《Bloodline Monarch: Start as a Snake》


 1:Evolution

    In a world filled with life.


    A space suddenly cracked and a human male fell onto the riverbank, The human appeared insignificant compared to the gigantic river. Just after he fell, dark red spots began to appear on his body.


    Slowly his body began to melt and become black-red gooey stuff. A few minutes later, the human body is thoroughly decomposed into a blood-red liquid and what remains becomes a black cocoon.


    Later, the black cocoon began to move and a fist-sized black tadpole-like creature broke free from the cocoon and looked at the surroundings without knowing where to go or what to do.


    Suddenly the ground began to vibrate. The tadpole-like creature on instinct moved away from the bloody mess and hid itself in the nearby bushes.


    This creature doesn''t have that much thinking process. It looked around the surroundings in its perception. In which it can only see living beings and looks around to see possible living beings.


    A few minutes later, the creature found a group of black eggs with half a meter height in the small space beside a small swamp a few meters away from the riverbank.


    The creature had an unknown desire to approach the egg. So the creature without wasting time approached the egg and touched it with its round egg-shaped head.


    When the creature touched the egg, it melted itself into the egg and disappeared into one of the five eggs in the swamp. Moments later, a huge black shadow appeared above the eggs and covered almost all the eggs and the swamp in its shadow.


    It is a gigantic black snake that is twenty meters long with two meters wide. It has light crimson eyes. It looked around as its tongue slithered and made a noise.


    ~Hisssss~


    Then it looked around in confusion, as it came out sensing something moving around. But upon finding nothing, it stopped its scouting entered the swamp, and disappeared.


    Everything returned to normal, in this wildlife where giant snakes and other wild animals continued their life as usual. But except for an egg that the tadpole-like creature melted into it is undergoing an unknown mutation.


    A few days later.


    The bloodstain and the bloody mess left by the human remains on the river bank disappeared in the rain. In the swamp, where the eggs were located.


    One egg is shaking pretty hard constantly and with a crackling sound an egg is broken as the snake that is slightly different from other snakes came out of it and at the same time, other eggs also broke and the newborn snakes came out one by one.


    The snake looked around in confusion as it thought to itself (Where am I and Who am I.)


    The black snake looked around in confusion at other snakes and spent a short time in confusion for a while. Until the mother snake came out of the swamp and looked at its newborn snakes.


    The snake looked at the mother snake in disbelief as it had never seen the snake that big according to some unknown common sense. Suddenly the snake found new information in its mind about itself while it was in shock.


    [ Bloodline Creature(1/4).


    Age: 0/100 years.


    Race: Snake(juvenile).


    Talent: Endless growth(0%)]


    The snake suddenly has this information in its mind. The snake digested the information and thought to itself (What the hell is this?)


    The snake can feel it has forgotten something important. But it doesn''t put that much effort into that thought. The snake is very hungry and the empty stomach makes it difficult to think about anything else.


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    So without wasting time, it followed the other newborn snakes and looked for food in the surroundings.


    In a forest beside the river


    A green-yellow frog is croaking as it looks for its next prey on damp water beside a tree. An insect is flying around and looking for something to eat to live to the end of its pitiful short life.


    Even though It is bigger than the average insect in this forest and can flap its wings without making any sound, it can''t escape nature. Suddenly, an ear-piercing sound came as a red comet approached the fly at a speed it couldn''t react and retracted.


    Only then can we see that it''s the action of the frog that is the same color as a forest and hunts insects as its prey with this camouflage skill. As the frog swallows the insect into its mouth the prey is covered with saliva to make it immobile.


    A drop of saliva fell to the ground and made the bunch of ants lose control of their body and drop on the ground without any movement.


    Because the frogs'' poisonous saliva freezes the nerve movements of anything that it touches. So most of the animals won''t hunt these frogs. Because of that, these poisonous frogs can survive well in this part of the forest.


    As the frog enjoyed its meal, suddenly it disappeared and a swallowing sound could be heard as a drop of bright purple blood from the frog fell to the ground from nowhere.


    Moments later, a change occurred in the environment as a snake''s body could be seen transparently. Slowly the snake''s real body appeared, it was a black snake with light crimson eyes.


    After satisfying its hunger. The snake looked at the puddle of water with a dazed expression and thought to itself ( What is my name? What is the name? Yeah it''s something that is unique to me. How do I know about this?)


    As the snake thought too much, it began to get frustrated without finding any answer to its questions. So, the snake stopped thinking about these types of things.


    And began to concentrate on the things like how to survive. How to hunt efficiently and grow strong and become stronger like its mother. After forming a relatively simple plan it began to look for the next target to hunt.


    A few days later.


    A black snake is moving around in a dense forest vigilantly looking for food. Finally, it found a frog that was much bigger than the average frog it hunted in the beginning.


    The frog, also surrounded by its companions, looked majestic and croaked a few times at female frogs to expand the frog population with its excellent seeds.


    There are only a few female frogs and big frogs in the small pond with a few inches in depth beside a big hollow tree that''s suitable for its habitat.


    The snake used the camouflage skill inherited from its bloodline to turn the same color as the surroundings and then approached the frog to the extent that it couldn''t sense opened its mouth and dispersed a fog that was colorless and odorless.


    Slowly the snake slithered around the habitat of the frog and poisoned all the frogs. A few minutes later all the frogs began to lose control over their body and fell into the water.


    The big frog looked around in puzzlement as it also lost control over its body and fell along with the female frog even though it was resistant to basic poisonous substances. Suddenly the frog found to its astonishment that other female frogs began to disappear right before its eyes.


    Just as the big frog is in deep self-doubt. A snake opened its mouth and swallowed it whole along with the female frog. The snake turned off the camouflage skill and then slithered towards the hollow tree and got inside as it sensed that it''s gonna shed its skin with the information that appeared in its mind.


    [ Bloodline Creature(1/4).


    Age: 0/100 years.


    Race: Snake(juvenile).


    Talent: Endless growth(98%) ]


    The snake concentrated deeply as it was currently free from hunger and urgency unlike before. The information in its mind changed along with the food it began to digest.


    Talent: Endless growth(99%)


    Talent: Endless growth(100%)


    Then the ever-changing notification stopped, as the snake began to feel that it could now begin to shed its skin and grow and it is sure, it can also postpone the shedding to any time possible.


    But the snake also understands the advantages of molting and with the current situation. It decided to molt and become stronger. As this can increase the chances of survival.


    So without wasting time, it began to grow at a rapid pace by consuming the energy in its body and shed its old skin in the process easily without any difficulties due to its rapid growth.


    The snake''s more than half-a-meter fat body began to stretch, and all its abilities were strengthened as the snake shed its skin.


    A few moments later, only a very skinny meter-length black snake with shiny scales and crimson eyes remained. The snake looked around with hungry eyes as all the fat and energy in its body was used to strengthen and grow its body.


    So the snake decided that it wouldn''t shed skin next time without having enough food to replenish the lost energy in the shedding process.


    With unstoppable hunger, the black snake began to move out of the tree and looked around for something to fill its stomach. It can''t even use most of its abilities such as camouflage and poison with a weakened body.


    So it began to look for anything to fill its stomach and then think about anything else. Even though the snake is hungry, it looks around vigilantly with its well-developed heat vision to see if there are any creatures around.

 2:Hunting

    A few moments later the snake finally found its first and most easy prey; it had hunted - the frog. So after confirming no large creatures were around, the snake used its last bit of strength and slithered towards its prey at the fastest speed it had ever been and swallowed it, then disappeared into the nearby bush.


    Two days later.


    A meter-long black snake with crimson eyes slithered around the branch of a large tree and looked at the orange-yellow sun in the sky lazily as it yawned. Then it looked at the data about itself in its retina.


    [ Bloodline Creature(1/4).


    Age: 0/100 years.


    Race: Snake(juvenile).


    Talent: Endless growth(2%) ]


    Finally after hunting and consuming more than fifty frogs the snake finally made up for the loss of body size and even made progress in the shedding process. So the snake decided to take a rest on top of the tall tree for a while.


    It''s lazy and won''t do anything if it''s not in danger or urgent need. What this snake expects all stability where it doesn''t have to face unexpected dangers and unexpected luck. All it needs gradual development with a stable environment and less danger.


    While bathing in the sunlight, the snake also began to think about basic things about its talent.


    The snake is contemplating its problems on its own (I can control the talent''s endless growth to make it active or passive. But for now, it''s better to keep it passive, as I am still a little snake that can be killed easily. Mainly now I can think more rationally after the shedding process. So I think it''s better to continue the shedding process faster. But I still think there are more things to remember. So I better continue to hunt and grow big, it will increase my chances of survival.)


    After digesting the frogs it ate with endless growth skills. It began to look for animals that were bigger than frogs and had a large population to sustain it for the next few growth cycles.


    So, the snake began to roam around the forest looking at the animals. The snake used smell sense with its tongue to track the animals around it and used heat sense to determine the size and threat of the prey.


    The snake also used camouflage to move without getting caught on other animals'' prey lists and used breath-holding skills to avoid some animals that noticed its presence.


    So with this routine of skills to track and hide. The snake began to track animals starting from its surroundings. The snake first looked at the bird''s nest in the trees and compared the size of the bird to its nest. The snake dismissed this thought of hunting the birds as prey.


    As the bird will weigh less and along with their small size it''s not worthwhile to hunt birds as a primary target. But if it''s near it there''s a chance the snake won''t mind eating as its snack.


    So, the snake looked at other animals to hunt. The snake moved around the forest with caution. Within a few moments, the snake found numerous animals.


    But most of them are not suitable for hunting targets. Because some of them are much larger than it is, considered to hunt and some are low in numbers or they are much smaller that they can''t be used as hunting targets even with their large numbers.


    As it may take more time to hunt them and it''s not worth it. Finally, after a few hours of looking for a hunting target, the snake found a suitable hunting target that it was looking for.


    In a pond in the middle of the dense forest. Where various animals quench their thirst with water without openly showing their aggressiveness. The black snake climbed the large tree beside the pond while camouflaging its color to the background of the environment. The snake also began to hold its breath and looked at the animals that were drinking water in the pond.


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    The snake decided that it could better see most of the animals here without actively looking for them. There are various types of animals surrounding the pond. From large animals which are as tall as most trees to small animals which are much smaller than one-tenth of the snake. Most of the animals are plant-eating animals. Occasionally one or two meat-eating animals appear here. Which are not here to drink water purely.


    One particular animal caught the snake''s attention. Which is not much biggest or the smallest not even the medium-sized animal present here. The animal is larger than the smallest animal but smaller than the medium-sized animal.


    The animal is more than a meter in height with a very strong body and long hands. It is one of the most populated animals beside the pond that are drinking water. There are many of them with most of them in the trees. This species looked like they lived on trees mostly and they seemed to live in groups.


    The snake considered them as the most suitable prey because they live in a group and it can hunt them individually with little effort. Even so, the snake doesn''t want to straight up hunt them in groups. As it can''t ignore the chances of them attacking it in a group.


    So the snake began to observe the animals that walk on two legs and use hands and tails to move between trees like a large monkey. The snake began to recall some type of knowledge, but it didn''t know the source of this knowledge.


    The snake ignored the reason for that and began to think about real-time problems, after several instances of recalling something. The snake began to stalk behind the large monkey group for a few hours and found that these monkeys mostly live in groups and eat mainly leaves, fruits, and other plants. While also eating insects sometimes they didn''t seem to hunt the animals specifically.


    It also found that these animals were very strong in strength as most male animals fight among themselves for another large monkey for mating which the snake can''t seem to understand. But in this situation, the snake found a very interesting fact that it rejoices very much.


    It can pick up the large monkey''s dead body after the two large monkeys fight one of them gets heavily injured and the other monkeys leave the heavily injured monkey and move on.


    The snake began to rejoice in this free meal. So it eats its first large monkey without much more effort and swallows it whole thanks to the reason the monkey is smaller than it. So, the snake began to stalk the monkey group from that day onwards.


    While steadily increasing the number of large money groups that it follows to pick up more free dead bodies of the monkeys. Single large monkeys provide about 10% percent of the energy needed for the snake to shed its skin again and grow anew.


    Within just a few days without doing anything drastic the snake saved the amount of energy it needed to shed its skin. The snake is inside the hole in the middle of the large tree that has a width of 10 meters. The snake found that whatever it ate was digested quickly and saved in the form of energy beside an organ in its stomach.


    So, no matter how much it eats everything it eats is stored in a way that it can''t understand and it can''t also grow an inch normally. Every drop of nutrients that it eats is saved other than what it needs for survival.


    The snake looked at the hollow space of the tree which is six meters wide and ten metres in height. Even such length space only occupies one-tenth of the tree. The tree is very secure due to the purple poisonous fog that it releases in the surroundings via the purple flowers.


    Which does not seem to affect the snake in the slightest. So the snake chose the tree which has natural protection for its very big size enough to accommodate it as its home. It also arranged the space with some of the flowers and leaves of the tree.


    After settling down in the cozy space with only a two-meter wide space entrance showing the two large silver-white moons in the sky. With its tongue slithering in the atmosphere, the snake concentrated on its retina as the information appeared before its eyes.


    [ Bloodline Creature(1/4).


    Age: 0/100 years.


    Race: Snake(juvenile).


    Talent: Endless growth(100%) ]


    Then the snake looked at two large monkeys'' bodies and several other small animals that it hunted on its way home and left around itself to replenish its energy. After confirming everything was ready the snake triggered the process of endless growth.


    Its meter-long body began to grow as it lost its stored energy in its body. Soon within a few moments, the snake grew up to two metres in length while getting all-round body strengthening.


    It sheds lots of scales and other useless things from its body in the process of expelling old and unnecessary body parts.


    After the sudden growth strengthening the snake''s body stopped growing. But the snake is not skinny this time, as the energy stored in its body is calculated enough to be healthy even after the growth process. It is a natural process of the body adapting and adjusting itself to sustain life and increase survival chances of itself with the given skills and abilities.

 3:Growth

    The snake looked at its body with surprise. Then looked at the food it prepared and with the heart of not wasting any food, it began to devour everything within a few moments. After eating everything the snake began to clean out everything that discharged from his body from its home and threw it outside where most of the nutrients from the surroundings had been consumed by the tree.


    Then snake began to sleep silently within a few seconds. The next day,  upon walking up the snake began to follow the routine of hunting something first to have some energy inside his body and then followed the various monkey groups that it had previously followed for free meals.


    Like that, the snake followed this routine for a year. The snake grew from a two-meter length to a thirty-meter length with a three-meter wide body. Two horn-like provisions also began to grow on the side of snakes like viper snake which is used for heat sense.


    A certain small hill in the forest beside a large lake is covered with purple poisonous most on top of the small hill. A thirty-meter thirty-meter-long three-meter-wide black snake covered in metal-like scales with crimson pupils is coiled around a tall tree with purple flowers in it. It slithered its tongue in the atmosphere to sense the atmosphere within a hundred meters.


    The black snake looked at the sun in the sky and thought ( I finally remembered everything from my past life and I finally remember my name, John. To think of things such as space-time travel and becoming a strange creature is a really exciting adventure. But It''s much better than spending most of the days working. )


    John looked at his retina as data about himself was revealed in front of him.


    [ Bloodline Creature(1/4).


    Age: 0/100 years.


    Race: Snake(adult).


    Talent: Endless growth(0%) ]


    John looked at the detail represented in front of him with a slight smile. Then he began to summarize most of the things about himself.


    He remembers everything from falling into black space on his way to work in the morning to becoming a strange creature that looked like a parasite but was not. He knows most of the abilities about himself like a human who knows how to breathe.


    He can live four lives at most and can choose any living species at will to become one of them. But intelligence will be very hard if the species has no thinking capacity and it will be harder at the start because he can adapt a brain like a human with enough time to process information like a human.


    But only when the species he is born into becomes adult or more or less the same as a human species. He can think like a human in any species but needs more time to slowly adopt a brain that''s suitable for the species he was born into.


    Most importantly he can evolve a certain well-known ability of the species he was born into the peak evolutionary possible outcome and somewhat what he desires. It can''t be like he became a bird and wished for the ability to breathe in water and he will get the ability. It''ll be like the species'' most outstanding ability and what he subconsciously needs becomes a talent that he will awaken.


    After digesting all this information and knowing about himself. John''s imagination began to run wild about thinking about the talents he''d seen in those novels and how to acquire them. But thinking about he''s only got four chances and already using one ability he can''t help but reconsider his choices.


    He concentrated on the most important aspect that he currently doesn''t have much information about this world and doesn''t know if there are any deviations from species he knows from a previous life or if there are any unique creatures in this world. So the only thing he can do is try to get data on any type of civilization in this world.


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    After considering much, he decided to travel and see signs of civilization or find any rare animals in this travel. He can''t grow continuously without consequences just with his talent named endless growth. Because technically he can grow endlessly as his talent mentioned but at the cost of his lifespan.  Growing beyond the limit of his species limit consumes his lifespan of year for every meter he grows. The talent consumes cell activity to grow so lifespan shortens.


    The only way to overcome this is by gaining immortality. It may be harder for others, but he can gain immortality if he finds some living being with this talent in this world. As there are immortal animals in previous life such as some he knows jellyfish and coral reeds. But their immortality varies and is not suitable for him such as jellyfish becoming young again to relive and attain certain immortal traits.


    John is certain to find some immortal species. His endless growth talent won''t do much without an endless lifespan and he doesn''t want to have a short life. He wants to see more, feel more, and experience different scenarios. For all of this short life stands in his way. So immortality is his important goal because he can do more with an unlimited lifespan.


    After finalizing his goal, John began to move his giant snake body out of the miasma-filled area and moved toward the lake beside his living area. As he has one more thing to do before departing from here to live a nomadic life.


    In a large lake beside the small hill, various fishes swim as they fight for their survival, and a variety of birds in the sky hunting them sustain their daily life. A huge blood-red tree with various blood-colored fruit grew on the small island in the center of the lake surrounded by pure black crocodiles with an average length of 15 meters some of them over twenty meters long and have very strong bodies and sharp teeth to bring death whatever threats them. They all surrounded the small island as a large thirty-female crocodile can be seen under the blood-red tree surrounded by numerous eggs.


    This is the crocodile that had eaten the fruit from the tree and began to grow to the limit of species and more as it gained an evolutionary ability of asexual reproducing and large batch of eggs laid by it become the cornerstone for black metal crocodiles to dominate this piece of the lake with their large numbers that makes anything with the idea for the tree to become nourishment for the crocodile clan and the tree.


    But they didn''t know about the disaster that was about to befall them. As a long black snake silently entered the lake from the north and entered deep water as it slowly disappeared from most of the animal''s visual crept towards the small island at the center of the lake surrounded by ferocious crocodiles.


    A crocodile is swallowing a group of fish with his wide-open mouth to sustain its daily needs. Then it began to patrol the area of the lake under the instruction of Queen Crocodile. While also hunting several large fish for the queen crocodile.


    Just as it finished its daily patrol and returned to the island to submit the fish it hunted to bask in the sun lazily as usual. It began to feel its body was weighted down and couldn''t move its legs as if it were tied down by something.


    Just as the crocodile is confused by what''s happening and before it can comprehend anything. Its body began to fall downward, and the next moment a large snake suddenly appeared before it with only a huge head that could fully swallow its whole body even though big crocodiles are much smaller than they are. The crocodile''s thought process stopped there as the strong corrosive stomach acid began to digest its body at a rapid pace that no living thing can do.


    John looked at the bulging snake body that was returning to normal body shape in a few minutes and couldn''t help but praise himself for his smartness. As he can control endless talent and rapidly digest anything he eats to store it as energy.


    This energy can also be used as a substitute for consuming food. He can survive a month without eating anything with peak physical health where he can perform any task at ease. If he didn''t use much energy on abilities like poison and camouflage.  He can even survive for a much longer time easily.


    A few moments later, the snake''s bulging body returned to normal shape and he began to summarize (The poisonous fog alone is effective against most crocodiles and there''s no need to use liquid poison against these weak crocodiles. Even with all these advantages hunting down that large crocodile in the middle of the island is much harder. It''s gonna be a long task with these hundreds of crocodiles. So let''s start with these smaller crocodiles and save energy for any unexpected situations in the battle. As I don''t know everything about the abilities of the giant crocodile. Mainly the tree shouldn''t get damaged in battle.)


    After thinking through all of this and making a plan that he''s satisfied with. John began to hunt down all of these smaller crocodiles one by one. His hunting process becomes much easier after filling up the energy bar. As his survival rate increased and battle time decreased.

 4:Deadly Poison

    Slowly the number of crocodiles began to fall from hundreds. The queen crocodile also noted it and tried to use some strategies for this situation. But all of this failed miserably at the hands of a human-thinking large snake.


    After finishing every fifteen-meter large crocodile. John began to face a real threat: a group of crocodiles that was twenty-five meters long. Even though John has many advantages over these crocodiles. He can''t kill them like he does with those fifteen-meter-long crocodiles.


    As these crocodiles can inflict an injury in his body. Even though the injuries are very small, when he faces a group of them at once it will be a disaster for him and it is a little dangerous for him to have a lot of injuries. He doesn''t have any fast healing abilities and only heals slightly faster than other animals.


    So, these type of injuries is very dangerous in the wild. Even if he''s one of the top predators in the forest as far as he knows. But there are still some animals that are stronger, faster and have special abilities than what he knew.


    After going through so many scenarios in his mind. John finally decided that he must take those giant crocodiles one by one without letting them see any difference. First, he decided to heal the injuries he gained from this group of large crocodiles.


    A few days later.


    The crocodiles at the lake began to calm down and forget that ninety percent of their population was reduced by unknown black snakes and still maintained their daily routine. Only the queen crocodile began to produce eggs rapidly because of the current situation. While those large crocodiles hunt vigorously for the queen crocodile.


    Due to the low population of crocodiles and the increased need for food for the queen crocodile. The giant crocodiles began to patrol the territory individually to hunt efficiently and cover every area while patrolling.


    John used this chance to hunt down all these crocodiles individually in a single patrol time to stop them from regrouping and hunting him down. After finalizing a plan, John began to move towards one of the lone giant crocodiles stealthily and quickly.


    A giant crocodile is fighting fiercely with a large behemoth of twenty-five meters in height on the shore of the lake which came to drink water. The crocodile is biting its leg and bleeding it slowly. So that it can bring this animal, which is worth the effort of hundreds of small crocodiles to a queen crocodile.


    To increase the population of the black metal crocodile clan back to how it was before. So that it can enjoy its lazy days. The crocodile doesn''t have much thought it only knows the increase in small crocodile numbers equals less work and more free time.


    A few moments later large herbivore animal with a long neck fell into the lake with two legs missing. Surrounding animals of the same species and other species fled after witnessing the brutality of the giant black metal crocodile.


    Within a few moments, the large herbivore lost its life under the jaw of the merciless crocodile. The crocodile began to swim towards the small island while dragging away the herbivore animal. Within a few meters, the crocodile was attacked by a black snake and bitten down in its throat.


    A large of number snake teeth stuck in crocodiles'' tougher skin and released liquid venom that instantly began to kill all the cells, and organs that came into contact with it.


    The crocodile didn''t get any time to respond. Its life ended in less than two seconds and it became a dead body alongside the animal it had just hunted. John doesn''t eat either the herbivore animal or the crocodile.


    Because he has to hunt down all these crocodiles in a certain time and can''t spend time eating until he kills all the crocodiles. So he abandoned the dead bodies of what he hunted. He began to move towards the next animal he sensed with his heat vision and smell sense.


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    Using the liquid venom that is very corrosive and can kill any life that can come into contact within a few moments. John''s hunt had become easy to kill those giant crocodiles in a few minutes. The heat sense and smell sense helped him in the hunting process very much to avoid hunting the crocodiles when there''s another crocodile nearby.


    With these extraordinary sensory skills coupled with the poisonous liquid, he can inject from numerous teeth inside his mouth and camouflage skills. He killed all the giant crocodiles within a few minutes. Even with these skills and hunting down crocodiles individually, he still suffered a few injuries.


    So it''s a really wise choice he decided to hunt down these crocodiles individually or it may be possible he will suffer serious injuries and still can''t hunt down all of them. John began to swallow these crocodiles after confirming there were no other crocodiles remaining in this lake other than the Queen crocodile in the middle of the island in the lake under the red tree surrounded by newly born meter-long crocodiles.


    John recuperated in a hidden place in the lake while digesting all the crocodile''s body which provided him large amount of energy. He began to use that energy and released liquid poison surrounding the island. The blue lake began to change color into purple color and dead fish and various animals'' dead bodies began to float around the island.


    The poison also killed all the newborn crocodiles that entered the water from the island making the island look particularly creepy. A hundred meters surrounding the island are covered with purple color poison and poisonous fog also begins to cover the island making it very hard for anything to escape or enter the island.


    Slowly everything on the island began to die with the appearance of fog covering the island. As time passed the island became silent with almost every animal dying. In the water surrounding the island, it''s even worse. Even plants and other living things poisoned by the liquid poison began to die. An hour later everything died. A long shadow appeared in the purple water where no life was present.


    John looked at what he caused and chuckled (My poisonous ability is terrifying with different types of poison. I don''t know if all the snake from my species is this strong. If so I am really lucky born into this species. Because even if I remained conscious I don''t really would have made the best choice without having any information from this world.)


    John then denied the thought every snake of his species had abilities like him. Because if so then there would have been so many snakes present in the forest, but it''s not. It''s possible only he has such poisonous abilities thanks to the all-around strengthening effect bought out by the talent''s endless growth.


    John began to swallow and digest every dead body in the surroundings to not waste food and to refill the energy he wasted on continuously pumping poisonous fog and poisonous liquid nonstop to prevent the Queen crocodile from escaping and at the same time to test if it was possible to use his poison like this.


    This trick may become useful in the future against a large number of animals. After digesting everything and filling up the energy John began to take rest in purple water to restore his stamina. He''s not worried about getting poisoned because he is very immune to his poison and most of the poisons.


    Half an hour later, John slithered into the island at a slow pace while looking at the surroundings. Then he moved towards the large queen crocodile''s body that was as big as him but less wide than him. Soon he reached the tree that was smaller than him with crimson red fruits smaller than his scales with an obvious desire in his eyes that his driven by a biological need for evolution.


    Suddenly, the queen crocodile opened its vertical golden pupil eyes and attacked.


    ~Screeech~


    A metal cracking sounded and then a whimpering sound signaled the end of a large animal that created a glorious era for black metal crocodiles that is mid-level species in the evolutionary chain.


    John looked at the dead queen crocodile with cold vertical crimson pupils vividly describing wild animal nature. Then he moved towards the tree and swallowed one of the crimson-colored fruits. Suddenly his body shook and various injuries healed at a rapid pace and his body''s various functions improved slightly. Then the energy disappeared into various parts of his body improving his body overall.


    John then ate another fruit and tried to guide the energy toward the small backward horns on the side of both of his ears. Suddenly his heat vision became blank for a second and returned with slight improvement. Previously he could sense heat within one hundred twenty meters. But now his range increased five metres more and he can also accurately grasp the shape of animals which produces heat. Previously he could only see the heat of animals with blurry images. He can now clearly see the animal''s body shape.


    John looked at the remaining fruits with intense desire. This fruit can evolve certain organs or abilities in a short time. Which is very useful for him in his hunt for looking for civilization or unique animals with amazing talent.

 5:Evolutionary Substance

    So without wasting time, he began to eat all the fruit on a tree and concentrated the energy from the fruit towards his horn to increase the range he could sense. Information is the first advantage in any hunt and he can hunt with ease or drop the hunt if there are any ambushes according to him.


    After eating all the fruits John looked at the crimson tree and decided to find the reason for the cause of the phenomenon in this tree. As it''s one of the reasons he embarked on this journey. Then he began to sleep to recover energy.


    Next morning.


    After waking up from his sleep, John began to eat the carcasses of the animals on the island. John looked at the water that had returned to its blue color and the life of animals in the lake also returned to normal with the absence of the ruler of the lake.


    There are many carcasses John left while hunting the crocodiles to reduce the time he spent hunting. But to his surprise, there are no animal carcasses remaining in the lake. Because these are all eaten and cleaned through by the other aquatic animals.


    John then focused his concentration on the red tree that was covered with many blood-red lines like human blood vessels and he didn''t find that tree absorbing any blood or animal carcasses as nutrients and was confused at this process and the reason for the blood red color.


    He found there were not even leaves in the tree which is used for photosynthesis. The tree looked like a dead tree with no signs of life other than blood-red vessels and crimson fruit growing on it.


    The tree is ten meters in height and he can look down at it with little effort. John then compared other trees in the surroundings with it and couldn''t notice any differences from other trees, other than noticeable ones.


    John slithered around the tree and cleared everything else on the island leaving only the red tree. Which stands eerily under the sun, John looks at the tree and mumbles within himself as he can''t speak (What happened to this tree to evolve in this direction and abandon most of the positive evolutionary traits?)


    After finding no answer to his question John decided to take drastic measures, he began to use his tail end to smack around the tree lightly with enough force to open up the mud. Then slowly using the tail end he began to open up the mud on the ground.


    An hour later, with a delicate process and control of the tail, John opened up around the five meters of the tree but still didn''t find any tree roots. So he began to excavate the soil till he got near the tree. But he still didn''t find any roots. So after losing a meter or two near the tree. John coiled his tail around the tree and pulled it hard with all his strength.


    ~crack~ ~crack~


    The land cracked for a few meters and the entire tree was pulled out. Then John looked at the bottom of the tree in surprise as no tree root system spread all over the land to provide water for the tree. Strangely the tree roots all coiled around and formed a ball of roots that''s tightly enveloping something inside.


    The tree showed no movements after he pulled it up. So he confirmed the tree had no active consciousness to respond to these life-threatening circumstances. Then he began to spray purple liquid poison all over it. The round ball of tree roots is corroded and shows a small ball of crystal clear ball containing a drop of red crystal.


    Upon seeing the red crystal, John''s every doubt is clarified, and the reason for the unknown mutation in the tree is probably related to the red crystal. The crystal clear ball containing red drops fell on the ground and made the following sound.


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    ~Thud~


    John took the crystal ball into the mouth to see if he could absorb rapid evolutionary substance directly from the ball into his body. But to his dismay, he can''t access the energy straight up from the red drop. So he swallowed the crystal ball into his stomach to keep it safe from other animals stealing them. He can control what to digest and what not.


    John then looked at the world filled with animals that were evolving bizarrely and rapidly and said to himself(Maybe the reason for this situation is a substance in the red drop. If so I also need to find more of these things and it will be worth pondering over it.)


    Then he looked at the destroyed island with nothing present and thought in his mind(Perhaps, I''ve overdone it!).


    Then the snake left from there as there was nothing more interesting there and what he needed to do next also could not be done there. In a deep forest beside a cliff, are group of monkeys are gathering together and doing their things. A smaller monkey with a dark brown color meter height and black eyes ate a large fruit in its hand and threw away a fist-sized fruit core down the cliff like always.


    The monkeys are used to throwing away the remains of what they ate down the cliff from animal carcasses, and fruits to their fellow dead bodies. To keep their living area clean without knowing why. Even so, their living area is still dirty with their wastes lying here and there.


    Down the cliff, a large pit mainly consists of fruit cores, tree branches, and carcasses. An unexpected guest arrived at this place looked at the pit and spit out a fist-sized crystal into the pit. In a few seconds, numerous plants grew out of the seeds and died before they even grew fully. After the pit full of seeds and tree branches turned into ashes.


    Two plants grew out of one seed and a tree trunk. Both of them grew crimson lines on their trunks and they didn''t grow any leaves on the trunks. The trunks in the tree were also less than what they usually grew. It''s like they grew specifically to accommodate the substance in the red drop.


    John looked at all of this and showed a smug expression on his ferocious snake face which looked like he''s gonna swallow something for a snack. He already experiments along the way with many plants and trees. But no already-grown plants or tree shows a reaction to these red drops. Only broken trunks or seeds of plants react to the red drop vigorously.


    This is all he concluded with his experiments on his way. The snake''s body may be useful for hunting and overpowering others but it didn''t provide him with research of the red drop.


    John looked at the rapidly grown two trees with blood color lines and condensed crimson fruits. John ate fruit from both of the two trees and found one tree converted more energy per fruit and had more fruits than the other tree. These trees have a root system that is inserted into the land that is used to absorb water, but most of their root system still fights with each other to cover the red drop completely.


    So they only absorb water and condense fruits from the red drop. John bites the one tree that is not as efficient as the other tree and swallows the tree. He can absorb the evolution substance from the tree this way. So the whole tree is better than the fruit it provides. While eating the tree, another tree slowly inserted its root into the soil anchored itself, and then covered the red drop into a ball-shaped root system.


    It''s like life can''t bear to be far away from the red drop. Even if it''s failed evolution, it still holds the red drop dearly with its instinctual desire. Then the tree began to absorb energy from the red drop as the blood color lines covered all parts of the tree making it look like less tree and more blood vessels of animals. In the meantime, John finished absorbing the evolutionary substance from the tree and strengthened the heat sense organ making his range exceed two hundred meters.


    He looked at everything within his scope of heat sense organ with the feeling that nothing dangerous could approach him without his knowledge and then he looked at the newly grown tree that was much redder than the usual trees he experimented with and came to a conclusion(The tree is a failed experiment and gonna explode in a minute.)


    He already experimented with numerous trees on his way and concluded that he needed more experiment subjects to successful tree species that could accommodate the evolutionary substance.


    That''s why he came here to this monkey group''s garbage dumping area. To find more experiment subjects with his current situation. As a snake, he can''t collect small seeds of plants and trees effectively with his large body size. On his way here he already experimented with multiple subjects and none of them survived the evolution substance for long and produced fruits.

 6:Severely Injured

    Most of the trees only contained the evolutionary substance and didn''t produce any fruit. But they also looked like those dead trees and will explode in a few moments. So he will swallow them to use the evolutionary substance. Only in this monkey pit, did he find two subjects that successfully condensed fruits and condensed more evolutionary substance than the previous experiments.


    Even these aren''t very useful for him, as he''s looking for something that can strengthen him many times and in less time. So he''s not looking for a failed subject like this that only has a one-time use and vanishes within a few seconds.


    John looked at the ball of roots that was turning into ashes slowly and without wasting time. He took a bit of tree from the upper part and devoured it. It turned into an evolutionary substance which then he used to strengthen his heat sense organ.


    His sensing range expanded and he can sense better now. After the process, John looked at the slightly shrunk red drop and muttered(It''s finally consumed a little bit, otherwise I would have thought it has unlimited evolutionary substance.)


    Then he gobbled back the red drop and started traversing toward the east following the sun. On his way, he began to experiment with some seeds and tree branches. But all of them failed without exception.


    With one or two successfully grown thus providing him with the evolutionary substance that he needed. This process of strengthening also demanded more energy in the process. So the stored energy in his body declined rapidly and he began to hunt now and then at a moderate pace to keep the energy full, in case he needed the energy in some unexpected situation.


    During his travels he came upon numerous different types of animals he never heard of in his previous life. But he still didn''t find any civilization signs and another red drop in the vast forest. From this, he concluded that finding another red drop is not gonna happen anytime soon.


    There are many animals he found on the way which are much larger than what he knew from a previous life. These animals all have certain territories and don''t traverse out of them. Even though they are huge and most of them are only half the size of him. Which he didn''t have any trouble in defeating.


    A month later, the large black snake slithered and wandered in the middle of the forest. Which caused panic among the animals as they flew away from the way of the snake. John as usual didn''t care about these small animals, as he moved forward. He used the heat sense organ to sense the heat of any animal with heat in a three-hundred-meter range.


    As he didn''t find anything threatening animals he moved forward at a speed that didn''t deplete his physical strength rapidly. Just as he crossed the swallow pit, a high-pitch-penetrating sound came from the sky. Which caused even the poor-hearing snake''s ear to ache.


    ~Screeeeeech~


    John looked up to the sky with annoyance. As he''s ready to hunt down the creature that had hurt his ears. But his eyesight is poor and he can''t see much, his heat sense also covers only three hundred meters which is not as good as normal eyesight.


    John tried to find the animal that screeched. But he suddenly felt a burning feeling on his face. So instinctively he covered his head with his body and formed a defensive posture to protect himself.


    ~Screech~


    Another pitch sound came clearly as another wound opened on his body. John finally glimpsed an animal that was reflecting injury in his body. That''s none other than beasts that usually hunt snakes as a living, the ''eagle''.


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    It''s a golden eagle that''s five meters in height and ten meters wide without spreading out its wing. It has golden feathers that shine brightly under the sun with sharp talons and a beak. Which can easily open up his scales and injure him severely. The golden eagle is so fast that he can''t even sense it in one place. The heat organ senses heat everywhere in the sky making it hard to pinpoint the eagle''s location because of its swiftness.


    So evading becomes harder and he can only become a live target under the mercy of the eagle without having a chance to attack. The eagle is much faster than him thus making it harder to attack. After a few seconds with several injuries on the body.


    With no other choice, John began to eject poisonous fog into the surroundings at a rapid pace making the hundred meters surrounding him covered in dense misty poisonous fog that concentrated on the extreme.


    Most of the small animals and insects in the surroundings began to die. John consumed energy without considering anything and released a large amount of poisonous fog he could release in the surroundings. Only toxic fog can help him in this situation.


    With his reaction time, he can''t attack the eagle with poisonous liquid nor can he support the large amount of liquid poison. So the fog becomes the only thing that is best and practical for this situation.


    Finally, the eagle stopped its continuous assault on the snake and circled over the fog with low screeching sounds. John finally has time to think about how to survive this crisis. John looked at the eagle that was circling in the sky with cautious analysis. The pain from the wound numbed, as his thought process raced his thinking and made the second seem like years.


    John began to camouflage himself to the surroundings and held his breath. Making him no different from the surroundings. Then he began to move lightly out of the coverage of the fog, but the next moment he got a burning feeling on his head again. So he retracted the head and returned to the fog without a second thought. The eagle also stopped its attack and maintained an attacking stance.


    John looked at the eagle and began to think of a way to survive(The poisonous fog will only last up to fifteen minutes. With my current energy, I can release poison of this level up to fifteen times. Before energy bottoms out. So.. )


    Johns looked optimistic as he generalized a plan. John began to use smell sense to locate a water source nearby. But to his dismay, his smell range is smaller than the heat sense range and it isn''t any help to the current situation.


    With no hope, the snake''s cold crimson vertical pupil flashed with murderous intent and it launched itself from the ground straight to the golden eagle that was flying low in the sky to attack the snake.


    By using every ounce of strength, the snake flew into the air. The golden eagle easily avoided the snake''s attack. The snake used this chance to fall back into the poisonous fog to avoid the attack of the golden eagle. John is running out of chances and plans to escape from the hand of this golden eagle.


    With a do-or-die mindset, John began to slither toward the water source he found in the morning at the fastest speed possible. Just after crossing a hundred meters, John is again attacked heavily back of his head. But he avoided it narrowly.


    ~Swish~


    And continued to move at a rapid pace, while sometimes attacking the eagle that was following him. But he still got many injuries, and even so, he didn''t stop as he moved at a rapid pace without stopping. A few kilometers ahead, a black snake with numerous injuries fled at a rapid pace with a screeching golden eagle in its pursuit.


    With a blood trail on the ground, the snake dragged its body into the forest as the large lake appeared before its eyes. Joy surfaced in its eyes upon seeing the lake and entered the lake as its tail got caught by the eagle. The snake entered the water without stopping ripped the tail end and left it in the eagle''s claws as it entered the water.


    ~Screech~


    ~Screech~


    The eagle screeched loudly for a few minutes and swallowed the snake''s tail which made its stomach full. So it left from there, a snake''s head surfaced as it looked at the sky with its poor vision and heaved a sigh of relief upon seeing the sky free of the golden eagle.


    John looked at the orange-yellow sun in the sky and thought(I finally felt what it feels like being hunted down and not able to do anything about it. Other than running away. Maybe I should strengthen my disadvantages first then strengthen my advantages. So, not to be as miserable as I am now. I also should grow bigger without caring about lifespan depletion. If I die all the lifespan will be wasted. So it''s better to be strong and have less lifespan than dying. )


    The snake concentrated on its retina as it said to itself"First of all let''s see the data panel."


    [ Bloodline Creature(1/4).


    Age: 1/100 years.


    Race: Snake(adult).


    Talent: Endless growth(50%) ]

 7:Endless Growth

    Then the snake reached into the water and started to hunt rapidly. To fill his energy to full and heal faster. The lake''s animal population began to lessen rapidly as the days passed. The snake''s most superficial injuries healed and the energy also filled to the brim in the body.


    This time John didn''t hesitate, as he began to activate the endless growth talent without stopping even if he got his lifespan depleted. The cells began to get active and the new cells were born at a rapid pace his tail regenerated and his body began to strengthen and grow longer. Large amounts of dead cells, scales, and other waste things began to fall.


    A few moments later, the process ended with a newly grown black snake that was a meter longer than before and stronger than before. John looked intoxicated at the process of strengthening. His eyes showed confidence that he lost from fight with the golden eagle.


    John murmured to himself while looking at the sky(What if I lost to you. I will kill you soon! without much effort.)


    Then he immersed himself in the water and faded away. To hunt and store more energy to grow again at the cost of lifespan depletion. He doesn''t want to be in the same situation as he had been in previously with the golden eagle.


    Even though he''s seen eagles that are larger than the golden eagle previously. They didn''t think about hunting him or capable of inflicting any injuries on him. So they all ended up in his stomach. But this golden eagle is different it has something that other normal eagles don''t have.


    It had sharper claws and beaks than the normal bigger eagles. It is much faster than normal eagles and its reaction speed is also much faster. So, John is puzzled as to why this golden eagle is much stronger than him and other animals.


    There may be a reason for that, but he doesn''t know that and can''t seem to find it.  So abandoning those thoughts, he began to hunt and fill up the energy bar. Because If he keeps strengthening himself, there will be a level where he can hunt them down with ease. With his increased growth. The reaction speed, eyesight, and hearing are also returning to a normal human level.


    Days turned into months, and the animal population in the lake began to decrease at a rapid pace. As the size of the snake began to increase at a rapid pace.


    The animal population in the surrounding forest also decreased in a few months. This crazy hunting continued for months before stopping suddenly. The surrounding forest becomes devoid of any animals. The lake also turned purple.


    Everything in the lake and the surroundings died. The lake became a large swamp where various poisonous insects and animals thrive. The surroundings were also covered in thick fog making it hard for any birds to come near them. As anything that touches the fog dies in moments.


    Making the lake and the surroundings a paradise for small insects and animals with poison resistance to survive and grow rapidly. This is all possible because John controlled the amount of poison he released to the lowest level to see if some species could survive. To his astonishment, all the species without poison resistance died. Only poisonous species from plants, insects, and fishes to mammals survived.


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    In the purple lake, two large crimson eyes appeared before the purple tree that grew from the lake base. John looked at the purple tree with amazement and thought(So, there''s still a fourth type of successful experiment. Which can successfully adapt to the evolutionary substance and can also grow into a unique species that grew rapidly and very differently from its parent''s genes.)


    The tree is one of the experiments that he experimented with in his free time to consume evolutionary substances. Due to the abnormal use of the evolutionary substance, the red drop is consumed rapidly and his all senses grow to an unimaginable level.


    The mutated tree can now absorb its poison and release its poison always making the swamp remain poisonous and form its ecosystem. There are various insects, fishes, mammals, and even birds that depend on it to survive.


    These mutated trees also began to grow all over the lake and covered most of the underground of the lake with its presence. The last bit of red drop is consumed by the mutated tree. John looked at the mutated poisonous tree and thought(There is no presence of an evolutionary substance in this tree. It probably evolved like this by consuming the evolutionary substance and induced mutation in its gene to adapt to this environment.)


    The snake''s eyes sharpened as it thought(The thing is, will only plants and trees adapt to the evolutionary substance, or can animals also possibly adapt and evolve with evolutionary substance? If so then the golden eagle that attacked me is also possibly an evolved species using evolutionary substance.)


    Then the snake''s eyes dimmed a bit as it thought(I can''t use this method, as it is almost one in a thousand chances to adapt to an evolutionary substance and one in a million to successfully evolve into species with its traits without DNA breaking down.)


    John''s eyes sparkled as he thought at last (But I can choose their species as a species that I will be born next to possess all their abilities with little so effort.)


    Then he looked at his hundred-meter grown body which stopped growing anymore to have time to choose the next species and gain knowledge about this world and its species. John looked at the remaining lifespan after depleting most of them in the growth process.


    [ Bloodline Creature(1/4).


    Age: 72/100 years.


    Race: Snake(adult).


    Talent: Endless growth(80%) ]


    After depleting so much lifespan John had a sense of urgency to find the next suitable life form. As there''s not much to do in a large snake body and he can''t even research with this large body. John can''t possibly mate with other snakes even if he wants with his large body. So it''s better to find the next species that possibly has a civilization and can travel long distances to gather information.


    Then John glanced at the sky with an intoxicated expression, as his eyes could finally see color and could find objects from a long distance with his ultra-wide clear eyes. He can now also hear from a large distance according to the proportion of his body. His sense of smell also evolved as he grasped numerous smells and pinpointed them accurately from a very long distance. Finally, the heat sense organ shaped like the horn on both sides of his head can pick up heat accurately from miles away.


    With his ten-meter wide and hundred-meter-long snake body covered with metallic scales that can crush rocks with little force, when moving inside the forest. He can easily create a way for himself with little effort that will forever create a new water pathway for other animals.


    Along with his high sense organs, no animal stands in his way. He also found a golden eagle that almost killed him in the sky. But that golden eagle flies away when he concentrates a little bit of his attention on it and doesn''t dare to think of him as a hunting target. He also found a pair of golden eagles that were bigger than it.

 8:Humanoids

    But even the larger golden eagle doesn''t have the guts to treat him as a prey. A brood of three golden eagles began to flee from this area at a rapid pace. Then the snake left the lake and went looking for a nearby large water source. As a lake or forest can''t provide food or accommodate his large body.


    John slithered out of the lake and leaved tracks on his way to the possible river or large water source. According to what he knows the early civilizations thrived on the banks of rivers and water sources.


    A large amount of lake water also flowed out of the lake and flowed into a canal formed by the slithering of the snake. This provides a chance for these poisonous animals to get into the river. The population of poisonous animals is given a chance to grow rapidly or they may also become food for some species that specialize in hunting the poisonous animals.


    But these poisonous species from the lake will surely not die with the presence of a mutated poisonous tree that''s keeping the poisonous lake as it is or there''s a possibility it''s growing out of control and even occupying certain parts of the river or becoming a plant that can''t occupy a river and will only occupy and survive in small waters.


    Who knows? that''s all up to destiny. John doesn''t have time to think about these things that don''t affect him. John is wandering around the forest while listening attentively for any evidence of the presence of water. After an hour of searching, John finally heard the sound of water flowing. By following the sound, he found a large river that was flowing silently.


    The river is much wider than him, making it easy for him to swim around. The depth was also enough for him to submerge and hide. So, without a second thought, John entered the water and began to swim alongside the river, while looking at the riverbank with his heat sense to find any living beings.


    Just like that John began his journey of travel in the river. His large body made it hard for living organisms in the water to survive in his presence alone. So John helped them enter his stomach to avoid getting crushed under him. Even so, he still left a large range of destruction in his path making the lives of aquatic beings miserable.


    Fortunately, his ability to store energy improved along with his body size. Where he can convert whatever he eats into energy more efficiently. With this, he doesn''t stumble upon a situation where''s he hungry. But the price paid for it was the large number of animals entering his belly.


    The sun and moon changed their places as the days turned into weeks. But John still didn''t find what he was looking for. As John continued his search for civilization in the river. John looked as the water he was swimming in converged into a large body of water that was not a lake, due to its large proportions.


    John looked at the large scope of water that made him feel small and questioned himself in confusion(Is this Sea!)


    Just as John is dissatisfied with this situation. His emotion changed in a moment as he picked up a heat signal a mile away in the middle of the sea. The creatures he picked up heat signals from appeared humanoid according to his heat sense. The thing is that the heat signal he picked up seemed to appear above the sea in an object shaped like a small boat.


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    That''s why John is excited, as he finally found a tool that signifies knowledge that can only be possible if there''s a living being with thinking capabilities. These are the signs of civilization. John finally heaved a huge sigh of relief. As he''s not the only one with thinking capability in this world. Because to him even if he gained immortality it would be boring and a curse to him. If he doesn''t spend his time lazily and in comfort.


    That''s the immortal life he likes, not the immortal life where he lives in the forest with a bunch of animals that can''t even interact with him. That''s not the life he currently desires, but who knows about the future? John swims towards the boat and then enters deep into the water so as not to startle the humanoid beings in the boat and lose what he found after numerous difficulties.


    A boat that''s only capable of carrying some tools, floats on the crystal-clear water that reflects a clear sky with clouds and an orange-yellow sun that''s making the two humanoids in the boat sweat a bit.


    A tall humanoid with long black hair, skin, and eyes looked at a short one and said jovially with a simple smile "Hey Klaus, it looks like today''s harvest is a bumper harvest."


    A short one with a very muscular body with features like the previous one but with additional gill-like organs on both sides of his throat replied to the tall one with a meaningful expression "Loki, No matter how much we hunt. We won''t own all of these, everything will be shared equally. So, why are you so excited?"


    Loki''s excitement also died down with the words of Klaus. So he replied with a disgruntled expression on his face "You are right."


    After saying so, he became quiet and began to sit silently on the boat with a bored expression on his face. Till evening when both of them sailed the boat toward a large island with a long range of mountains. With no sign of people living on the island.


    But those two didn''t go to the shore of the island. They diverted the boat and sailed towards one of the openings under a cliff beside the water. They entered a space that was well hidden under the cliff silently.


    Both of them traveled like that for a few minutes in a dark water pathway with the only source of light being the unique animals in the water and the lamp they lightened at the entrance of the path. The whole scenery looked mystical with ancient people traversing the untouched pathway of water with lamps on a quiet boat. But to the two people on the boat, it''s what they do every day.


    The light reappeared as the boat reached out of the dark underground and got into the open space in the middle of the long mountains surrounding the open space that is protected naturally. These two people showed smiles on their faces upon seeing various people like them returning from hunting with today''s hunt.


    Most of them looked like normal humans but some of them had gills like Klaus and nobody seemed to care about these things.


    They all began to lift the boat out of the water into shore and tied it to the trees. Then began to load the fish into the carriage that was specifically made for this. Then they all climbed into it and sat to relax after returning from a long day of work. The driver with a long tail that is connected to the large muscular bull-shaped animal with no horns pulled the carriage with ease. As they all departed from there.


    John lifted his head from the water looked at the departing carriage with a smile and said with a smile "Finally I found a civilization of this world. But it seemed that there are new and interesting things, it''s good there are unique and intriguing things. Otherwise, it''ll be boring."

 9:Settlement

    Then the gigantic snake submerged in the water and used a nearby river to follow them without making a scene. To find their location? The island itself is bigger and he needs to know and learn about them without them finding him first.


    So, everything will go on slowly. It''s much harder to achieve his goal without making much noise and causing any scene is dangerous without knowing the power levels of these humans. Even though they didn''t seem to look like they were making any technological invention that could injure him.


    It doesn''t cause him much to take precautions beforehand to prevent potentially dangerous things that may or may not happen. With all of these thoughts, John followed them by swimming in the river. John thought thoughtfully(It seems their settlement is by the side of the river like I guessed.)


    Then John followed them along the river. The carriage traveled for an hour in the land filled with beautiful nature and occasional fruit trees in the flat grassland with streams, insects, birds, and various herbivore animals roaming in the land with occasional large omnivore animals maintaining the ecosystem.


    But none of them bothered carriage as the carriage traveled on a mud road that was formed naturally due to the occasion travel of peoples and carriage. John looked at all of this and marveled as the forest he lived in for a year or two was only filled with wild natural beauty where only hunting happens. Different from how the current vicinity appears.


    The carriage stopped outside a large wooden fence with no one present. There''s no way to enter inside without anyone opening the gate. The fence is four meters tall and built tightly to stop any insects and small animals from entering the settlement stealthily and causing serious injuries.


    Just after the carriage stopped outside the fence. The door opened as two people came out and said "Enter, you guys came later than expected. Hurry up it''s getting late. Only the hunting team still hasn''t come."


    The people in the carriage also responded to those guards and entered the settlement. John followed the carriage and got to the river on the west side that formed from rain and water flowing from all the mountains surrounding the settlement.


    John looked at the fence that covered thousands of wooden houses and the people with black, skin, hair, and eyes. The people here all have dark skin due to long-term exposure to the sun. A shock to John is there are people with gills and some even have fish scales all over their bodies.


    Normal people are lesser and people with mutations in the body appear to be the majority of the group. There''s even a guy with a fishtail, John is appalled at this sight. But he still didn''t come out of his hiding. As he doesn''t know about their strength. From what he sees there''s not even a single human from what he had seen can inflict damage on him.


    The carriage entered the settlement and moved towards one of the large wooden buildings in the settlement. Everyone from the carriage came down and began to unload the fish they hunted into the warehouse and walked away from there. The food will be distributed evenly by the council.


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    Klaus departed from there after bidding farewell to his companions and walked on the solid mud road in a good mood. Even though everything he hunted is given to the village. That''s how things have been from the day before he was born.


    While singing the unknown tune he reached a two-story wooden house with a wide backyard filled with various vegetables and some fruit trees thinking about how to enjoy the night with his wife. The fish he hunted along with the animals hunted by the hunting team will be given by the distributing team managed by the village council.


    Meanwhile, John is looking at the people and listening to their conversation. But he can''t understand a thing they are conversing. So in a rejected mood, John began to swim along the river to take a look at the surroundings and also to find if there was any animal that could threaten him.


    This place is very beautiful with a pleasant natural atmosphere and no threatening predators. Everything around the settlement is the epitome of heaven on earth for the people who experienced the earth. So, John is swimming around the scenery with enjoyment at a slow pace in a camouflaged state.


    As not to alert any animals on the land and cause a scene that may be noticed by the people at the settlements. From what he had seen no one in the settlement seemed to have the ability to injure him. But he doesn''t know how to converse with them. So, he postponed the contact with them till he figured out a solution.


    Just as John enjoying the scenery. He suddenly stopped swimming as he reached the end of the river. Upon looking around, all he can see are mountain that''s surrounded by clouds as the water falls from the multiple cliffs. The place he stands is a very deep pool as it''s surrounded by numerous cliffs and water is pouring continuously making the place very deep.


    John likes this place very much, he decided to make it his home. Then John began to climb the cliff and slowly moved towards the top of the highest mountain on the island to get a good glimpse of the island. To be prepared for any type of situation.


    Looking at the settlement mainly consists of flat grassland with trees and nonviolent animals protected by the chain of mountains that also provide freshwater to the living beings on this island. It''s just a place that''s very suitable for any living being to survive with no abnormal animal presence.


    Then John used his heat sense to find out if there were any threatening animals in the mountain. Other than some goat-like animals that are abnormally grown and only eat grass, and trees. There''s no presence of any other animals that are particularly threatening to him at this height.


    So he climbed down a bit by bit, as he searched every inch of this mountain with his heat sense. But no animal like a golden eagle has been found. There was a tiger-like animal on top of every mountain. He found that after stealthily searching all the mountains in the water pathway with much difficulty to not leave any traces that could be tracked back by the hunters in the settlement.


    So it took more time and much effort as the water pathways in the mountains were only enough for him to crawl. So he unknowingly widened the path a little. But still, he finished the task he started and became familiar with the animals and the mountains on the island.


    Most of the animals he found in the mountains had some resemblance to the animals from his previous life but were less gentle than the animals he found in his birth forest. So he concluded that this group of people from the settlement were the ones who changed the ecosystem of this island to make it livable and manageable with their means. Because all of these artificial things are very helpful for any species to prosper.


    After finishing his task, the snake returned to the waterfalls he found where the river of the island originated, he swam deeper into the water reached the bottom of the water, then he coiled around a rock, and fell asleep. Even if he''s a snake that broke common sense he still has to sleep to rest his body and brain, like any other living organism.

 10:Tailed People

    The people in the settlement also fell asleep. There are no guards at night other than animals they raised for transport and hunting. As they haven''t faced any threat in their life for a long time. So they all slept quietly without knowing a terrifying creature was currently residing with them on the island.


    A month passed, after settling down on this island. John roamed around the island and the water surrounding the island. But didn''t find anything anything noteworthy nothing other than normal. Few people from the settlement found that little change happened here and there on the water pathways of the island. But didn''t find John as he left the island or out of the island most of the time.


    He also found no one in the settlement was stronger. They are all weaker than medium-sized animals with some of them having the ability to breathe in water, but they still live on the land for some reason, which he didn''t know why. They all seem to have a fixed lifestyle like hunting, socializing, and spending time with their family.


    It looked like a perfect utopia, the mutated people seemed to marry another person who was also mutated. The people with and without any mutation seem to live together. No discrimination seems to exist between mutated and not mutated peoples.


    Even though most people seemed to have strong bodies and overall abilities stronger than compared to normal humans from a previous life according to John. He didn''t find anyone with disabilities in the settlement within the population of thousands of people. John didn''t know if it was normal or not. So he dismissed the thought.


    Finally, after a month, John concluded that there was no one strong enough to make him feel anything, even if they attacked as a group. Even though they have all the basic technologies. Their technological development seemed to be in its infancy with basic agriculture and, weapon systems consisting of bow & arrow and spear.


    There are no groundbreaking technological inventions nor are there any weird biological technologies that he expected from what he had seen in the world. The people in the settlement seemed to have no contact with the outside world. As they live on what they gained from the mountains. The spices they have are less and they also have technology to extract salt from the sea.


    After knowing almost everything about them. John is currently on the last step of how can he contact & converse with them. John thought extensively about a solution. Days passed as he looked at the people in the settlement and in the forest for any inspiration.


    One day in the morning when the sun had just risen, as usual, John looked at the people in the settlement with a dazed expression in a camouflaged state. Suddenly his eyes locked on a normal kid with a long tail, which seemed currently locked onto the small black-colour four-legged creature with sharp canine teeth.


    The boy looked at the creature and said to the creature as he fed a handful of meat to the creature "If you obey me, you will get meat like this every day. Do you understand?"


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    The creature seemed to understand him as it nodded and barked in its language. The boy showed a happy expression on his face. He fed the remaining meat and began to command and control the creature to the best of his ability.


    As he trained the creature, a group of kids came near him, and one of the strong kids with dark-colored fish scales and gills looked at the kid with a tail and said with an envious expression "I also want to have an ability like you have. How good will it be, if I can control the bird and fly into the sky?"


    Hearing this, most of the kids without tails looked envious. The kid with a tail replied to the boy with a smile "You can breathe underwater with your gills. With this ability, you can catch as many fish as possible. If you don''t want your ability? Why don''t you say that to your father."


    The kid with gills replied hastily while looking around "Who said I don''t like my ability? I like my ability very much."


    Seeing his antics others started to laugh at him. As the kid with gills is very much afraid his father will beat him. If he heard he''s ashamed of his ability. Seeing that his friends laughing at him he got frustrated and said angrily "You bastards, stop laughing. Otherwise, I''ll beat you all."


    The kids also stopped laughing loudly, but couldn''t control their laughter. So, they all began to run around while laughing, with the kid with black scales chasing behind them. Without knowing all of their actions are under the surveillance of the giant snake that got a solution to his quest on how to converse or understand them.


    The adults also looked at the kids playing in the fields with smiles as they continued their day. The elders from the settlement also looked at this scene on their daily rounds around the settlement to see if there was any mismanagement under their administration. The elders are all over ninety years old age-wise. But they still had the energy to roam around without anyone''s help.


    One of the elders with a long tail and large eagle hovering above his head said with worry "The number of people with tails is getting lesser and lesser with an already lesser population of them and some of the newborns seemed not to inherit their parent abilities. So the hunting team and people who patrol and manage the settlement are getting less and less. If we let it go on like this. The people with tails will be gone within a few generations and our people will not be able to leave this island if there''s any disaster."


    An elder with gills on both sides of his head replied to the elder with a long tail "Samuel, you are worrying too much. We have lived here for more than a hundred years but have not seen any danger other than giant animals killing our fishers in the sea. So, your worry is unnecessary."


    A third elder with white hair without any noticeable mutations in the body said in a solemn tone "Even if what Samuel said is a bit over the line. There''s no denying the fact that the population of the people with tails is less than ten percent of the people with gills. We need more people with tails. So, I propose to hold a ceremony to increase the number of people with tails. What do you guys all think?"


    Hearing this elder''s proposal, other elders all showed contemplating looks on their faces. No one is young anymore to decide in the heat of the moment. Let alone a decision that is gonna consume a rare finite resource.


    After thinking and raising various questions among themselves. The twenty elders decided to hold a ceremony to increase the number of tailed members in the population. They have to convince the population of the settlement to this decision, as they are the main contributors to this ceremony.


    John looked at all of this and couldn''t understand what they were saying, as what he was hearing from their speeches was a bunch of mumblings. John is much more focused on the tail behind the kid and the elder and mainly on their ability to command and understand other animals.

 11:The Ceremony

    From large animals to small animals can be commanded with the tail behind some of the people in the settlement from what he had seen. So, now he''s only thinking about how to gain this tail. Which may provide him with a good ability to understand many animals and their abilities.


    But he didn''t if it was possible, so he spent the time thinking about this problem while looking at the villagers and sometimes hunting sea animals to fill up his energy bar. The next day, John looked at the people who were all behaving against their daily routine as they all gathered in the largest wooden building in the settlement. Most of them are people with gills and normal people without any mutation while some of them are people with tails, almost all the population of the settlement gathered here.


    John also focused his attention on the large building probably the gathering hall and listened carefully while looking at the mouths to see if he could recognize some words and learn their language with his ability. But it''s not possible he knows, as he isn''t an extraordinary genius in his past life nor does he have any remarkable talents for memorization in this life to learn a language in a few years without anyone''s teaching.


    But he didn''t stop trying to learn and understand their language even in this situation. It''s very crucial to have different solutions.


    In the massive building in the settlement, the twenty elders looked at the people present, and one of the elders Samuel said loudly "The council decided to hold a ceremony to increase the population of tailed people. What do you all think about it."


    Upon hearing the word ceremony most of the older people showed a sad expression on their faces. While most young people and middle-aged people showed doubtful expressions on their faces.


    Suddenly from the crowd, one of the women in her twenties with a child on her hips wearing animal skin clothes that covered most of her body parts while showcasing her well-developed body asked in a doubtful voice "Elder Samuel, what is this ceremony that you talk about? Can you explain it in detail? As I don''t know anything about it."


    The Elder Samuel nodded his head at the young woman and explained in a sacred tone "The ceremony is the process of converting normal people into extraordinary people with supernatural abilities. This method is said to have been invented by one of the divine beings from the royal family. Only with the people of supernatural abilities humanity can survive in this world and thrive."


    Then the Elder took a deep breath to organize his thoughts and explained slowly "The advantage of the ceremony is that we can fuse any known animal bloodline and gain their well-known characteristics, possessing abilities of other species. But the disadvantage I that the success rate is very low and the success rate is according to the compability of the humans with the chosen bloodline. So there''s a very high risk of death."


    Elder Samuel looked at all the people and said with a deep voice "Since the population of the tailed people is declining and the need for the tailed people is very necessary for many daily activities of the settlement. So we decided to hold the ceremony to increase the population of tailed people. So, I hope you all support our decision by thinking about the survival of the people."


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    Then Elder Samuel remained silent, as he gave enough time to the younger generation, to digest the information that they just acquired.


    In the meantime, the elder without any mutation came forward and explained to the crowd with a gentle smile on his face "What Elder Samuel said is true, but that''s for a normal people. Nobody here in the settlement is pure human. You all are descendants of people with mutation. So, you all have their genes in your body and the risk of death is very low, at the same time the chances of becoming extraordinary people are very high. So, you all can choose the ceremony with confidence."


    Hearing this Elder''s explanation, everybody including the remaining elders showed a surprised expression on their faces. The Elder Samuel looked at that elder and asked in a low voice "Is what you said true Henry?"


    Other elders also looked at Henry for an explanation. As they don''t know about this thing. Elder Henry looked at his companions and said with a confident expression on his face "It''s true I have been looking at this issue for a long time by researching the books from the ancestors and comparing them with what''s happening in the settlement. I came to this conclusion."


    The crowd is chatting with each other and exchanging what they understand with each other. While people who understand what Elder Henry explained to those who don''t understand.


    The other elders showed ashamed expressions on their faces upon realizing that they were not as knowledgeable as their companion in the knowledge of the ceremony. But they all lived for a long time. So, they hide their inner feelings, as every one of them is a very knowledgeable person in a certain field.


    That is one of the prerequisites for becoming an Elder. The crowd also calmed down after a few minutes and the woman who questioned elder Samuel said to him in a respectful voice "Elder, I am fine with this ceremony and willing to participate."


    The woman showed a determined expression on her face, as she wished to have the same abilities as her friends from a very young age. Even if they didn''t treat her differently because she''s different from them. In some situations, they all would have no choice but to do most things with their ability.


    At that time she couldn''t participate in those activities even if she wanted to. So she decided to give the ceremony a chance to see if there was a possibility of awakening an ability. Both of her parents also have gills and only she''s a different person in her family. So there''s a high chance for her to be able to awaken some ability.


    With her as a beginning, one by one people began to express their opinions.


    "Elder, I am also okay with this ceremony. But I don''t want my children to participate."


    "Me too, Elder. I am also ok.. "


    The people who were okay with the ceremony expressed their opinions and some of them even talked about some of their concerns. The first one to reject the ceremony also appeared.


    "Elder I don''t want to participate in this ceremony. I am not against the initiation of the ceremony. As our family has been normal people for generations and I don''t want to risk, with such a high chance of failure."


    Along with this first rejection. Many more people rejected participating in this ceremony with most of them being normal people who have all been normal people for generations. None of them are against the ceremony. All of them were okay with the ceremony, so the elders decided to finalize the decision.


    Elder Samuel looked at the crowd and said loudly "Since all of you are okay with the initiation of the ceremony. The ceremony will begin ten days later and the people who wish to participate can leave their names on the list in the gathering hall. That''s all for today, you all can return."

 12:Georges Dilemma

    With this announcement, most of them left only some people with gills remained. One man in his thirties with gills and fish scales asked Elder Henry curiously "Elder is it possible for me also undergo this ceremony and grow a tail?"


    Hearing this question, a fleeting smile appeared on Elder Henry''s face as he explained in detail "Yes, you can undergo the ceremony and awaken the tail ability. But the probability of awakening the ability is the same as normal people. If you don''t have a parent with tail ability."


    All the people with gills listened attentively to this explanation. Some of them showed disappointment and some of them showed an expectation in their faces. Seeing this, Elder Henry smiled and waved his hands at them while saying "Okay, you all can go now. If you wish to participate in the ceremony. Leave your name on the list."


    Some of the people left directly and some of them left after writing down their names in the list. The elders all looked happy with the number of people participating in the ceremony. John also looked intently at the gathering hall as he sensed something important was about to happen. So he began to divert most of his attention to the people in the settlement for the next few days.


    Days passed and most of the people who wanted to participate wrote down their names in the list. The venue for the ceremony was also selected outside the settlement a flat open space with no trees or plants present. John looked at all of this and followed everyone''s moment attentively to not miss anything.


    The elders all gathered in the hall and looked at the small crowd of people with no mutations and people with gills. There''s no one with tails present other than the elders with tails. Elder Henry looked at all the people and said with emotion "It''s good you all decided to participate in the ceremony. But there''s still a round of elimination before finalizing the list. James, you carry on the remaining."


    After saying that, he signals to an elder with a body full of black-colored fish scales with gills and a slender fish tail with barbs. James coughed slightly looked at the crowd and said in a majestic tone "All of you, stand in line and come forward one by one."


    The people started to form a line as James said. In the meantime, James took out a small cat-like animal with its eyes closed. Then one by one people came forward and tried to interact with the animal. But the animal didn''t react to everyone, the animal only reacted to a few of them. The people who all made the animal react were noted down in a separate list.


    Then Elder Henry said to the people who can''t make the animal react "The people who can''t make the animal react are disqualified to participate in this ceremony. So, you all can leave."


    The disqualified people all left the hall with sad expressions. The remaining people who were selected to participate in the ceremony looked at the elder and waited for his order. Elder Henery looked at them and said in an unquestionable tone "You all come tomorrow here in the early morning alone. Okay, that''s all, you all can return to your home and don''t do any work and be in the best condition till the ceremony."


    After everyone else left, James asked Henry with a doubt "Is it necessary to fool them? We could have just told the truth and let them choose who wanted to participate in the ceremony and who didn''t. There''s no need to create a lie like this."


    Hearing his friend''s inquiry Henry looked at him and said in a slow tone "Who would have known the potions required for ceremony become less suddenly? And we can''t use all of the potions in one ceremony alone. We have to leave some for future emergencies and ceremonies. We don''t have any potionists nor can we purchase any potion from our current location."


    "So, it''s better to let them think as they don''t qualify than to let them think that they didn''t get chosen because there''s no potion left for them and we choose everyone with their parents as a tailed people. There''s no better choice than this. Stop fumbling over this and concentrate on the things on the hand."


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    Then the elders also left from there after discussing something, with only John looking at the empty hall with countless questions. But he decides to wait it out as it seems that the people will slowly answer all his questions within a few days. He submerged in the river to let the water cool his body down with its coldness. The people who are selected for the ceremony are spending quality time with their families.


    George''s POV


    One of such is twenty-year-old George with gills. He''s born of a man with a gill and a woman with a tail. He''s the only child in the family. He''s envious of his mother''s ability to communicate with other animals and command them.


    When he''s informed about the ceremony. He successfully listed his name in the hall new very happy. But when he is invited to the hall and informed there''s still a round of disqualification. He got a little excited, but to his luck he got chosen to undergo the ceremony.


    He''s very happy with the current situation. So he walked towards his home on the east side of the settlement with excitement. But when he got near his house he controlled his emotions and became silent. Because his parents are against his decision to participate in the ceremony.


    When he entered the house, his mother with a tail along with her animal partner green venomous snake that was only the length of an arm. George looked at the snake and tried to take it away from his mother. But his mother slapped his hands and said with a frustrated expression "How many times do I have to tell you, not to touch Lily? She''s a venomous snake and she isn''t your pet. Did you forget a time when you got bitten by her?"


    Seeing her son''s blackening face, she stopped what she''s gonna say with a sigh and changed the topic "Did you inform the Elder that you didn''t want to take part in the ceremony?"


    Hearing his mother''s question, George replied coldly "It''s my choice to participate in the ceremony and I know right from wrong. I don''t need your advice, Mom. I am more than twenty after all."


    Hearing her son''s reply, his mother got sad. George also realized that he let his tongue slip. So just when he decided to say sorry. His father came out of the house with a burly body and said in an angry tone "George is that how you speak with your mom? And only now do you realize that you are over twenty. Why don''t you go to work and earn something for the family other than whimpering around like a dog."


    George looked at his father with an angry expression but he didn''t say anything. He walked out of there and entered his house because seeing his father reminded him of what he lacked. That is a strong body which is essential to becoming a successful fisherman in the village. Even if there''s no discrimination against him. He can''t partner with a strong fisherman resulting in fewer fish every time he goes fishing in a nearby river with his friends.


    With a lifespan of an absolute hundred years with no disease and fewer deaths, people from the settlement were given more time for newborns to adapt to the environment. This resulted in treating him as a kid and not letting him take on important responsibilities. Along with his insecurities and overthinking, George began to feel inferior.


    George locked himself in his room on the second floor and looked at the river in a daze. Suddenly his eyes widened as he found a huge silhouette moving. So he wiped his eyes to take a second look, but he found nothing. So he blamed what he had seen as his imagination and began to sleep thinking about his big day.


    All the people who are selected to undergo the ceremony are nervous, excited, and in fear. Because there''s still a chance of death in the ceremony. Meanwhile, the family members and close friends also worried about their friends. John looked at the people who were all behaving opposite to their daily routine and found it interesting.


    So John concentrated more on the settlement of what causes these people to be under these types of pressures. As the sun rose in the sky, in the early morning a small number of people woke up and wore the best dresses they had and walked towards the gathering hall.


    George also woke up and looked at the best food his mother prepared for him and white colored animal skin with no damage and smelling good with red eyes. He knows that both of these things that his parents prepared are best in the village. Even though his parents aren''t very rich.


    He hugged his mother ate the food quickly and left saying "Thank you, Father."


    His father just smiled while looking at his disappearing son''s shadow. His mother looked at her husband and said with a nagging expression "If you said something nice yesterday, we could have convinced him to stay."


    For this, the father replied with a light smile "Sure we could have done something more and stopped him from participating in the ceremony. But this is what he wants, he would have hated us for his lifetime if we stopped him, and I believe my son won''t be a failure."

 13:Ability Awakening

    Both husband and wife walked back into the house and waited nervously for the results. With various emotions running through their minds, the selected people all reached the gathering hall.


    John also woke up from his sleep and looked at the gathering hall with curiosity about what they were planning to do. The elders looked at the twenty-five people who were present in the gathering hall and confirmed that they were all selected people. Then one of the elders waved his hands at them to be silent and said straightforwardly with just two words "Follow us."


    The crowd remained silent and nodded their heads as they followed them out of the settlement and reached the flat surface in the middle of the forest protected by numbers of hunters and fishermen from the village and a small number of guards also stood there.


    In the center of the flat surface with no living being present. A circular diagram is drawn with a chair at the center along with various accessories to bind people to the chair. Looking at the setup the participants of the ceremony are a little afraid as they don''t know the purpose of these tools.


    The Elders looked at the participants without explaining anything for a few moments. One boy from the participants couldn''t take it any longer, so he naively asked the elder''s group "Elders what''s the purpose of these tools in the ceremony?"


    Other participants also looked at the elders with a questioning look, but they didn''t ask. All though they were all curious they didn''t ask questions about this. Elder Henry explained to the boy and others "The binding tools are used to hold you all to the chair during the process. In case, you can''t take the pain anymore and show animalistic behavior."


    The answer satisfied the curiosity of these participants and the other people who didn''t know about this. Next, Elder Henry nodded at two hunters with fish scales who also possessed strong bodies. They came forward and stood on both sides of the stool. Then Elder Henry turned his attention to these participants and coughed lightly and gained their attention, as he called out a name "Jeremiah"


    A strong young man in his twenties with black colored hair, eyes, fish scales, and gills came forward wearing black animal skin covering his lower half only and sat at the chair. Then the two strong hunters began to bind him into heavy weight steel chair with steel bindings that restricted his movements.


    Then Elder Henry took out a bottle filled with red-colored liquid that was glowing. Then Elder Henry took out an injection with a sharp edge and filled it with the liquid from the bottle. Under everyone''s shocked eyes, Elder Henry inserted the injection in Jeremiah''s right hand and pumped the potion.


    The red-colored liquid entered the young man''s body and started to attack and change the cells it came into contact with. But some mysterious blood-red elements present in the potion made both the attacking elements and the body''s antibodies familiar with each other and induced fusion. Both invading DNA and native DNA suddenly began to look for various familiarities with each other and tried to bond.


    But their total difference occurred after millions of years of evolution making it harder to fuse. So numerous abilities from the invading DNA are deleted and expelled from Jeremiah''s body. Outside everyone looked at the blood expelling from Jeremiah''s body, who was also looking at the blood leaking out of his body in horror.


    In his twenty years of life, he hasn''t had an accident where he lost so much blood. So he looked at Elder Henry for help, but to his dismay, Elder Henry shook his head and said to him "Don''t move or think about anything negative. Be brave and have a strong will, that will help you. In this process other than you, no one can save you."


    Hearing this Jeremiah clenched his teeth and stopped looking at his right hand which is leaking blood. While he''s looking at his right hand, Elder Henry injected the remaining potion into his left hand making him pale. But thinking about what the elder said to him, he clenched his teeth and remained silent.


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    While he''s mentally battling with pain and the dangerous situation he''s under. His body also began to react to the invaders in his left hand. His antibodies identified these intruders but did not attack aggressively as they did at the right hand. As they already have information about these intruders and know they are useful for the body.


    So they actively began to fuse with the intruders with the assistance of a mysterious evolution substance. Finally, after numerous fights and various unmatched DNA is expelled from the body. Both the DNA compromised and found a middle ground and began to fuse to create a new DNA. Jeremiah looked happy that the blood stopped leaking from his body.


    But before he can celebrate, he loses consciousness as the newly created DNA is changing his body totally from both hands, and information is passed out by the blood cells all over the body. The new DNA began to make little changes all over his body with the major change being a small tail being conceived at the lower part of his back.


    Looking at the changes in Jeremiah, Elder Henry smiled and waved his hands at the two strong hunters who had already begun to loosen the binds and said with a happy smile on his face "Move him to the tent and provide him food as much as he wants, after he wakes up. Don''t disturb him unnecessarily."


    Then he smiled at the other Elders and informed them about this success. As the table was cleaned and disinfected with alcohol including the injection, which also got the same treatment. Then after a few minutes, the chair dried with a cloth and Elder Henry called another participant "Eren"


    A twenty-two-year-old with no mutations in his body came forward with an expectation on his face. He saw the process and considered that other than little pain, there was nothing else to be worried about. So with the expectation of awakening an ability, he sat at the chair as two hunters bound him with steel chains.


    The same process is repeated and in a few minutes, Eren grows a little tail and looks pale as he lost a large amount of blood and fat from his body. This process consumes too much energy to create new DNA with invading DNA and to transform oneself. Then the Eren also led away and slept in the tent to replenish his energy and grow the tail fully. It''s a long process which may take a week or two.


    Like that, the ceremony continued, and almost everyone became successful in the ceremony. At such duration, Elder Henry called out the name of the next participant with a confident expression on his face "Ben"


    A young man in his twenties with gills came forward and sat down at the chair. Everything happened as usual, the moment the potion was injected into his body, his body began its usual operation. Within a few moments, his body began to grow scales and his tail also grew readily as his head began to morph and became narrower. The head began to elongate and made his head look like a fish''s head. Suddenly the newly mutated animal began to hold its chest like it couldn''t breathe.


    This sudden situation caused people present to show ugly expressions on their faces. Elder Henry looked anxious and sad as he called out the boy''s name repeatedly "Ben"


    But Ben didn''t respond to him, he tried to jump here and there. But unfortunately, he can''t move with all the binding. So elder Henry said to the two hunters "Release him and let him in the water."


    The two strong looked embarrassed at this situation. As they don''t want to approach this weird monster who was human minutes ago. But they clenched their teeth and released the skinny weird creature from the steel chair and dragged him into a nearby small pond and threw him in. The creature calmed down and breathed with the gills and then looked at the two strong outside the pond.


    Two strong men heaved a huge sigh of relief and calmed down, as the creature didn''t cause any ruckus and remained silent. Elder Henry and others also followed the two strong men and looked at the creature in the pond with various complex emotions. While some of the remaining participants of the ceremony looked fearful.


    Elder Henry looked at the creature in the water and called out repeatedly "Ben, can you hear me? If you can, show some signs. If you can''t, just do something."


    Elder Henry tried to reason with the creature that lost its rationality and became a wild creature without a little bit of humanity, Elder Henry sighed sadly as he ordered the two strong men "Drag that creature outside and then kill."


    Hearing this everyone is appalled that the creature will be killed. One of the participants of the ceremony who knew Ben beforehand asked in a sad tone "Elder Henry, can''t we just let Ben stay in the pond?"


    Elder Henry looked at the boy and said in a very sad tone "O, Child, this creature isn''t Ben. Ben died at the ceremony, what remains is a beast that doesn''t differentiate between foe and friend with only the intention of filling its stomach."


    The boy tried to argue with Elder Henry "But. But he was also one of us a few minutes ago. Isn''t it cruel to kill him, we can just let him into the wild and not care about him afterward."

 14:Unique Mutation

    Everyone there looked a little moved at the boy''s suggestion and looked at Elder Henry for an answer. Elder Henry showed an understanding expression on his face and explained slowly while looking at all the people present "We can''t child, the moment he lost his humanity he''s not human. This alone isn''t the reason why I want to kill him that much."


    Elder Henry said in a very serious tone "From what I read from the notes that came along with potions. It specified that, nobody who lost his human nature in the process of ceremony and survived. IT SHOULD NOT BE LEFT ALIVE. They also specified that if we let the successfully evolved creature that lost its humanity into the wild, humans will face serious consequences. "


    All the people who listened looked dumbfounded and couldn''t understand the reason with their knowledge only some people who had high IQs and read extensively, picked up some clues that showed a little understanding. After hearing this answer all of them remained silent and didn''t say anything anymore.


    Seeing their silence, Elder Henry understood their choices and said to the two strong men "Drag the creature outside the water and then kill it. Then make sure to burn it thoroughly."


    The two strong men executed the elder''s order as per what he said. The group left from there after seeing the burning corpse of the creature, to continue the ceremony process with the remaining people.


    After the awful incident, the ceremony continued with a tense situation. The process is followed as usual, as a girl sits on a chair and injects the potion as usual. The girl looked nervously along with everyone else. Luckily other than usual processes nothing else out of the ordinary happened and she successfully underwent an evolution and went to the tent.


    The other participants also heaved a sigh of relief. After a successful start, the remaining members also regained their confidence and underwent the ceremony successfully. Finally, it was Georges''s turn as he sat at the chair with a nervous expression which he hidden very well. The potion is injected into George''s body.


    His body began to change as the usual process. But when the respective gene of the aquatic animal which he inherited from his father also became active, both the aquatic gene and tail gene fused and created a new gene with the human body as a base. Fortunately, this change didn''t bring any changes that can reduce the rationality of humans.


    A new blue-colored tail with scales and strong muscles that is hugely different from a normal lean tail without any scales. Nobody doesn''t knows if the tail is successful evolution or failed evolution. It all depends on the environment and the user of the tail.


    Elder Henry came forward and looked at the mutation that was different from the normal mutation and said with wisdom in his eyes "The tail should have mutated from the typical tail. It may have acquired some genes from your father from the looks of it. But to decide if it advantage or disadvantage are all depends on you."


    George nodded with excitement upon learning he was unique without understanding the deep meaning of Elder''s words. Seeing this, Elder Henry just nodded his head but didn''t say anything to dampen the young man''s spirit. Then he proceeded to continue the ceremony with only one or two people present.


    At the next ceremony, the one who participated mutated into a human covered in dense black colored hair with sharp claws for human hands. He only lost his flexibility in using the human fingers but he gained sharp claws for it, which may be not as sophisticated as the tail ability.


    But with these claws, he can hunt more easily if he is well-trained. With dense hair on his body, he won''t catch a cold for sure. His body may have considered this targeted evolution to be more necessary than the tail or he may just failed to acquire the tail randomly without any reason.


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    The ceremony ended with one failure and one death out of twenty-two people who participated resulting in twenty people luckily gaining the ability that the settlement needed very badly. The Elders from the Council all are smiling from ear to ear with this level of success rate. As they expected more failed participants, fortunately, nothing like what they expected happened.


    As the people from the settlement are enjoying the success. They didn''t know another being also enjoying their success, but not for them. For its purpose, John looked at the ceremony site with sparkling eyes, as he finally saw what he needed and how he could acquire it.


    But he''s also a little afraid to try it, as he had seen what failure had done to the participant''s body. But he''s not gonna lose something in front of him due to some fear. The main reason he''s very brave to try this process is that he can see that, the ceremony is all about finding the successful DNA fusion and letting it change the body. He doesn''t necessarily need to use his body as an experiment.


    He can inject the potion into his tail and see if the tail DNA is successfully adapted to his DNA, if not he can detach the tail from his body and abandon the part that his dying when mutating is not in the desired direction. So, after thinking through a successful plan to acquire the tail. John locked his eyes on the ground beside the gathering hall. There is a hidden stone room made from a single rock which is locked with a very heavy steel door that has hidden stairs from the gathering hall.


    John waited patiently for everyone in the settlement to be asleep. As he had already seen there was still a pack of potions that looked the same as the potion used in the tail ceremony in the stone room. From which elders take out ceremony utensils and potions.


    Past midnight, a time even a midnight person would also have in deep sleep. John moved very lightly and placed his head on the ground, as he tightened all the muscles and distributed his weight all over the body uniformly. As not to leave very deep impressions on the ground nor does he want to make any noise that may alert the others in the settlement.


    Then moved very slowly toward a direction where a group of animals was kept.


    With twin silvery moons in the sky, the animals are in certain outdoor fences with wide open free space. Most of these animals are tailed people''s companions. So they have a very high sense of presence in the situation and some of the animals are kept for meat and milk they produce.


    Most of the animals are sleeping already with some of them looking at the surroundings in a daze or playing with other animals. An eagle as big as a normal human settlement suddenly felt the wind in the atmosphere disappearing. As if it entered a small cave with little air, and it lost its conscious.


    John swallowed a whole bunch of animals with just his head in the open leaving his whole body to cover the open space and not let any animals escape from his hand and cause unnecessary scenarios. After swallowing all the animals in the vicinity at a very slow pace, John slithered very slowly. So, as not to cause any damage to the buildings in the settlement.


    As these houses are smaller than him, he can swallow them whole if he wants. The only thing he''s fortunate about is that the roads are wider than his body and the houses are far apart from other houses. This made him not touch these houses, and his absolute control over his body''s training in the water made him move without making any sound and with sense abilities. He can see if anybody is awake thus making him change direction from a long distance.


    After many difficulties, John finally came near the gathering building successfully without awakening anybody from the settlement with a very tiring method that he had used from his birth, as a snake. John looked at the gathering hall that was as big as his head and then opened his mouth wider as he bit at the ground beside the gathering hall and sank his fangs in mud.


    The mud broke slowly with immense pressure from his fangs and entered deeper. John began to swallow the mud in one mouth.


    ~gulp~


    Then repeated the same process within a few moments his teeth stuck something harder than a normal stone larger than a stone he''d swallowed. So, he controlled his strength and griped on the stone room and pulled it out which can perfectly fit in his mouth without opening it wide. So, John swallowed the stone room kept it in his body a little away from the head, and slithered away from the settlement in the same way he took, at a faster speed.

 15:Trouble

    Even so, he didn''t make much noise until he got near the river. John jumped and disappeared into the water from this island, and moved towards another small island, which is a long distance away from this island. He still does not want to face these people. But if they gave him the absolute reason, he wouldn''t hesitate to kill those who stood in his way.


    A few days later, John reached the island. Then John moved towards a valley that was very well hidden. After reaching the Hidden Valley, John spat out the stone room.


    John looked at the stone room thought for a minute and decided to leave from there. To return to the island where people live. Because he can''t open the stone room and take out a potion flexibly, with his large body. He decided to take away a human from the settlement to help him. So, he swam back to the island with people.


    In the meantime, people in the settlement are gathered in the gathering hall and discussing the incident that inflicted fear on most of the people in the settlement. The elders are also present there, Elder Samuel looked at the gossiping crowd with an impatient expression on his face.


    Elder Henry smiled gently at all the people and said unhurriedly "All of you, please be quiet. The traces left beside the gathering hall are due to natural mud sunk. This happens due to a lot of water in the ground. It''s nothing to worry about, we have faced this situation numerous times in our lives."


    Hearing this most of the people calmed down. But the tailed people still looked unconvinced, some of them were even angry. One of the young-tailed men in his twenties is particularly angry, so he raises a question "Elder, then what about my companion? What happened to him, what was the reason for his sudden disappearance along with other animals in the settlement? What do you have to say about it?"


    Hearing this, other-tailed people''s emotions also got aroused at the thought of their missing companions. Only the small animals in the house are alive in the settlement. Almost most of the animals that used to roam in the settlement have disappeared without a trace making the people in the settlement question their safety, after this incident.


    Seeing that the situation is escalating and getting out of hand. Elder Henry coughed to let them notice his presence and give him some respect. But with emotions running high, most people didn''t care about the Elder. Seeing this Elder Henry sighed, as he knew this kind of situation was bound to happen. But he thought he could manage them with his experience.


    He finally understood that only if we give what we had promised and what we had already provided will people listen. If there''s any type of sign that there is trouble and can even cause life-threatening crises. They will point fingers at you and ask why aren''t you doing anything.


    One of the hunters with a tail came forward and shouted at the crowd "Silence! You all are behaving like only you are hurt. I also lost my companion and need answers. But I didn''t point my fingers at others and question where my companion was. This kind of situation is happening first time in our settlement and needs to be investigated thoroughly, before giving any explanations."


    Then he looked at the Elders and declared "The council will say when they have exclusive proof for the reason of animals going missing. So, wait patiently, and let''s do our work in the meantime without wasting our time and the council''s time in this meaningless quarrel."


    Seeing the performance of the hunter the Elders all nodded their head with satisfied smiles. As at least one member is thinking for the people. This is one of the qualities to become an Elder. The council noted his action and put him on the list of the members of the Elders.


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    Using the hard-won peace in the hall, Elder Henry came forward and said with a sigh "I can understand your feelings. You have to understand that, we also lost our animal companions. We are gathering every clue to get to the bottom of it and not to miss anything. So, wait patiently for a few days."


    With Elder Henry''s compromise, everyone left from there to continue their daily activities. After everyone left, Elder Henry and others looked at each other with solemn expressions on their faces. Finally, Elder Henry asked solemnly "Do you find any ship in the surroundings or other people''s presence on the island?"


    Hearing this question, Elder Samuel replied with a puzzled expression on his face "I led a group of guards and looked at every nook and corner of the island and in the surrounding sea. But I didn''t find anything that signified the presence of other humans on the island."


    Hearing his answer, most of the people present looked puzzled, as the answer was very different from what they all expected. Because what is stolen is a very expensive thing, according to the lord who led all of them here. So, there''s a very high possibility some humans stole their items.


    One of the Elders with no mutation on his body asked with a puzzled expression on his face "How can anyone leave with the stone room? No human can''t possibly do that right."


    For this question, Elder Henry answered with a mysterious expression on his face "I have seen a humans who can do more than that. But they won''t possibly come here and steal our things. So, it may be an act of a group of thieves. They should be so good at this, that they can leave without leaving a trace."


    The Elders present also seen or heard about high humans, who don''t behave according to the common sense of humans. So, they also put aside the doubt that someone like them stealing their things. The atmosphere became silent without any answers.


    Seeing the situation, Elder Henry thought(These fellows, it didn''t matter who stole it. Because we can''t possibly retrieve from those who can steal silently, and kill all of our animals without any of us noticing. The important thing is now to give an ending to the matter.)


    Even though he thought so, Elder Henry didn''t want to tell what he thought. As there will be people who will contradict him thus resulting in an unnecessary situation. So, he said, "I think it may be done by a group of people with mutation who are specialized in stealing."


    "If so, I don''t think they will be anywhere near our island. So, what we can do is increase the defense of the island and we also need to introduce a group of guards who are responsible for patrolling the settlement at night times. At the same time, we also need to keep people on top of the mountain to see if any ships are coming near our island. Only if we do so, can we stop these kinds of situations from happening in the future."


    Hearing the suggestions of Elder Henry, all of them conversed for a few minutes and changed their plans a bit. Before finally agreeing to implement these steps in the future. After finalizing, they all decided to delay the public answering as long as possible to let their anger calm down.


    At the same time, they also decided to give a new animal companion to those who lost the animals. During a discussion of this topic, Elder Samuel asked "Why do you all think? The robbers stole the animals from our settlement."


    Hearing this question, most of them remained silent with no answers. Only Elder Henry answered him "Who knows maybe the robbers want us to think that some animals did these things not humans. At last, we only know somebody stole precious items from us easily and slaughtered our animals without leaving any clue other than weird marks on the road, and what we can do is improve our security to prevent these types of situations from happening in the future."


    Everyone also heard hidden meanings in these words. So, they stopped talking about finding the culprit, without knowing the culprit was returning to their island to commit one more crime. John swam toward the island at a rapid pace under the deep water making the sea environment chaotic.


    A few days later.


    John finally came near the island, he raised his head a little bit out of the water and looked at the island that was miles away. He checked the island with his extraordinary senses as usual. But to his surprise, he found a presence of humans on the outer island. They all patrolled the island uniformly with new animal companions.

 16:Failed Mutations

    John thought to himself(Maybe they are looking for me. After all, I stole their treasury. So it''s going to be harder to enter the island.) Suddenly an idea sparkled in his mind, and he thought evilly(Why do I need to enter the island, when I can abduct them, without even entering the island.)


    John moved slowly under the sea and approached the island. The people patrolling the island didn''t know that danger was lurking around them and anyone might fall victim to it. If they don''t keep an eye on their surroundings or they are careless.


    Soon John finds a suitable person to abduct on the shores of the island. On the side of the island where the island''s inner surface can be reached. Two men in their twenties with gills patrolled along the shore with a careless attitude. Both of them are a little distance away from each other and doing their job in a very sloppy manner.


    Seeing them, John approached the land closer and stopped a few meters away from them. Two patrol men still didn''t find anything wrong, as one of them was looking for something in the shrubs in the surroundings and another one was trying to catch a creature that runs very fast with flexible legs.


    But both of them didn''t seem to achieve what they were expecting. So, they concentrated on it more, forgetting about the warning given by the Elders. As they immersed themselves in their reality, colorless odorless poison surrounded them. The first victim is the one who''s looking for something in the shrub, as he faints.


    The other one who was chasing the animal didn''t faint suddenly due to changing positions constantly. But the moment he tried to escape, his legs became weak. He fell along with the animal he was hunting, on the muddy ground. John came out of the water, after confirming both of them had fainted. He swallowed them into his mouth and kept them in the body, where they wouldn''t get digested.


    John lamented at the thought of using his body as a storage space frequently these days. But his actions didn''t stop, due to his thoughts. As his body entered the water and began to swim toward the island where he left the stone room. After he left, the animal hunted down by one of the men stood up and left from there in a panic.


    John used a very small amount of poisonous fog to make them faint, as he did not want to kill them. So, the creature woke up in a few minutes. But the two people in John''s body can''t enjoy this benefit, because both of them are injected with poisonous fog, from time to time to keep them asleep.


    John swam at a fast speed, without wasting a moment. As he didn''t know how long the humans in his mouth could last without food or water. He traveled a three-day distance in two days. After reaching the small island, John spat out both of them in a small stream on the island. Both of them woke up from sleep and drank the water in the stream.


    After that, both of them looked at each other with dumbfounded expressions, as they still processing information, after waking up from a deep sleep and then they found that a long shadow was shrouding them. So they looked up and upon seeing John, both of them let out a blood-curdling scream "Aaaaah!"


    Then one of the men fainted on the spot, the other one was little better than the one who fainted, as he began to run in the opposite direction of John. In vain hope of escaping from John, John began to follow the man who was running at the slowest speed possible. But still reached a man in two seconds.


    The man let out another shriek as he looked at John with fear, but he still asked tremblingly "What do you want from us? And why do you bring us here?"


    The man''s brain began to work, after realizing that the snake bought them somewhere away from the island,  and didn''t eat them instantly as a normal animal does. So, with the hope that the animal bought them with a goal, he asked what he thought. John also looked in amazement at the man and slithered his tongue at him. Then began to move in the direction of the hidden valley.


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    Seeing the snake''s movement, the man let out a cry of joy as he followed him, even if he didn''t like to follow the snake. The men fell, after taking a few steps with severe hunger. John looked at the man and stopped moving. John let the man take a rest for a few minutes. Then he slithered his tongue at him and motioned him in a direction, where a group of animals were grazing.


    The man''s face became paler, as he thought he was gonna die, he thought the snake was gonna swallow him. So, he tried to take a few steps, but he fell heavily on the ground weakly. Seeing this, John sighed and moved towards a herd of herbivores which were enough for him to swallow in one mouthful, and grabbed one of them and returned to the man who was currently enjoying shade under a tree, and put down an animal from his mouth distributing the atmosphere with dust.


    The man coughed a bit due to the sudden sandstorm and looked at the large animal that he hadn''t seen before, but didn''t touch it, because the animal is hunted by the large snake that almost covers everything with its presence.


    John looked expressionlessly at the man for a few minutes without moving. The man also finally realizes that the animal is for him. So, he took out a small sharp bone knife to slash the animal. After cutting it, he began to roast a small part of it. While looking at the large snake with a curious expression.


    He hadn''t heard of a smart animal like a large snake and he didn''t even know that the snake could be this large. His fear of the snake diminished with the food and his curiosity rose. But, he still behaved cautiously. John looked at all of the man''s expressions and thought(The humans in this world look like emojis.)


    The man ate the meat in a few minutes and looked at the snake for any reaction, to understand what to do next. John didn''t disappoint him, as he began to move towards the hidden valley with a man on his tail. John also swallowed the remaining animal meat, with the policy of not wasting meat.


    A few minutes later, John and the man reached the hidden valley. The man looked at the stone room before his eyes with puzzlement and looked at the snake who also looking and motioning something to him. After a few moments of confusion, and multiple head shakes. The man finally understands what the snake is conveying.


    The man took a large rock from nearby and began to strike it on the lock, on the steel door of the stone room.


    ~Boom~


    After repeating this action multiple times, a large amount of sweat is expelled from the man''s body, and the man finally breaks the lock and opens the door. He opened the door wide enough to let the snake see the contents of the stone room. John looked at the contents of the stone room with excitement. The man also found the contents in the stone room with his pupils widened.


    He looked at the steel chair, bindings, injections, and potions in the room with incredible expression. Everything dawned on him, as he realized why the snake did all of this. John looked at the man''s action and didn''t think anything about it.


    The man also came to his senses and decided to fulfill the snake''s desire and see, if the snake would let him live or not. As he can see, the snake is very smart and will kill him, if he does something that is against its wishes. He also didn''t want to provoke the snake''s wrath, without knowing what may snake would do. The man comforted himself and resolved to fulfill the snake''s orders to his best. Just end this process with him alone.


    He moved forward and took a potion named ''Tail'' and filled up an injection with it. Then he walked up to the snake and looked at it. John looked at the man who suddenly became smart and moved his tail end near the man. The man looked at the smallest part of the snake which was still bigger than him with amazement.


    He was also present at the ceremony site in the settlement as a guard and due to his strong body, he was selected to participate in the newly formed patrol team to protect the settlement from where he got abducted. By analyzing what he had seen Elders doing to those participants, he knew what to do.


    The man injected the potion into John''s tail. A few moments later, John''s tail began to twitch and become something different from normal. John also can see that the process failed, so without wasting time, he disconnected the small section of a tail that had undergone a mutation process.


    Seeing John''s action, the man also let out hidden hope, which he placed on the snake''s demise under the threat of failed mutation. John hissed at the man, the man understood and refilled the injection with a new potion and injected it into John''s body. The tail end began to turn into something animalistic, so John dropped off that section of the tail.

 17:Bought To Light

    With a determined expression, John hissed at the man one more time. The man also didn''t disappoint John, as he repeated the procedure. But the process failed again, then John injected the potion multiple times, without success. Seeing the situation, the man also began to sweat in fear. He didn''t know what the snake would do if it got frustrated, and decided to vent its anger.


    With trembling hands, he inserted the injection into the snake''s tail. A few seconds after the injection, the tail end began to heal, and a round tail with no scales appeared, at the end of the tail. In the tails inside, multiple small tails moved like they had their consciousness. John looked at the moving small tails inside his tail, with a fascinating expression.


    As he''s the one who''s moving those tails with his thoughts. He also now has improved control, over his muscles and thoughts. Suddenly, the small tails stretched out of his body length and attached to the head of the man, who helped him till now. Then, very small numerous transparent hair-like long protrusions were inserted into his body from the small tails. Which covered every part of his head and the man lost consciousness.


    Meanwhile, John looked at the sudden authorization to a huge amount of data, that he couldn''t process in a instant. So, he began to organize a huge amount of data like a video. Which starts from the beginning, narrated in the third person POV. To not lose himself to someone else memories, by looking at the memory from the third person''s POV. He can understand the person better, without being affected by his emotions.


    After organizing his thoughts about, how to approach this. John inserted his consciousness into the story of the man he didn''t know.


    ...


    In the past


    In a settlement where the year and dates aren''t maintained by normal people, maybe maintained by elders when important things happen. A baby boy was born on a full moon, like other boys in the village. He grew up happily with all the necessities fulfilled and he was named Robin. He spent his childhood like any other child in the settlement.


    He successfully inherited the best qualities of his parent''s bloodline like a strong body and gills. So, without any suspense, he wanted to become a fisherman like his father and followed him to train his skills in fishing. So, that, one day he will be successful and start a family with a girl he likes.


    But destiny isn''t on his side, he''s worst at fishing. So, he joined guards in the settlement, whose daily job is to patrol and defend in case of any intruders. This is well well-known job, that''s not liked by everyone. Even so, not anybody can become a guards. The prerequisite for this job is a strong body and any extraordinary ability like tail or gills.


    Robin successfully became a guard of the settlement at the age of nineteen, along with the patrol, the guards also needed to fulfill the requests of the council elders. So, most of the time he spent running errands or doing tasks for the elders. This is why the guards are infamous in the settlement. Because most of the youngsters don''t like to be idle and do what the elder says. They want a thrilling life, like how they speculated.


    Robin adjusted himself to the life of a guard successfully, he spent his days leisurely while looking for some girl to marry. On one unfortunate day, due to some changes in the settlement. A new department was created with the elder''s orders, he entered this department and became a glorious patrolman on the island. One day, he fainted while fooling around a little during patrol time. After that, his days of despair came under the hand of the evil snake that hides in the sky.


    ...


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    John looked away from Robin''s story and took back his tail from his body. But, Robin didn''t wake up, as he was in deep sleep due to the fatigue of John''s action. Meanwhile, John is thinking about the info, he acquired. From, what he knows from Robin''s memory, the settlement seems to have no contact with the outside world.


    John began to wonder if people were existing, outside the settlement. Robin also doesn''t seem to know what day he was born. The village seems to have a concept of year, month, and days, but they are not following it actively. They don''t even know what language they are speaking or what part of the world they are living in. So, John is very disappointed, that he didn''t learn anything that he want to know.


    John moved away from Robin and found another man on the other side of the island. The man is hiding in the cave and doing everything to survive in this unknown land. John didn''t waste any time, as he poisoned the man with a light dose and used his tail to read his memory. Then, John slithered into the sea with disappointment, as he didn''t see anything different, from what he had seen in Robin''s memory.


    John began swimming towards the island known as Paradise Island, which he learned from Robin''s memory, it''s the place Robin lived from the day, he was born. John is moving faster, without bothering to hide his figure underwater. As a result, numerous animals from the sky to the sea diverged and gave path to him.


    ...


    Meanwhile, in Paradise Island, all the people gathered together, in the gathering hall and looked at the elders and other important members of the settlement for answers.


    The elders looked like they were aging rapidly. As they haven''t faced these types of situations in their nearly hundred years of life. When they can''t find a solution for their people, they are disappointed with themselves, thus resulting in their current state.


    Even so, the elders calmed down the crowd and one of the very old elders said in a hoarse voice "You all should know that even I haven''t seen a situation like this in my long life. So, without pointing fingers at others, you all should also contribute something and solve this predicament for the betterment of all."


    The people in the crowd all looked away with shame. Looking at the people in the crowd, most of the elders began to reflect on what they had done wrong in their time. What they all did, was to follow what was said by their father and grandparents. Soon the elders understood that the elder''s council wasn''t enough to protect the settlement, and they also needed a young mind with wild ideas in a time of need.


    If they still only had an elder council in the future, they wouldn''t know what would happen to people in the settlement. All the people, who seem to be very dependent on them and do not provide or take any actions benefitting the current circumstance. The elders understood they needed a person in charge, to show light in times of darkness.


    Even though, they thought so, it''s not a time to initiate this. So, one of the elders from the council asked "Timothy, what''s the result of your investigation?"


    Timothy, a middle-aged man with a very strong body and gills came forward from the sidelines and said with a solemn expression "Elder, from what we had noticed. It looked like both of them were abducted by a gigantic snake. We should prepare for a battle immediately, as we don''t know when the snake will attack the settlement."


    Upon hearing about the gigantic snake, the crowd boiled and some timid ones already thinking about how to survive, while the brave ones thinking about how to kill the snake. The elder listened calmly and raised a question "Why are you sure, it''s a gigantic snake, and what do you find that proves the snake''s existence?"


    Timothy showed a cautious expression on his face and said with fear in his eyes "Elder, we found snake scale traces on the shore, and, we also have someone who can read memories of animals. It''s him who confirmed the presence of the gigantic snake."


    Hearing his explanation, the crowd boiled with more information. While the elders remained silent and conversed with each other. After a few minutes, the elder ordered Timothy "Tell me, Who can read the memories of the animals?"


    Timothy said to the elder without batting an eye "It''s George, my lord."


    Hearing the word George, Elder Henry got agitated and asked seriously "Is he the one, who has undergone a unique mutation in the ceremony?"


    Hearing this, Timothy showed a surprised expression on his face and replied "Yes, it''s him, my lord."


    Elder Henry is deeply involved in the ceremony and mutation process. So, he noted down George, who had undergone a unique mutation. After the ceremony, he wanted to have an in-depth conversation to learn more about George''s mutation. But, due to various accidents in the settlement, he''s busy with other things and doesn''t have time to spend on his curiosities.

 18:Despair Of People

    Elder Henry then murmured in a silent voice "If it''s him, it possible that he can read memories."


    Then the elders conversed with each other and one of the elders looked at the crowd and ordered "George, come forward."


    George nervously came forward without knowing what awaited him, he looked at the elder for follow-up. The elders didn''t let down him, as the elder Henry asked him clearly "George, can you read memories of all animals?"


    For this, George scratched the back of his head and said shyly "Elder, I can''t read all the animal''s memories. I can only read memories of the sea animals and I can''t even command or control other animals other than sea creatures."


    Hearing this, most of the tailed people in the crowd looked surprised. Their main ability is controlling and commanding all the animals. But George seems to only command and control sea animals, so they are a little disappointed. But then they all little relived, as George''s ability doesn''t outrightly overpower them.


    Elder Henry showed a contemplative expression on his face and beckoned one of the guards to come forward, then he said something to him, and the guard departed from there. A few minutes later, the guard returned with a small creature that looked like a chicken, but it was not.


    Elder Henry signaled the guard and George to come forward and asked George "Can you see what the guard had in his hand before picking up this animal?"


    George nodded his head and walked towards the guard and light blue tail with fish scales and strong muscle stretched out from his back and attached itself to the two-legged flying beast. The two-legged flying beast was mostly kept in everyone''s house in the settlement. This beast can produce two eggs a day and the egg is delicious to eat, so most people like to domesticate, and grow it in the house, to satisfy their daily needs.


    The two-legged beast struggled a bit at the start, but the struggle of the beast diminished slowly. After a few moments, George closed his eyes and concentrated on accessing memories of the two-legged beast with his tail. Not much later, George opened his eyes and said to the elder Henry "The guard didn''t carry anything other than what he carries now. But he has shown two fingers at the animal, before picking it up."


    Elder Henry nodded his head at George, then turned around and said to the other elders and the crowd "I conducted a small test to confirm George''s abilities. It seems George can read animal''s memories for a short time. So, now let''s hear about the snake, that George had seen."


    George came forward and said to all of them with obvious fear in his eyes "After joining the patrol team, I patrolled around the island like others. But I was informed about the disappearance of the two members, so without wasting time, I used my ability on the nearby aquatic animals to find any clue."


    Fear intensified in George after mentioning this, he took a moment to explain slowly "That''s when I saw a very gigantic snake that''s wider than our houses and larger than hundreds of us. It slithered back into the water and swam somewhere, that''s all I can see from that particular animal''s memory. After that, I saw many nearby aquatic animals memory to see more. In one such animal''s memory, I found what happened on the shore. Both the missing members seemed to faint due to unknown reasons and the giant snake came out of the water swallowed them both and swam away."


    Elder Henry nodded his head and said to George "Okay, you go back and stand with your team leader."


    George obeyed the elder''s words and returned, then the elder Henry explained to the crowd "Since you all heard what George had said, I won''t beat around the bushes anymore. Even though, the animal didn''t come to our settlement to hunt today. Who can say that will not come tomorrow? So, it''s our responsibility to be prepared for everything. If you guys have any idea, speak now."


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    Even though he came to know George''s ability, Elder Henry is not happy with satisfying his previous curiosity. As a large snake isn''t something they can attack or kill with their current ability. Maybe, it is possible, if they are still in the kingdom? But they are not, so they have to think about how to survive now. If one day, the large snake decided to attack their settlement.


    The other elders in the council, fishermen, and hunters all looked very ugly in the current situation. Only they know the consequences of a snake of that size. Even though, the chances of snake attacking their settlement are very low. Because the hunters and fishermen know, an animal that size needs to eat much more to survive.


    The people in the settlement can only fill the animal''s belly for a few days. So, that large snake''s hunting range should be very large. Even so, the thought of their settlement being destroyed one day at random thought of hunger from the gigantic snake isn''t good. After numerous discussions, they all come to the same conclusion, that they won''t survive.


    So people''s emotions started to get out of control and most of them showed despaired expressions on their faces. Suddenly, one of the elders said "Since the snake''s presence has been confirmed. Then is it the reason for the destruction in the village and the disappearance of animals?"


    Hearing this speculation, the others who also thought so, showed panic on their faces. It becomes apparent that the snake is aware of their presence. So, most of the people began to panic even more. Seeing this, some other elders scolded the elder who brought up the topic of the snake''s presence in the village.


    For this, the elder replied with a frustrated expression on his face "Don''t you guys understand, that the snake seems to hold any desire to eat us? There may be another reason for taking away two men. I also think the snake''s presence on the island is much older."


    Elder Samuel retorted him with a question "Why do you think so?"


    The elder replied to him with a matter-of-fact tone "If we go back, much further. Didn''t the hunters gossip about the waterways in the mountain suddenly enlarged a few meters, months ago? I think the snake is the reason for that too."


    Elder Samuel became silent and thought about what the elder said to him. Others also began to think about it, Elder Henry''s eyes brightened for a moment, as he thought of an absurd reason why the snake took away two men from the settlement and also stole a treasury from the settlement.


    Elder Henry began to hesitate, to tell others about this. Because there''s a high possibility that the snake lived around a settlement for a few months and after seeing the ceremony, it stole the treasury to UNDERGO THE CEREMONY BY ITSELF.


    If it''s true the snake is also very smart and wants the ability to understand other animals. Just as Elder Henry is constructing a reason for all of the things that happened on the island. A small boy only wearing animal skin to cover the lower part shouted in the crowd "Elder, I had seen the snake in the river outside the house. It appeared & disappeared before my eyes, so I thought it was just my imagination."


    This detail came as thunder and struck in elder Henry''s ear. He finally found a reasonable cause for not noticing such a huge being on the island. As it can''t hide from them on this island, with all of them always doing something and moving in almost every part of the island. So, without wasting any more time, elder Henry took a deep breath and said to all the people in the crowd "I think I found the reason for all the things that happened on the island in a short period. The snake..."


    Then Elder Henry explained what he thought and decided based on his reason along with the clues from the island. The people''s faces changed, after hearing all of it. Then people began to deny and then reasoned with each other in dismay.


    The elder''s council also remained silent, but the despair on their face vanished and little hope was boosted. Because they will probably not die if the snake is intelligent. Elder Henry showed a smile on his tired face and said confidently "If what we dedicated is correct, then the snake may die in the ceremony and we will return to our previous lifestyle."


    All the people left there with enough confidence. After everyone left elder Henry said to himself silently "If it does not die, it will return to the island."


    Other elders also heard this and said to Henry encouraging "You did your best, Henry. Now, everything else is up to the fate. "


    Henry nodded his head and along with other elders, he heaved a huge sigh of relief and waited patiently with a trembling heart. Days passed very slowly making people with little brain and reasoning in the settlement feel very uneasy for the next few days.

 19:Highness Carl Vika

    Everyone in the settlement isn''t a fool and some of them know there''s still another possibility that exists different from what Elder Henry said. But they all didn''t burst the bubble and decided to wait it out, to see what would happen. As the people in the settlement are waiting for their fate patiently.


    ...


    A few days later.


    John arrived at a paradise island and looked at the island with no obvious traces of people, who used to patrol around the island. So, he used his heat sense to see if the people were on the island or if they had all left from here. John heaved a sigh of relief, seeing the dense heat signals, and swam toward the settlement.


    He looked at the people in the settlement with a surprised expression. A lot of them lost the peaceful nature they had when they last saw them. So with a puzzling expression, he looked at all the people and waited till nighttime. He looked at the gathering hall, where all the senior members of the tribe were present.


    When the sun disappeared and two bright silver moons appeared. When most of the people in the tribe returned to their homes. John released poisonous fog in a very light dose making everyone in the village unconscious often than those who were present in the gathering hall.


    ...


    The elders in the gathering hall looked at the animals and insects that were losing consciousness in the surroundings with puzzled expressions. One of the elders walked out of the gathering hall a certain distance to inspect. The elder suddenly felt that his strength was leaving his body and in a moment, he sat down on the ground and lost consciousness.


    Seeing that one of them passed out, other elders in the gathering hall ran toward him. But Elder Samuel looked at them coldly and said "Don''t you guys see, that there''s something in the air that made him faint? Why are you all so keen to get poisoned?"


    Hearing this, some of the elders who wanted to run toward their fallen comrade stopped and looked very uncomfortable, for not being able to help their compatriot. But they also looked at the surroundings and realized the seriousness of the situation and one of the elders asked with trembling hands "Is this the action of the gigantic snake?"


    The other elders who were still in confusion also got clarity and nodded their heads with seriousness "It''s possible as we haven''t faced this type of scenario beforehand."


    The elder Henry suddenly said to them in a little apprehensive tone "Guys look, James didn''t die, he''s still breathing."


    Hearing Henry, all of them looked at James who waited outside the gathering hall with surprise, and then one of them said with a little relief "So, he''s alive."


    They all saw some of the animals and insects die outside the gathering hall and considered that their friend also died. But seeing the breathing James they all heaved a sigh of relief. Then they all waited without knowing what to do, as they didn''t know if it was the snake''s action or something else. Just as they all stood confused a huge shadow covered them.


    ...


    John looked at the group of old people with scrutinizing eyes. Then lifted his camouflage and showed his true form to the puny humans. All the elders looked at the gigantic snake, that blocked the twin moons with its two crimson eyes that brought ominous feelings to whoever looked into them, with awe and fear.


    Elder Samuel came forward and kneeled before John, still inside the gathering hall, and said piously "O Lord snake, I didn''t know the reason for your presence at our humble island."


    John looked at the kneeling elder who worshiped him like a god, and then he brought his tail forward and stopped before the fainted James''. All the elders looked at this with horrifying expressions on their faces. As they all thought, the snake was gonna eat their companion.


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    Some of their eyes reddened, as they were ready to fight against the snake with all of their strength. But to their surprise, the tail of the snake stopped before James'' body and a bunch of small white transparent needle-like tails came out and inserted themselves in James'' brain and the spine. Then John closed his eyes and looked at the memory of the fainted elder like looking at a movie.


    In James'' memory, he found that elders aren''t born in the paradise island. They were all born on the ship, and they only know they are from the kingdom of Vika and came to this paradise island as a subject of the Highness Carl Vika from royal lineage. They seemed to not know the specific reason for their travel.


    There are some details about the ceremony and strong people. He also found out about, the royal family and mutated people. But there are no well-explained details about them. He skipped most of the personal memories and only looked at the kingdom details and other important details. Then John took back his tail from James'' body and looked at other elders.


    Seeing what John had done to James'', they all understood that the gigantic snake was not here to hunt and eat them. It probably is here to read their memories and know more about something, that it needs to know. The elders all showed gloomy expressions on their faces, as nobody likes to let others read their memories, and there are always some things that they hide from everyone and don''t want others to know.


    But considering, the memory is read by an animal that doesn''t know much about human morals and societal norms, they all felt a little better at this thought. John moved his small needle-like tails towards the elders in the gathering hall. Everyone looked with apprehensive expressions on their faces. Luckily some people have little courage, even in the face of the gigantic snake.


    Elder Henry came forward and let the small needle-like tails be inserted into his body, as he slowly lost his consciousness and slept there. John read his memory and found that he also doesn''t seem to know much about the kingdom and royal family other than they are strong and Henry has very deep knowledge about the ceremony. After reading all the important memories, John took out the tail and inserted it into other members.


    He repeated the same process multiple times in the bodies of all the elders and read their memories for important details. After an hour or two, John departed from the settlement and moved towards the sea without reading the memories of the remaining fainted people in the settlement, as he found from the memories of the elders, that only the elders are the generation of people, who know outside world. The others in the settlement are oblivious to the presence of the outside world.


    John swam towards his birthplace, at a slow pace while thinking and organizing the details, he gathered. From the memories of the elders, he found that they all came here under the order of Carl Vika. Only the parents of the elders may have some common knowledge and a basic understanding of the world.


    The elders in the settlement are very young at that time and they don''t seem to have many details about the kingdom. They have limited knowledge, which also learned from the books in the treasury. John learned that the main power system of this world is natural mutation in birth and acquired mutation which is gained from the ceremony. The last is a highly evolved species who were all born with various abilities.


    John is a little disappointed to learn that there''s no method to improve his strength rapidly, from what he learned, he also thought, even if there are such methods. It wouldn''t be for him, and common people would have known about it. With various thoughts and expectations, John moved towards his birthplace.


    ...


    Meanwhile, on the paradise island, all the elders showed grinning expressions on their faces. Other than James, everybody else is awake, one of the elders said emotionally "I didn''t expect we would live another day, after seeing the gigantic snake. But luckily for whatever reason, the snake didn''t eat us."


    The other elders also nodded their heads at the statement. Even if countless pieces of evidence prove that this gigantic snake didn''t prefer their meat, who would have such rational thoughts facing such an enormous snake? After an hour all the poisonous fogs in the settlement dispersed and some insects and animals with strong resistance to the poison began to move.


    Seeing this one of the elders covered his nose with a cloth, dragged James'' body into the gathering hall, and splashed some water on his face. James opened his eyes in confusion and asked others "What happened?"


    To his question, everyone else in the hall laughed aloud with a happy expression on their faces. They were all relieved that the poisonous fog didn''t kill people. James'' looked at the laughing people around him with a bewildered expression on his face and decided not to ask anything, as he took a rest.


    Seeing his expression, others explained to him what happened, after laughing for a few moments. Hearing that he got poisoned, James'' face paled a little bit and then hearing about the description of the size and abilities of a gigantic snake, his face got even paler. Only after hearing that snake left from here, did he relax a bit.

 20:Golden Eagles

    Others also waited for a few hours, as the morning sun rose and one by one people woke up from their sleep and continued their daily routine. Seeing that there was no one dead, all the elders heaved a sigh of relief and decided not to mention what happened and decided to let others think that the snake was dead.


    The paradise island returned to its natural flow without interference from any anomaly like John.


    ...


    Meanwhile, John swam out of the Paradise Island sea region and entered the river. He moved toward his birthplace at a very slow pace, while looking at the aquatic animals in the river. With his curiosity piqued, he looked for any unique species in the riverbed.


    Numerous exceptionally distinct and unusual species appeared, but John responded with no excitement to any of this. As he had already known most about this species beforehand. John looked for some animal with a very strong scouting range and the ability to help him find what he wanted.


    It took more than a month to return to his birthplace. John found numerous animals with scouting abilities and numerous animals with various amazing abilities in his traveling. But none of it posed any appeal to him, as their scouting ability is not comparable to his and it''s not worth it, to spend time on it.


    After an unhurried journey, John finally reached the convoy he created with his body from the lake he survived from the golden eagle. John looked at the completely different forest and water from the beginning of the convoy with a surprised expression on his face. The plant that mutated due to him became something that may be useful to him, with its ability to change the environment, that''s habitable for him.


    But his excitement died down at the thought that he was not going to spend his time in one place. Because he always moving around and looking for new knowledge and species. John suddenly thought (How good it would be if I had a space-type ability.)


    Then John came back to his senses and laughed at his stupidity(How stupid are you John? There''s no such thing as space ability and will not be in this world, from the looks of it. So, it''s better to think rationally.)


    John entered the convoy he created and enlarged it a bit, as he swam comfortably. The poisonous purple tree eroded the land, as it killed most of the plants and trees near the water, and made the surroundings a habitable place for poisonous species and unfavorable for normal species.


    John truly felt like he was at home with the poison everywhere in the atmosphere. John used a camouflage skill and moved around in the water in a transparent state. He came here with a specific purpose. John looked all around with the utmost attention all the time.


    He ate something from time to time and maintained the energy full all the time. He found that the poisonous mutated tree had also grown to its maximum. So his attention on the tree decreased along with its decreased potential. John spent his days on a hunt and used his tail to inspect any unique creature, he came across.


    He found numerous animals with various talents, but nothing captured his attention. As he only looked for some specific abilities, most of the animals lost their chance to become a companion of him. It can said to be both fortune and calamity to those unknown companions, without knowing what awaits them in the future if they had followed John.


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    ~Screech~


    Suddenly a loud screech echoed in the atmosphere. All the animals fled the forest and looked for a hiding spot to escape from a terrifying animal that hunts them daily. To all the animals, this screech is a death song. But for John, it''s a heavenly song. As he came here only for the golden eagle.


    John is amazed at the eye-sight and swiftness of the Golden Eagle. John controlled his breath and poised a proper hunter stance. The golden eagle flying in the sky is bigger than the golden eagle that injured John. So, it''s probably a parent of the golden eagle.


    The golden eagle flew very domineeringly over the forest with no natural predator over it, in this region. Due to no threats in its life for a long time, the golden eagle flew very low to the land with little self-awareness. Just as the golden eagle flew past an area of poisonous swamp with disdain and fear in its eyes. As it remembered there was once an animal that threatened its family''s safety.


    This reminiscence caused it to lose focus for a moment. In a jungle, This moment of carelessness resulted in deadly consequences.


    ...


    John looked at the golden eagle that came toward his spot, and without wasting any time, he pounced on the golden eagle as it cried for help. But John pulled it back to the ground and restricted its movements with his body, as he surrounded the bird with the cage he made with his body.


    In the cage, the golden eagle looked at the snake and remembered, that it was the snake that its kid almost killed one time. The golden eagle cried at John, to get freed, but John didn''t pay heed to its protest and made the golden eagle immobile. Then he used his tail and began to read the memory of the golden eagle.


    In the memory, John found that the golden eagle didn''t seem to be from this continent. It migrated from another place that is far away from here. He also realized the general location of the humans from the golden eagle''s memory, there were no other humans nearby, other than the paradise island, according to the eagle''s memory. If he wanted to see any other human settlement, He needed to cross huge distances which is very long, even for the golden eagle.


    John then used the other auxiliary abilities of his new tail. He changed the normal hormones in the eagle''s body and made it feel good whenever it obeyed his commands with his tail''s ability. As time passed, the golden eagle had forgotten about the truth and became an obedient slave to John.


    John looked at the golden eagle with a surprised expression and thought(If only I had this ability at the start, I wouldn''t have needed to make a trip to the settlement and waste almost a year of life on them.)


    John got rid of those types of thoughts and commanded the golden eagle with his tail connected to its head (Go ahead and bring your family here without them noticing anything.)


    The golden eagle chirped louder at John and disappeared from there with a new attitude towards John. Then he used camouflage and disappeared into the surroundings. He hid well to not let anything notice him, he waited for a short time. Before the golden eagle followed his command and brought, its family straight above him.


    John jumped from the ground and caught a larger eagle, at the same time he injured a small eagle a little bit. The golden eagle used this to immobile both of its cubs. John locked down the other large golden eagle in the meantime and used his tail to make it obey him in a few moments and read its memory which was no different from the other golden eagle''s memory.


    Then he repeated the same process for both the cubs and made them his obedient pets. John looked at one of the cubs which injured him very severely with a very complex emotion. John read all of the golden eagle''s memories and let all of them into the sky to look for anything that could threaten him or anything that looked weird. Mainly he instructed them to find the presence of the humans.


    Then John returned to the lake and looked at the dark purple river with various insects, animals, and birds which had all survived this environment and become accommodated to the poisonous substances with a wonderful expression and marveled at the evolution, where life can thrive anywhere if given time and chance.


    John looked at this and thought (There are so many stories in nature with enough mystery, tragedy, survival, and many more, I want to see all of them. What tale can be more engaging than the story of life itself.)

 21:Land-Dwelling Beasts

    After that, John traveled toward the north in search of humans with the assistance of a family of golden eagles. He avoided many troubles with their extraordinary vision and speed. Just after he traveled for a few days, John faced trouble.


    John encountered numerous pits with a width of two meters. The problem is there are a large number of these in his way which made him stop. So, John looked at the surroundings, as he wanted to find out what was happening before him. The environment is abnormally silent and the presence of any living being is drastically reduced after these weird pits appeared.


    Only the birds that could fly and escape are there. Within a few kilometers, there were no further living things existed, other than plants, trees, and birds. John grabbed an animal at the size of one meter and threw it at the pit at his ordinary pace.


    The animal shrieked as it fell into the pit while continuously making various noises in fear. Just after that animal fell into the pet, two brown claws with barbs came out and attached themselves to the animal, as it ripped apart the animal in two, and swallowed it in a spot. Then it arranged the destroyed pit and hid under the pit with its wide claw hidden.


    John looked at all of this thing with amazement. As this animal is equivalent to biological land mines he never wants to enter this area with the pits counting up to hundreds of thousands in numbers. But John looked to the side to notice a place without these things. But to his disappointment, there''s no end to these things, to the extent he can see. He had wasted his time already by waiting here for a few minutes.


    Just as he was thinking how to solve this unnecessary problem? A screech echoed in the sky and a large shiny metallic texture golden eagle with sharp eyes fell from the sky and stood before John with an obedient expression. John inserted his tail into the eagle and read its recent memory to know about his environment. Then the birds returned to the sky to continue their patrol.


    Upon finding that these pits have no end on both sides of the land. John showed a serious expression on his face. Upon thinking that he can''t cross this four to five-kilometer-wide land infested with species with shape claws. John inserted his tail in one of the nearby pits and then took out his tail with an insect-like tick with two huge claws hugging his tail.


    The animal had a one-meter-long body with sharp claws that could inflict damage on his scales. The insect had no eyes or anything that differentiated its face from its body. It had a huge mouth and two holes a distance away from the mouth.


    John glanced at the creature. Then he threw it in his mouth and chewed it at a slow pace to taste it thoroughly. At the same time, he kept his eyes on the surroundings to see, if any other land-dwelling animal like this responding to its kind''s death. But to his disappointment, no other animal came out of its hiding.


    Just as John was constructing a plan to cross this deadly path. A sudden screeching came from the sky, as the four golden eagles came from the sky and landed beside John and chattered at John, and tried to say something. So, John inserted his tail into the eagle''s heads one by one and read and understood what they were saying.


    So he commanded them to fly high in the sky to avoid the upcoming disaster. Then he slithered away from this area and camouflaged. After that, John waited patiently for a few seconds, an extremely uncomfortable atmosphere enveloped this region.


    Then the exceptionally uneasy noises came from the sky. John looked at the sky with awe in his eyes, even with his strength. In the sky, a grey cloud almost covered the sky in his vision, he found that the grey cloud consisted of birds with very long legs and sharp beaks. They all neared the land of land-dwelling animals and scooped down from the sky at a faster pace.


    One by one the birds dropped into the pits, inserted their beaks into the land-dwelling animals, and flew away from the pits with them on claws. The land-dwelling animals also used this chance and hunted down numerous birds to fill their stomach. John looked at this apocalyptic scene with sparkling in his eyes.


    Using this chance John entered the dangerous area where there was a war between two species in a camouflaged state. He traveled the path with his utmost concentration and killed the animals in his path. Be it birds or land-dwelling beasts at a rapid pace. He made rapid progress and crossed half the path with the war between two species as a distraction.


    Just as John crossed half the distance, the birds stopped killing the land-dwelling beast and departed from there to hunt the next overgrown species in the land or sea. After a lot of land-dwelling beasts died, John stopped moving and looked at the land-dwelling beasts that all turned in his direction with a helpless expression.


    Then the numerous land-dwelling beasts crawled out of their hunting ground and pursued him. The beasts beside jumped on him and tried to cut his body with their strong claws, but it only caused slight deformation in his scales. John released poisonous fog on a large scale, but the beasts continued to move forward easily.


    Seeing this, John used liquid poison straight at the animals coming forward at him. He slithered very fast while smashing and charging at the animals that came at him and then he fired a liquid poison at beasts. This made these beasts'' speed drop drastically and at the same time allowed John to travel at a faster pace.


    With numerous injuries that were constantly inflicted on him, he was killing a land-dwelling beast with thousands of nearby beasts in pursuit of him. John lost his tail and lost more than half an energy. While the beasts behind him continued to increase in numbers. John calmly handled the situation,  despite feeling desperate.


    There was still a kilometer of distance he needed to cross; before he could get out of this land-dwelling beast''s habitat.


    ...


    A land-dwelling beast with a size of twenty-five meters and giant claws lived deep in the underground just below John, who was on the run from these beasts. Two large antennas on the giant land-dwelling beast twitched a little and it sent information to the other giant land-dwelling beasts underground. All these giant beasts are one of the many brood mothers of several land-dwelling beasts.


    The brood mothers are skilled at reproduction and maintaining the overall population of the species according to the land they have. They are the cornerstone for the dominance of the land-dwelling beasts in this part of the land.


    Besides the brood mother, other important works are allocated to the soldiers with specialized skills like guarding, hunting, and farming. The guarding and hunting took place atop the underground cities they built to survive, populate, and expand the population of their species.


    These types of animal societies survived and thrived due to the sole existence of the brood mother. There are many brood mothers in this land-dwelling beast society. Brood mothers evolved naturally from the female land-dwelling beast when the brood mother was absent.


    These species are well adapted to the environment and as well as made the environment adapt well to their presence. They have hunting, gathering, and farming technology to ensure their survival from the climate crisis and food crisis. They are one of the most successful societal species in this world.


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    The brood mothers also won''t kill other brood mothers for food and survival. The brood mothers all communicated and protected each other in case of any danger. This is the only way this species survived.


    ...


    As John neared the escape range from these beasts with hope in his eyes. Before he crossed the end line and escaped. A large land-dwelling beast came out of the land and attacked John, which made him fall back into the land of beasts with pits everywhere. This crash caused numerous deaths in the small beasts. But the large beast didn''t care, John stood up and bit the large beast after carefully avoiding the strong and sharp claw of the large beast.


    He injected a high dose of purple liquid poison into the land beast which damaged the beast''s inner organs. The beast coughed yellow-colored blood and fainted. John opened his mouth to swallow the beast. But before he could swallow it thoroughly, another brood Mother came out of hiding and bit John''s opened mouth, this injured him in his mouth. This all occurred in a few seconds.


    John held back his pain and bit the beast''s head off. His blood stained the surroundings and made the hundreds of thousands of small beasts and thousands of brood mothers in his pursuit excited. John fought and moved forward, as he thought(This is bad, I need to get out of this before the situation gets even worse.)


    A few more brood mothers came out of the sand and attacked him. Which made the situation even more dire. Just before John could react, numerous injuries appeared on his body. Suddenly a loud sound screeched in the sky, which made the land-dwelling beasts pause involuntarily.


    Using this chance, John swung his body and slithered at the fastest speed out of the range of these beasts. The golden eagles also appeared and attacked a few brood mothers. This provided him with a chance to escape from these beast''s claws with the help of the golden eagles. John ran out of the pits zone and ran for a few kilometers before he stopped to look back, as he didn''t feel anything chasing after him.


    John heaved a sigh of relief and looked at all the beasts that were still in the pit area with curiosity. The beasts all roared crazily aimlessly at the surroundings without knowing where John was standing. He realized that he finally escaped the hell-like situation successfully but before he could celebrate, John fell to the ground without an ounce of strength. As the previous fight consumed most of his energy and made his muscles tired with heavy work.


    John took a rest on the spot with golden eagles guarding him. A few minutes later, by consuming the remaining energy John stood up and slithered toward a nearby water source and scooped a large chunk of water along with the aquatic animals and plants in the pond. John rested there for a few minutes and hunted down most of the animals nearby for the next few days which ended with his energy filled and animals dying. Most of the superficial injuries healed with some of the deep injuries still healing and it would take a few more days.


    John spent these days in self-reflection, as he almost lost his life. John looked at the beautiful and mysterious forest under the twin bright silver moon with a fascinated expression. The golden eagles flew above him and looked for any dangerous animals and unusual elements in the environment.


    John looked at the silver moon with his light crimson eyes and took an oath(I will not take an action that would cause me death.)


    Jon slept for long hours, after figuring out things. The next day, as most of the injuries healed John decided to continue his travel.


    After experiencing a near-death experience. John traveled more cautiously than ever and lost his pride as the largest being he had known and seen. His goal is never to fight a fight where he doesn''t know when he could lose his life. He wants to travel to many places and see many things. He just can''t die in some unknown forest, frankly, John doesn''t want to face death. Not when he has the potential to do something more than he desires.


    With all of this newfound resolve and strength, he traversed the forest. In his journey, John came across many species with unusual evolutionary traits that made this world more wonderful and exciting. John doesn''t lose his caution against all of these unique species and explores them. He appreciated their uniqueness and moved on while still looking for animals with an immortality trait which he began to look for crazily after the last incident.


    He found many animals'' self-healing abilities, but their self-healing ability isn''t their core ability and it is not as good as his ability to heal. He looked for something with immortality, like an instant healing ability and an infinite lifespan. Like a salamander with insane healing abilities that can regrow any part of the body.


    He can only regrow his tail, not any other parts of his body. Everything else healed naturally with the high rich energy he provides with his talent.


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    A year later


    John reached the end of the land, and he looked at the endless raging water in front of him with awe. As it was one of the very largest he had seen in his life. It raged very fast, crushing and destroying everything that floated in the river. Occasionally large aquatic animals leaped from the river which are not small.


    With a sigh, John slithered into raging cold water. The river exerted tremendous force on his body, but he contained those forces with his body''s overwhelming strength and entered the river easily and slithered towards the other end of the river.


    A school of black-red fish with a pointed tooth surrounded him halfway and tried to bite him. But their futile attempts ended with a broken tooth, John used this opportunity and swallowed a school of these fishes and filled his stomach. The fishes also departed from there hastily seeing their fellow''s deaths.


    With this demonstration, most of the fish left him alone in his travels with occasional aquatic animals with no brains trying to get peace from him. But ended up in his stomach, saving him the trouble of hunting them actively. After a tedious journey, John reached the end of the river and climbed up the land on the other side of the river.


    Just after reaching the land, John heard a scream that was very uncomfortable to hear. He looked at the source of the scream with glinting eyes. He found what he came looking for just after crossing the river. John released a poisonous fog towards the humans who were hiding behind the trees. Which made them faint in moments, he slithered toward them at a slow pace.


    He looked at the unconscious strong humans wearing animal skins with weapons and thought (Well, This solved the problem of looking for them.)


    He inserted his miniature transparent tails into the heads of these humans and read their memories with his eyes closed. A few moments later, he opened his eyes and looked at the northeast side where he saw light smoke rising into the sky with a grinning expression on his face.


    He camouflaged and moved toward the tribe while thinking(These people didn''t seem to know about any kingdom.)


    He reached the tribe area in a few minutes and then he covered both entrances of the tribe with his large body and appeared before the people''s eyes by lifting the camouflage ability.


    The people in the tribe shouted and ran away from the tribe''s land.


    "Ahhh! There''s a huge snake surrounding the tribe. Everybody run away! Don''t waste time."


    "Ahhh!"


    Most of the children and timid ones cried and ran away from the tribe''s entrance. But they all stopped remembering that side is a deadly swamp with poisonous species living where they can''t survive. John looked at all of their activities with amusement without taking any action.


    Just as he expected, they all calmed down after finding out that the large snake didn''t attack any of them. Seeing the snake''s action, an elder came forward and spoke out with fear "O great one, what do you need from us?"


    John understood the old man''s words and brought forth his tail and inserted it into the old man''s head and read his memory. The people in the surroundings screamed again and huddled together in the tribe''s corner and cried.


    John didn''t pay any heed to them, as he digested the memory and gave the old man an order with his tail still connected to him "Convince other older people to stand before me. Otherwise, I will raze this tribe to the round."


    The old man walked back to the group tremblingly and explained the situation. Their fear lessened after listening to the old man''s explanation and urged the old people in the tribe to go forward. The old people also walked towards John at a slow pace. As they can see, the snake doesn''t kill the old man who went toward it first.


    John inserted his tail and read their memories without wasting time and finally found a memory that answered his quest. It''s an old man named Tim who has gone out of the tribe in his early days to the other tribe''s area to gather info about other tribes and see if anything changed there.


    There, he heard about the kingdom of Vika which is said to be located far North-west. Where people didn''t need to hunt daily to survive and there were some things called cities, where a large number of people lived. The tribe''s people are all taught about how to get there and live like them.


    But they all dismissed that thought after realizing that they couldn''t reach there safely with their population. John left from the tribe area and traveled toward the northwest side. Meanwhile, the tribe''s people looked surprised at the departing large snake with awe and reverence for the powerful organism that didn''t eat human meat.


    One of the old men looked at the departing John figure and looked worried even though he escaped death from John''s hand and thought(Hope, this snake doesn''t hold any malicious intent against humans.)

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    Suddenly his eyes shone with unfounded determination while looking at John and said to himself maniacally(No! I won''t bet the chances of humanity''s safety on the snake''s mercy. Only humans should hold a human fate.)


    Then the old man took one of the best boats and strong men from the tribe and sailed towards the largest tribe in the surroundings with a determined expression on his face. John also traveled at the fastest speed possible with his maximum physical strength.


    ...


    On a mountain, beside the river, a group of primitive people thrived depending on hunting and gathering. There are thousands of people. Their houses are all made of mud & stones.


    In one of the large buildings, a group of middle-aged and old-aged people in luxurious animal wear with majestic looks all looked at the old man with a haggard look, in torn animal skin with a scrutinized look.


    The old man in torn clothes stood firmly with a resolved expression on his face. Others took back their doubts about what the old man had said and one of the middle-aged men with a well-developed body and a tattoo of a ferocious tiger asked the old man with torn clothes "Are you sure, that the huge snake is looking for the location of the Kingdom."


    The old man replied hastily with a tired expression "I am sure chief, the snake used its tail to read all of our memories and specifically asked an old man, Tim, about kingdom details. That''s why I came here, chief. Please inform the kingdom about the snake, my lord."


    The old man came here with the sole purpose of informing the kingdom about the snake''s details. But he didn''t know where the kingdom was and could not travel such a long distance. But he knows that this large tribe has a connection with the people of the kingdom. This tribe occasionally sold unique items of the kingdom to the nearby tribes.


    So the old man chose this tribe to contact the kingdom. After hearing what the old man said all the people in the tribe remained silent and discussed with each other. Later, the chief said to the old man "We will inform the kingdom, old man. In the meantime, you take a rest."


    The old man nodded and departed from there saying "Thanks for your hospitality. But it''s best if you inform the kingdom faster, as it''s been a month. Since the snake left my tribe."


    The chief nodded his head at him. After the old man departed from there, others in the room began to speak.


    "Chief, we don''t even know, if what he said is true. So, it''s best to investigate thoroughly and then contact the people of the kingdom."


    "Yes, chief."


    The chief looked aggressively at the people who were speaking which made them silent. After that, the chief said to them with a cunning expression "You all, be calm. I already taught about what you are all thinking about and more. I have already verified the presence of the gigantic snake with our beast tamers. The only thing remaining is how we use this information for our benefit. Let''s talk about that."


    Hearing the last sentence of the chief, the eyes of everyone in the hall sparkled, and evil grins appeared on their faces. They all constructed a plan and steps for their next course of action.


    ...


    With the sun on top of his head, John traveled at a steady pace while avoiding the dangerous zones and animals like land-dwelling beasts. On his journey, he also came across humans and flying beasts that came looking for him specifically.


    He used his tail and read their memories and found they were all from one large tribe and spying on him. But he didn''t care, he left them after using a technique to make them forget about what happened to them. John isn''t impressed with their ability to control abilities, which same as the people from the settlement.


    But they seemed to be called beast masters here and specialized in controlling and commanding beasts. Even though they seem to have no other abilities, the number of beastmasters seems to be very rare in the tribes from the memories he read of the people who stalked him.


    John also found that he could make people forget about what happened in a short time, after meeting him making them think about what happened as a dream or illusion by manipulating a certain hormone in their body. If their will is strong, they can break the illusion placed on them.


    John continued his travel after solving these unnecessary troubles. He faced many challenges on his path but he didn¡¯t become bored, as nature showed many things he had never seen, and with time he loved exploring nature in its naked form. With his wisdom as a human and what he experienced in this world, he concluded a certain truth according to his experience.


    ¡°Everything in existence is trying to survive at the end of the day, be it an existence with consciousness or without consciousness. To survive be tolerant, to thrive be intolerant.¡±


    He concluded that everything is trying to live one more day, If a being adapted to its environment, it will survive. If a being wants to thrive, it needs to change the environment for its survivability. At the end of the day, beings without consciousness and thought processes will adapt to the environment to survive and a being with thought processes & consciousness would not have the necessary tools for its ambition and desire. Only some would get both, chance and wisdom to make the right choice it considers.


    John skipped these thoughts with a smile as he''s one of the few people who have both a thought process & consciousness and choice as to how he wants to live, even if it is for a limited period and comes with various restrictions. It¡¯s still better than being not able to choose what he wants to do.


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    At the largest tribe besides the river, the chief and important members of the tribe concluded a plan of how to benefit from the snake¡¯s information. The people in the tribe wanted to become a member of the kingdom for a long time, after finding out the advantages of the citizens in the kingdom of Vika.


    They tried numerous ways to enter the city and become a citizen, but the financial and cultural differences between the tribe¡¯s people and the city people made things very hard for them. The city people aren''t that much interested in tribe people becoming a part of the city. For which they sacrificed immensely.


    So the tribes decided to use news of the large snake to abandon a life of hunting, gathering, and frequent death of the people due to unknown diseases, and at the hands of animals. Mainly the people of the tribe are pretty tired of the life of casualty at any moment.


    The tribe leader took the tribe¡¯s largest fastest four-legged beast to travel to the city of Black Bear''s outpost which was the nearest and also the only city he knew and had some contact with.


    The animal he''s riding is conquered with his natural strength and with the help of some of the beastmasters. It is a black-colored creature with a streamlined body and flexible body. The chief specifically made this animal his companion for its speed and endurance.


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    The tribal chief chose a path that was unobstructed by the small creatures and had several gigantic trees that covered the sky and made it impossible for sunlight to fall. Inadvertently, he chose a different path than John, thus escaping a deadly situation.


    John chose a different route because these gigantic trees made it impossible for small animals to survive without any edible plants, trees, and animals in the ecosystem.


    John needed to eat larger amounts of food to replenish his energy loss and he also needed to look at various animals to find unique abilities and the evolutionary traits he was looking for. This all made it easy for the tribal chief to travel faster than John and he avoided facing John in his travel.


    The Tribal Chief is naturally stronger than the average human and his experience in traveling this area made him avoid various dangers and travel for a long time without taking long rest in the middle of the journey.


    Even these many advantages didn''t let the tribal chief travel ahead of John. A behemoth the size of a hundred meters along with its strong muscles and control over it allowed John to travel at a much faster speed. He left the tribal chief in the dust with his speed, but on a different path, in the same direction.


    The tribal chief traveled at his maximum speed, caring about the consequence of letting the snake reach the city first. John traversed faster with every passing day, he even began to skip looking at other animals with traits he needed.


    ¡­


    A few weeks later.


    The tribal chief with small wounds on his body, stopped before a group of people in uniformed clothes carrying various weapons with serious expressions on their faces. They all looked at the tribal chief and stood motionless. One of them asked sternly "Who are you? And what''s your business here?"


    The tribal chief replied with a humble attitude "My lord, I''m here to meet and inform the leader about an important matter."


    Hearing this, most of them began to laugh hilariously.


    "HaHaHa, what do you know about important things? Have you met a mutated animal that you can''t beat with the tribe''s strength and came here to use us for your benefit?"


    "Do you even know the distinction between mutated and normal animals?"


    "Hahaha.."


    Some of the soldiers laughed and mocked the tribal chief for their amusement. Seeing this, the captain of the team said in a commanding tone "Okay, stop! All of your nonsense and do your duties."


    The soldiers stopped laughing and departed from there. After they departed, the captain took the tribal chief and walked toward their camping site. Within a few instances, both of them reached a camping site surrounded by various animals. The buildings in the camp are made of wood.


    In the camp, nobody paid any heed to the captain and chief. The soldiers in the camp only need to obey their captain and Major. They had seen the tribal chief many times in the past, so they also ignored him.


    With no one to disturb, both of them arrived at the luxurious wooden building and entered. Inside the building, a middle-aged man in his forties with dark hair and skin, looked at the two and asked in a majestic voice "What brings you two here?"


    The Captain lowered his head and reported to the Major "Leader, the tribal chief requested to meet you. He informed us, that he has an important matter to inform you."


    The Major nodded his head and said to him "Then return to your duty. I will talk to him."


    The captain departed from there and the tribal chief looked at the leader and said straightforwardly "My lord, our tribe encountered a giant snake that''s longer than most of the trees and can swallow ten to twenty people in a mouthful. I think that the snake is moving towards the nearest city, my lord."


    The Major didn''t react much, as he couldn''t recognize the threat level of John from this limited explanation. But he didn''t think much about it, as the most dangerous threat he faced was all very simple, which he solved with the help of other squads in the forest.


    So he looked at the tribal chief with cunning eyes and said with a grin "Oh! If that''s all, we can handle that. You can leave."


    He knows that this tribal chief is trying to get into the city and become a citizen of the kingdom for a long time. The Major doesn''t respect these types of people. The kingdom recruited the tribe''s people in the beginning but these tribes declined the offer and suffered the consequences and living in a forest for hundreds of years.


    However, after they saw the successful establishment of the kingdom and the benefits. They are trying to get into the kingdom by any means possible. But the kingdom doesn''t want them, as they only cause trouble in the city they are introduced to. Their only chance is when the new city is being constructed or they can join as a village under the city''s ruling.


    The tribal chief knew about this, but he still chose to look for the best way possible and the presence of John also provided him with the chance he was looking for. So he said to the Major resolutely "My lord, the gigantic snake isn''t a normal animal."


    For this, the Major asked him with an interesting expression on his face "Oh! What''s so special about this snake?"


    The tribal chief replied with a solemn expression on his face "My lord, this snake is smarter. It can read the memory of humans, and I suspect it is as smart as humans."


    Listening to this, the Major got angry and said "Ridiculous! For your benefit. You even began to create a story. Do you think you can get into the kingdom with this kind of approach? Get out!"


    Hearing this, the tribal chief lost his composure. He took out a black colored scale the size of a hand length and said in a panic "My lord, Look! I didn''t lie. It''s the scale of a gigantic snake."


    The Major calmed down, took the scale from the chief''s hand, and caressed it. Then his expression became serious, as he asked seriously "Where did you get this scale from?"


    Seeing that the Major finally understood what he was trying to say. The tribal chief began to narrate what he heard from the old man along with his details and ended with "That all, my lord."


    The Major remained calm for a moment and said to him seriously "If what you said is true, I''ll let you and your tribe become citizens of the kingdom. But if it proved to be false, there will be no contact with you from now on and you will also have to face my wrath. Do you understand?"


    The Major promised only the citizenship of the kingdom not the place in the city cunningly. As he doesn''t have that much authority.


    Hearing this, the tribe''s chief began to sweat, and upon thinking about everything and the evidence that provided for the snake''s existence. He decided to sacrifice himself for the tribe''s future even if it was false. He gritted his teeth and said, "I understand, my lord."


    The Major nodded his head and said unhurriedly "I hope so."


    Then the Major began to call a snake expert to identify the scale and also called team captains to increase the patrol range and see if he could find the gigantic snake. The tribal chief temporarily lived in the camp till the army confirmed the gigantic snake''s presence.


    ¡­


    On the other side of the forest, John looked at the group of people in uniformed dresses with cold weapons standing opposite him with nervous and fearful expressions on their faces. John decided to test the full capabilities of the people from the kingdom of Vika which gathers the strength of humanity in this world.


    John grinned his teeth maliciously at them and swung his tail at them. The tail smashed at an unbelievable speed making it almost impossible to react in a short time. Most of them didn''t move in fear, and even those who wanted to move couldn''t react to John''s speed.


    ~Boom~


    John''s tail-moving momentum alone produced a sonic boom in the atmosphere, which made it much harder for them to react and at the same time damaged their sensitive hearing sense.


    ~Crash~


    The destructive power of his tail made people''s bodies explode. More than half of the people died violently. The remaining humans looked at the destruction caused by John with despair and thought about how to survive this massacre and inform the higher-ups and others about this moving disaster.


    Even so, some of the remaining humans who survived the onslaught of John successfully ran toward him with a determined expression and pointed their spears at him.


    John looked at the incoming group and didn''t do anything. Let the humans do their best, but to their disappointment, they couldn''t do anything to him.


    The soldiers also despaired at this insane advantage the snake had over them and couldn''t think of any way a human could inflict damage on this snake according to their knowledge.


    So with despair and disappointment, they waited for death. John didn''t disappoint them, as he poisoned and killed all of them within moments.


    After doing all of this John looked at the remaining group of people out of his poisonous range with a curious expression. As they are all very fast and got out of his poison range at the last moment.


    The remaining humans also glanced at this giant snake with various expressions. This may be the most disastrous defeat they faced at the hands of beasts, after a long time.


    Only the Major and some of the captains with obvious animal traits on their bodies escaped from John''s onslaught. The Major said with a resolute expression "Mark, when we distract the snake''s attention, use this chance and escape."


    Mark replied to the Major with a painful expression "But.. "


    Major cut him down and said seriously "No, but. Only you are uninjured and can reach the other camp and deliver the information about this snake. Only then our sacrifice will mean anything."


    Mark gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, leader."


    After finalizing things in a few moments, all of them looked at John with malicious intent that couldn''t do anything other than make them feel a little more brave in this desperate situation.

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    John also listened to their conversation and understood what they were saying, but didn''t show any reaction to them. He composed himself and thought about why he became so bloodthirsty and didn''t feel anything, even after killing these many people very violently.


    After a few moments of self-reflection, John concluded that he saw violence as part of him. John''s current emotions work very differently from when he was human. He still has all emotions and at the same time, he has another emotion that he had previously but grew exponentially now.


    He deduced that it may be the snake''s animalistic nature that magnified his cruelty. So even though his cruelty has inflated, his other human nature is still there and he won''t be just a cruel beast. He would be a cruel beast with human nature.


    Meanwhile, Mark and others tried to escape from there, utilizing the opportunity that John was distracted.


    John came back to his senses after he perceived a disturbance in the atmosphere. He scrutinized the escaping figures and moved at a lightning-fast speed. He opened his mouth and spat the liquid poison at them with pinpoint accuracy.


    Making the escaping humans into puddles of corroded bloody remains. Their screams made the other human''s skin numb. Mark glanced back at the bloody mess and increased his speed to his maximum. John killed all of them and locked on the last target that was not injured with glinting eyes.


    ¡­


    Mark peeked back occasionally while running amidst the complicated terrain of the forest. Mark ran for a few kilometers, jumped into the small swamp, hid inside it, and breathed using a small stick with openings on both sides. He formed a plan according to some common sense he knew about a snake.


    Most of the snakes only have heightened hearing and smell. Mark tiredly stood inside the swamp while feeling the side effects of the high adrenaline he felt before. Just as Mark thought he escaped from John''s murderous hand.


    ¡­


    John unhurriedly came before a small swamp of man''s height beside the tree and then swallowed it whole and poisoned Mark. Mark perished in a few moments inside his mouth without knowing how effortlessly he died. John then spat out Mark''s dead body along with mud he swallowed back in the forest.


    Then he used his tail and read Mark''s memory. After reading Mark''s memory, John used liquid poison and corroded his body to an unrecognizable level. Then without wasting, John read the memories of the other humans with whole body. As he can''t read their memory if their brain is damaged even slightly.


    John departed from there and slithered opposite to the kingdom. Till he found a nice hidden mountain with large waterfalls and a cave that could accommodate him. He left a few traces of himself on his return and it took many hours of traveling. The mountain is located in the middle of two dangerous species habitats. Which would make any humans almost impossible to cross.


    John rested his body on the floor of the cave and thought(When I found out about the strength of the humans from Paradise Island. I lost my guard towards them, which boosted my cruelty and amplified my animalistic nature. Things will be fine if that''s all there''s to it.)


    John''s brows wrinkled, upon thinking about what he found in memories of the humans he killed. He found out about the real powerful people of humanity and their strength is almost on par with him. If they truly decide to kill him, they could with sufficient preparation.


    He found that the so-called high humans or divine beings myth he found in the memories of the people from the paradise island was real. They are not myths anymore, they are present in every city in the kingdom and they also come in groups.


    John is sure he can defeat and kill one or two so-called high humans with little effort. But if they come in groups with weapons and everything prepared. He was not so sure about escaping without suffering serious injuries. So, he decided not to face these humans straightforwardly. Till he has some form of guarantee for his survival, at the same time, he also doesn''t want to leave.


    As he has not found any other kingdoms existing from the soldier''s memories. He found that the kingdom of Vika was 1500 years old. Since John was after the knowledge and high humans of the kingdom of Vika. He was very curious about the high humans and their god-like abilities compared to the normal humans.


    Mainly he was after their very long lifespan. Because with a long lifespan, he could get what he''s looking for and have some understanding of this world and the species. Just as John adjusted and improved himself to the current circumstance.


    ¡­


    In the forest, where John left the corroded and dead bodies of the soldiers of the kingdom.


    A marching sound echoed in a forest, which made the animals in the environment become chaotic and scurried away. A group of soldiers wore green-colored uniform clothes that partially camouflaged them to the forest background.


    The group of soldiers numbered about 12 people with sharp spears and other survival necessities. The leading man was three meters in height with a strong body and had black eyes, skin, and hair. He had unusually strong hands bulging with muscles.


    The leading man''s eyes narrowed upon looking at the dismembered and corroded bodies of his colleagues. With a chilling expression, he kneeled and checked their bodies very closely with his years of experience. His brows furrowed when he found the full body of his colleagues which had almost no injury and other bodies were fully corroded left with a small amount of residue.


    In his years of service has been a border soldier. He had not met a situation like this and from what he found, most of them seemed to die from the poison and others were corroded with something. The leading man looked around and ordered his soldiers "Everyone disperse and gather all of our colleague''s bodies in one place and be careful. If you find anything suspicious don''t investigate by yourself. Inform me, first. Disperse!"


    A few moments later, everyone''s body is gathered in the middle of the forest on flat ground. The leading man looked at all the bodies and concluded that some of them died by brutal strength with most of them dying by poison. From his memory, he has not found any animal with this level of strength and poison ability in this region.


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    The traces of ten-meter-wide tracks with scale imprints on the ground he found in this area are also very suspicious. He even made an absurd assumption, that he didn''t want to consider or believe. If his assumptions were to be true, the consequences would be fatal for everyone. The leading man noted down everything truthfully, even if he felt absurd.


    After executing the orders, the soldiers gathered together and shouted silently for the next order.


    The leading man who was a Captain ordered "Gather all the dry wood and leaves. We can''t leave the bodies of our brothers in the forest to rot. Burn their bodies and take away any personal items you find on them."


    The soldiers also responded solemnly and executed the captain''s order. Captain''s thoughts began to become hazy while looking at all the dead bodies of the southeast border defense camp. He felt a deep sense of foreboding that something major was gonna happen.


    The captain came back to his senses and ordered his team to return to the camp to inform Major about what happened. As if there were a creature with incredible strength and poisonous abilities wandering around their surroundings, it was very dangerous for the public.


    The group marched on their usual routine, returned to the camp where they belonged, and reported to their Major who was in charge of them and the surrounding area. These soldiers belonged to the camp where the tribal chief currently resides. So when the Major who''s in charge heard the report from the captain about the demise of a nearby camp.


    He got emotional and arranged a meeting in a meeting hall with all the captains under him.


    In the meeting hall, a middle-aged man with a strong body in his forties wearing a dark green camouflage cloth stood straight with a three-mountain symbol on his cloth along with his name Henry written. He walked to the front and garnered everyone''s attention, as he said "We are facing an unprecedented situation and you all need to do your best to survive. If the situation goes in an undesired direction."


    After saying that he looked at the tribal chief who was also standing in the crowd with expectation. Major Henry nodded his head at the tribal chief to explain everything, and the tribal chief did so happily.


    All the Captains showed an intriguing expression on their faces and didn''t entirely believe the tribal chief''s claims. But they all listened to his narrative seriously, as it''s an order of a Major.


    After the tribal chief''s narrative, Major Henry told everyone "I also didn''t believe it when the tribal chief explained this to me. Just after this news, a neighboring camp was destroyed by unseen forces, and the possible cause for this destruction is deduced to be some giant snake. Same as what the tribal chief told us. So, I order everyone to be on alert during this time and not go on patrol at night time and light the signal for rescue if you meet that giant snake. Till a backup from the kingdom arrives."


    With that, he finished the meeting and let everyone return to their team. At his office, Major Henry looked at the roof of the office while thinking about solutions for the current problem. Because the backup from the kingdom will take a long time to arrive. In the meantime, he wanted to avoid any type of interaction with the giant snake as much as possible, till the kingdom responded.


    He already sent a letter informing what was happening in the forest to the city administrator of Black Bear City. Major Henry doesn''t know what else he can do and he knows even the Highness Joe Vika can''t kill a camp of well-trained soldiers without suffering any injury. But from the battlefield, the team has not found the remains of the attacker.


    So Major Henry just hoped that His Highness could contact the capital city and invite any corps of the royal family. Only they could kill the giant Snake with less loss on everyone''s side. He doesn''t want ordinary soldiers to be dead in high numbers without being able to do anything on the battlefield.


    With so many thoughts and plans Major Henry slept on the chair in his office in tiredness.


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    The next day


    Meanwhile, in the cave, John woke up from his sleep and hunted the animals to replenish the energy he consumed yesterday and then glanced at the sky without knowing what to do. He can''t attack the military group actively which may result in becoming the first target to be killed and at the same time, he can''t wait for the group of people to come and hunt him.


    John thought(Since I already killed a hundred soldiers of the kingdom. The kingdom will not let me live in peace. So, it''s better to get what I want. Then to wait and lose the initiative.)


    With a determination to get everything before the unexpected situation. John moved towards the Black Bear City location he found from the memory of the dead soldiers. He also found out about the military power of the kingdom and knew that the military presence was only in the border areas and couldn''t go to other areas leaving their post empty.


    Because a lot of animals threaten civilian safety and the military has to kill everything that crosses the border and the animals that are becoming dominant. Since it would take time to allocate soldiers to this city. John decided to act soon and learn everything he could from the Black Bear City and move away from this place.


    With enough information, he could plan better and make reasonable potential decisions for his upcoming future important actions.


    John slithered towards the Black Bear City while avoiding most of the military camps on his way, other than unavoidable ones. One such military camp happened to be Major Henry''s military camp.


    John glanced at small wooden buildings with military men and released his poisonous fog into the camp with an indifferent expression on his face.


    ¡­


    The tribal chief woke up from his sleep and prepared himself for the upcoming day in an optimistic mood. Then he entered the canteen, took a plate of food for himself, and sat beside other military men. Just after he sat and took a bite of food, he began to feel dizzy and the world appeared all groggy to him.


    He lost his control over his body and fell and one by one people in the camp felt the same way, they all fainted.


    Major Henry walked out of his office slowly and looked at this hell-like scene with red eyes. His eyes searched for the culprit who caused this scene outside the camp area with his decreasing eyesight. Just before he died from poisoning, he caught a glimpse of a giant snake hidden in the forest outside the forest with its scale showing up here and there amid trees.


    Major Henry thought about what the tribal chief said (He said that it was a giant snake and didn''t specify the extent of giantesses. I don''t think the Kingdom can contend against this beast without suffering tremendously.)


    Major Henry and all the people died in just a matter of moments.


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    John glanced at the dead bodies and continued to move towards the city at a steady pace. After this, John destroyed and killed many such military camps without batting an eye and he also read the memories of everyone he killed, to get an overview of the world.


    His pace quickened with every camp he massacred. He got to know most about the world from other people''s perspectives.


    ¡­


    The City Of Black Bear is young in the history of the kingdom with only fifty years since it was built. It has a very small population numbering to hundred thousand people. It has all the necessities needed for the city along with a certain number of villages.


    In the center of the city, stands a luxurious mansion with a large number of rooms. In one of the rooms in the mansion, a six-meter-tall giant human with white skin, black hair, and eyes. He wore a white unstitched cloth wrap lower body and a loose cotton shirt on his upper body. The furniture and room were all built according to his height which made it seem like a normal human room with the presence of a usual human.


    His long hair draped over his shoulder and his well-sculpted muscles showed their presence bulged when he wrote something on a paper or moved his body. Just as he accomplished his daily duties as the city administrator. His ears piqued and his concentration distracted from what he was doing and he looked up to the wooden door.


    ~Creak~


    With an unpleasant cry, the door opened, and a human that was less than half the size of the door in military uniform entered the room and saluted. Then the soldier presented a letter to Joe Vika, the city administrator and General of the Black Bear border city.


    Joe Vika took the letter from the soldier and looked at what was written on it. His pupils deepened a bit, as he looked at the contents of the letter. He muttered something and let the soldier return to his duty.


    Joe Vika looked out of the large window in his room which faces directly towards the city entrance gate which is more than ten meters in height. He was five hundred years old and had grown to the peak of his race. He hasn''t met a single setback in his life and has already married someone and had a kid. He already achieved most of the things in his life and left the clan land to contribute to the clan and expand the kingdom territory.


    In the beginning, he faced various troubles in the wild with animals and disobedient humans who didn''t listen to him. However, after numerous setbacks, he finally controlled his emotions and learned to use humans, after spending more than fifty years with them.


    So he didn''t think an unknown giant snake could make the city suffer. He knew he couldn''t beat a camp of well trained soldiers by himself without suffering injury. Joe Vika smiled slightly as one of the best things humanity has over the other species was not the strength, speed, or sophisticated abilities. It''s intelligence, only with intellect does humanity gain an edge over other species.


    Joe Vika already decided to call for a corps from the clan to assist him in hunting the giant snake. Because even if the snake is stronger than him and has poison, it can''t make a group of high humans with poison resistance potions and advanced cold weapons retreat. With a confident expression and plan, Joe Vika took out a large piece of paper and began to write with a quill.


    He described everything about the snake and asked for a troop and potionists to help him hunt this snake and repeatedly addressed the consequences of letting such a snake live. After that, he rolled it and walked out of the room with the letter sealed with the seal of the city administrator.


    On the roof of the mansion, he tied the letter to the collar of a large eagle, fed it, and let it fly into the sky.

 24: Instant Defeat

    Then he turned around and glimpsed at the city wall entrance with a leisurely expression. His leisurely expression turned into horror upon catching sight of a snake bigger than the city gate slithering towards the city while emitting a visible poisonous fog in the atmosphere which made all the people who contact faint.


    John stopped at the entrance of the city and discharged endless poisonous fog with the help of the wind. The poison quickly spread all over the city and all the people lost consciousness in a matter of moments with only a small number of people still standing. John looked at the small number of people and shifted his attention away.


    Joe Vika and other awakened ones gathered together and looked at the giant snake with fear and one of them asked Joe Vika "My lord, what do we do?"


    Joe Vika replied while looking at John who moved slowly towards the city "The snake is probably after something from the city or for us. Because no people in the city died under the snake''s poison. Everyone just fainted and will be fine, after a few hours."


    A three-meter tall man with bulging muscles looked at the giant snake with a ferocious expression on his face and asked Joe Vika "My lord, how about we fight the snake and kill it."


    Hearing the man''s remark, others who followed the man and with the same physical appearance as the man looked at him in horror and one by one tried to calm him with words.


    "Clan head, calm down with the presence of his highness. We didn''t have to do anything, he will take care of it."


    "Yes! Father, calm down. His Highness will find a way."


    Joe Vika''s brows wrinkled upon hearing what they were speaking about him. They cared little about what he would think and more about their own. Joe Vika got furious, but he put aside the anger after he thought about the current situation. He couldn''t afford infighting with the remaining people.


    At the same time, Joe does not want to lose his assistant general and one of the humans who has undergone an evolution ceremony successfully and created the Black Bear family. He is an important component cultivated with much hardship. He''s responsible for taking over the city''s logical and economic process. Joe can''t afford to lose a potential city guardian in a moment of madness caused by the animalistic element in the bloodline.


    So, he showed genuine worry on his face and said to him "Ford, be calm. Don''t lose your cool."


    Ford calmed down upon hearing Joe''s voice due to fear and remaining rationality. He was confident that Joe would kill him if he didn''t come back to his senses and did something that threatened Joe''s survival and plans. As he had seen indifference behind the kind Joe Vika.


    Ford took deep breaths, adjusted his mood, and said to Joe "I''m okay, my lord. I got carried away a little."


    Joe Vika nodded his head at the Ford and didn''t pay any more attention to him. He concentrated on the giant snake that entered the city at a leisurely pace.


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    Meanwhile, Ford heaved a sigh of relief and thought(Losing your rationality in the middle of a deadly situation is very dangerous. I need to control my emotions, the animalistic nature of the animal''s bloodline is very unstable.)


    Ford was one of the few people who went through an evolution ceremony using the bloodline of the Black Bear species that rampaged through the land they are on right now. The Black Bear species is known for its overwhelming strength which is almost on par with high humans. But its other abilities are weaker than the high humans.


    So Joe Vika along with other trained human soldiers easily destroyed them using various tactics and weapons. Ford is one of the people, who performed exceptionally in the beginning and got a chance to go through evolution and gained a Black Bears overwhelming strength. He went from ordinary soldier to assistant general of Joe Vika.


    So, he knows about Joe Vika more than anyone else in the city.


    As the group of conscious people planned what to do. John entered the city and demolished the city gate in the process. He began to release even more poisonous fog into the atmosphere and made everyone faint including those with slight resistance to poison. At the same time, he also kept an eye on the only one high-human in the city.


    Because Joe remained conscious even after everyone in the city fainted? John glanced at him and slithered toward him at a slow pace and then looked at him with a grin.


    Joe Vika examined the giant snake closer and felt the magnificence of the evolution. Then he looked at the fallen comrades around him with a complicated expression. As they can''t even remain awakened before this magnificent creation. They are not even qualified to put up a fight against this snake.


    With an unwilling expression, he closed his eyes and slept peacefully.


    John inspected the high human Joe Vika with his small tails used to read memory. He found nothing extraordinary with his current grasp of the concept of evolution and life. So, he ignored this and inserted the tails onto the head of Joe Vika and tried to read their memories.


    But John stumbled upon the trouble of not being able to read the memory of Joe with his tails. His tail responded negatively like there was no place to perfectly insert the tail, to read his memory. John tried a few more times and stopped after numerous attempts.


    He tried to read the memory of the other giant humans. But this also resulted in a very violent reaction from one of the subjects. So, John stopped his actions, after confirming he couldn''t read the memories of the highly evolved and violent species memories. Which are not recorded in the genes or they are emotionally changing every moment.


    High humans are an advanced species that''s different from normal humans. Ford is under an unstable violent factor from a bloodline that is constantly changing his emotions. With complex thoughts, John read other normal human memories even if they had small mutations like Ford but with a stable mood.


    John read everyone''s memory in the city and got to know about the kingdom more thoroughly and his information about the high humans also increased. The process took about a day or two. He began to skip through their useless memories. He poisoned them every few hours to keep them in sleep.


    Some of the people died in the process due to sleeping for a long time without eating anything.


    John departed from there and traveled toward the river he came from at a steady pace. As he understood the consequence of what he had done. After going through all the memories of the people in the city. There''s probably an army of high humans coming after him.


    John didn''t want to wait and suffer any injury or confront the people of the kingdom, which would not settle well with his philosophy of survival. John is sure he would suffer tremendously if he faced the kingdom''s forces head-on. He also found detailed descriptions of potionists and beast masters from the memories of the people.


    The potionists have some method to nullify his poison and even increase their resistance against his poison. The kingdom would probably have weapons to hunt down large beasts like him. Otherwise, a kingdom won''t survive in this crisis-ridden animalistic world for 1500 years.


    John decided that he didn''t want to read memories of humans actively from now on and wanted to focus on something else. As the gain isn''t worth the risk. If he continues to do so, he will surely acquire the attention of the majority of the kingdom and will face insufferable consequences.


    Even though he didn''t kill the people in the city actively. There are still some people who died due to long periods of starvation, because of their very weak immune systems against his poison. He also killed a few military camps at the beginning. So, John didn''t expect the kingdom to forgive him for not killing the people in the city.


    He knows that human nature in this world is not much different from his previous world. They would probably be very curious why he doesn''t kill and eat the people in the city and what he did in two days when people were not awake. So, John fled from the city''s range and entered the forest.


    Meanwhile, in the city. People woke up one by one and Joe Vika was the first one to be awakened, followed by the Evolved people and people with higher poison resistance.


    Joe Vika looked at all the people with puzzlement and thought (What''s the matter with this snake? Why did it make us unconscious for two days?)

 25: Major Kevins Struggle

    Even though Joe was confused about these things. He decided not to care about it for now, as he helped the people in the city to organize, and let the crowd disperse with erroneous explanations to calm down these people.


    Ford and his family are also very puzzled about the actions of the giant snake. But they are not stupid or curious enough to find out why the snake let them live. So, they focused on the task on their hands, cleared the crowd, and let the people return to their normal lives. While they waited for the arrival of the troop from the capital.


    Meanwhile, John traveled at the fastest speed possible to escape from the hands of the kingdom. He didn''t know what to do in case he got surrounded by a troop of high humans. So, he tried to avoid such situations and decided to return to where he came from or somewhere else without the kingdom''s presence till everything calmed down.


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    In the capital city of Vika, the Vika royal clan resided. The City is built to accommodate the high-humans. So, the buildings are massive and the humans appear insignificant in front of these buildings.


    Fortunately, the human population was very scarce in the capital, and the humans present in the capital were all mutated and evolved humans to varying degrees.


    In one of the monumental Roman-style buildings encircled by a large garden and guarded by several guards in full-body steel armor. In a certain room in that building, a tall human wearing luxurious cloth embroidered with gold endings looked at the letter in his hand with deep eyes and reasoned for a few minutes.


    His brows relaxed as he walked out of the room with a newly written order. He walked towards the state-of-the-art military area of the kingdom, steadily. A few minutes later he stood before a giant coliseum built for military training. He entered the Colosseum and moved toward a troop of young High Humans who were all fighting against each other and training their combat skills.


    A High Human at the height of 4 meters, with a very strong body covered in flexible armor that didn''t restrict his movements, looked at another High Human in the same attire as him with a fighting intent. Another High Human also didn''t lose to him in any way as he glanced back at him with fighting intent.


    A High Human with a letter from the Black Bear City walked past them and moved towards a High Human in luxurious armor with a hairy long tail behind his back. Then he reported to him with respect "Major Kevin, there''s an emergency request from the Border Black Bear City."


    Hearing this, Major Kevin in charge of the assault troop turned around leisurely and asked "Oh! Isn''t it a newly built city? What kind of problem are they facing that needs our assistance?"


    The information team''s High Human replied with a puzzled expression on his face "They reported that a giant snake attacked the border military camp and annihilated all the people. They can''t seem to contain it from the looks of it, so they requested our assistance."


    Major Kevin nodded his head, thought for a few moments, and said "Okay, I will take this task, and please prepare food, equipment, and potions needed for the travel and fight."


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    The information processing team''s High Human nodded his head at Major Kevin and departed from there to begin the process for the departure of the troop. There are many procedures involved in sending a troop to the border city and he was responsible for that.


    The next day, a troop of people with Major Kevin left the Capital City and moved towards the Black Bear City in a carriage pulled by strong, large, and huge horse-like creatures. There is also a group of people with large backpacks, they are the potionists. The large backpacks are used to carry their utensils.


    With the help of one of the fastest land traversing animals as a mount, they traveled quickly and easily toward their destination. On the way to their destination, they successfully cleared other troubles in the kingdom. These are small random troubles that they cleared without much effort.


    After a month, a troop of four-meter-tall people in full body armor entered the Black Bear City under the awe of the common people.


    Major Kevin drove the majestic muscular gray horse and led the troops to the military area. Then he alone went to the mansion of Joe Vika, the City administrator, to inquire about the details and at the same time. He also wanted to use the people of border defense for trivial matters to lessen the workload of his soldiers. So they could fight with full force in the face of the enemy.


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    In the study hall in his mansion, as usual, Joe Vika proceeded with his daily routine, even after the dangerous encounter they faced a month ago. He behaved normally because the city would have collapsed if he hadn''t organized himself and others in the city with motivation. This would have incurred a massive loss and made it almost impossible to run the city.


    For the first time, Joe Vika realized what it was like to live in constant fear. But he hid those fears and appeared brave for the people and for himself too. Otherwise, everything he built after numerous years of struggle would have gone to dust.


    As he was going through these thoughts, he remembered news about numerous military camps of the border defense forces destroyed by the gigantic snake. As this thought resurfaced, he got very angry. Then suddenly, he heard the sound of someone walking toward him. So, he organized himself and acted like nothing happened.


    Within a few moments, Kevin Vika came inside and greeted him and Joe also welcomed Major Kevin warmly. Kevin was a Major of High Humans and he was the general of human troops. Even if Joe looked like he was in a higher position than Kevin. In reality, his position was considered not that much in front of Kevin.


    As a troop of high humans can easily diminish his corps if they wanted to. So, he inquired Kevin politely "Major Kevin, is there anything I can do for you?"


    Major Kevin sat at the chair comfortably and then replied "Nothing important, I just need your corps to help me with the trivial things in the hunt for the Giant snake."


    Hearing this, Joe just shook his head lazily and said with a complicated expression on his face "It''s not that I don''t want to help you, Major Kevin. It is just that I can''t."


    Major Kevin asked him with puzzlement on his face, as most of the border army would cooperate with him in these types of operations "Why?"


    Joe showed an irritated expression on his face and said "The giant snake massacred more than three military camps unjustly. We can''t bear any more losses. At best, I can send you five teams."


    Major Kevin understood Joe''s dilemma and nodded his head. As Kevin knew, the low number of military men in border cities is very dangerous. The animals in the forest may outgrow and enter the civilized area if they are not killed or hunted in the meantime.


    So with an understanding expression, he replied to Joe "If that''s the case. It''s okay."


    Then he asked with an inquiring expression on his face "I heard that only you and a few others saw the giant snake. So, if you describe the details of the giant snake, it''ll be helpful."


    Joe told Kevin about everything he experienced from start to finish truthfully. Kevin''s relaxed expression changed as the narration progressed and at the end of the narration, Kevin appeared solemn unlike at the beginning how he handled the situations casually.


    Joe said with a serious expression on his face "With your current troop you could only injure the snake at the best possible outcome and losses will be tremendous if you didn''t prepare anything for the snake''s poisonous ability. We also think that the snake can also release corrosive poisonous liquid. It would be ideal if you prepared countermeasures against this also. Even with all of this preparation, I think it''s very hard to kill or capture the giant snake without considerable casualties."


    Major Kevin processed all this information in a moment and replied to Joe with a warm expression "Thanks for all the information."


    Joe also replied with a heartfelt smile "It''s my duty."


    With this, they ended their conversation, Kevin departed from there, to prepare for the upcoming battle. As Kevin has many things to do.


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    In a military area, Kevin looked at the soldier''s training formation, physical strengthening exercises, and hand-to-hand combat absentmindedly. He walked back and forth with struggle in his eyes. Kevin is struck between calling for more backup or executing the task with the current troop.

 26:River Riya

    After a few moments of struggle, Kevin''s face showed determination as he concluded his inner struggle with a decision.


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    At the same time, John crossed the river and reached the other side of the river. His spirit finally relaxed from the stress of thinking about when the people of the kingdom would arrive.


    After crossing the river, John traveled at a much slower pace. He''s not going back to the place he was born, because there was no prospect or good growth for him from where he was born. Even if he read the memories of thousands of people, he didn''t find what he was looking for from their memories.


    So, he decided to use the remaining time to research the animals in the forest with the knowledge gained from the people''s memories. He found three animals that have somewhat special abilities that he considers his next potential race. These three animals have relatively remarkable regeneration characteristics.


    But John doesn''t want to just believe the people''s memories and waste the precious chance to be reborn as another species and awaken a unique talent. So, he decided to examine some of the animals he considered to have potential and glimpse to what extent their abilities developed and if there was any prospect of their species¡¯ evolution.


    John moved towards a large lake in the forest which he found from one of the exploration team members'' memories from the Black Bear City. After a two-day journey, he reached a large sky-blue lake with various animals from large-sized Elephants to small rabbit-like animals.


    He slithered into the lake at an unhurried pace without making any commotion. The animals near him all flew away from there. John entered the lake and became transparent, as he didn''t want to alert all the animals in the lake and lose his target. He looked around in the water with high concentration, to not ignore any creatures.


    A few minutes later, John stopped before a two-meter-wide blue turtle. The turtle tried to swim away in panic from John, but John was faster than it. So, he caught the turtle, bit its hind leg, and imprisoned it by coiling around it. The turtle trembled in fear looking at the huge snake. But John doesn''t give a fuck about its thought process and continued to monitor it cruelly.


    The turtle''s plump fleshy head and legs shrunk a bit in a few moments and the wounded leg healed at a rapid pace. John looked at this with amazement, as he couldn''t heal at such a rapid pace even with the insane abilities he possessed. With amazement John bit and ate all the legs of the turtle under its miserable stare.


    The Turtle made very uncomfortable noises and looked at John with a ferocious expression. John didn''t care as he was much more interested in the turtle''s ability for now. The turtle''s four legs healed within a few minutes, but it was much slower than the first time it healed. The turtle recovered, but its head and shell all became bleak and it aged rapidly at the same rate its legs healed.


    Seeing this, John didn''t stop; he repeated the same process a few more times. Without much suspense, the turtle healed all the time, but it became so tired and its recovery speed slowed down after a few times of this process.


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    After repeated experiments, the turtle finally died with wrinkled old skin and a weak body. John looked at the weak dead body of the turtle and thought (The turtle is consuming its lifespan to heal. I don''t know if it will heal naturally if I let it eat food and replenish its energy.)


    So with new ideas, John captured another blue turtle and repeated the same experiments. But this time he let the turtle replenish some food and see if this increased the turtle''s healing speed and decreased its aging speed.


    But the experiment ended up with only disappointment, as the turtle performance didn''t fare much better than when it was starved. This turtle only lasted one more time than the turtle that was starved. So, he concluded that these turtles¡¯ healing conditions all depend on their lifespan, and only by depleting the lifespan did they heal fast. With disappointment, John headed out of the lake and moved towards another animal''s location with regenerative ability.


    John found that the newly grown limbs of the turtle were much tender and tasty to eat when it''s healed for the first few times. But after numerous times, its flesh tasted like wax and there were almost no health benefits. So John thinks that the humans noted this blue turtle for its taste purpose, and he was a little amazed at its healing ability.


    He began to wonder if their purpose for remembering this animal''s ability was for their tasty flesh. With dismay and a doubtful attitude, John slithered out of the lake and moved towards the direction of the habitat of an animal with a regenerative ability.


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    In the meantime, troops from the capital city neared the largest river in their kingdom, the Riya River. The kingdom''s agriculture and its nature thrived depending on this river, and it was very hard to cross the river with a human body.


    Even with a well-built ship, it was very hard to cross this raging river that almost destroyed everything that floated in it, the river''s large width made it look like a sea with human vision. It''s a river formed with water from icy mountains from the kingdom of Rakum in the north.


    On the river shore, Major Kevin looked at the raging river with an irritated expression, as he didn''t expect the giant snake to cross the river and reach the wilderness of the kingdom where the kingdom''s influence was almost zero.


    They couldn''t get any support in case of emergency and they had to face forest and cannibalistic native tribes in the wilderness. So this mission became even harder to continue. Major Kevin and his soldiers made a camp at the river shore for now.


    As they planned the next course of action. After settling down everyone in the river shore.


    In the largest tent beside the group of tents a mile away from the river, Major Kevin sat alone in his tent and thought (I need a boat that''s strong enough to carry my troop to the other side of the river to reach wilderness and my soldiers are not enough to hunt the giant snake in the wilderness. So, I need more soldiers and the ability to traverse the river safely.)


    After a few minutes of contemplating, he sent a letter of request to the capital and then commanded the chefs and assistants to hunt animals in the forest for food in the coming days and sent a bunch of soldiers of border defense and requested more food from the black bear city.


    After he finished setting up everything, he practiced the formations and close combat with his soldiers for the next few days while waiting for backup from the capital.


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    In a deep forest with trees covering up most of the sunlight, a five-meter-long green-colored lizard was standing on a tree branch looking for any animal to hunt that fit in its stomach.


    Under the tree filled with dead leaves and various types of insects.


    ~Rustle~


    Suddenly with a faint rustling sound the dead leaves on the ground got shaken and a small head popped out of the ground and looked at the surroundings vigilantly. After finding no threatening animals nearby, the animal slowly got out of the hole and then covered the hole with dead leaves making its nest disappear in the surroundings.


    The animal was a brown colored two-legged animal covered in thick fur with only black eyes. It sniffed around by standing on two legs, to pick up the scents in the surroundings more clearly. It suddenly picked up a familiar smell, after realizing the owner of this scent from its pitiful short memories, the animal panicked and entered a survival mood.


    The animal turned around and tried to enter its nest.


    ~Swish~


    But the lizard suddenly jumped down from the tree and spread its hand in the air like it was gliding. Surprisingly slight transparent wings spread under its arms, with the help of the wings the lizard came down the tree at insane speed and reached the two-legged brown-furred rabbit with large ears and small eyes.


    The rabbit ran towards its nest at the fastest speed possible. But, the lizard using the wings that are specially evolved for speed attack easily caught up to the rabbit and inserted its claws into the rabbit''s brain killing it instantly. Then the lizard bit a piece of lizard and began to chew its meat.


    Unexpectedly, a first-sized mantis-like insect with sharp razor-like forearms appeared beside the dead rabbit and attacked the lizard. The insect''s attack speed and its sharp forelegs made it impossible for the lizard to escape. The insect left a fatal injury on the lizard''s head and then disappeared into the forest.

 27: Near Death Experience

    The lizard''s injury recovered at a rapid pace, after this incident the lizard became very cautious. It bit the rabbit''s corpse and climbed back to the tree. After it left, numerous insects appeared in the ground and began to eat the remains of the rabbit on the ground along with blood dropped from the lizard.


    Everything that happened was observed by John in a camouflaged state. John looked at this and repeated the same experiment he did with the turtle on the lizard and the results weren''t much different from what happened with the turtle. So with disappointment, John left, as he wanted to find an animal with genuine immortal traits.


    Even though these animals had immortality traits, these traits consumed something to produce these results, and their regenerative abilities also appeared mediocre compared to his expectations. He understood that if he chose them as his next species there was a high probability that he could awaken the immortality trait which would be much stronger than these animals¡¯ traits, but he expected more.


    With more expectations, he traveled toward the next destination.


    A few days later John stopped before a Riya river, but a long distance away from the range of Black Bear City. He came here, after not finding what he was looking for. He deduced that the animal he was looking for changed its habitat to another place due to some unknown issue.


    So he tracked the animal down to this area with his extraordinary senses.


    John looked at the river with scrutinizing eyes as he still hadn''t discovered the animal he was looking for. There were almost no lifeforms on the surface of the river due to the dangerous raging water force that made it difficult for any life form to survive.


    But he entered under the water smoothly with his robust body. Under the water, the atmosphere was peaceful and life thrived everywhere, with various algae, water plants, fishes, and predators. John looked at the various animals under the water with an intent expression.


    As in the current life and previous life, he hasn''t seen this type of variety of diversified animals unique to this river''s ecosystem compared to the animals on the land. Even though they all resembled some characteristics of animals he knew, these animals all had very developed or evolved forms of their ancestors.


    Like an electric eel that is floating before him, which is very large compared to the eels he knew from previous life. This electric eel has a glowing ball of light attached to its body like armor, which appeared very mystic and attracted other organism''s attention. John was intrigued by this and was more interested in the reason for this ball of light.


    Evolution would not develop useless abilities and the electric eel is one of the few animals with abnormal ability. If such a creature evolved, it would probably have an advanced ability based on its ability to release electricity. So, John looked at the eel and decided to test its potential.


    He moved closer to the eel and touched it in a camouflaged state while holding his breath.


    ~Swish~


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    But somehow the eel moved from its position and avoided him. John looked at this in amazement and tried again, but the eel avoided him again. So, with no other choice, John used his human thinking to trap this creature. He circled the eel with his long body at such a distance, that the eel couldn¡¯t sense his existence before he neared it.


    This time John successfully surrounded the eel and touched it, the eel tried to swim away from there. But with John surrounding it with his gigantic body made it impossible for the eel to avoid this encounter. A sudden jolt passed through John¡¯s body at the touch, he felt numbness and shock in his lower part of the body for a second.


    For a second, John remembered his last life. In his childhood, he touched electricity from home appliances and lost consciousness for a moment due to his stupidity.


    John came back to his senses and looked at the eel that lost all of its glowing ball of lights on its body. He probably understood the reason for the balls of light on the eel''s body was to store electricity in its body in some way.


    After the electric discharge, the eel with a weak body looked at a giant behemoth that appeared suddenly in front of it with fear and yelled in a low-pitched tone. John looked at this eel¡¯s action with a smile and swallowed it whole, only leaving its low-pitched voice to echo in the surroundings.


    John chewed and crushed the bones and meat of the eel together and ate it with relish in a mouthful. He felt a deep satisfaction, as he chewed the eel remains in his mouth slowly with a reminiscence. Just as John enjoyed the best meal as a snake in this world, he heard multiple low-pitched sounds from the surroundings.


    With an ominous assumption, he used his extraordinary senses and looked around, which was oppressed by the water. He was greeted with dense light spots that appeared in the surroundings, almost covering everywhere he saw. John showed a dreadful expression on his face, as he deduced the worst possible outcome with the current situation.


    With John as a center, hundreds of eels covered in balls of light on their body surrounded him, all the eels were ten meters long at minimum. John looked at this and thought at lightning speed to avoid getting killed, but all the assumptions only ended up with his death. With a desperate expression on his face, John numbly watched as all the eels neared him.


    John even thought about what species to be born next, as he considered the current situation as a desperate crisis. Hundreds of eels came straight at John at their full speed.


    He looked at the twenty-five-meter-deep water he was currently in, Suddenly he thought of a plan in desperation. Without wasting time, John twisted around and formed a spring shape with his body and pressured himself as tightly as possible on the ground. After pressuring himself to the limit, John let go and jumped out at full force.


    The pressure elevated John at an insane speed and he broke through the water with an enormous power which made the surrounding eels dizzy and they momentarily lost consciousness.


    John jumped out of the water and fell heavily on the riverbank. After he fell, John instantly slithered away from the river leaving only the confused eels in the water. After he got out of the desperate situation John reflected on the disaster he faced.


    He was at start doubtful if the electricity discharged by a group of eels could hit him. But he doesn''t want to experiment on him, as he doesn''t have unlimited lives to waste on silly experiments, and his memory as a human triggers him to escape as far as possible when encounters a dangerous situation, unlike the animalistic nature of the snake.


    John left the river with a heavy heart, as nature proved to him again that he wasn''t invincible and there were still creatures that could kill him if he wasn''t careful enough. John took this deeply and became more cautious in his next course of action and waited at the riverbank where he almost died. For the animal with immortal traits that he came looking for in the first place.


    John returned to the riverbank after he thought deeply about his actions, as he just can''t give up potential success just for a small defeat. So with a newfound determination and extremely cautious attitude. John waited near the riverbank a mile away from the waters.


    The animal he came looking for was an amphibian, so it would not possibly stay in the water all the time, it would come out sometimes. John was waiting for that time, he waited patiently for a few days with occasional sightings of these animals. But these animals didn''t get out of the water, they appeared inside the water and then returned to the water.


    So with a frustrated expression, John looked at all of these animals maliciously. Even if he was deeply frustrated John didn''t enter the river, as he still has some nightmares about the group of eels. So, he waited patiently on the shore for the animal, as he didn''t have anything better to do.


    ¡­


    Meanwhile, Major Kevin looked at the reply letter sent by the capital informing him of the backup sent by the capital on the way and would reach him in a short time. So with a happy expression on his face, Major Kevin ordered his soldiers to train more vigorously.


    Food reserves were also refilled by the Black Bear City and all the soldiers appeared exceptionally motivated and were looking forward to hunting a giant snake. It''s been a long time without these types of missions in the kingdom, and they will surely earn titles for themselves if they complete this mission successfully.

 28: Undead Lizard

    All of this success grew the morale of the troops vigorously. Only the soldiers of the border defense army looked at all of these with speechless expressions on their faces. As they are very puzzled about the antics of the soldiers from the capital. Even though they are proud to be able to defend, and sacrifice in case of emergency for the kingdom, they are very serious about it.


    But the soldiers from the capital seemed abnormal compared to themselves with their maniacal attitudes toward hunting the largest animal in the land.


    The border defense soldiers didn''t say anything and did their obligations as usual. As they were not the ones who were gonna go with the capital soldiers when they crossed the river. City administrator Joe Vika already ordered them to wait at this river shore. So they just patrolled, cooked, and accomplished their tasks.


    ¡­


    Meanwhile, John waited patiently for the arrival of the animal with an immortal trait in the forest beside the river. He would move only when he hunted for food and other activities.


    Just as John continued his daily routine of observing the surroundings and concentrating on the river shore. He suddenly heard a light noise that made him drop what he was doing and concentrate on the river shore. As there are not many land animals around this area of the river.


    Just as John guessed, he found a six to seven-meter-long lizard-like creature with a huge head and black-colored scales on the river bank and basking in the sunlight. After basking in the sun, it moved toward a large tree near the shore and dug a tank-sized pit.


    The creature spit out a vicious thick liquid in the pit evenly, which covered the mud and created a resistant material with an elastic texture. Then the creature looked around with an alert expression on his face.


    John looked at all of this, as he moved near it. He didn''t hunt the creature then and there, because he was also curious about the actions of the creature.


    The creature spit out dozens of black objects from its mouth into the pit, after confirming there was no threatening animal around it with its senses, it continued its actions.


    John neared the animal very patiently in a camouflaged state without alerting the creature. The creature spit out the last of the eggs and rested on the shore with a tired expression.


    John successfully circled the creature in its weakened phase, he didn''t hunt the creature, as he waited to see if the creature would do anything else. The creature stood up, after taking a rest for a few minutes. There are other predators that would kill it specifically, and if it waited any more time, it may become an unfortunate victim.


    Seeing that the creature was trying to get to the river, John didn''t waste any time as he dispersed poisonous fog into the surroundings of the creature. But to his astonishment, the creature continued to move toward the river with poisoned symptoms.


    John was surprised that this creature had higher poison resistance than any other poisonous animal he knew. He neared the struggling creature slowly and carried it away with his tail to an unknown destination. A few hours later, John stopped before a small pond beside a rotten tree.


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    He threw the creature into the pond and cut off its leg. The injured creature''s leg healed at a very rapid pace, so he continued to cut every part of the creature and provided it with enough food. After a few experiments, John found that the creature successfully healed even sensitive parts like eyes and internal organs.


    This creature appeared to be the pinnacle of the animals with a regenerative ability. At last, he even cut out a part of the brain of the creature, and surprisingly. The creature''s brain regrew without any difference from the previous state successfully. John looked at the creature with glowing eyes, as he already decided to use this creature as the next race.


    He then proceeded to test the extent of its healing ability by cutting the creature in half. Surprisingly, the creature healed by eating the other half of its body. John decided to call this creature an undead lizard, at the same time he lamented that this creature didn''t have overpowering attack ability. Otherwise, these creatures would have occupied most of the river.


    As he thought about this, John remembered about the eels and understood that even if these undead lizards had super regeneration. They would die, if they faced the monstrous electric eels that can kill the cell activity of any living being.


    John concluded that eels were almost a natural enemy of these undead lizards. If the eels are not there, the lizards will surely outgrow and dominate this region. He swallowed the undead lizard in one bite, as he was not in any emergency to be born again this soon with his remaining lifespan. John departed from there and entered the deep forest.


    ¡­


    As John was spending his time leisurely. There was a group of people who didn''t want him to experience any type of peaceful environment. They are the High Humans from the capital who were all very eager to get a piece of him.


    Major Kevin rubbed his forehead with a distressed expression. As there was still no sign of support troops from the capital, the support troop was already late considering their skills and capabilities. He was already having headaches with how things were going. If anything happened to the support troop the consequence would be disastrous.


    Even though the chance of such a thing happening to the support troop was almost close to nil. He couldn''t stop worrying considering the current situation.


    ~Knock~ ~Knock~


    He heard the knocking sound, so he organized himself and said in a majestic tone ¡°Come in.¡±


    A soldier from Kevin¡¯s troop entered and said with an not well-hidden excitement on his face while trying to maintain a solemn expression ¡°Major, there''s something in the sky flying towards our camp at a very fast speed.¡±


    Kevin couldn''t help but reminisce about his days as a soldier under his team captain seeing the young soldier in front of him. After a short reminiscent, he said to the soldier in a serious tone ¡°Go on and inform all the teams to assemble in an open area in a combat formation.¡±


    The young soldier nodded his head solemnly and departed from there to inform the other teams to assemble. There''s still time for that, as he found the incoming air attack only with the large telescope invented recently, by the kingdom. Kevin looked at the young soldier''s antics with a smile, as he knew who was coming.


    He couldn''t help but show a funny expression on his face, upon thinking about the solemnness showed on the young soldier¡¯s face.


    A few minutes later, everyone from Kevin¡¯s troop gathered in the open space wearing their full armor and weapons. Kevin also came wearing a full set of armor with well-groomed hair and clothes. The soldiers showed doubtful expressions on their faces, as they had not seen their Major like this before.


    But the team captains and some veteran soldiers showed a knowing expression on their faces. Kevin pretended not to notice their expressions, he appeared serious and ordered his troops ¡°Soldiers! Defense formation.¡±


    The soldiers formed a defense formation with their shields in front of them with their teammates making it harder for anything to attack from the sky. All of them looked at the black dots that were nearing them with serious expressions. Their expression changed as the black dots came near little by little.


    Some of the young soldiers looked at the Major with doubtful expressions on their faces. Seeing this, Kevin ordered timely ¡°Soldiers! Stand straight.¡±


    Even though they all have doubts about the reason for the previous order. They still followed Kevin''s order solemnly, as that is the first and foremost important rule in the army. They all still looked at Kevin with scrutinizing eyes, unable to stand this atmosphere even with this thick skin.


    Kevin looked at them and questioned with a serious expression ¡°What were you all looking at? It''s a training exercise to see your reactions. You all did good and didn''t disappoint me.¡±


    Hearing this young recruits showed proud expressions on their face, even if they were somewhat suspicious about this. Kevin heaved a sigh of relief seeing that soldiers turned their attention away from him and looked at the figures that reached his camp and flew above him.


    They were a group of people Kevin was waiting for. This group of people are all High Humans who were sent as a backup troop for Kevin¡¯s request. This troop was famous for their fast traveling ability and they were known as the fierce eagle troop.


    Kevin¡¯s eye landed on the leading large eagle of this group, the leading eagle carried the Major of this elite troop. The leading eagle was five meters long and ten meters wide with metal-like feathers that shone under the sun. The Major of the fierce eagle troop jumped from the eagle¡¯s back from twenty meters above the ground and stood before Kevin encircled by the sand dust.

 29: Weakhm Continent

    Kevin looked at all of this and smiled and he reached out his hand. The figure in the sand dust came forward and shook hands with Kevin and said ¡°Kevin, It''s been a long time since we met right? How are you?¡±


    Kevin looked at her with a smile adorning his face as he asked ¡°I''m fine Kylie. What about you?¡±


    A six-meter-tall Kylie had black hair and eyes a well-toned body and appropriate muscles that blessed her with a feminine charm, she showed a charming smile on her face upon hearing Kevin¡¯s question, and replied warmly ¡°What about me? I am doing very well, Kevin. Recently I gave birth to a lovely boy and I''m doing better than ever.¡±


    Kevin''s smile froze for a fraction of a moment due to his unreciprocated affection for Kylie during his time as a soldier. She chose someone else as her life partner, so he''s a little jealous and has bitterness towards her. Since it''s been a very long time, his feelings for her have mostly faded away.


    He organized himself and spoke out with a heartfelt smile ¡°Good for you, I would like to visit your kid sometime later.¡±


    Kylie showed a surprised reaction at Kevin¡¯s unexpected reaction, as she knew Kevin had feelings for her in the past. But she also understood with such a long time gap between them, he would have forgotten about her and should have started a family. After all, he was a major of the troop like her, there would surely be many women who would like to choose him as a life partner.


    She showed him a relaxed smile, as she had some concerns about his past with her. But now she relaxed after confirming he was not emotional over her, so she got straight to the point by saying ¡°Sure, then when can we depart?¡±


    Kevin looked at her and said with a solemn expression ¡°This task is very problematic and we may lose some of our soldiers in the process. So it''s best to be prepared for all situations. Have you equipped everything for our entry into the wilderness and for tracking down the snake?¡±


    Kevin became serious regarding the mission as usual. Otherwise, he wouldn''t selected as the major of the troop. He has not affected his mission due to his emotions till now, and Kylie also knew about this. So when he seemed serious, even though she didn''t completely know about the abilities of the giant snake. She knew she had to take the mission more seriously, due to Kevin¡¯s solemnity.


    Otherwise, she would suffer greatly, and also Kevin the one who was appointed as a commander of the task. She was responsible for assisting him and the vice commander of the task.


    After going through all of this, she replied to him in a formal tone ¡°Major Kevin we prepared everything according to the intelligence. If you are ready, we can depart at any time.¡±


    Kevin nodded his head and then instructed his soldiers to get their belongings. In the meantime, he also packed his stuff with the assistance of the soldiers from the border defense army.


    While Kylie ordered her soldiers to land from the sky and made them understand the seriousness of the task. It''s gonna be the first time that they''re gonna cross a river that was this lengthy and there''s no chance for any kind of mistake in this journey. Major Kevin''s assembled his troop, in the meantime, Kylie finished instructing her soldiers.


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    Kevin''s troop soldiers one by one boarded the eagle with the help of fierce eagle soldiers. Major Kevin also climbed onto the Major Kylie eagle and looked at the tail behind her which was the major reason for her being able to become a Major of the flying troop. She''s one of the few people with a beastmaster talent in the clan. Which was important to be a Major of flying troops.


    The tail was very helpful for her in many ways, some of them are communicating and accurate command over her companion animal. These advantages all gave her an obvious advantage when the selection for the Major was conducted.


    Kylie whistled in a particular way that conveyed a command to all the soldiers. The whistle command was easy to hear and understand in the air, where it''s pretty hard to converse and command her soldiers with bellowing air in the atmosphere.


    With a whistle from Kylie, every eagle flapped their wings, took off from the ground, and flew into the sky under the admiring gaze of the border defense soldiers. The soldiers of Kevin''s troop showed an uncomfortable expression on their faces at the start but adapted to the flight in a few moments.


    Every soldier needed to be trained in how to travel in the sky before they became soldiers and entered the army. Since it''s been a very long time, it took them a little bit of time to adapt. Major Kevin''s body shook a bit, luckily Kylie held him and said with a smile ¡°I didn''t expect respected Major to be not skilled at flying.¡±


    Major Kevin showed an embarrassed expression on his face, but he hid very well and changed the subject by saying ¡°I remember someone became Major of the flying troop because of the fear of water. How about it? Do you wanna try swimming in the Riya River?¡±


    Kylie''s face darkened a bit, she looked at the river below unconsciously and her body swayed a bit seeing the large river. Kevin held her hand worriedly, as he didn''t expect her fear of water would develop to this extent. So he asked with concern ¡°Are you ok?¡°


    Kylie managed herself by looking away from the river and said weakly ¡°I didn''t expect that this river would bring out my fear of the water too much.¡±


    Hearing this, Kevin said to her assuringly ¡°It''s just not yourself, look some of the soldiers also showing a minor anxiety flying above this river.¡±


    Kylie looked at the soldiers who were also performing inferior to their peak capabilities and said while looking at the raging river below her ¡°This river brings fear in all the people with its fierceness. The river name should be changed from Riya to Fierce River.¡±


    Kevin laughed at her statement and then said ¡°The word Riya comes from our mother tongue, meaning large and considering the large size of this river. Our ancestors just named it Riya River for their convenience.¡±


    Kylie also chuckled at this statement and said ¡°I heard that our native continent is multiple times larger than the current continent and the rivers the size of Riya are average there. I don''t know if I can visit our native continent at least one time.¡±


    Kevin shook his head as he said with a denial ¡°You are thinking too much. If what was recorded in the books is true, then it''s better not to visit our native continent. Even our Divine Race has struggled very hard to survive there and left. So, it''s better to be here in the Weakhm continent.¡±


    Kylie shrugged her soldier and admitted nonchantedly ¡°Yeah! you are right. It''s better to be here than the native continent.¡±


    With this statement, their conversation became dead and they focused on their respective tasks. Kevin formulated a plan for the snake, while Kylie guided her troop and increased the morale and courage of the soldiers with her capabilities.


    Because the long river made it very hard for them to cross, with no space to rest in between them, and their food backup for the eagles also needed to be well-planned. As the large animals eat much more, their supply won''t last if they eat more or become tired.


    They traveled like this for a very long distance, and after half a day of travel, one of the eagles became tired and flew very low. Seeing this, Major Kylie became anxious and whistled, to summon two veteran team captains. Two male adult High Humans in a sky blue uniform dress that is well-known for the airforce of the kingdom of Vika came near Kylie¡¯s eagle and stopped.


    After they neared her, Major Kylie ordered a staunch middle-aged man with a scar running on his face ¡°Michael, you take over command for now.¡±


    Then she looked at the other middle-aged man with a cunning look and said ¡°Dick, you bring your team and follow me.¡±


    Michael saluted and whistled loudly and took over the command for now. At the same time, Dick flew back and bought his team of soldiers and followed Kylie''s eagle obediently without saying anything. Kevin looked at all of this and remained silent without saying anything, as he didn''t know much about what was happening with their whistling method of contacting each other.


    He only knew why they whistle and the basic reason for that, but he did not know the complex meaning of the different types of whistles that they were using. So with a patient expression, he stood on the eagle as steady as a mountain and was ready to face any type of situation.

 30: Animal Stampede!

    Major Kylie led Captain Dick with his team towards one of the eagles flying last in the group. All the other eagles flew at a steady pace following Michael¡¯s Order, as he was in charge of them and they needed to listen to him for any action.


    Kylie and the team reached the eagle and flew along at its pace. Kylie looked at the soldier on the eagle wearing full body armor in a sky blue color and asked ¡°Ella, what''s the problem?¡±


    Ella replied to Kylie with a flustered expression on her face ¡°Major, my eagle''s wings slightly strained a few minutes earlier, and was struggling to fly with the pain.¡±


    Kylie nodded her head at her and said ¡°Okay, you control your eagle to fly steadily. We will apply the emergency medicine and, after that, fly slowly till we reach the land.¡±


    Ella nodded her head obediently, then Kylie ordered Dick to apply the medicinal ointment on Ella¡¯s Eagle. Dick executed her order obediently by flying below Ella¡¯s eagle and applying medicine to its strained body part. Within a few minutes, everything was solved and Kylie took back her role as a commander of the flying troop and resumed the journey as usual.


    They encountered a few more inconveniences on their trip, but they solved them efficiently and reached the wilderness.


    ¡­


    John wandered around the forest aimlessly as he checked out memories of the animals he considered interesting and also checked for any animals with unique mutations and noted them down leisurely. On one fine day John as usual woke up from his sleep and began morning hunting to refill the wasted energy. He formed it as a habit, like brushing his teeth in his past life as a human.


    A group of cows with oversized feet grazed on the leaves of a medium-sized tree leisurely. They are nomadic species that constantly travel and leave no traces of their presence as lightly as possible, to avoid becoming hunting targets of a particular species. Just as they settled in this area of forest and grazed on the leaves, grasses, and plants leisurely.


    One of the fully grown cows was particularly lazy with its square-shaped teeth; it broke the hard branches of the trees and chewed while looking at the surroundings.


    Then suddenly, the lazy cow disappeared from where it stood in a fraction of a movement. The surrounding cows sensed something and looked at the empty place blankly, as some of them remembered there was a cow there a moment ago. But seeing a silent atmosphere and no trace of the cow, with their limited memory capacity and reasoning they left that thought process and continued with what they were doing.


    Just above them, in one of the largest trees shaped like a spear that pierces the sky. John circled around the main trunk of the tree and swallowed the lazy cow he abducted silently from the herd of notorious cows that he named them because these cows replenished his hunger more than any other animal.


    John climbed to the top of the tree and left deep prints of his scales on the tree trunk which made the tree look like a snake-scaled sky-piercing tree. He didn''t care about this; he climbed the tree that was taller than some of the mountains he had seen in his past life with a myriad of emotions due to changes in the scenery and the beauty of the vast nature. From the top of the tree, John looked at the wide land covered with trees, and the river in the distance which were all illuminated by the morning sun rays, and hissed in a passion.


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    ~Hisssss~


    The creepy hiss traveled through the atmosphere for a very long distance and made most of the animals freeze in a deep fear that made their body tremble. The cows and the animals surrounding the giant tree ran away from the surrounding hastily, killing some other animals in the process. Most animals from herbivores, and carnivores to omnivores all ran without any discrimination or desire to hunt each other.


    They all ran away like they were running away from natural disasters like floods, and storms.


    John looked at what was happening with an overflowing arrogance that came from his human emotions and hissed again which came as thunder to the ears of the animals running away and intensified their fear and speed. For the first time in centuries, the wilderness experienced an animal stampede.


    The native tribes with no cohesion like a kingdom suffered the most, with most of the small tribes surviving vigorously in this hell-like environment. Perished under the animal stampede created by John.


    ¡­


    Miles away from the giant tree, a small tribe of people wearing animal clothes lived depending on gathering, and hunting. The people from this tribe lived in a hut made of mud and clay.


    A five to six-year-old brown-skinned kid with crusty long black hair wearing only small cloth covering his lower private body parts was hanging on a tree with his legs as an anchor. Outside the tribe waiting for his dad who was gone hunting. The tree the kid was hanging was a little taller than the surrounding tree, so the kid had a better view of the surroundings for a mile.


    Suddenly the kid heard a deep-penetrating hiss. The kid''s survival instinct kicked in hearing this hiss, with a jolt the kid climbed up the tree top, and with goosebumps covering his body, he looked towards the side where birds were all flying. His father had taught him many things about the forest to increase his chances of survival in this cruel forest.


    The kid''s eyes showed a puzzled expression upon seeing numerous birds flying everywhere with the giant tree as the center. As his father hadn''t taught him anything about what was happening in front of him, with a puzzled expression he climbed down the tree, and ran toward his home.


    Some other children who were also hanging around the other trees returned to their respective homes. Even if they couldn''t understand what was happening, they all felt not safe alone in the forest. A few moments later, they all returned home and informed the elders about what they saw. The tribe¡¯s people didn''t waste any time as they abandoned their tribe area and ran away to a safe place from the incoming stampede of animals, after confirming it.


    A few minutes after the tribe¡¯s people ran away, an animal stampede reached their settlement range and trampled everything that they built, destroying the traces of their remains, and making the place into one of the many places that were obliterated.


    While the animals are destroying everything in their path and making it look like the end of the world. A group of black figures in the sky reached the location of the tribe and hovered over it.


    The group of black figures was the troops sent by the kingdom of Vika to hunt down the giant snake that entered the Black Bear City region and unleashed merciless cruel slaughter on the various military camps of the border defense group. Major Kevin and Kylie looked at the chaotic animal stampede that left nothing but destruction in its path with solemn expressions on their faces.


    Major Kevin broke the silence with a question ¡°Kylie, have you seen anything like this before?¡±


    Kylie replied to him as she controlled the eagle to fly closer to the ground ¡°I have not seen anything like this. But I heard a thing about Beast Riot or Animal Stampede.¡±


    She explained as she looked at the red-eyed animals ¡°It is said that whenever anything disastrous was happening that could threaten their survival, something like natural disasters. Animals could sense it beforehand and would try to escape that catastrophic event. That''s the most reasonable thing I can think of, comparing the current circumstances.¡±


    Major Kevin nodded his head and said with a sigh of relief ¡°Thankfully nothing like this has happened in the region of the kingdom. Otherwise, it will be very hard for our people to survive.¡±


    Kylie shook her head at this statement and said solemnly ¡°This kind of thing has happened in our kingdom, more than once, when our ancestors came here first. Only after numerous fights and wiping out the majority of the powerful animal species, did the beast stampede stop happening.¡±


    Kevin asked with a doubtful expression ¡°You said that the beast stampede only happened because of the natural disasters. But from what you explained there seemed to be multiple beast stampedes when the kingdom was founded, does that mean numerous disasters happened at that time? And you also said something about powerful animal species. Is there any connection between the two of these?¡±


    Kylie nodded her head at this statement and said ¡°Yes! The reason for multiple stampedes was some of the king-type species.¡±


    Kevin raised a question in a dubious tone ¡°King-type species!¡±


    Kylie showed a tired expression on her face. Seeing this, Kevin waved his hands and said ¡°Let''s take a break. We can continue this discussion later."

 31: Fierce Eagle Troops Destruction

    Kylie shook her head at Kevin and explained wholeheartedly without hiding anything ¡°Anyway I started it, So it''s better to explain it all. The King-type beast was a specific type of animal that broke free from genetic restraint and grew to an unusual level. These types of animals would have a mutation that would grant them a miracle-like ability. These King-type animals seem to be able to cause panic among the animals and cause an animal stampede.¡±


    Kevin''s pupils contracted as he seemed to conclude something crucial to what was happening with the closure from Kylie and he questioned Kylie shutteringly ¡°Then this beast stampede is probably caused by.. The giant snake Right?¡±


    Kylie nodded her head at him understandingly and said ¡°That''s what I think. But let''s not assume something without evidence.¡±


    Kevin nodded his head at her, but his facial expression became very serious. As he taught about the consequence of letting an animal with the ability to create an animal stampede live one more moment and became agitated as he could not wait to kill the giant snake the next moment.


    Kevin showed a determined expression on his face as he thought ( That snake should be killed! )


    Kylie led the troop toward the origin place of the animal stampede by following the animal''s traces by combining what she learned from the books and what she heard from other aged High Humans.


    Within a few minutes, they neared the giant tree where John was located. But they can''t see him, as John had seen them beforehand and became invisible to their eyes with his camouflage skill. With murderous intent, John looked at them and waited for the best opportunity to attack them. He already identified them as enemies with their traits as the High Humans and their presence in a forest where no traces of High Humans made him understand, that they came for him.


    John accumulated poisonous liquid in his mouth rapidly by consuming the stored energy in his body. Kevin and Kylie marveled at the giant tree and felt insignificant, as they truly marveled at nature¡¯s creation.


    With people being slightly distracted by the sight of a giant tree, John opened his mouth and spat out a poisonous liquid drops straight at them. The people who were marveling at the sight of the giant tree got attacked when they were not concentrating. Almost all the veterans and most of the soldiers took a defensive pose and avoided most of the poisonous liquid spat at them.


    Most of the trained flying squad soldiers and the eagles tried to avoid the falling poisonous liquid, with some of them being successful.


    The remaining unlucky who were all splashed with a poisonous liquid suffered various degrees of injuries on the body parts without any defense. Most of the poison was countered by the armor, with a minority of people getting splashed on their faces leaving disfigured and seriously injured soldiers who were all in a life-threatening.


    Kylie flew her eagle dozens of meters away and whistled. Hearing this sound, all the functional people took the injured soldiers and departed a long distance with Kylie and formed a formation. John looked at the escaping people with regret and muttered in silence(Tsk.. Tsk¡­ )


    John still maintained the camouflaged state to confuse and maximize his advantage as long as possible.


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    But Major Kevin and Kylie were not stupid, As both of them used their rich experience to identify the cause of the sudden attack and came to a conclusion. Kylie found a large number of snake scale prints on the giant tree with eagle eyesight by sharing eagle vision, then she said to Kevin hastily ¡°Kevin, the giant snake is on the tree and was using some ability to hide itself from our eyesight.¡±


    Kevin also nodded his head solemnly and replied ¡°Then let''s attack without wasting any time. This snake has many abilities which we were not informed of. So let''s attack the snake first and use that as an advantage to stop the snake from using any other abilities.¡±


    Kylie didn''t order any attack on the snake, as she asked Kevin a question with a hesitant expression ¡°But, this snake has a corrosive liquid attack. How to counter it? Even if we used the potions given by the potionists. It''ll be harder to guard against the sudden corrosive liquid attack.¡±


    Kevin replied instantly with a decisive expression on his face ¡°We don''t have any other choice. We should try our best to kill this snake because it will not let us leave alive.¡±


    Kylie and the nearby soldiers understood the seriousness of the situation with Kevin¡¯s words. Even though their initial excitement died down with a merciless attack from the giant snake, they organized their emotions and appeared like emotionless humanoids to attack and kill the snake.


    They remembered their training for more than ten years which provided them with a rich and skilled combat experience for this moment.


    Kevin roared violently with an inhuman expression and ordered ferociously ¡°Attack!!!¡±


    With this roar, Kylie and Kevin rode their eagle to the giant tree and released arrows at John. The soldiers also followed their Major''s action and released arrows in the middle of the empty space of the trunk of the giant tree. They all fired arrows confidently because Kylie found the giant snake¡¯s accurate location with the help of her shared eagle¡¯s vision and conveyed this information to her teammates.


    Hundreds of sharp and strong rare metal-made arrows pierced the tree leaves and branches in its path destroying everything in its way with pure physical strength and continuing to pierce the trunk of the tree. The arrows flew like it''s going to be inserted into the tree¡¯s trunk, but the arrows were all deflected by the unknown hidden robust thing in mid-air.


    The soldiers, Major Kevin, and, Kylie didn''t show any surprised expressions on their faces as they all expected this outcome. They all reloaded arrows on their bow and waited patiently for their Major¡¯s order. Even though they are very interested in killing the snake, they wait for the Major¡¯s next order. The previous attack was planned, and did not happen due to carelessness, Major did all of this to increase the morale of the troops.


    Just like they expected, slowly little by little snake scales one by one appeared in the empty space surrounding the tree and the majestic giant snake¡¯s body fully appeared before everyone''s eyes.


    All of them took a deep breath with a shocked expression, seeing the gigantic snake with cruel crimson pupils looking at them maliciously. The arrows they fired at the giant snake didn''t inflict any injury on the snake. Noticing that the soldier''s expression changed into helplessness.


    Major Kevin roared loudly again and said in a high pitch ¡°Enough with this bitchy attitude! Aim your arrows at the snake''s eyes. I don''t believe that this snake was impenetrable.¡±


    The soldiers unconsciously aimed their bows at John, under the order of their Major. Obeying Major became an instinct to the soldiers, after a long period of performing numerous missions under the Major. Without wasting any more time, Kevin ordered ¡°Release!¡±


    The soldiers followed his order and released arrows aiming at the giant snake''s eyes. With his huge size, John couldn''t easily avoid the incoming arrows, so with a cold expression John closed his eyes. After he closed his eyes, his eyes were covered with eyelids made of numerous small snake scales, which made his eye defense increase several times more than his other body parts.


    Several arrows attacked his eyes and got reflected easily without causing much damage. John also did not stand in the same spot, as he didn''t have any desire to become a live target by showing his eyes openly to his enemies.


    Seeing the rapidly moving John, Major Kevin''s brows wrinkled with doubts and worries about how to take the next step. As he didn''t have any effective method other than a desperate attack in close combat with the snake. But it was very dangerous to be involved in close combat with a giant snake that could corrode a metal. So he was stuck with a dilemma of taking a decisive decision that may result in a victory or utter destruction.


    John opened his eyes and looked at the flying High Humans with fury and excitement. He coiled around the tree tightly and then leaped toward the group of eagles flying in the sky in an instant leaving a little time for the soldiers to respond.


    The people in the sky found John¡¯s attack but just like how John can''t react faster to the arrow even after seeing it. The soldiers also can''t respond to the speed of John¡¯s speed within a few moments. So John entered the middle of the flying troops easily and attacked them unceremoniously.


    John focused his attack mainly on Major Kevin¡¯s and Kylie¡¯s eagle and successfully injured the eagle but both of them successfully avoided his attack by jumping down the eagle to the nearby eagle and escaped with a few injuries.

 32: Brutal Kills!

    Even though John missed his target, he didn''t stop his attack as he twisted his body mid-air and swung his body unceremoniously at as many eagles as possible and injured most of the eagles and soldiers. The soldiers and eagles dropped down from the sky and fell into the land like insignificant flies and mosquitos.


    Most of the eagles died, with some of the fallen soldiers suffering serious injuries. Major Kevin and Kylie looked at this scene with red eyes, Kevin specifically looked at the injured soldiers after confirming no casualty he heaved a sigh of relief. Meanwhile, Kylie looked heartbroken with seventy percent of the eagles dying in this conflict which meant the end of her squad.


    As every eagle was bonded with every soldier from an early age, due to this long process and huge loss, there would be no fierce eagle squad for the next ten years. So Kylie looked at the huge snake with intense hatred and deep helplessness, as she couldn''t do anything to John even with all of this uncontrollable hatred towards him. Kevin tapped on her shoulder to calm her down as they couldn''t afford a mental breakdown of a Major of the troop in the middle of the battle.


    As they were speaking, John fell to the ground from the sky and made deep impressions of his body shape on the land and made the soldiers unsteady with some of them falling on their toes due to the sudden movement of the land. John shook off the dust and stood up while looking threateningly at the crowd of soldiers.


    Soldiers who were all injured were picked up by the remaining flying eagles and departed a long distance from there. Left with no other option other than initiating an attack on the giant snake in close range with the destruction of the eagles. Kevin announced an order ¡°Attack the giant snake and try to avoid getting smashed by the corrosive liquid and use the suitable potions according to the situation. We could not leave without the death of a giant snake. So fight like it''s your last fight.¡±


    All the soldiers ran toward the giant snake with shields in one hand and swords in another hand.


    John looked at the incoming soldiers and released a barrage of poisonous liquid continuously and tried to not waste these attacks by focusing on killing these soldiers. He also tried to attack Major Kevin and Kylie but both of them tactically hid behind the soldiers and organized the attack skillfully and tried to reduce the soldier''s casualty. Even so, the soldiers died one by one, seeing the desperate situation Major Kylie formulated a plan by cooperating with Major Kevin and left there stealthily.


    John looked at the soldiers who were all like ants, clung onto him and poked here and there on his body making holes in his impenetrable scales.


    For the first time in his life, John hated this group of people who he couldn''t attack or kill when they clung onto the parts of his body and jumped around. Just as John was consumed by hatred, a soldier slipped from his head and fell straight in front of him. With a malicious expression, John forgot about his previous identity as a human and bit the soldier and grinded him into minced meat in front of all the soldiers showcasing a chilling sight that the High Humans never imagined or expected in their life.


    This action caused the morale of the soldiers to plummet and their attacking speed diminished with a fear of brutal death every second under the cruel giant snake.


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    Seeing the current scenario and considering the plan they formulated, Kevin took an action that he deemed to be effective in this scenario and he also intended to reduce any more casualties. Kevin put down everything unnecessary for the battle, took a large sickle in one hand, and covered his body in silver color armor that protected every part of his body leaving only his eyes, ears, and nose exposed to the surroundings.


    Then Kevin bent his legs, accumulated as much power as possible on his legs, and let go. He jumped up to twenty meters in the air towards the giant snake, after reaching the giant snake¡¯s body, he swung a large sickle at the snake''s body and inserted it successfully to hold on to the snake''s body. Kevin then looked at the sickle that was deeply inserted into the snake''s body but still couldn''t touch the inner body of the snake to cause any damage, with a disappointed look.


    So he began to climb on the snake with an intent to go toward its head with a sickle making a way for him.


    He also rescued the soldiers who were falling from the snake as much as possible. But every moment one or two soldiers fall from the snake with the snake rotating and twisting its body and trying to throw away the bugs that are disturbing it very much. Even Kevin was thrown so many times that he needed to concentrate every second very minutely to not be injured unnecessarily.


    John looked at the people who were all clinging onto him for their dear life and also for his dear life with an annoyed expression. Even after he killed dozens of High Humans and showcased his brutality, these people still clung to him with a weird desperate expression.


    They also became much more experienced in the way of hanging onto him multiple times and getting thrown away. They became an expert in avoiding his liquid poison attack by poking inside his nose whenever he opened his mouth. Slowly with every moment passing, John was getting impatient and angry with his current circumstances.


    So he killed anyone who got in his mouth very violently and cruelly while showcasing contempt to the soldiers blatantly.


    This only resulted in the soldiers becoming more cautious and experienced in how to deal with him. As they all could already see, they were no match against the giant snake which could kill them if they were caught careless even for a moment. They all chose to tire out the snake''s stamina and kill it when it had no strength left in its body.


    Kevin looked at the soldiers who were all going out of their character and usual capacity to survive and kill the giant snake for the glory and desire to survive. Seeing this, Kevin showed a determination on his face for an unknown cause, as he climbed up the snake leaving cracks in the snake scale here and there making the snake scale look old and fragile.


    This was only possible due to the weapons forged by the High Humans which could even cut the metal if forged well. The sharp and strong weapons were all one of the specialties of the High Humans. The large sickle weapon in Kevin¡¯s hand was also made from the remaining materials of the legendary sword.


    John also found cracks in his scale and looked at Kevin who was climbing on him with a furious expression. John decided it was enough to fight with this group of people in one place and let them have an advantage over him. He also sobered up from his rage and thought about how to escape from here and heal the minor injuries he gained all over his body from the hands of the group of High Humans with various weapons.


    John also found surprisingly the weapons of this group of people unusually sharp and strong enough to wound him, unlike the weapons of the normal humans from the border defense army. After he found that High Humans have unusual weapons, which means there was still a possibility of them having another unusual thing that could threaten his life.


    Since he didn''t want to die unjustly and unexpectedly due to his moment of rage and pride. John slithered away from there while twisting his body chaotically to throw off the High Humans who were all sticking to his body.


    The soldiers all flew off the snake''s body with some of them becoming seriously injured due to getting thrown into long distances and crashing into stones and trees. Kevin looked at what was unfolding before him with an unbelievable expression, as he didn''t expect the snake which was killing soldiers one by one every few minutes would run away from the battlefield.


    Even though that was the right decision, he didn''t expect the snake would make such a decision with its animalistic nature. He had never seen or considered the possibility of a snake having such a high thought process and complex emotions from its actions from the moment they started their attack on it.


    Kevin didn''t consider that possibility, because even though some animals show intimate behaviors and basic memory abilities. There was never an animal that controlled its anger and left the scene considering a possible failure outcome.

 33: Giant Snakes Tragedy

    This resulted in changes in the various counterattacks they had planned, which were supposed to be slowly carried out as time went on. So with a determined expression, Kevin held onto the giant snake even after suffering numerous injuries all over his body, some of the veteran old soldiers also held onto the snake. All of them climbed upwards and got closer and closer to the snake''s head with many of them using various methods to do so.


    Most of them held onto John by using various potions to increase their body capabilities.


    Kevin is the one who still held on to John without using any type of potion, but he also felt that his body was worsening with every passing moment and this chase may end with him being seriously injured. But he didn''t care about his life compared to the glory and safety he would gain for his country if he persisted to the end and finished his task. Everything else could be left to Major Kylie.


    Kevin left a series of cracks in the snake scales as he climbed towards John¡¯s head, the soldiers also followed Kevin''s track easily and climbed.


    John looked at the series of cracks in his body that increased with every passing moment with fury. He spit out poisonous liquid, and fog at the invaders. He rolled his body around the large trees, boulders, and mountains at lightning speed to throw away these groups of people. But this group of people stuck to his body stubbornly and refused to let go of him. Only ten or so people remained hanging on his body and one of them was Major Kevin.


    Major Kevin looked at the giant snake''s eyes a few meters away from him with a burning rage in his eyes.


    As more and more soldiers died in the pursuit of the giant snake in this treacherous forest, Kevin even thought about giving up this task and returning with the remaining soldiers. But when he looked at the dead soldiers and the remaining soldiers who were all trying to hang on to the snake with everything they had just because he said so. Major Kevin¡¯s eyes glistened as he also really didn''t want to give up the task when there was an ultimate trump card that was still to be used.


    Major Kevin took out a hand-length dagger with his right hand from inside his armor and jumped from the back of the snake''s head to the front of the snake''s head.


    John sensed that Major Kevin seemed to jump toward his eyes with his heat sense, so he tried to move away and prevent Major Kevin from executing whatever he was planning. But at the same time, other remaining soldiers who were all hanging to his body also jumped toward his head holding the same dagger as Major Kevin. John looked at the actions of these High Humans and became vigilant as he was not looking down on them when he decided to run away in the middle of the battle when he found that the situation was not favorable to him.


    Seeing that the Snake¡¯s head was moving from where he aimed, Kevin¡¯s eyes became gloomy as he confirmed that this snake was much more intelligent than the animals he had seen.


    The confirmation of the snake''s high intelligence grew Kevin¡¯s desire to kill it, as he didn''t want to add another strong race to the human survival competition. Since he already considered the snake''s intelligence, he had attached a rope to the snake''s body, using the crack he made in its scale. In the air, he swung back to the snake''s eyes with the help of the rope and pierced towards the snake''s large crimson eyes. Other soldiers also followed Kevin''s example and swung their dagger towards John''s eyes.


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    John looked at incoming daggers towards his eyes with a playful expression, he closed his eyes just before their daggers could reach his eyes.


    With metals colliding sound, most of the daggers failed to pierce through extremely strong scales on his eyelids. Just as John enjoyed his victory, in stark contrast to the despaired expression of most soldiers. Kevin¡¯s dagger arrived in front of the giant snake''s closed eyelids and struck mercilessly at its eyelids. John looked with heat sense at the dagger in Kevin¡¯s hand the same as other daggers in the soldier''s hands which had not done any insignificant damage to his eyelid scales.


    Kevin, with an excited expression, slashed open the snake''s eyelid amid its painful cries, he inserted the dagger into the snake''s eyes, cut through the soft tissue of the snake''s eyes, and opened a large wound in the vertical pupils of the snake, making it blind effectively.


    With a painful hiss, John swung his head toward the nearby tree very violently and crashed into it, sending the people who were all hanging on his flying in the process. All the soldiers flew away from his body, leaving only Major Kevin who was still hanging onto his body with immense determination and excitement at the thought of wounding the giant snake which relieved his pressure and made the giant snake look like a normal animal in his perception.


    John also sensed the presence of Kevin on his body with his heat sense. But he couldn''t do much with his one eye blinded, with Kevin hanging onto him, even after his numerous attempts to throw him off.


    Since there was nothing he could do with Major Kevin, John slithered towards the nearby path to the water source that was far away from the eel habitat. As he did not know accurately where the eel''s habitat was located. He moved by assuming it according to his common sense. Meanwhile, Kevin hung onto John''s body with much difficulty as he got several more injuries on his body, and lost his blood and strength with every passing moment, even though his injuries stopped bleeding in a few minutes.


    However, the rate of injuries occurring increased after the snake became crazy and took a most treacherous path in the forest toward an unknown location.


    John felt that he lost eyesight in his left eye completely and he didn''t know if it was temporary or permanent. But this did not stop him from feeling rage at the High Humans who put him in this situation. He was also not interested in fighting with the High Humans as he couldn''t read their memories and they were capable of injuring him fatally. Just as John was nearing the nearby river area.


    An eagle was flying very high in the sky above John, out of his sensing range without making any sound stealthily.


    On the back of the eagle, a valiant female figure in full armor with an exquisite bow made of unknown special materials stood with her eyes closed and her arrow aimed toward John who was slithering towards the raging Riya River. John moved with blood oozing out his one eye, John opened his uninjured eye with difficulty as the injured eye also responded subconsciously causing a nerve-wracking pain that made him paralyzed for a moment.


    Sensing the snake''s sudden stillness, Kevin didn''t waste time as he jumped towards the other eye of the snake while swinging the dagger.


    John suddenly opened his eyes and spat out a liquid poison at Kevin in the air making it impossible to avoid his attack even by using the rope. Kevin pressed a hidden button in the arms which activated a mechanism, and small openings in his head armor which was used to help him sense the surroundings suddenly closed and protected Kevin¡¯s head completely. John''s liquid poison splashed on Kevin''s body and made the new armor go through drastic changes upon contact successfully protecting Kevin from serious injuries.


    Kevin fell to the ground with the rope he used to hang on getting burned by the John liquid poisonous attack.


    Seeing struggling Kevin on the ground, John lunged at him at lightning-fast speed without wasting a moment. At that precise moment, a valiant figure riding the eagle let go of the arrow that the figure was holding for a long time with its eyes closed. The next moment, the arrow pierced through the air at a speed that John couldn''t respond to and reached his uninjured eyes. John could only helplessly witness his other eye getting injured without being able to respond.


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    John crashed into Kevin with his head, sending Kevin a long distance after suffering numerous injuries from the rocks and trees on his way. John stood up and hissed at the sky without knowing where to look, as he was completely blind now and his heat sense couldn''t sense for such a long distance like his eyes. Suddenly, he felt a change in the atmosphere and evaded another arrow that was aimed at his head. John became vigilant as he dodged this arrow with much difficulty and didn''t think he could avoid it every time.

 34: Six Elders of the Vika

    He would become a live target if he didn''t escape from here and heal his injuries. Another arrow was fired at him and this time John escaped with a wound on the back of his body.


    John looked at Kevin''s body with an unwilling expression and turned away as he couldn''t wait to kill the High Human who made him blind in one eye. Numerous arrows were fired at him rapidly at a moment, so with a disheartened expression John slithered away from there with arrows firing repeatedly at him until he entered the Riya river. After John slipped away, the eagle carrying Kylie came down from the sky, took Kevin, and flew away from there.


    With both eyes blinded, John entered the river by navigating through with his heightened heat sense.


    Even though it was very hard to move or navigate with his huge body after losing his eye vision, it was very helpful in avoiding and finding obstacles beforehand. He stumbled around due to the boulders and other large animals in the water occasionally. John slowly got used to this situation successfully, after numerous attempts, he traveled under the water toward an unknown destination aimlessly while lamenting his loss.


    John hunted numerous animals in the river to refill his depleted energy storage in a battle with those High Humans.


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    Meanwhile, in the sky, Kylie with a worried expression on her face handled the heavily injured Major Kevin cautiously. Kevin was bleeding heavily with multiple fractured bones in his body. Even so, he was not dead because of the fierce vitality of the High Humans, Kevin took a rest with his eyes closed knowing that he had done his best in this mission and all of his soldier''s death was not gone to waste.


    Kylie rode the eagle by giving commands to it with her tail attached to the eagle''s head.


    A few moments later, they reached the giant tree and set up a camp to rest and rejuvenate the health and spirit of the soldiers and others. In a large tent beside the giant tree, Major Kevin was bandaged with various herbal medicines and was sleeping peacefully in a corner of the tent under the care of a soldier. Contrary to relaxing and healing Kevin, Major Kylie was reviewing the number of soldiers alive and dead and documenting it carefully.


    After finishing her duties, she took a chair and sat down outside the tent with a bottle of alcohol.


    Drops of tears rolled down her cheek as she saw how many people had died and the loss of functionality of her squad left her with profound sadness representing the helplessness of the High Humans in front of the all-powerful nature & order. She took a brown scroll containing the details of the loss of soldiers and the giant snake''s condition vividly and then whistled peculiarly.


    A meter-long sky-blue bird flew from her tent, hovered over her, and landed on her right hand.


    Seeing the bird, she teased it for a few moments as her mood improved, then she tied the scroll to the bird''s back and let it free. It flew away and disappeared from Kylie¡¯s eyesight. With a sigh, she continued to drink the remaining bottle of alcohol in the middle of the ancient forest, sleeping peacefully.


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    In the Capital of the Kingdom, Vika City, the land of the Vika Clan.


    Just when the sun rose above the sky and dissipated the chilling fog of the night and coldness with warm and comfortable sunshine. A brown bird carrying a scroll on its back screeched loudly, as it entered the city.


    The patrol and guard soldiers looked at the bird with a smile, as they expected good news from the troops they sent to hunt down some giant snake. They didn''t even think about the possibility of defeat of their troops, because their troops had not faced a single defeat that was publicly known to them. So all the people in the capital waited for the news of the snake''s death and the overwhelming victory of their troops.


    The bird flew towards one of the Roman-style buildings enclosed by a large garden and guarded by several guards in full-body armor. In a certain room in that building, a fully grown High Human wearing luxurious cloth embroidered with gold endings took the scroll from the bird and let it go. The bird chirped twice and flew away to its habitat, which was one of the trees in the garden where a variety of its species and various birds reside.


    With a scroll in one hand, the intelligence officer High Human walked towards one of the circular buildings with various pathways which was at the height of 20 meters.


    There were multiple rooms on the way, but he bypassed them and continued to move toward the center of this circular large building at a rapid pace. A few minutes later, he stood outside the center of the circular building with a respectful expression on his face, as the two veteran soldiers inspected him and let him inside the room. The intelligence officer walked on a stone path with grasses grown which made his walking experience pleasant.


    In the center of the room, six old High Humans nearing their end of life sat on their respective stone thrones with a Map made of stones of the Kingdom of Vika deciphered as accurately as possible on the circular table.


    Each of them wore plain white cloth from their lower body and then extended towards their upper body as a cover, without any jewelry or ornaments. Seeing them, the intelligence officer lowered his head and presented the scroll to one of the soldiers in the hall who was wearing full body armor with a warm expression as he welcomed the intelligence officer while checking him to see if he carried any threatening items.


    After finishing all the formalities, he led the intelligence officer toward the elders who were all chatting with each other while carrying books and discussing something, and explained ¡°Elder, intelligence officer Jonathan is here with important information concerning the recent army mission in the southern east region.¡±


    One of the elders with a disabled left hand said in a rough voice while looking at Jonathan ¡°Your name is Jonathan right, what happened to the mission? Explain it briefly.¡±


    Jonathan the intelligence officer tried to hand down the scroll to the elder with a disabled left hand ¡°Elder Rhode, Major Kylie of the fierce eagle squad sent a letter explaining¡­¡±


    In the middle of a conversation, elder Rhode waved his hand to the nearby soldier and let him fetch the scroll and verify the content. Then he said to the silent Jonathan ¡°You continue your narration.¡±


    Jonathan happily did so, as he explained in detail the losses and victories of the mission vividly to the elders. All the elders stopped what they were doing and concentrated after hearing that Major Kevin was heavily wounded and that most of the eagles of the fierce eagle squad were dead. The room''s atmosphere became depressed and solemn as the elders displayed wrath and anger on their faces, upon hearing the most disastrous defeat they suffered in a very long time.


    Jonathan stood silently in the hall with a depressed expression on his face for a few moments.


    After a long period of silence in the hall, elder Rhode stood up abruptly at a speed that even fully grown High Human Jonathan couldn''t comprehend and slapped the table which was a model map of the kingdom into a puddle of sand. This was only possible due to his absolute control over the power and there are only a few known people who could do so known by Jonathan.


    Even though he knows about Elder Rhode through his grandfather who was once a soldier under him. He didn''t know much about the strength of the Elder Rhode, he only knew he was once a famous general in the history of the kingdom and lost his hand in a fight with a strong enemy which ended with his victory.


    Seeing the elder Rhode''s wrath, other elders and the soldier on the duty didn''t react much. They have all seen these types of situations sometimes in their long life in this hall.


    Another elder with a long white beard holding a puddle of sand created by Elder Rhode said in an annoyed tone ¡°Rhode you didn''t have to destroy this valuable creation map to show your fury. It was a very valuable creation that will be very helpful for many things.¡±


    Elder Rhode replied to him by saying ¡°Noah, didn''t you say it can rearrange itself? Even if it was destroyed, just think of it as an experiment to see if what you said is true. Now, let''s back to the topic and see how to resolve the current predicament in the wilderness.¡±


    Elder Noah, who was well-known for his expertise in the field of biological manipulation also let Rhode''s rudeness slide and said ¡°What''s there to think about? Just send a general with his troops and destroy the giant snake to nothingness. Who do you all suggest as the general for this mission?¡±

 35: General Jacob On The Hunt!

    With this sentence, everyone turned their attention away from Rhode''s previous action and focused on the matter in their hands. Other elders also thought about which general was free of duties and suitable for this task, elder Rhode and Noah remained silent as the generals they knew were already busy with various tasks on their hands.


    After thinking for a few minutes, an elder named Dean with a long tail behind his back suggested ¡°How about General Jacob? I think that his crops, consisting of hundreds of veterans along with the other thousands of soldiers, could easily kill the giant snake. Even if there will be some losses.¡±


    Elder Noah and other elders nodded their heads, except Elder Rhode. Elder Rhode smiled and explained ¡°Yeah I have seen Jacob''s performance and it wasn''t anything short of excellence. He can control his power well, with that control alone he can surely injure the giant snake with his bare hands. There''s no one more suitable for this mission than Jacob.¡±


    With everyone''s approval, they all issued a mission to General Jacob with a written letter and sent the intelligence officer back to his duty. There were more tasks that they had to give conclusions other than the giant snake''s, even though the snake was deadly, it was not in the territory that could cause large losses, unlike many other problems that were deadlier than just a massacre.


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    Just as the Elders of the Kingdom of Vika wrapped up this matter.


    John, who was blinded, was slithering in the river towards somewhere far from the reach of the people of the Kingdom of Vika. He focused his attention, as a panel consisting of information about his body appeared in his completely dark vision.


    [ Bloodline Creature(1/4).


    Age: 73/100 years.


    Race: Snake(blinded).


    Talent: Endless growth(3%) ]


    He glanced at the blinded and low-energy indication in the status panel that he could see even though he didn''t have any eye vision. With this John confirmed that the status panel was something that exists in his consciousness. But then he became depressed upon seeing the blinded status as he did not know if it was permanent or temporary, he hoped that his vision could be restored but did not know if it was possible.


    Other than the regrown tail no organs in his body ever were regrown according to his knowledge.


    With a depressed and bleak mindset, John hunted down the animals and refilled the energy back up as fast as possible while swimming away from the land of the Kingdom of Vika and their people. He can''t fight another troop of the Vika people with his current situation and if he did so he would die as the people of Vika were not stupid. He was sure because they would use the known information about him and craft a well-thought-out plan that may effectively eliminate him.


    So John decided not to be in the sight of the Kingdom of Vika till he healed fully and confirmed if his eye vision could also be restored with his impressive regenerative ability.


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    John spent the days mostly traveling and hunting the animals, a few days later he successfully restored his lost energy and healed all the injuries on his body. But his eyes showed no sign of regenerating, and with the days passing he lost hope more and more in regaining his eyesight, even so, he decided to be patient for a few more days. After a few days, the pain in his hollow eye socket stopped but no signs of recovery occurred.


    So with a heavy heart, John concluded that his eyes couldn''t be regenerated and decided to give up the recovery plan and continued to travel.


    He became more and more proficient in navigating through the world with his other senses and moved out of the range of the east side of the Kingdom of Vika as he really couldn''t contend against another attack by the High Humans. They were very resilient and could live even after suffering a heavy blow from him and from their conversation he learned that there were still high-ranking military officers above Kevin and they were much stronger than Kevin who blinded one of his eyes.


    With both eyes blinded, John did not want to risk his life just because of his momentary hatred.


    After a month of travel, John reached the land that still had traces of the Kingdoms of Vika with a frustrated expression. Even so, he continued to travel on the land very cautiously as he constantly surveyed the land with his heat sense to identify humanoid-shaped heat signals in the surroundings. Luckily the place he reached had very few people whom he easily avoided and continued his travel.


    He spent his days cautiously on land a large distance away from where the battle occurred.


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    An army of soldiers reached the Riya River and camped on the riverbank. While the Commander of this army, General Jacob was planning the next course of action in his tent with Major Kylie.


    In the large tent in the middle of thousands of tents surrounded by well-trained veteran soldiers with sharp weapons. Major Kylie sat on a chair opposite General Jacon who was more than six meters in height with his broad shoulders that were even larger than the bears.


    General Jacob looked through all the details presented to him in documents for a while and asked Major Kylie with a dignified expression ¡°You are saying you lost track of the giant snake and one of our Major was still recuperating from the injuries he suffered. What''s the use of you when you can''t even keep track of the animal that injured one of our majors.¡±


    Major Kylie kept her head down with nothing to reply. She was really afraid to track the giant snake out of fear of getting attacked and other soldiers from her troop were also not capable of tracking the giant snake without getting noticed in the Riya River. So she really doesn''t have anything to retort, with a disgraceful expression she kept her head down under the scolding of General Jacob.


    Seeing no reaction from her, General Jacob stopped scolding her and declared ¡°I want you to find the traces of the giant snake as soon as possible. Use anything you want from the kingdom, but if there''s no result. You should forget about the re-emergence of the fierce Eagle troop in your lifetime or under your command.¡±


    Kylie''s face paled hearing the threat of the abandonment of her troop so with a determined expression she replied ¡°General, I will definitely! find the traces of the giant snake within a few days.¡±


    General Jacob nodded his head and said with a huff ¡°I hope so. If you find the traces of the giant snake in a few days, as you promised. I will help you in the process of the re-emergence of your troop.¡±


    Hearing the promise from General Jacob, Kylie''s positive energy resurfaced as she left from there with a resolute expression. General Jacon then continued his duties as a general, as he had to manage everything related to the army. That''s why he was a general, he had to do much more than just commanding the soldiers to attack. He was responsible for food, safety, morale, and other things that were necessary to manage ten thousand-plus people in the middle of the jungle and other various complex terrains.


    He has to give a very detailed report to the six elders and other High Humans, even the loss of one soldier from the army is considered a very serious loss. Because the birth rate of their race was much lower than the humans, every one of the High Humans was a valuable resource. For High Humans, It was compulsory to serve in the army for at least ten years according to the rules of their clan. In the clan land, the capital of the kingdom, there were only kids, old, disabled, and teen High Humans.


    Most of the High Humans were used in the army to give them some defensive ability and not to become a joke in front of other High Human races.


    After all, after serving in the army for ten years one can choose to continue to serve or retire from the army. Only a small number of people would retire and travel the Weakhm continent following the other natural path of the High Humans. The High Humans with their large lifespan will spend a quarter of their time traveling to gain and spread knowledge all over the land. In this traveling culture of High Humans, one High Human race was well known for their widespread traveling habit.


    They were Mar High Humans, who were a complete traveling race with much less population than the other High human races. Because of the destruction of their kingdom and their natural habits of race.


    They were known for their knowledge gathering and storing ability. They were born Historians with the ability to store their memories in their totem tree with which they share a symbiotic relationship to store, share, and retrieve memories and knowledge. Their Kingdom was destroyed because they were much more liberal in control over their land and let normal humans govern.

 36: Inhabiting Human Woman

    But Humans who were in power didn''t like the High Humans who could order them to do as they liked when needed. So they enticed and confused common people to rebel against the peaceful Mar people resulting in the destruction of the Kingdom of Mar.


    Mar people are known for their long lifespan and vibrant vitality even among the High Humans. When their Kingdom was in chaos, the Mar people who didn''t like to manage the people returned to their origin and became a nomadic race who traveled all over the continent and created small families in every kingdom to protect the knowledge they accumulated from the moment their race came to be under a unique tree in fortunate circumstances.


    ¡ª--------


    John who was in the middle of the forest appeared tired and aimless without knowing what to do with no specific goal he could accomplish in his current scenario. So he changed his directions and traveled towards the nearby village with an emotionless mindset. A few minutes later he reached the Blackwood Village which was one of the border villages in the kingdom of Vika without an army''s presence due to the low amount of dangerous wild animals present in the forest.


    John slithered towards the large mountain near the village. There he found an abandoned large mining cave which was used by the people to mine valuable resources. But now the cave was abandoned due to exhaustion of valuable resources.


    The cave was the reason for the existence of Blackwood Village, and other villages nearby. The dangerous animals in this area were brutally massacred during the mining period by the kingdom''s army and that was also the reason for the no presence of dangerous animals in this region. The Mine changed the landscape of this region and made humans thrive in this particular region exceptionally.


    But now the mine was abandoned after a long period of exploitation of the minerals. After such a long time, John was the first to enter the abandoned mine area, he slithered inside the cave smoothly with the cave large enough to accommodate his large body, and the obstacles in his path were crushed under his absolute strength. John entered deep into the mine and stopped when there was no more path to travel.


    He looked around at the dark and gloomy cave with various small holes in the walls with a sigh and focused his attention on the panel that surfaced before himself.


    [ Bloodline Creature(1/4).


    Age: 73/100 years.


    Race: Snake(adult).


    Talent: Endless growth(99.90%) ]


    He looked at the talent that could be activated once again and break through the current racial limit with a complex expression. But he can''t do that, with the kingdom people hot on his tail, he couldn''t do that. John looked at the remaining lifespan and the endless growth talent with a sigh and with a resolute expression he activated the Bloodline Creature trait.


    The moment he activated his trait, his hundred-meter-long sturdy body began to melt slowly into black gooey stuff. Even his strong bones and scales couldn''t escape this unfortunate circumstance.


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    Within a few moments, the majestic creature which caused a tremendous loss to a large kingdom, like the kingdom of Vika dissolved into black gooey stuff and left nothing that could last for a long time to identify its existence other than a small serpentine-like creature with crimson eyes which was smaller than human newborns hand. John regained his consciousness in a scaled crimson-eyed tadpole-like creature and looked around with his newfound vision which only showed living beings.


    With such a vision, John only saw living beings that he could possess and could not possess.


    John slowly moved out of the mess he made and slithered out of the mine in a few moments. He found that he could move for a long distance and had better movement speed than the first time he chose to be reborn as a snake. He knew this by comparing his current and past performance as a parasite-like creature. He remembered all the memories from when he became a parasite-like creature to now clearly, he accessed all the memories after growing up fully as an adult snake.


    John felt that his form evolved from a parasite-like creature with short time movement and no consciousness to a small newborn serpentine-like creature with a long period of consciousness and better movement to locate a potential race to be reborn.


    John slithered out of the cave leaving a trail of black liquid that remained from the dissolution of his snake body. But slowly the black liquid also began to shrink in size as time passed. With enough time all the traces of the dead snake would be evaporated and the kingdom people would be left with nothing to track of the snake which caused immense loss to their kingdom.


    In his completely dark vision, red-colored living beings with different body shapes appeared occasionally. John didn''t choose any nearby red-colored living beings as his next species as they were not what he desired to be his next species.


    In a forest filled with trees, shrubs, and different types of animals. A small black serpent with a big head and crimson eyes slithered around carefully while occasionally checking the environment cautiously and curiously from a certain distance and proceeded with its journey without wasting any time. This creature moved at a fast pace that was unbelievable for its size, like this the creature traveled around cautiously and hid whenever dangerous creatures were around it.


    Surprisingly most of the animals could not feel its presence when it stopped. It''s almost like the creature appeared dead to other living beings when it didn''t move.


    After a few minutes of travel, John finally felt that he was running out of time and his time to choose his next species was shrinking rapidly at an alarming pace. So he sped up his search for his next species and slithered toward the Blackwood Village. John reached the Blackwood village and looked at the simple wooden fence surrounding the village that seemed to repel most of the bugs and small animals.


    Looking at the looming red-colored various humanoid figures in his vision John entered the village and slithered past the wooden fence easily without feeling any repulsion. After entering the village, John looked around the houses in the village with an intense gaze. In his vision, he couldn''t see any buildings or obstacles in his path, but could see their body shape even with walls and other obstacles standing before him.


    John avoided those obstacles before him in some other senses. He looked around at most of the red-colored humanoid figures as he didn''t find the desired compatibility between him and the figures. After looking for a few minutes, he finally found a red-colored figure in the village with the highest compatibility with him in the village. At the same time, he also felt that his time was running out and he had to choose his next species as soon as possible.


    Since John found the suitable species, he slithered towards the red figure stealthily while avoiding the obstacles in his path without wasting time.


    ¡ª--------


    In a Blackwood Village with a sun in the sky.


    In one of the brown-colored mudhouses with an old tile roof made of hard mud which could repel the water and protect the inner surface of the house from the direct sunlight. The house had two bedrooms, one kitchen, one main hall, and an underground room to store things. It''s an evening so only the women of the house were present in the room. Since she was in charge of the house, she cleaned the rooms and prepared the essentials needed for cooking dinner.


    Because her husband would come home after a very exhausting work on the farm and needed to eat on time to rest and recover from the heavy work he had done at the farm. Moreover, he also needs to satisfy her needs as a husband, and for that, he needs energy and a good mood.


    While singing an unknown rhyme she learned from her village she cut the vegetables and ingredients for dinner without knowing a small serpentine creature with crimson eyes and a big head was looking at her stealthily with an unknown intention. The creature moved towards her stealthily without making any noise and reached her. When the woman was distracted, the creature bit the woman on her leg which was near it.


    Even when the creature bit her the woman didn''t feel anything as she was doing her work usually. After biting her, the creature melted into her body using the open wound, leaving nothing. After a few moments, the wound on the woman''s leg also began to heal completely leaving no trace of what happened. In her body, the black colored slimy substance traveled in her blood veins aimlessly for a few minutes. The immune system of the women completely ignored this invaded organism for some unknown reason.

 37-Birth

    After circling inside her body for a few minutes, the black colored slimy substance arrived near the reproductive organ inside her body and entered her fertile egg. Slowly the black slimy substance infiltrated her fertile egg and changed it from the normal fertile egg color to black color as it underwent some unknown mutation.


    Meanwhile, the woman worked as she does daily without knowing her body was inhabited by an unknown being for some reason. Her husband returned from his heavy work of farming and looked at his wife with a content smile. Their love for each other was the only thing that made them look forward to another day in this world.


    Her husband Rock came in and put the hoe and dirty cloth he carried in the corner of the mud house, then he looked at his wife Emma tenderly and said in a nasal voice due to the cold, ¡°Emma, stop working, come on, let''s eat.¡±


    Emma''s scrunched face eased a bit upon hearing her husband''s caring tone. She showed a smile on her face and served Rock and herself a plate of rice with roasted vegetables that was sprinkled with a small amount of salt and spices.


    Both of them ate the food in silence and spoke occasionally to one another. After finishing the dinner both of them had fulfilled their sexual desire and slept peacefully.


    ¡­


    Ten months later.


    Emma looked at her husband, who was going to his farmland, with reluctance. She wants her husband to be with her during her pregnancy but Rock has gone to work to provide food and a roof over her head.


    Rock also turned around and smiled at his wife reassuringly and walked on the well-maintained mud road with a slight rainwater and wastewater path on the side of the mud road with fruit trees here and there to provide shade and food in times of need.


    After walking straight on the road from his home he reached the outer area of the village with fewer to no houses but was filled with rice crops all over the farmland. Then he proceeded to pump water from the well with a crudely made wooden water pump into the water pathway.


    Within an hour, he finished the water work and began to look around the land where he was responsible for any type of bug infestation and wild animal presence. It was very tedious work but he completed his task successfully in a few hours.


    Because of the large area of farmland that he''s responsible for, It took a long time. Unlike how water could be spread from one place, he has to move around and look minutely to find pest infestation in the farm field.


    He doesn''t have much free time with such a workload. He did his work as usual without anything unusual happening. Time passed pretty quickly and evening came as he finished maintaining waterways and pumping water from the well.


    Just as he cleans himself and walks out of the farmland, he spots his neighbor''s only son running towards him carelessly to the extent of falling to the ground.


    Just as he was about to scold him, the boy spoke to him hastily, ¡°Uncle Rock, Aunty Emma is giving birth..¡±


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    Without waiting for the kid to finish his sentence, Rock ran towards his house in a hurry. The kid also ran along with rock, but the soon-to-be father left the neighbor''s kid without any care.


    A few minutes later, Rob reached his house and tried to enter. But the neighbors around him stopped him from doing so as that would distract the midwife and Emma.


    Rock also came back to his senses and stopped outside the house with a visibly worried look on his face. Seeing his predicament, his neighbors and his relation around him spoke joyfully to lighten up the situation.


    ¡°Look.. Look.. this stone man also knows how to react.¡±


    ¡°Haha¡±


    The neighborhood became gleeful in a few minutes and Rock waited with a tense expression. His wait ended in a few moments with the loud cries of newborn babies.


    Everyone showed a surprised look on their faces, as they all heard the cries of two babies. Rock''s face showed unbelievable happiness and worried expression at the same time.


    This means it was a precarious pregnancy and would have had a very complicated birth process and the mother has chances of fatality. Rock and everyone looked at the wooden door silently.


    The wooden door opened with an ear-piercing sound and an old woman who was very experienced in dealing with pregnancy in the village stepped out with a kind smile on her wrinkled face and said ¡°Rock, Emma gave birth to two baby boys and was very tired. So don''t disturb her too much for a few days.¡±


    Rock nodded absentmindedly to the old woman''s nagging. Seeing this the old woman Katy just shook her head and waved her hands at him signaling that he could enter the house.


    Rock thanked old woman Katy and entered the house and looked at his tired wife on a straw mat and two babies on a bundle of clothes on the well-cleaned mud floor and then he asked his wife with concern ¡°Emma, are you ok.¡±


    Emma showed a reassuring smile and showed her two babies to him with a worried expression on her face ¡°Rock, I think our children are looking very different from other children. Do you think there''s something wrong with them?¡±


    Rock was stunned upon hearing this and looked at the two kids carefully after removing the clothes that were covering their bodies.


    He looked at the two babies who were covered with black scales from head to toe, a small amount of black hair was growing out of the baby''s heads and both baby''s eyes were crimson red vertical snake-like pupils.


    Rock realized that his children''s lives and future won''t be ordinary or easy.


    Even though most of the people knew something about mutant humans, there are still a small number of mutants present in the village. They all had a small number of unnoticeable mutations, unlike his children.


    But his childrens mutation was out of proportion compared to the other mutated peoples they had seen around them. So he worried about their future.


    With a sigh, Rock hugged his children one by one and kissed them on their forehead. While kissing he found that one of his children even had small bumpy horns on his head.


    While Rock and Emma are chatting and adapting to their new life. John also woke up from his long slumber and looked at the mudhouse, straw mat, and bundles of clothes he was in with a thinking expression.


    Then he looked at another child beside him with a bewildered expression on his face and called out the data panel to check his current situation.


    [ Bloodline Creature(2/4).


    Age: 0/150 years.


    Race: Human(infant)


    Talent: Endless growth(0%), infinite adaptation(0%) ]


    Upon seeing the expected or impressive new talent on the data panel. John showed a happy smile on his face.


    Both Emma and Rock also saw his smile and Emma said with a motherly love ¡°Look the child was smiling happily. Why should we be sad? We should face whatever comes with confidence to protect our children.¡±


    Rock regained his confidence laughed with Emma and said softly ¡°Yes.¡±


    The other child smiled slightly hearing laughing noises without even knowing why. Rock looked at all of this speechlessly and closed his eyes in desperation thinking of the upcoming annoying, uncomfortable days.


    ¡­


    One year later.


    In a house in the Blackwood village, a black-scaled child with a bundle of messy black hair wearing only underwear looked at another child who also looked the same as him but with slight differences such as neat long hair and small cute horns on his head with a puzzled look.


    Rock was sitting outside the house and was looking at the blue sky with a concentrated look on his face ignoring his playful twin brother.


    Rock looked at his twin brother who was looking at him with a speechless expression and then returned to his routine as he called out the data panel.


    [ Bloodline Creature(2/4).


    Age: 0/150 years.


    Race: Human(infant)


    Energy: 100%


    Talent: Endless growth(0%), infinite adaptation(0%) ]


    Infinite adaptation evolved from the adaptive ability of the human race to adapt to most of the environment. With this talent, he could adapt to any environmental stresses given enough time and energy even though Rock was happy with this new talent.


    Rock was a little speechless at his current ability to gather energy which was very pitiful compared to when he was a snake and the energy was separated from talent and became a separate column and now he could put the energy in desired talent and activate the talent once.


    If he put it in endless growth now he could grow from infancy to teenage in a short period of time. But that would scare the shit out of his parents. So he was in a dilemma without knowing what to do in his current scenario.

 38-Blue Whale City

    And if he put his energy into his new talent infinite adaptation would not provide any good results. As he needs to be in a specific stressful situation or environment to adapt to. Otherwise, he won''t even know what he will adapt to and will uselessly waste his hard-earned energy.


    While he was thinking about his serious issues, his brother Sam walked towards him and hugged him while blabbering unknown words. John didn''t know what to do with this kind of situation, he couldn''t avoid it as he didn''t have anything else he could do.


    Nor has he ever faced this kind of situation in his previous life, and he also couldn''t outright reject his twin brother''s affection. No other children would ever play with him due to his body being covered with black scales making him look like a demonic being. As he''s responsible for his twin brother''s mutation.


    He felt he would need to accompany him as much as possible even though it was a pain in the ass to pretend to be a child to play with him. His parents also didn''t know what to do about their child''s current scenario. With no other choice, John accompanied his twin brother Sam.


    John ran slowly around their house with his brother Sam following him around with a happy smile on his face.


    While this smile may appear a nightmare to most people due to their ferocious appearance. John didn''t find previous because he was also almost the same as his brother appearance-wise and was getting the same treatment from other people in the village.


    People could be as cruel as beasts for some people as long as their behavior didn''t get them into any bad situation.


    While John and Sam were running around their house in circles. Their mother was packing her husband''s lunch in a wooden box which was a piece of flour bread and some fresh vegetables and eggs with a little bit of salt. After packing these up, she called out, ¡°John! come here.¡±


    John ran towards Emma while thinking of mutating his snake abilities, which had evolved to fit his human form.


    He now could partially suggest humans into what he is saying unconditionally for a moment and can also control all the snakes with his horn, which could vibrate at a certain frequency.


    The tail was still there but was growing much more slowly. Maybe only in his adulthood could he probably grow his tail to full form. But the ability to control the snakes remotely is enough for him now.


    He used his suggestive hypnotic ability to make his parents name him John, which would make it easy for him, and more importantly, now he could control the data panel and make changes if he desired.


    John called out the newly modified data panel.


    [ Bloodline Creature(2/4).


    Lifespan: 1/150 years.


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    Skills: Poison, Snake control, Hypnotize, Animal Control(invalid).


    Energy: 100%


    Talent: Endless growth(0%), infinite adaption(0%) ]


    His animal control was currently invalid because his tail, which was needed to perform this skill, was currently in its growth period.


    After looking at his panel he entered the kitchen. Emma handed him a wooden box and said with a serious expression on her face, ¡°John, give this box to your father and come back straight home after handing the box to your father. Do you understand?¡±


    John nodded with a naive expression as any other child in the village and cried out ¡°Yes! Mom.¡±


    Emma patted her son''s head with a smile and said kindly, ¡°Go. Don''t let your father wait anymore.¡±


    John nodded and walked out of the house holding the wooden box. Seeing John walking out of the house Sam followed him with an excited expression on his face as neither his parents nor John allowed him to walk out of the house on his own.


    So every minute out of the house is a new exploration time for him. John was aware of his brother''s action but continued to walk as usual.


    John found that children in this world grew fast compared to the children from his previous life. Most of them possess good motor skills and talking capacity just within one year. Thus making their survival much better than humans from a previous life.


    While John was walking on the mud road, he looked back at the village center, where there was a huge open square that could accommodate more than a hundred people at a time. Where most of the trading and public announcements usually happen.


    The village was divided into four roads with a public square and a center surrounded by farmlands on all sides with a large blackwood mountain facing North, a small river on the West, on the South, there''s a road to a nearby city, lastly on the east was a forest where humans tribes who would trade with village sometimes lives.


    The tribal people couldn''t enter the city but could enter the village as long as the Blackwood village people didn''t complain about it.


    John walked on the road while looking at the people who were all wearing grey-colored clothes normally and a few mutated people with small mutations, which made them look a little weird. Such as one mid-twenty human wearing a grey shirt and loin cloth has a large ear unproportional to his head.


    He may have good hearing compared to others, but at the same time, he has a high probability of insects entering his ear with such unusually large ears. Which would mark his large as a failed evolution.


    Such mutations are still in small numbers in the village with a large number of the people having good mutations. Such as high endurance compared with other humans from nearby villages.


    With such high endurance and farming skills, Blackwood Village has gained prestige as the wealthiest village under the Blue Whale City.


    While John was walking towards the farmland at the end of the road. Some of the children from the street gathered around a tree with plump green fruits hanging. Two of them were wrestling with each other while others were cheering for them.


    Sam, who was following John, was distracted by other children''s play and walked towards them.


    John found Sam''s action with his unusually high senses. But didn''t do anything as there wasn''t much these children could do to Sam. Sam also has the bloodline of the black snake, which was a giant on land.


    Even adults in the village find it very hard to compare to John and Sam in terms of strength.


    Most of the kids in the village almost could only ignore them. So he walked towards it without caring; in a few moments, he reached the farmland and found his father in the middle of a mature golden-colored rice field and shouted, ¡°Father!¡±


    Rock turned around and put down the hoe, washed his hands in the water, and walked towards John with a smile on his face, seeing his child. He took the wooden box from John and asked with a smile on his face, ¡°Have you eaten, John?¡±


    John replied, crispy as a kid would. ¡°Yes! Father.¡±


    Rock nodded as he opened the wooden box, and ate while John began to roam around the farmland and controlled the snakes in the farmland to see if something unusual was happening.


    A few minutes later, checking out everything and finding everything was normal, he returned to where Rock was and waited for him to finish the lunch.


    Rock handed the wooden box and said to John straightforwardly ¡°Go straight to the home. Don''t go anywhere else.¡±


    After saying so, he walked towards the other farm areas that still had some work remaining. John walked back to the dry road from the rice field and walked towards the house at a slow pace as he continued to patrol the nearby area with the snake in his control.


    It was John¡¯s routine daily for the last few days since his mother allowed him to deliver the wooden box.


    Just as he was walking towards his home. One of the mud house doors on his way opened, and a middle-aged woman with grey hair in coarse cloth came out and called him, ¡°John, come here.¡±


    John looked at the woman who called him with a confused expression. He never interacted with others in the village most of the time and didn''t know why the woman was calling him. But still, he walked towards her to see what she was going to say.


    John came near her and asked with an innocent expression ¡°What''s the matter? Aunty.¡±


    The middle-aged woman looked at her and replied with a smile, ¡°It''s nothing, kid. I have a daughter who is shy and doesn''t go out much. Could you take her with you and play with her.¡±


    John was troubled with this sudden task but he didn''t show it on his face. He replied to her with an expectation on his face, ¡°Okay, where is she, Aunty?¡±

 39-Lilys Mutated Hand

    The middle-aged woman showed an excited smile on her face. Even though she expected such an answer, she was still happy that someone was willing to play with her child. So she replied to John joyfully ¡°Wait a Minute.¡±


    And then she called out, facing inside the house ¡°Lily, come out.¡±


    After she called, a figure walked out of the house wearing a coarse cloth that reached from shoulder to knee. The girl was also a mutated human, her mutation made her right hand poisonous. Animals she touched would suffer from vomit and headache. But nothing serious, and because of this most of the people avoid her.


    Lily walked out of the house and looked at John with curiosity and fear. She was curious because she had not seen someone like John before. She fears him because of how he looks and at the same time, she thinks that he would also not play with her after knowing about her condition.


    The middle-aged woman instructed John carefully ¡°Don''t touch Lily¡¯s right hand, John. Her right hand was poisonous. If you touch her hand, you will get sick. Do you understand John?¡±


    John was helpless at unnecessary questions but he still replied ¡°I understand, Aunty.¡±


    Then he said to Lily with a smile ¡°Come on Lily, let''s go.¡±


    Lily looked at her mother timidly, her mother nodded at her. With her mother''s encouragement, Lily followed John quietly while her mother looked at their backs with a relieved smile on her face. She was a little troubled by Lily¡¯s circumstance, she would be happy as long as her child didn''t feel bad about herself.


    Meanwhile, John walked towards his home while looking at Lily when she wasn''t paying attention. She has black hair, eyes, and a blacked right hand. If it was her previous life people would probably just look at her as a large birthmark that was not harmful to others.


    But in this world, her right hand could cause harm to others if they are not careful. So, it''s natural that they would not associate with her to avoid trouble.


    This resulted in a circumstance that five-year-old Lily with no one to spend time with other than her parents. John shook his head, in a world where one year old was fully capable of running and talking. Lily was really pitiful to suffer from this kind of treatment.


    John asked Lily curiously ¡°What would you like to do in free time, Lily?¡±


    Lily came back to her senses and replied to John ¡°I would play with trees and flowers and sometimes. I would also help mother to clean the house.¡±


    John nodded and asked about her personal life little by little. Since she''s a little girl and doesn''t have much experience, she tells everything John asks without much thought. While John got some idea who he was dealing with.


    He found that Lily was a kind, shy, introverted, and quite intelligent girl. Both of them reached where the other children from their street were playing.A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.


    Under the unusually large fruit tree on the roadside the abandoned old mud house. A group of kids was shouting while looking at two children wrestling with each other inside the crooked circle drawn on mud by the kids.


    Most of the kids had various degrees of muddy prints on their clothes and faces. They all have very exciting angry expressions on their faces as they encouraged passionately while looking at the wrestling child.


    ¡°Come on! Kevin beat the shit out of that freak.¡±


    ¡°Beat¡± ¡°Beat¡± ¡°Beat¡±


    Hearing all of this a five-year-old fat kid with a patchy grey trouser looked at the black-scaled kid with a crimson vertical pupil on the opposite side with a cautious attitude. As he had already known about the twin freaks of Blackwood village before head.


    He didn''t lose his mind due to the encouragement of others. He didn''t want to lose and he still had unknown hope that he could defeat Freak.


    While the opponent was in a dilemma. Sam looked arrogant even though he was only half the size of the fat kid both vertically and horizontally. He sneered at the fat kid while saying ¡°Are you coming or not?¡±


    Even if he knew he couldn''t defeat Sam, the fat kids childish pride was hurt by Sam''s taunt. So he ran towards Sam as he gathered strength of his whole body on his shoulders and then he slammed into Sam with a tremendous force.


    ~Boom~


    A loud sound echoed through the small area of the street as Sam held the fat man''s hand with his single arm and said ¡°Looks like you all loose and has to listen to me from onwards.¡±


    ¡°Hahaha¡±


    Sam laughed arrogantly without caring about anyone. The fat kid and others can''t stand this, so they all retorted his statement with anger on their faces.


    ¡°You freak the match isn''t over yet¡±


    ¡°Without even winning you are getting cocky.¡±


    Sam got angry and threw a punch at the fat kid''s face. The speed and force were beyond the fat kids imagination, so before he could react he was knocked down with a sharp pain on his face.


    Seeing the fat kids condition, all the kids became silent. Sam said loudly after knocking down the fat kid ¡°You all will listen to me from now on. I order you all to stop calling me & my brother freaks, from now on. Otherwise, I''ll beat you all again.¡±


    After that he walked out of the crowd, seeing his actions John showed a smile and called out ¡°Sam, come here.¡±


    Sam''s arrogant face bloomed with a smile as he heard John''s voice. He ran toward John and said, ¡°Brother I did¡­¡±


    John cut him short and said, ¡°Okay, let''s talk as we walk.¡±


    Sam became silent and followed John obediently. Lily on the side was also amazed at Sam''s strength and imagined that she could order around anyone if she also had a strength like Sam.


    John smiled as he led both of them towards the house. All of this was his plan to change the way kids talk about him and his brother. Even though he has a broad mind he''s not Budhha and at the same time, he can''t always be there for his brother''s attention.


    He also wanted to change the kid''s perception of them. As long he doesn''t do anything drastically most of the adults won''t care about the children''s actions.


    Sam said excitedly after walking a distance away from the old abandoned mud house ¡°Brother, I did as you told. Aren''t I a good fighter?¡±


    John complimented with a smile on his face ¡°Yes! Sam, you''re a good fighter.¡±


    Lily was astonished that such a strong Sam listened to John wholeheartedly. So she asked Sam curiously ¡°You are so strong. Why are you listening to your brother.¡±


    Sam asked her ¡°Who are you?¡±


    John introduced her and said she would hang out with them from now on and informed him about her right hand.


    After all of this, Sam replied to her inquiry ¡°Because he''s my brother and who said I am stronger than my brother. I have never defeated my brother in wrestling.¡±


    Lily was shocked as she heard this and her eyes sparkled as she looked at John. John was helpless and he said calmly ¡°OK that''s enough. We reached home, mom will hear what you did if you continue to talk about what happened.¡±


    Sams became cautious hearing about his mother and reminded Lily that she shouldn''t talk to anyone about what happened and Lily responded positively.


    John entered the house and shouted, ¡°Mom, I''m back.¡±


    Emma came out of the kitchen and asked while looking at Lily ¡°Who''s this.¡±


    John replied ¡°Oh! This is our new friend. She will play with us from now on.¡±


    Emma nodded and said seriously ¡°Okay you guys go play. Don''t wander off the village.¡±


    Three of them departed from there, Emma showed on her face that she was also happy that her child had a new friend. She also knows the famous poisonous Lily but doesn''t care much. She knew that if someone had to be careful among the three of them it should be Lily because she knew both of her children could produce venom like snake.


    And there weren''t many things that could make her children sick. One time when John was five months old he catcher a poisonous snake in the house and kept it as a pet for a few days before releasing it. So, their safety in the village was much higher than adults considering their strength and abilities.