— An unknown amount of time later, within the Perfidious Castle of the Cobra Empress —
*Thud!*
Hearing and seeing another snake-kin hit the ground with sweat rolling off his face, the Cobra Empress's sharp, delicate brows furrowed. "Let me guess—another stronghold has fallen?"
"Y-Yes, my Queen! Fortress Beatriz has fallen to that human!"
"And you?" The Cobra Empress motioned to the snake-kin who had arrived first and kneeled.
"M… My Queen, Fort Amock has also fallen to the insidious human…" said the kneeling snake-kin.
"I see… What number does that make now?" she asked, her face covered in shadows and unknowns. "50? 60? 70??"
Silence.
"Answer me!"
RUMBLE!!
"!!!" "!!!"
"I-It makes 86, my Queen…!"
"86…" The Cobra Empress repeated, her thoughts unreadable. "To have 86 bases demolished by a single human… Just how many millions of our kind have been slaughtered because of the incompetence of you all?"
"6-68 million, my Queen—"
BAZING!
POP!
