"Behold, the Chosen of the Malefic Viper! Jake Thayne!" Silence reigned, and frowns formed after many correctly saw he was a human. None had expected this… Perhaps a snake, likely a dragonkin, or, in rare cases, some other beast… but not a human. Doubt had begun to sprout, questions were forming, and disbelief was rampant. And then he stepped on the circle. A wave of his presence blasted through the halls, instantly washing away all doubt and shaking Helen to her very core as she and everyone else realized what stood before them. An apex predator. No… The monster who hunts them.
