Chapter 326: Plans to behead a serpent queen.
Lord Alexander squeezed his wife’s hand. He knew that she was itching for a chance to take revenge on Anita and every Nithercott that had been involved in the murder of her grandmother. When the chance had come, Akia had appeared, taking the empire by a storm and the Ridley’s retreated into the shadows before their moves could be detected.
Sigrid in the meantime was pondering on why Lady Isolde had called Anita a serpent. If it was anything like Romilda, the spider or Lord Benwick, the goat, then it was not good. It was now safe to say that if you were given an animal name on this content, you were bad.
"Perhaps she means it practically, maybe she turns into a snake." Cosmos suggested.
Sigrid looked at the Ridley couple. "You called her a serpent, what do you mean by that?"
Lady Isolde replied, "The nine hundred ninety nine potion baths, half of them contained the blood of a king Cobra, the largest and longest lived serpent which was hunted by the mages. My grandmother said that it was one thousand and ten years old. It was the god of a small mountain village which is now known as Takayama.
It was not captured just for the blood. It had hypnotic eyes and Anita ate them, absorbing their magic, creating her own hypnotic eyes.
She was injected with its venom, bit by bit until she became immune to all poisons and yet she can poison others with her saliva. Her aura also changed as she fed on its flesh for a year. She has an air of divinity, and sovereignty.
Moreover, she has the power to command lesser serpents. They say her home is a den of snakes, she lives with them and sleeps with them. People even claim that she has laid snake eggs and some call her the snake queen. Before she arrives, all of your homes should be protected with anti-snake powder, stones and wards.
Where we come from, all over Medoris, people have protected their houses from snake invasions out of fear. There is no proof of what I am telling you of course. I am only repeating what my grandmother said in her dream and what I heard from whispers."