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Each scale on the python was bigger than a copper coin and far harder than one. Even with the youth’s men hacking at it with all their strength, they could barely damage it.
But when the youth bit down—
Crunch.
A scale shattered between his teeth, crisp as a potato chip.
He took two more quick bites, and several more scales simply fell off, exposing the tough, flexible hide beneath.
Only then did the giant python realize that something was very wrong. What it had wrapped around was not flesh with the usual softness and spring; instead, it felt like a wooden post. However, even a post that thick ought to snap under its coils.
Then the pain of its scales being torn off hit. The giant python glanced down just in time to see the youth open his mouth again and clamp onto the fresh wound.
That mouthful of neat, white teeth had turned into sharp, vicious points, like a shark’s.
The giant python felt a kind of agony that it could not even describe. It felt as though its blood and flesh were being sucked straight into the youth’s mouth.
To everyone watching, the snake’s thick body actually began to shrink. Around the wound, whole patches of scales sloughed off.
The giant python let out a garbled, strangled shriek and blasted the youth with a stream of azure flame.
However, this...
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