The python was sleeping between two rocks about four hundred meters south of his tree and Eren had been watching it for almost a minute from behind a bush with his Invisibility active and his spear pointed at its skull.
He crept forward with his bare feet making no sound on the dirt and his breathing slowed to almost nothing. Ten meters away then eight then six. The python's body was thick and brown and coiled loosely around itself with its head resting on the outermost loop. A fire python, not elemental like the big one he'd dragged home last week but still large enough that one good bite would pump enough venom into his bloodstream to make his Poison Resistance earn its keep.
Four meters. His Invisibility timer was running out but he only needed two more seconds. He raised the spear and pulled mana into the tip until it glowed faint blue-white and drove it forward at the python's skull.
The python moved.
