It was greenish-brown in color with long webbed feet just like you would expect from a regular frog but its skin appeared to be bumpy just like a toad.
Its total size was skin to a bike and it also had ridges going down its spine.
Upon catching my scent it I looked towards me and immediately froze as my gaze placed it in a trance. Inspected the creature up close and found its belly to be rather swollen, Its clearly pregnant and I can't let these unknown creatures to infest ny territory so I devoured it.
Luckily I was large enough and the inner lining of my body was quite durable so its spnies didn't hurt my inside. For the next two weeks more of these creatures appeared in my territory and were appropriately eaten. At first I didn't knew what was driving these creatures into my territory but on the third week I found the cause.
Three long boats which somewhat resembled viking ships from earth had docked on the shoreline. They were filled with men who dresses up in the same way ancient roman legionaries would and carried round shields with spears and carried short swords on their waist. Their armour and weapons seemed to be made of bronze and ranged from being plane to tan in complexion but their facial structure clearly distinguished them from the human tribe which was wiped out by the goliaths. They were also clearly much advanced then the previous bunch of humans and appeared to be some sort of expedition force of some empire.
I shrank myself to only be 6 meters in length and hid my mane as well as the jewel and luster of my scales making me seem like a completely normal king cobra.
In my disguised from I swam near their boats of the humans to better analyze them and figure out their reason for visiting such a remote place.
"master we lost 4 scouts and the remaining one informed us of man eating giants inhabiting the area as well as some dangerous packs of dire wolves, All the fruits and edible roots bearing plants are further deep into the forest where danger is the highest", A thin looking man informed to a fat man who more embroidered robes clearly some sort of noble.
" Hmmm we had provisions which can last us for 2 weeks at most, Can't u tell the guards to hunt more of those ridged toads to secure more meat", the fat noble replied in a dismissive tone.
"But master the guards can't find any more of those ugly things, The morale will collapse after a week if we can't secure more food, The forest is already inhabited by man eaters we can't jus-", the man was immediately cut off by the fat noble
" You really believe those legends Antonio, the scouts died due their of incompetence. Now send some more guards to secure more provisions or you'll be turned into fish food".
"As you command master Judas", Antonio decided that this was the moment to keep his mouth shut as there was no point of persuading the stupid Judas as he was a noble who never faced any hardship in life.
Antonio was not a man who believed in myths but the fear that he saw in the scout's eye convinced him that there was something in this forest that can't be trifled with easily. Even if there weren't giants there could be tribes of Cannibal humans haunting the place.
These humans think monsters are myth Perhaps there are places in this world where humans haven't come in contact with extraordinary creatures and live there lives in ignorance. Little do these people know that they have just signed there own death warrent. Not only they are running out of provisions but are also unaware of the monsters that lurk in the forest.
I concluded that there is absolutely no point of me in interacting with these humans and I swam back to my lair. After returning I fell into a state of deep meditation. In the past years I have discovered that I can have out of body experiences if I fell in a deep meditative state which allows me to assess my surroundings without endangering ny body although my spiritual body can't travel beyond 15 kilometers from the original body. I probably need more practice and a stronger mental state to travel further.
I hovered across the human camp and witnessed 30 guards readying themselves to launch the expedition.