Cades had been relatively close to the mysterious demon of the sea in comparison to the other demons that he had hunted down but it had still taken Cades about a week of non-stop flying to finally arrive at the sea known as "nurol".
It was a calm crystal-like lake with the entirety of the sea being completely see-through, he could see the, from his point, ant-like fish, though relatively few.
The relatively big lake was surrounded by a luscious green forest similar to how the ancient library had been surrounded by its forest.
Cades was flapping his wings many hundred feet above the lake and looked around.
Interestingly enough one could not see any living creatures in the beautiful, life-bearing forest but the lake, in which the demon allegedly resided was brimming with vibrant, colourful forests, beautiful fishes, absolutely wondrous, rainbow crabs and other than that many different species that called the beautiful lake their home.
Meanwhile the beautiful forest, in which the alleged demon didn't reside was covered in nothing, Cades, with his incredible eye-sight, couldn't even see insects squirming in the ground, there was silence.
Nothing was there, nothing moved, nothing was there, except for the beautiful forest.
Then, suddenly, Cades had a horrible premonition and he quickly turned around, his hear beating frantically, almost springing out of his step every single second and he saw something horrible.
A gigantic fleshy, hideous, dark tunnel was right behind him and quickly moved towards him.
There were four gigantic, inwardly curved, white columns that were ready to seemingly rip him apart.
Everywhere in the fleshy tunnel there was a glistening, gooey, see-through liquid.
Cades quickly realized what he was looking at when his mind finally realized that the muscles inside the fleshy tunnel were quickly contracting.
He had realized all of this within a fracture of a second.
It was a gigantic snakes maw.
Cades, realizing this, twirled around in the skies, the weighted, flat end at one of the staffs thrusting inside one of the muscles of the humongous maw and throwing it off of its path, into the crystal clear lake, but, although Cades had been intently watching the humongous, white being it vanished as soon as he first had to blink.
The humongous, slithering worm had vanished and Cades thoughts began racing, thinking about what could've possibly happened.
His first thoughts were about camouflage.
Maybe the snake had the abilities to change the colours of its scales, but that idea was idiotic, their would've been inconsistencies, as if a transparent, gigantic snake was slithering through the air, as it would've.
Then he thought about the classical illusion of invisibility, but that would've caused inconsistencies because of the mental magic that the snake would've had to use.
'Transformation ?'
Yes, that made sense, maybe the gigantic snake was its original form and right now it was flying around as a tiny dragon-fly, but for that the snake would've needed to be much more intelligent, or at least Cades thought that it would have to be.
But at that very moment he once again experienced a premonition and quickly ran away, towards the left and down at the water, arriving there, hundreds of feet away, within less than a second and causing a shockwave to send ripples through then tranquil lake and a deafening boom through the air that was undoubtably a sonic boom.
And as he quickly turned, right above the once tranquil and even surface of the beautiful water he saw the ancient, mysterious demon in its full, horrendous, terrifying beauty.
The demon of the lake was indeed a being resembling a snake, a gigantic, beautifully white snake as big as an entire caravan of trains travelling bound together, and as wide as an entire house, every single one of its scales that seemed to be as big as a big shield was glistening with droplets of water that were quickly being thrown off by the speed at which it was slithering through the sky which seemed to be just like water to it.
Its maw was directly headed to Cades, its long tail showing the path it took.
Its four, probably venomous, fangs were all as white as a beautiful pear and as big as multiple men atop each other, they had a unknown liquid at the end of them that was shimmering as if it was quicksilver, and maybe it was quicksilver.
The speed at which the monster was moving was tremendous, it was only slightly slower than Cades at his highest speeds, as such Cades had to instantly evade again as the monstrous, flying snake had already caught up with him and he had now been given two choices, either be devoured by the gaping tunnel of flesh or evade and hopefully let the snake crash into the pristine and clear lake just a few feet beneath him.
As Cades evaded he felt a violent gust of wind and was splashed in a tremendous amount of water that had been splashed by the huge body of the snake.
The water of the pristine lake was now rippled, as if it was the ocean itself during a horrid storm that would've devoured the lives of thousands of sailors, but the snakes body was nowhere to be seen.
Cades knew what that being was.
It was no snake, it was most likely a "wyrm".
A wyrm was a kind of dragon-snake hybrid that had neither legs nor wings, but was often still associated with the dragon-species, be it as a subspecies.
They had the ability to swim in the air and were wildly powerful, mostly associated with water.
In this case the wyrm seemed to specialize in changing its form, or, much more likely, just its size.
But that didn't matter for the battle as the gigantic wyrm had already vanished into nothing, invisible in the stormy lake, probably either one of the many fishes in one of the fleeing swarms or maybe just a small worm, or a white snake as small as a small spider slithering through the waves.
On the other hand Cades already had a feel of where the monster would attack from.