Waking up drowsily from my oppressive instincts on the seventh day, the first thing I saw after using Clairvoyance to peep out of my shell was…mom looking at me closely eye-to-eye, which jump-scared me out of my drowsiness…Damn I’m not even officially born yet, and still I receive a heart-attack before the age of one. Cutting off my Clairvoyance, hoping she did not notice me…I went into stealth mode and tried to feel for her reaction based on my sense of touch, which had improved to the point I can feel her movements outside the egg haha. I feel...astonishment judging from mother’s rapid heartbeat and…hard to describe…it is almost as if she had shut down from the shock because all I feel is an uneasy stillness, then…she is…joyful…for some reason. She did sense my mana, but…I think she misinterpreted it as moving…healthy…? She then sprang up and levitated, then flew out into the cave exit/entrance in a hurry. What the hell just happened…? Feeling an uneasy sense of dread, I silently cultivated, waiting for the future consequences born from my carelessness…

Around what felt like an hour, I stopped what I was doing when I detected a new presence mother brought with her on her return. I projected Clairvoyance through the ground beneath to stealthily steal a good look at the new presence from a ground’s point of view mole style. Now let’s see who she brought….!....

……Holy…While mother is bit too kind and serene-looking for a powerful serpent creature…THIS one…it is BIGGER than mother…and way scarier than her. This one has multiple horns resembling a makeshift badass crown for a serpent king, black, slightly spiky and sharp spines along with its tough-looking scales, pitch-black eyes with blood-red snake irises…glowing crimson, gray lion-like mane for hair on some parts of its body, two muscular arms with...glowing white, tough metal-like razorsharp claws, and its menacing fangs are literally showing…which I am not sure if it’s intentional or not… What makes this menacing serpent stand out the most, was its…tattoos…white-gold metallic in color and seems to be pulsing with power, acting like arteries and veins for another substance, its white-orange diamond-like jewel embedded into its forehead right between its eyes, and its…are those wings…? It definitely looks like it…..And his terrifying aura is definitely not helping…

What makes this serpent even scarier…is that despite the long distance between us, it started to turn its line of sight down directly at me, to my Clairvoyance’s location as if it noticed me…With my honed reflexes, I canceled it quickly before it saw me and remained in stationary mode, emitting normal levels of mana to avoid detection.

Now relying on my sense of touch like always, I feel its body, most likely its head, looking down at me closely…um…egg-to-face. What I am now feeling from its gaze…well…let’s just say it is ‘piercing’, like trying to gaze through my soul, but…I can feel it is struggling a bit in its attempt…can’t be just me with my stealth skills alone as I am trying VERY hard to avoid leaking out as much as I can and judging from its aura’s intensity and our recent encounter, I know it is more than capable of seeing through my façade…and I am pretty sure it is not faking its…struggles…

A few minutes later after we started our silent battle, I sense movement, the edges of its mouth area then perked up, almost as if it is…grinning…only it has an ominous feel to it. It stopped gazing at me closely egg-to-face and pulled back to turn its head to mother…feeling…joyful…it is a bit hard to tell due to its constant menacing aura leaking out. The two serpents then strangely looked at each other for some time, as if they’re…communicating…somehow…judging by the complex series of emotions and body movement similar to the sight of two people talking back home. I am curious of this and I tried to feel how they were communicating without using their mouths, but it is a bit too faint and foreign for me to understand, though I did sense something at least…

After some time, they finished 'talking' and…the black one is nudging mother, with a slight hint of affection…WOW…….Do not tell me this scary tyrant is my…Dad? Observing ‘dad’ much more closely at his aura, ignoring the fear effect it gives out, I do feel some sense of…familiarity with him…despite his scary atmosphere. And before they both exited into the tunnel, ‘dad’ glanced right back at me again one last time…only he is now…smirking…this time, and it felt a bit too different from a simple grin, before leaving.

Now releasing my tension in relief when he is completely gone, I now realized I still have some time before sleepy time, so I resumed my daily training before then, pushing my thoughts of today’s for tomorrow to deal with as I can do nothing about it at the moment…

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