"Cluck, cluck, cluck!"

Looking at the old hen who was held in the arms of Tom's senior, sticking out her head and excitedly pecking at the "earthworm", and looking up at the huge beak that tore through the clouds again and again, pecked at the snake priest and retreated, Leon couldn't help but shake his head slightly, and his eyes showed a dazed look like a world away.

What's so ...... What's going on?

"This is the chicken I bought outside, the vendor who sold the fishman and the manor as soon as I entered the door.

In the tiny manor he sold, there was a small chicken coop behind the kitchen, and there were dozens of hens for eggs, which was just right for dealing with these snake spirit believers, so I used it."

Looking at Leon, who was a little separated from his soul and body around him, and still hadn't completely broken free from the Snake Spirit Shrine, the lazy young man explained:

"The secret shrine of the snake spirit is actually a snake egg, and the narrow passage we pass through before entering the shrine is equivalent to passing through its reproductive cavity and undergoing a simple gestation, so the soul will be temporarily 'hatched' into a snake.

As for the effect of the snake egg shrine, it is roughly equivalent to enlarging our souls, but shrinking our bodies extremely small, and then reversing the position of our souls and bodies, turning us from people with the soul of snakes to snakes with human souls."

「……」

"Don't you understand?"

Looking at Leon's still somewhat dazed face, Tom thought for a moment, and then made an analogy:

"It's like the difference between an infant and an adult, who perceives the world primarily by the eyes of the flesh, and then thinks and knows, first the body and then the soul; And the baby that has not yet been born has not been born, and the body has not really existed, so it is the soul before the body.

Then when we enter the Snake Egg Shrine, we are equivalent to becoming a young snake that has not yet been born, from the body before the soul, to the soul before the body, and the priority of the body and the soul is reversed, which is equivalent to becoming a snake with a human soul."

When he said this, the lazy young man paused slightly, then took out half a bag of unused salt, shook it in front of Leon's eyes, and reminded:

"Remember? Before I entered the door, I had made three sets of secret rituals in advance, the second set of five metals was used to steal money from cat spirits, and the first group of mercury, sulfur, and salt was used to control the soul and body.

These three materials represent the soul, the body, and the bridge between the two, which can just resist the effect of the Snake Egg Shrine, as long as I lock the ratio between the three in advance, I will not be affected by the effect of the Snake Egg Shrine."

「……」

In Leon's silence, Tom Senpai went on to explain:

"In this way, although I can't directly interfere with the situation in the ritual, my physical body will not be infinitely reduced, and your physical body is suppressed by the secret shrine, so just find a chicken and send it in, it will be enough to kill that priest.

The only thing that was more troublesome was the three snake crowns given by the snake spirit, but you attracted his attention on the front, so I managed to ask the three holy spirits who fed on snakes to simulate their imprints with some materials, and forcibly removed the snake crown.

After losing the life-saving snake crown, the body was suppressed to the limit by the secret shrine, and the soul strength was still suppressed by me, and the priest became unable to beat even a chicken...... Do you understand?"

「……」

Probably understood...... Right?

Leon, who couldn't be confused when he heard it, could only say that he had seven tricks and six tricks, nodded slightly stiffly, and then asked:

"Senior, these ...... Forehead...... Is the secret ritual your main way of fighting?"

"Almost......

The lazy young man nodded when he heard this, and after thinking about it, he shook his head and said:

"But it's more like my way of doing things than the way I fight, and I don't know how to fight.

Unlike you, my core anomaly is special in that it allows me to bond more closely with the world and enhance the effects of these occult rituals, but with little direct damage or protection.

So if it's that kind of 'encounter', Emma can easily kill 10,000 of me, but if it's a situation where the enemy is in the dark, she probably won't have a chance to meet me."

「……」

Got it, the old silver coins with strange means.

……

After giving a definition of the lazy young man in his heart, Leon couldn't help but ask with some curiosity:

"Senior Tom, before entering the *** office, you prepared a total of three ceremonies, so what is the third ritual for? Is it against the snake spirit?"

"It's not."

The lazy young man shook his head and said:

"It's okay for the snake spirit to say, as long as you can replace the upper position and become a priest and successfully trick it back, if you have a mind or not, I think it's quite easy to kill it, but...... Not...... Wait!"

Looking at the poisonous ball python that was stepped on by the old hen with her feet raised, and then chattered on her head, Tom's senior hurriedly opened his mouth and urged:

"He's almost finished, you go around from the direction of the chicken's butt, ready to wrap around the statue of the snake spirit at any time, and take him over as the master of the secret ceremony, and I'll help you disguise it...... Go, go, go! It's too late!"

"Okay!"

After looking in the direction of the "Chicken and Snake War", and finding that it was indeed the end, Leon couldn't satisfy his curiosity, and hurriedly followed the direction pointed out by Tom's predecessor, bypassed the position of the chicken's butt, climbed the black and white altar more than 100 meters high, and coiled towards the tail of the snake spirit sculpture.

"Nourishing ......"

With a sound similar to that of an iron pancake, Leon, who had turned into a little red snake, couldn't help but show a look of pain on his face.

There seems to be some kind of restriction on this altar, for him, who is not yet a priest, every step forward is like rolling on a mountain of knives, from the flesh to the depths of the soul, and at the moment of contact with the snake spirit sculpture, there is a chaotic feeling that the soul is about to leave the body.

It didn't take long for things to change.

As the old hen pecked out a pit more than ten meters deep with a bang, and then happily "clucked", after pulling the poisonous ball python that had no ability to resist into the sky, the snake spirit sculpture that was trying to "resist" Leon's contact and constantly trying to push him away suddenly became cordial and directly wrapped him around his tail.

And as the coiling action was completely completed, as if some mysterious ritual had just been completed, Leon's consciousness blurred slightly, and an incomparably large soul was suddenly connected.

Well? My Instructor?

After noticing something unusual, the snake spirit entrenched outside a jade jungle turned his head in some surprise, looked at the vague little snake on his tail, and asked with a majestic expression:

"Aren't you presiding over the secret ceremony? Why did you come to me all of a sudden?"

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