Chapter 79 - Chapter 79: Culling 

A blood curdling shriek ringing out amidst the surrounding land, it shook the bare branches of the sparse bushes speckled haphazardly around the landscape before the Lindworm went limp in the lethal jaws of his opponent. Blood, gushing from its scaly carcass as it was crushed between teeth that were sharper and more brutal than daggers. Cassius, tossing aside the remains of his defeated foe. The enormous snake-like creature falling with a grim thud upon the ground, the liquid contents of the creature spilled forth, seeping into the parched and cracked soil where it had been deposited.