BXBX NOVEL Chapter 136: 19th Floor (6)
"Well, I had no idea you were going to be the examiner, I\'m glad, I guess..." James said suddly, the examiner started to crawl backwards wh he heard this.
"Though I was expecting you to be more... how should I put it, bigger, your voice and size don\'t quite match," James added. The being in front of him was a snake, a snake whose skin moved like space and looked incredibly beautiful.
"If you want me to grow, that\'s quite doable," the snake said, and th it began to glow all a.
After only twty seconds the snake had grown to a gigantic size, so big that James couldn\'t ev see the snake\'s face anymore.
"Well? Does this fit in your head?" the snake suddly said, James covered his ears with his hands at the sound, his head hurting incredibly despite all the mana.
The examiner was about to burst out laughing wh the snake pulled back and looked into James\' eyes wh James suddly shouted:
"PLEASE DON\'T LAUGH, YOU\'LL MAKE MY HEAD EXPLODE!\'"
After these words, the snake fell silt and James spoke again:
"AMAZING!" shouted James, "You really are one of the most beautiful things I have ever se! I\'ve se Mount Olympus, I\'ve se Aphrodite, the most beautiful of the Greek goddesses, and I\'ve ev se Nyx herself, but you...you\'re the only thing ev remotely close to Nemesis."
James tried to protect his head and th stood up and said, "Tell me my test." The snake smiled as he heard these words, his big smile was visible, his tongue literally stuck out of his mouth and the hissing sound spread all over the floor.
The snake smiled and said, "My name is Noah, I am known as the Serpt of the Stars, I was created by the Supreme Dragons and placed on this floor of the tower as an examiner. I give differt tests to each visitor, presting them with difficult or impossible tests according to their pottial. Your test will be poison."
James shook his head wh he heard the word \'poison\' and asked "Poison?" as if he did not understand.
Ev if James himself didn\'t realise it, everyone watching him was about to lose their heads, of them thought James would get out of there alive.
Noah the snake was about to answer wh he suddly appeared in front of a system window, the snake smiled and th said "Don\'t worry Nyx, I wouldn\'t have offered this test if I thought you were going to die, I don\'t want Ra to come and kill me, at worst he\'ll be paralysed for a few months."
After these words, James smiled and th said, "I mean... I\'m glad that my lady is protecting me, if it ds with paralysis for a while and there is no death, I will do anything."
Noah could hardly restrain himself from laughing wh he heard those words.
However, a huge cauldron suddly appeared in front of James, and wh James looked at the cauldron, he asked, "You ain\'t gonna cook me up right?"
Noah was embarrassed wh he heard this and th shifted into his smaller form and shouted, "I\'ve got nowhere else to put you in! I swear!!"
Noah\'s voice was much thinner now, he sounded like a normal person.
At his words, the transpart cauldron filled with an incredibly dark gre, James looked into it, turned his head towards Noah who was crawling on the floor and th said, "I don\'t trust that this will not to kill me."
James\' expression was incredibly worried and sceptical as he stared at Noah with pursed lips.
"I swear to you you will not die, this is literally the lowest level of poison, I will increase it and if you are paralysed you will fail the exam. And I won\'t ev kill you! As I said, I don\'t want Ra to come and turn me into a snake kebab." snake Noah said suddly, as if trying to comfort James.
"Now take off everything you\'re wearing and get inside, quickly."
James still couldn\'t believe it, but he paused and before he took off his clothes he said, "Everyone stop watching! There\'s no one but Nemesis who needs to see me naked!"
With those words, he took off his top and jumped into the cauldron. As soon as she tered the cauldron she realised that her whole body was on fire, ev breathing was incredibly difficult.
"This... thing will be useful for me, right? If I pass the exam, I mean." James said and with that he saw Noah nod his head.
It wasn\'t long before James realised that he was getting dizzy, his vision was becoming restricted. His breathing was so restricted that he felt like he was going to faint, he could really only breathe every five seconds.
It was so strange that there was no way to describe it.
He seemed to be getting used to the poison though because the burning ssation in his body had lessed slightly, of course, it still burned a huge amount but with each passing second the ssation became less painful.
James realised that he needed to focus and stay awake, so he closed his eyes and got into a cross-legged position and began to feel the ergy of the stars in the sky.
He began to work on developing his Star Magic ability again.
Noah had just realised that James had Star Magic and felt stupid for not realising it wh he was watching him from the trees.
"This kid really has too many surprises, interesting," Noah thought.
The poison in James\' accidt was the lowest grade poison he had, but it was a basilisk\'s poison, a poison that could knock out a minator and kill a cyclops.
The fact that James was holding up so well was something to be respected.
Noah had to accept it.