Galaxy's First Ruler

Chapter 150: Lord of Storms and Thunder

The hip-hop song kept playing with its off-beat rhythm.

The direction of the winds within the storms was like an instrument, ever-changing and following the lead of the singer. Even with Aldrich's Stats, it felt hard for him to maintain his footing. And the lightning in the clouds flashed, giving the song a flashy background.

Aldrich was about to dash towards the yellow flashing beacon when the stormy winds in front of him parted. The music felt like coming closer and closer and the voice of the famous rapper echoed in the valley.

Hissss!!!

A hissing sound from hundreds of snakes took over the valley for a moment before that thing walked out in front of Aldrich.

It was like a malnourished person had walked out of the darkness behind him. Its skin was completely white and the protruding ribs gave it a mummified appearance. It had unusually long hands and a long face as if someone had stretched them downwards.

Within its white face, there were two red-colored snakelike pupils, and from time to time, a forked tongue kept coming out of its mouth. The disheveled black hair over its head reached down to the waist, below which there weren't legs, but a lower-half of a snake. The combined length of the half-snake body could easily measure to tens of meters. And yet, these things weren't the most eye-catching and bizarre for Aldrich.

On its right shoulder, near the pointy ear, was a large Boombox or the "Ghetto Blaster". It was holding the Boombox at its position using one hand, and the other hand was shaking a baseball cap along with the music and the lyrics. Its long tail roiled around with rhythm, making the storm and dark clouds respond in tandem too.

The Crawler came to a stop around a hundred meters away from Aldrich. Aldrich's white eyes stared into its red slits as the thing put the cap backward over its head. A voice more like hissing and less of a person came out of its mouth.

"Hey yo, Wassup B! It's yo boy, Lil Sugaar."

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Aldrich was speechless.

He couldn't comprehend what kind of coincidences could have happened in the Dungeon, for the Crawler to turn out like this. The only thing Aldrich was sure of was that there was nothing little about the Crawler, neither its size nor its Stats. Aldrich took a glance at the numbers hovering over its head before giving any reply.

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Record of 'Lord of Storms and Thunder' Sugaar

Status: Healthy

Level: 35

HP: 1979/1979

SP: 2940/2940

MP: 1835/1835

Rank: Viscount

Attributes -->

Strength: 140

Defense: 110

Agility: 160

Vitality: 93

Perception: 95

Correspondence: 90

Active Skills -->

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Passive Skills -->

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]

Aldrich remembered the details related to Sugaar. The half-serpent being was considered as the male part of the pre-Christian Basque Deity of Storms and Thunder. There weren't many legends written about Sugaar, but Aldrich remembered the most famous one for which the Sugaar was known.

It was to mate with the Goddess Mari frequently in the mountains to generate storms.

Aldrich couldn't help but look all around in search of a female Crawler. From his last encounter, he didn't believe the RECORD's setting too much.

"Sha, let me know if you feel any more presence other than him."

Aldrich gave a few more instructions to Sha, but his senses had locked onto the Crawler from the start. The song had changed, but the Crawler's nonchalant attitude along with its dancing tail hadn't ceased. Aldrich sensed its red snake-like eyes following the movement of his head as he tried to look in the dark valley.

"Yo, whatcha lookin' for? You's coming from Armas Plaza? Aight, Aight."

Aldrich narrowed his eyes, seeing the Crawler easily guessing his previous location when it could be just anything else. Aldrich guessed what gave the Crawler such an impression, but he wanted the music-loving Crawler to talk more.

"How do you know?"

The Crawler shook its head along with the beats and a low laugh came out along with the hissing of its snakelike tongue.

"Hess-Hesss! Only dat crib got two furry bitches. Ain't nobody here but me and my baby."

Aldrich saw the half-serpent Crawler giving a kiss to the Boombox or the so-called 'baby'. If not much, he at least got to know that other than the Plaza of Armas, the rest of the Plazas had only one Crawler within them. That's too if the Viscount Sugaar hadn't lied to him.

"You seem different from those Giants. But how can I believe your words, aren't you a Crawler just like them?"

The Crawler smirked, hearing Aldrich's words, and snapped his fingers in tune with the booming song before replying.

"True dat, but"

The half-serpent being didn't get to finish his words as Aldrich had already dashed towards him. Aldrich traded facing an early penalty with the opportunity to catch the Crawler off guard. He enhanced his Agility to the maximum limit possible and a black shadowy Katana appeared in his hand. In just a fraction of a second, Aldrich had already come up in front of the Crawler with the sword raised high to cut it down in one slash.

Krrrrrr!!!

Aldrich looked at the widened eyes of the Crawler and cut its figure down from head to the waist. The beats of the song that was getting played on the Boombox seemed to halt as a scratchy noise came out of it. But Aldrich felt little to no resistance as he came to a stop after cutting down the Crawler. It was like he had just cut the winds of the storm and not flesh.

Aldrich, in sheer astonishment, looked up and saw the gap in the Crawler's body from where the swords had passed. But there was no blood, flesh, or cries of pain. The Crawler had a smile full of mockery as Aldrich looked at its slashed face. It slowly raised the volume of the Boombox and the storm suddenly intensified, sliding Aldrich away from it. The Crawler's entire body burst apart in a mass of unseen wind blades, leaving behind a few words for Aldrich.

"Yo, chill out! See you at the light, if you survive. Hess-Hessss!"

"Daddy I not feel him."

Crackkkkk!

Aldrich was about to raise his Defence to resist the sharp winds of the storm. But the sudden flash of a deafening bolt of lightning presented a scene that made him forgo the thought.

Hisssssssss!!!

Hundreds of thousands of humongous white and gray snakes were slithering towards him into the valley from all around.