We have company

"Yes master, they call me Tyris" She replied in a low voice.

"You don't have to call me master, only Nicola is fine. I didn't buy you to serve as a slave, I just want to ask you to do something for me and after that I will set you free."

The snakes in her hair swung and hissed in agitation, the news startling the woman to the point of leaving her standing on the road while they walked. As if she didn't believe what she had heard. "Is it really true, mest ... Nicola?" She asked reluctantly to believe.

Tuatha circled around the snake woman, knowing the anatomy of a species unknown to him. That made Tyris a little uncomfortable but she didn't speak up because of the shock caused by Nicola's statement.

"Yes Tyris, I recently got some snake eggs and I would like you to incubate them and take care of the young for a while." He offered it to her. "By the way, where did you come from? Although I found several snake beasts I never saw any of your kind, even in Jambel City."

Nicola had recently gotten his dead enemy's eggs and had not found a way to make them hatch. After all, magical beasts are different from humanoid species, and finding a kind of snake woman, Nicola hoped they could be hatched by her.

In all these years in the city of Jambel, Nicola never paid much attention to the slave market for feeling antipathy in that market. His personal principles back to Earth still prevented him from finding it normal to own slaves. But as he passed by the market this time he found Tyris and an idea pop up in his head.

He did not want to form a master-servant contract but he was still suspicious about the honesty of someone who was imprisoned against its will.

"It will be an honor to fulfill this mission for the mas ... Mr. Nicola" She thanked him by bowing and curling his tail in a gesture of gratitude to Nicola. When she got up she continued "I was kidnapped from my tribe in the Avec Kingdom, there is a large clan of snakes controlled by the mother of snakes, the medusa queen" She spoke proudly.

"What are these clans and who is the medusa queen? I never have heard about them" Nicola asked.

The group around Nicola nodded they heads confirming they never heard about that too. The brother and sister had access to the library but never searched about the clans in the continent or the big figures here. Tuatha also have never heard about it, he heard all those news with the interest of a kid.

"The medusa queen is a powerful giant snake that evolved her lineage and became powerful enough to rule all eight snake tribes. We tend to live in community a lot and hardly ever leave our tribes elsewhere, so almost no one knows our existence outside the Avec Kingdom"

"Eight tribes, what are these tribes? Aren't you all snakes? Oh, leave it for later, we'll have plenty of time to talk later. Now we have company.

Throughout these years Nicola has always kept a low profile wherever he went, except for his fame as a blacksmith and alchemist he was not known within the social circles of the Melkor Empire, his acquaintances were based on the time he spent as a mercenary, colleagues at the Academy and .... Of course, the Balta Family had some disagreement against him.

However Nicola was still inside the city, so he didn't think it was likely that they would harass him on such a busy street, yet he had taken some precautions against them.

"You can get out of the shadows" He declared looking at a shadow generated by the building. Kin and Gin prepared to intercept the uninvited guest by drawing their sword and staff from their space equipment. Tuatha change his form to lightning, ofcourse he hasn't the power of the real deal but not everyone knows about that. Even Tyris, the new team member, prepared for the confrontation by curling up on her own tail and ruffling her live snake hair that hissed in the air like rattlesnakes.

Nicola had nine family servants watching the surrounding area, along with his highly developed senses it was not difficult to identify that he was being followed on the shadows. The beetles mixed with the surrounding elements were successful in the task of watching, communication was done through communication between souls, which happened in milliseconds, so there was no delay in the reaction.