With a menacing voice, the gigantic Snake welcomed us. She seemed slightly carefree, but I bet she had a lot of plans already on the work. By merely watching her, I could tell she was incredibly strong. The space where we had arrived was an enormous underground cave, the ground below was muddy and there was a large lake where she was positioned, filled with Miasma. However, as my Terrain made its way inside, this mud and the Miasma grew weaker.

The Snake Queen's appearance, which quickly revealed itself from within the shadows was rather unsurprising to me, as I've already imagined her as a gigantic snake. She had no human-like half, like Titan had thought she would be like a Lamia, another race of this world which Players can choose apparently. No, the Snake Queen was quite literally a purple-scaled Giant Snake, the same ones we saw before, but twice as big. She was approximately 50 meters big? Or a bit less. She had six pairs of black horns growing over her head, and a big third eye in the middle of her forehead, which was completely black with red pupils

Her body seemed different though, her scales were not slim at all, and were more like armor stacked together dozens of times, they looked rough and even dragon-like. The tip of her tail had a long, curved blade of at least ten meters of height, capable of easily shredding into pieces her prey. And above all, she emanated a monstrously large presence, as if she was the pure darkness itself.

And even then, I saw a vision. Right behind her, there was something

It is as if the power that Gaia granted to me back then when we fought the Undead Hero was still within me, whatever this gift was it wasn't in the form of Skills, but an innate ability I now possessed to see the truth behind others.

I saw several black threads behind her, controlling her every movement. And controlling such threads there was a monstrous and menacing puppeteer, or well, the shadow of it.

This was most likely the one behind the Snake Queen's Miasmic Powers, the Demon King of Miasma himself.

If I manage to cut down these threads, will he finally let us alone? Or will he continue pestering us somehow, somewhere in some sort of shape or form? I am honestly annoyed of how insisting this World Boss is about destroying this Starting Area of the game!

"So this is the Snake Queen" Titan said.

"Her presence is so overwhelming, and just how big is her body?! How can we even defeat such a behemoth?" Nieve wondered.

"She's certainly above and beyond" Rita sighed.

Ding!

[You have entered the [Boss Room] of this Dungeon!]

[The [Dungeon Boss]: [Ravenous Venomous Snake Queen: Saphee: Lv35] has invoked her [Dungeon Boss Aura]

[All of her Stats have increased by +100%, Darkness and Poison Attribute Damage has been enhanced by +100%]

[The [Dungeon Boss]: [Ravenous Venomous Snake Queen: Saphee: Lv35] has invoked her [Dungeon Master Privilege]

[The Dungeon's Terrain Effects have been intensified!]

So her name is Saphee and her Level is 35! W-Well, it is not as high as I imagined, but that's still 15 Levels above us! Isn't that a bit too much? How can we fight someone with such a massive level difference? I'll really have to rely a lot on Titania, the Fairy Spirits, and the Great Spirit of Farming and Harvest's help to defeat her.

"So you've come to your deaths, have you not? Do you truly believe I am a weakling that hides behind her underlings?" She said cockily.

TRUUUM!

Suddenly, the route to escape was sealed by a wall of stone.

"I have merely lured you into my own Territory so I can have all the time I want to eat each one of you!"

TRUUUUUUUMMMM!

Suddenly, the entire cave shook. The enormous body of the Snake Queen began to move out of the Miasmic Lake! And the first thing she did was direct her gaze upon me!

"YOU! You're the one that has been doing this, right?! I'll take you down first!"

FLAAAASH!

Her body moved faster than we all could have predicted from such a gigantic body!

CLASH!

Her enormous jaws suddenly impacted my Spiritual Shield Barriers, as I desperately continued to create more and more.

Crack! Crack!

However, her gigantic jaws were easily crushing through my spherical barrier, even when I was blocking a lot of damage dealt, it wasn't all the damage at the end! Her jaws were as big as a car, if not a bus! This thing could easily just swallow me up!

"It is useless, simply let me kill you! You're immortal right? You already can tell our level difference! Simply perish and let me do what I want!" She roared. "Why do you care so much about them? Aren't they simply "NPC" to you? Why do you have to get involved into such a difficult challenge just for people that you might not even think it's real?!"

The Snake Queen surprisingly knew a lot of what was happening with us Players! Just how much has she been told by the System? Or maybe the Demon King might know something?!

CRASH!

My Spiritual Shield Barriers finally broke, as the enormous jaws of the Snake Queen reached up to me in an instant. My entire body was about to be swallowed up.

Or was it?

"Why, you ask?" I said, as I quickly held up my weapon, shaping it into the shape of a Scythe. "It is for a very simple reason!"

Infusing Mana and Spiritual Essene into my weapon, I called upon the full power of the Great Spirit, as she emerged at my side while smiling defiantly against a foe that was beyond what I could even do, and giving me the chance to exceed my own limits

"It is because for me, these people are real enough!"

FLAAAASH!

My weapon unleashed an enormous burst of green and golden colored Spiritual Essence, as I swung it against the Snake Queen's open mouth.

This was the chance I wanted; she obviously had her weakest spot ready for me to attack!

"[Spiritual Attack]!"

CLAAASH!