basically andy finds his way in a small town called Belivok where apparently all the waters are "spawning" huge water serpents but there's this one body of water which has the biggest serpent people have seen ever since the outbreak, and no one has managed to kill it, since arrows are how they were killing the other serpents, this serpent seemed to be totally immune and instead swallowed the archers whole. so andy goes over and finds the guy named Connor, Connor tells what's going on and such, all nervous because he's an inexperienced mage who's only just started being a mage, and Andy dives headfirst into the water, digging his hands underneath the scales around the serpent's neck. He hits it against the walls of the lake until the serpent is weakened, and then strangles it. it explodes into a pile of coins.

Andy swims up to get some air, only to find that the people surrounding the lake dove for coins. He quickly tried to get as much of the earnings as possible, because **** those guys they didn't do shit Andy did all the work >:( He grabs tons of coins that no one managed to reach and swims back up to land, greeted by Connor who stutters about how cool Andy looked and how brave Andy was. So Andy gives Connor half the earnings he caught and walks away. Apparently Andy was reported to have done something dangerous and thus against the rules because he could have easily been killed. But Andy's like "I coulda died if I thought about dying but I thought about killing it so I killed it" and was thus named the bravest (and stupidest) citizen of Belivok. Even though he's not a citizen he's a traveler. But he decides to live there anyway, least for now. Connor follows him and talks with him and hugs him, while Andy's like "I looked like a psycho why do you suddenly trust me" and then I woke up after that.

Tbh Connor seemed pretty gay cus he auto looked lovestruck when Andy popped out of the water after killin that serpent

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