The rise of the King cobra

Chapter 3: Knowledge is power



I was lying comfortably in my bed until I felt the sun shining on my face. So I turned my body to the side to not feel the rays hitting my face.

I then widened my eyes and jumped from the bed, trying to grab any weapon, only to remember I was not in my world anymore.

"Guess sleeping in this kind of bed made me forget my routine." I said out loud, only for no one to hear me.

The reasons why I acted like this, is because I tried to keep my sleep schedual as short as possible.

I didn't want any enemies I had made to try and catch me in my sleep, so I had to get used to sleeping for only three hours at most.

Any later than that, I was putting myself at risk. Call me paranoid, but I felt safer when I didn't sleep for too long.

Seeing that I was safe, I dropped my guard and made my way to the kitchen to make some breakfast.

However, when I opened the fridge, there wasn't any organic food at all, only synthetc food.

I never really had any of the food, so I pulled some of it out and began to cook. The fruits looked similar to the ones back on the earth I was from.

Next the eggs, they were more organic than synthetic, so I added those in the pan and began to mix the eggs and fruits, making myself an omelet.

Once I placed it onto my plate, I gave my thanks and scooped a part of it. Once the food landed on my mouth, I widened my eyes and spit it out.

I began to cough violently at the taste and looked at the food in disgust, it was like eating rubber with garbage on top of it.

I however forced myself to eat the rest of the food, once I finally scarfed the entire breakfast, I sat down in front of the window, over looking the city.

I was curious about the city and wanted to go out and explore, as the saying goes, knowledge is power.

But before I could do that, I still had to test the limits of the snakes. So I called both of them to me and waited for them to arrive.

After a few minutes of waiting, one of the snakes dropped from above, gracefully landing on the floor, and not causing any damage.

While the other came through another vent from the side, once the two of them had arrived, I ordered them to set up a perimeter and to let me know what was outside.

The two of them slithered away, entering the vent to the side. I continued to stare outside the window.

I soon received a message from the both of them, the snake that fell from above didn't have anything to say.

It just reported an ambulance flying by, while seeing some other buildings around us. Seeing that it didn't find anything useful, I called it back.

The other snake however, did see a mailman drop a package in front of my door and left. I was interested to see what was in the package, so I sent the snake to inspect it.

While it went to inspect the package, I spent the next few minutes on what I should wear today.

When I arrived last night, I checked the closet to see if there were any clothes for me, luckily for me, the god was kind enough to send me clothes.

In the end I went for a black short sleeve shirt, with a long sleave jacket, while I wore some black pants and some steal toed shoes. For some reason I always prefer black clothing no matter the season.

After finding the clothes to wear for the day, I went to the bathroom and washed my face to help me wake up for the day.

As I entered the bathroom, I stood in front of the mirror, my eyes widened when I saw that I had a completely new look.

My face was now more sharp, with a bit of a jaw line appearing, my hair was a dark grey with bits of black appearing at the tips.

My eyes were blue with a bit of yellow around the edge, finally I had a large scar that ran from my lip to eye.

The first scar I had received when I started my first mission, instead of being disgusted, I felt nistolgic.

I soon began to wash my face, not wanting to spend my entire day on looking at my new face.

While washing my face I tried to recall what the data chip explained about this world, since I didn't want to walk outside without any protection.

This world had destroyed every part of nature and only nuclear chemicals and fumes remained.

I was disappointed at the fact that the 'corpos' only care about getting richer and not helping the world.

Then again, back in my world, most of the targets I had to kill where like the people here. They only cared about themselves, using any means necessary.

'No matter where I go things will stay the same, the rich are richer, and the poor are poorer.' I sighed to myself at the fact that we humans will only care for ourselves and try to survive the longest.

By the time I finished washing my face, the two snakes returned and showed me what's in the box.

Inside the box was another one of those shards that was placed behind me head, and a gun, it looked like a sniper rifle.

The scope was pink, and the body of the weapon looked like a anti-tank rifle. I inserted the shard and waited for the data to appear.

A screen appeared with a video and in the video the same God appeared. He congratulated me for surviving the night since the death rate is high.

He then explained that all types of legal and illegal business happen in this city, such as mercenary work, assassination, smuggling, and sex trafficking.

Once again my calm was broken on the amount of crime that happens in this city, I was even sure that this amount of crime would cause many people to riot.

But the people were too scared to care, and treat it as a normal thing. If paid enough the police would even look away and say nothing.

The God then explained more about the snakes, he then went on explaining they don't need to recharge since the amount of nuclear chemicals in the air is enough to power them for a couple of decades.

The other functions that the snakes had was that it could turn invisible, sure it would stay hidden from the naked eye, but if they carefully looked, it could still be spotted

The other function is that it has the streangth to bind anyone, however if the person has strong implants, it can escape so I had to find any implants that can strengthen the snakes.

I was impressed on the number of abilities the snake had and sent a prayer of thanks in appreciation for the gifts.

The gun in the box was a Techtronika SPT32, it was a bolt action sniper rifle made by a Russian company. The damage it can cause was very powerful enough to pierce through many things.

Although it is very powerful it is very heavy and if the user doesn't have a strong body, it will send the user flying, it may also be difficult to aim with the weapon itself.

The scope can be replaced, but sadly I can't add a muzzle to suppress the sound, it made me uncomfortable since I would rather use my venom to kill.

The god then told me to offer it to one of the snakes, I did as he said and the snake opened its jaw and swallowed the whole gun.

The snake then trembled a bit and soon started to transform, copying the entire body of the sniper including the scope.

The god continued to explain that it could imitate any gun that it eats and modify it to my needs.

Looking closer at the imitation, I saw that the barrel had a large surpressor. I began to gently drag my finger along the body, and I felt it shiver.

I was impressed by the work he placed into these and was happy to see that I could make my shots silent. The video then ended when the god said his final words.

"Oh I almost forgot if you are going to get some eddies send your snakes to these locations, you'll be able to find some work for yourself. And Alabast since you have been sent to this world enjoy it to the fullest and make sure to entertain me. I look forward to when you die."

I removed the shard and destroyed it so that no one else can see what's inside. I then decided to send both of my snakes to find more iron and head to the locations that he mentioned to find some jobs.

"Time to make my appearance, I guess." I then set them out to explore the city, it was time for me to have my debut.


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