It took him a few moments to perceive a little soul floating to the east of his kingdom, not one of his servants, they won't dare to fly higher than he is.
Focusing his inside gaze , he called on the System to answer his question, he knows that the system is not subservient to him, but he listens to the Snake, and that's enough.
Weak, wouldn't even make a dent in his progression, he let her go back to the surface.
The Godling part is interesting, the snake call, and a few of his ghosts come to him, he doesn't have to ask, his servant would have to be undeserving of a King if he needed to speak to get an answer.
"My liege, Godling, like I was, are chosen by the system as being who could ascend to godhood and create a new specie to populate your realm. How and when the System judge someone deserving of that power is mysterious, even for me.
"I received it when I obtained my second class 'Artisan of the dead', which allowed me to change the traits of my undead creations. Godlings are powerful on their own, and I managed to take over my kingdom, gaining in power until the day I died"
The snake open lazily one eye, and the ghost cease to speak, understanding that his blabbering is enough. That Jessica is weak, but she will become more powerful, and when she becomes a deserving meal, then she will come back to face the snake, and she will join his kingdom, and the snake will become more powerful.
He can feel her setting down high up where the ground and the damn sun is, she runs away slowly, and without spatial abilities, a shame, and when she comes back she seems to be busy poisoning littles bugs, the snake can feel dozens of soul go to higher realms as the night go on.
Truly vicious, that hunt will be fun. The snake is not a Godling, he is a king, and he does not care that the System hadn't offered that power, as he has no interest in creating a new species, and does not need new debts.
The snake's kingdom does not have a library or a school, but He knows the system does not give anything freely, and every bit of power must be earned with effort and bravery. And the snake is waiting for his next evolution, as he would like the ability to slither between the space, as he noticed that sneaky mammal do years ago, but if anything, the snake is patient.
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The Ghost of the Architect went back to his tower. The Snake isn't the micromanagement type of King, and the Architect was able to take back his home when he was alive.
He faces all the calculations, notes on necromancy and research of the last century. The Snake magic bind his victims into servitude, making them practically incapable of plotting against him. The keyword there is practically. He took a new piece of paper, and start writing, that new Godling is an opportunity.
The Snake think of himself too powerful to fail, but the Architect was a Godling once, and he knows what kind of potential it entails. Once he was powerful, building a new form of unlive to serve his goals, accessing a form of eternal life. But his country was destroyed by the Snake when he was absent.
When he came back, the ghost had converted the people of the dead Kingdom in an army of ghosts, and the Architect lost the fight. But where he failed because his mastery was over the bodies, that young woman may vanquish the Snake with her mastery over the Soul.
One can only hope.
"The snake of ouroboros is a classic example of a creature or class that operate outside the usual expectation of power for his level, those creatures were originally estimated to be apex beasts, because of their advanced intelligence and their kingdom toppling power, further investigation indicate that they do not possess a legendary trait, which is the criteria for an apex beast or specie. What they have instead been a few synergistic traits, leading some experts to believes they are the result of a failed attempted to make a new apex beast, that allow the creature to increase his strength passively as it age.
They are, comparatively to a creature of their level, weaker or stronger, and the only way to know is their age and by extension their size. A 200 years old snake in captivity will grow to around level 15, it will have attributes about half that of a creature the same level, except for a few things : his size will give him a boost to Str approximating 20, and a boost to speed similar which if you remember your classes on average stat progression is a lot of passives boosts but not really the reason they are on most kingdom kill on sight list : The snake in this study was kept in captivity and fed at a minimum, and rise to a level most of you may never attain in their lifetime.
That's the thing making them dangerous, they can grow to a dangerous power while hiding away, and smart enough to not attack civilization while they are weaker. That's why people though they were apex, because they seem to appear from nowhere with a terrible power, but they were just waiting for their time."
University of Carthage class 'Of expectation of power'