The real test came when he found the fire snakes about a kilometer south. The thick coiled ones that had nearly killed him during his first week. Each one was two meters long and they spat concentrated fireballs that could burn through wood.
Two weeks ago he would've run. Today he dropped from a tree branch right into the middle of three of them.
The first snake struck at his leg. He saw it coming in a way that felt slowed down and his leg moved sideways without him telling it to. His hand shot down and grabbed the snake behind the head before the fireball even left its throat.
The other two launched fireballs at the same time. Eren jumped sideways and the height he got surprised even himself, clearing almost four meters of lateral distance in one push. He threw the dead snake at one and snatched a rock mid-sprint. Calculated Arc guided it into the third snake's skull from fifteen meters.
