111 There Be Dragons Here, Part 2

This new enemy wasn’t just any dragon though. The Drakon Kholkikos, as the ancient Greeks called it, was an ancient earth dragon with a thirty-foot serpentine body that sported bright green scales, poisonous claws, and rows of wickedly sharp teeth. Now, it didn’t have wings like Medea’s solar dragons did, and it looked more like an oversized anaconda than the conventional drake, but there was no mistaking its terrifying, draconic eyes, that legends claimed could paralyze men with just a stare.

[WARNING! You are being targeted by an ocular attack. Countermeasures deployed.]

Dark-tinted shades fell over the peepers of Sam’s mask.

[The Mask of the Argonaut’s [Shades] ability is now active. Chance to deflect ocular attack increased by 50%.]

Yes, a few of the Mask of the Argonaut’s abilities had been unlocked to match Sam’s growth. He’d just been so busy that he failed to pay them any mind until now.

Sam waited a second. Then two. Then three.

[Paralysis successfully blocked.]