Chapter 332: A new request
"A shadow serpent," Hex murmured as he inspected the puddle of black blood with chunks of flesh and bones in it. "Though there was something strange about it. It didn’t look like the ones in the nest."
The Shadow Serpents left a deep impression on him. The way these creatures fed and procreated, by entering and living inside other creatures, both, fascinated and creeped him out. That’s why he recognized it at once and was able to notice some differences between the one that came out of the Witchkin and the one he remembered seeing in the nest.
The foul odor still lingered inside the room but the vapor had almost disappeared, as the window was open. Luckily, the window opened to an uninhabited spot behind the hotel, preventing others from noticing it.
Another advantage of having the window open was the influx of air filled with nature elements in it. He pried the dagger somehow and the wound was closing up but not as fast as it should have. His body’s innate, enhanced with his Glyph, should have closed the wound as soon as the dagger was out. That wasn’t the case.
Hex discovered the cause of the reduced regenerative powers by studying the dagger. The tool itself wasn’t anything special. In fact, this one was taken from the cabinet in his room, in which the hotel staff stored a few extra cutleries and dishes for their guests to use if they ate in their rooms.
No, the root cause was the blood smeared on it. It had mixed with his blood but his enhanced olfactory senses and vision revealed the remnant traces of the blood on the sharp edge of the knife.
’Should I tell Elize?’
It was a simple question but he considered the advantages and, more importantly, the disadvantages of doing so.
’If I tell her, she might be able to inspect the others for traces of parasitization, preventing more victims from perishing.’
It seemed like a proper course of action. After all, saving others, while not risking anything at all, didn’t sound bad. Normally, he would have done so without any hesitation. But now, he hesitated. For two reasons.
’I am sure that this isn’t a normal or not the same creature as the one we encountered.’