Headed by a Snake

  • Genre： Fantasy
  • Author： CouchSurfingDragon
  • Translator：
  • Status： Ongoing

  • Rating(3.8 / 5.0) ★

I woke up in this world with a System and a sword. Without hesitation, I chose to complete the princess’ quest with my weapons: Arrogance. Cunning. Pride. I will lead guild Sol Invictus. Denizens of the 7 hells, respect me. Servants of the 11 heavens, know fear. Guild Invictus, know the suffering of training so you can wrest victory from the jaws of those who dare doubt you.

This is a story about a snake named Tycondrius waking up in a fantasy world of swords and sorcery. There is action, violence, unapologetic murder, and arrogant displays of power. There is an emphasis on combat growth as well as psychological growth on more than a few members of Guild Invictus. There is camaraderie and also the inevitable comedic dialogue amongst manly men. There are even elements of romance and Tycon running away from terrifying, powerful women. (Did you know most female snakes eat their partners after mating?)

Give this book a read. I hope some of these stories can inspire you to fight your battles with analytical intelligence, heroic courage, and ruthless lethality.

Work is completed as of 9May2024. There\'s also a few side-stories written in Chapter 1151!

Here is my discord: https://discord.gg/NNbAj7N
Constructive criticism and corrections welcome. Other Authors extra-welcome.

You can find a list of characters at https://snek.fandom.com/wiki/Character_List

Cover image credit: Johnabrash at Fiverr

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  1. Frances Lyly
    Frances Lyly rated it
    Now that I have caught up with the story and have been following it religiously since, I got something else to say:

    This is the only webnovel I deem worthy of support from the entire lot(I hope to find more, but the amount of garbage makes it nigh impossible). Even compared to actuall fantasy books that take years to write(from writers like Joe Abercrombie, Brandon Sanderson, R.A. Salvatore... you get the point) this is almost on the same playing field.

    However, you cant compare a novella written on a daily basis without much review with the biggest fantasy writers of the 21st century. It would be unfair and stupid, and yet this work is relentlessly grasping at the feet of such giants and the quality reflects that.

    As I keep reading, the story only keeps getting better, the characters more interesting, and the worldbuilding more believable. Even with all the pop-culture and meta refferences, this work keeps surprising. It easily brings you from ceasless bellowing laughter, to a serious atmosphere and it even throws freshly cut onions at your face(definitely not crying, ots the onion).

    Can't give the writer enough praise, and while marginally subjective, my opinion allows me to rate this webnovel 11/10.

    **: This is my second review and I don't care if its illegal to post more than one.
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  1. Sam Bright
    Sam Bright rated it
    This is the 69th review, how auspicious.

    The story is very good and must be written by a very handsome, well-adjusted person. It's about a snake, a most magnificent creature, who disguises himself as a human through magic. Being a human is confusing, of course, and the first parts of the story is about adjusting to his dumb slightly-more-human allies and trying to make them successful. Once he figures more things out, he kills people he doesn't like, and lives his best life. Hopefully, everyone lives happily ever after, from there. It tends to never work out perfectly-- probably because humans are involved.
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  1. Chapman Freeman
    Chapman Freeman rated it
    Sooo... How do I say this...

    I f*ucking love this!

    It's pure comedy gold (mostly incredibly stupid humor, but that's exactly what makes it this good!).

    To be fair it's a bit wobbly in the beginning but don't mind that, besides somehow it works even tho the story doesn't explain to much (I recommend reading the author notes and the authors comments, there's some worldbackgroud info in there, maybe the author could compose one or two auxiliary chapters for those Infos?).
    But the worldbackgroud, powerscaling etc. Isn't really that important because this book is a lot like the anime 'konosuba'. In the sense the the characters and their interactions are in the foreground, and the humor. Then again it is a lot darker than konosuba.

    I still haven't completely made up my mind about this but I very much enjoy reading this story!

    So keep up the good work author!

    And to everyone else, I hope I could help you get a better picture of the novel with my ramblings.

    Sorry for any messed up english, not my first language.

    Yours sincerely
    Korriberg
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  1. Vito Terry
    Vito Terry rated it
    Honestly hilarious but Tycon did Bazra a little too dirty like way too dirty I genuinely felt bad for the guy instead of being able to just laugh at it after a while other than that this story is damn good
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  1. Sophia Gray
    Sophia Gray rated it
    Maybe someone will like it, but I did not appreciate the book. After reading the synopsis, I expected to see a book with serious characters and a story, but in the end I got a collection of not the most interesting jokes. Indeed, the synopsis talks about humor, but I did not expect such a presentation, where every f***ng sentence is a joke.
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  1. Dominic Malachi
    Dominic Malachi rated it
    the best novel on here.
    really well written, long chapters and the chapter releases are all ways on time.

    the story is amazing  with really good character development.

    would recommend this to anyone.
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  1. Mildred Dunlop
    Mildred Dunlop rated it
    I just don't like the writing style and the jumping of povs without a single indication that it's happening, seeing the same scene twice, once for each person involved, it's just not my thing
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  1. Merry Titus
    Merry Titus rated it
    This story is wonderful! If you love TRPGs you should get a kick out of this. Just try to leave your preconceptions of a fantasy world behind. Some common stereotypes fit, while many are lacking. The author does a wonderful job of world building, and an even better job of balancing humor and cold violence. the only part of this i even thought about not giving full marks too is writing quality, and only because there were a few minor typos through out. After thinking more I decided that there is only so much perfection you can expect from a novel published on a daily basis with no editor. All in all a perfect web novel and one I am willing to spend all my coin on. Death to the enemies of Invictus!
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