SO I'M A SNAKE, WHO CARES?

This is ridiculous.

Gurgle, gurrrgle.

Maybe it’s a problem that I’m not that big or heavy yet.

Or maybe the problem is that I’m not good at swimming. I do have a level 1 skill, but it’s useless.

I thought it was natural for snakes to be poor swimmers. Because they’re cold-blooded animals, and they don’t have arms or legs to paddle with.

But when I asked Daisy about it, her response was unexpected.

She said snakes are naturally good swimmers.

She must definitely be a bogus animal keeper.

What do you mean good? I’m being sucked down the drain in a bathtub.

The drain was just thick enough for me to fit through.

By “just right,” I mean it was so narrow that I couldn’t struggle inside.

And so the great Meteor Prince Serpent, who could summon meteors, was sucked down to the floor below along with the bathwater.

My biggest worry was what would come next.

‘What if there’s sewage mixed in?’

If this drain is also connected to the sewage system.

If someone’s toilet water flows through here too.

I might become the first serpent to drown in sewage.

I felt extreme terror.

“Bwahaha!”

But Pelerian burst out laughing.

“This is what they call karma!”

I didn’t immediately understand what he meant.

A moment later, I realized why Pelerian was so pleased.

‘You petty old geezer!’

“A Grand Mage’s revenge is short at even 100 years.”

Back when I first met Pelerian.

When he tried to tame me and betray me, I had to establish discipline.

I fed him, ring and all, to a wild boar.

Pelerian was destined to become boar droppings, abandoned somewhere in the great forest.

He must have been quite scared then.

“It wouldn’t be bad to mix with the Emperor’s excrement and be buried like this!”

No! To think I’d die trapped in a septic tank.

If I become a ghost, I’ll eat Pelerian.

“Jokes aside, let’s think of a way to escape.”

‘So it was a joke…!’

I definitely thought he was serious.

Seems like he has more personality left than I thought.

Fortunately, I wasn’t mixed with dirty sewage.

Other drains did join in the middle, but clean water flowed in.

The problem was that this waterslide showed no signs of ending.

‘Glug glug glug!’

It feels like I’ve been flowing down for a good 3 minutes.

For reference, Obern’s assigned room was on the third floor.

It wouldn’t take a minute to descend each floor.

At this rate, I’m definitely going underground.

There’s nothing strange about drainage pipes going underground.

“Seems like we’re going deep.”

It’s just the depth that was suspicious.

It seems like there’s something suspicious in the Imperial Palace basement.

Come to think of it, those Heaven Medicine Party remnants said something.

That the medicinal water (drugs) is practically made by the Emperor.

The reason being that an unknown substance flowing from beneath the Imperial Palace is the fundamental ingredient of the medicinal water.

But that didn’t register in my mind.

‘I can’t breathe!’

Normally, people die if they can’t breathe for just 3 minutes.

I’m not a person but a monster, so I should be able to endure longer, but I was suffocating more than expected.

In martial arts novels, masters can hold their breath underwater for over an hour. That’s all lies.

“Stop exaggerating, just hold on a little longer!”

My head was spinning.

If I were just staying still, holding my breath for 5 minutes wouldn’t be a problem.

But right now, I was being tossed around according to the water flow.

Since it takes quite a bit of effort just to maintain balance here, my breath depleted faster.

Of course, there was no exit route.

The problem is that I can’t use magic either.

It’s difficult to cast while my entire body is being tossed around in the water.

One method did come to mind.

‘Should I use Gigantification?’

Like killing an enemy by using Gigantification inside their body and bursting them, I could expand here and break through the drainage pipe.

Pelerian could pass through objects to look outside.

“No, this is underground.”

Then that won’t work.

If this is underground, I shouldn’t use Gigantification.

If I did, I’d be crushed to death and turned into snake meat blood sausage.

‘Now, it’s really dangerous.’

It feels like it’s been more than 10 minutes since I was sucked in.

Pelerian also seems a bit urgent.

“Wait.”

In my increasingly hazy consciousness, I fell somewhere.

Splash!

The narrow drainage pipe widened.

‘Hot!’

I almost opened my mouth by accident.

It was water so hot that I would have become boiled snake meat if I didn’t have heat resistance.

Splashing and churning, the water flows as if I’ve entered a water park’s lazy river.

I could barely breathe.

‘Cooling water, is it being used as cooling water?’

I cleverly realized it right away.

It seems like they’re using clean water as something like cooling water.

That means there must be something hot outside.

‘Have we entered a space?’

“Yes, this is our chance to escape.”

Now that the water flow had slowed, it was our opportunity.

「Using Invisible Hand lv20.」

I drew out the longsword Sunset.

And slashed wildly around.

Clang, clang!

Sparks flew wildly inside the waterway.

The cloud iron sword left several wounds on the steel drainage pipe.

I put the sword away again and poured magic into one skill.

「Using Gigantification lv5.」

My body grew.

It was at the point where the water temperature was rising so much it started to boil.

My body volume gradually increased until it finally grew large enough to fill the waterway.

Ouch, it’s hot.

My body is getting squashed.

Using Gigantification inside a metal drainage pipe was certainly dangerous, but.

Creeeeak, creeeeeak!

Thanks to the wounds made by the cloud iron sword.

My body overcame the pressure of the metal plate.

Boom!

The waterway burst.

And the water inside also spilled out.

There must really be hot things around.

The water vaporized, emitting a tremendous amount of steam.

Hissss!

I moved forward, avoiding the steam obscuring my view.

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It was definitely beneath the Imperial Palace.

Given the time it took to descend, it must be an extremely deep underground.

But strange machines and pipes were arranged in a complex manner.

There were things like empty water tanks, and further inside, there were bookshelves with organized documents.

‘A research facility…?’

“Without a doubt…”

Why would such a place exist underground?

‘Suspicious, very suspicious.’

It seems I’ve entered a secret underground laboratory in the Imperial Palace.

The problem is that I’m in big trouble if I’m discovered.

‘Will the Sword Saint come to capture me?’

“Who would know you came in here?”

It’s still fine for now. As long as no one discovers me.

The problem is that I’ve caused trouble by destroying the cooling waterway.

‘Oh, fire!’

A fire started.

Documents caught fire, and smoke began to billow.

There must have been people inside.

“What’s that, smoke!”

“Fire, it looks like there’s a fire in the equipment sector!”

“Call the firefighting team!”

Beyond the door at the top of the stairs, it was chaotic.

Soon after, the sound of people running helter-skelter could be heard.

No, my presence must not be discovered.

「Using Destruction Beam lv1.」

I used Destruction Beam toward the stairs.

As expected, unlike a regular beam, the Destruction Beam showed excellent destructive power.

BOOM!

The stairs collapsed.

“Aaaaah!”

“Damn, the machinery must have exploded!”

Fortunately, the people outside didn’t seem to imagine that a snake had invaded along with bathwater.

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