The night was still young, and Zyric had no intention of wasting it inside the palace.
After jumping out of Elysia's room, Zyric wandered around the tribe for a while.
"Well, if I want to make progress, I'll have to capture the beasts here and tame them. This tribe is very small, so the beasts around here must be quite weak. I can capture these weak beasts and make them stronger. Yeah!"
Zyric said to himself.
Before long, Zyric made his way into the forest, keeping himself hidden because ordinary people from the tribe weren't allowed to leave. But Zyric wasn't an ordinary person. He had the Fuzan Vault, which meant he could be considered a Monster Tamer.
After leaving the tribe, Zyric found himself standing before a dense forest. He avoided the path where he could see bright lights and hear people's voices, as soldiers were guarding that area.
Instead, Zyric slowly made his way toward the dark forest, where nothing but moonlight illuminated his surroundings.
Zyric spent quite some time thinking, but he couldn't come up with a way to tame a beast easily without hurting it.
"It's strange. There are so many weak beasts here, yet they run away just because they're afraid of me, even though I'm only a human. But I need to find a beast that's weak enough for me to tame and that I can benefit from by making it stronger. I can easily strengthen the beasts here using the Fuzan Vault Liquid from the Red Monkey. If they're weak, I'll tame them and use the Red Monkey's Fuzan Vault Liquid to make them stronger."
Zyric thought to himself.
According to what Velociraptor had told him about the extracting powers of Fuzan Vault Liquid, the blood of the beasts here was much purer. That meant the extracting powers of their Fuzan Vaults would be just as pure as their blood.
If Zyric obtained Fuzan Vault Liquid from a beast of his own time, that beast might be powerful, but its blood might still lack purity. However, if Zyric used the Fuzan Vault Liquid of such a beast on the beasts here, whose blood was pure, their extracting powers would also be pure.
As a result, their extracting powers would purify the Fuzan Vault Liquid of a beast with a weaker bloodline before allowing it to enter their Fuzan Vaults. Once that happened, the beast would become stronger, and Zyric would benefit from it as well.
In a way, Zyric could become much stronger in his own time by using the beasts from this era. He could then fight and defeat the weaker beasts of his own time, whose bloodlines weren't particularly pure. Moreover, since Zyric had beasts with pure bloodlines, his own extracting powers had also become purer. For now, their purity had already reached around four or five percent.
So, if Zyric used the Fuzan Vault Liquid of beasts from his own time now, he would benefit twice over. Since his extracting powers were already four to five percent pure, any Fuzan Vault Liquid he used would have to reach that level of purity before entering his Fuzan Vault.
However, if Zyric managed to obtain Fuzan Vault Liquid from beasts with even purer blood in the future, the purity of all the Fuzan Vault Liquids he had previously obtained and injected into his Fuzan Vault would also increase. In a way, the strength of every Fuzan Vault Liquid he had injected into his body would increase simultaneously.
That was why Zyric needed to tame or defeat a beast with extremely pure blood and obtain its Fuzan Vault Liquid for his team.
While thinking about all this and making various calculations, Zyric continued walking forward.
Just then, Zyric spotted a strange black snake in front of him. It was tiny, yet it slithered along the ground at an astonishing speed.
"Oh my goodness! It's so tiny, yet it's this fast!"
Zyric exclaimed in amazement.
Since the snake seemed extremely weak and couldn't really do anything to him, Zyric immediately leaped from his spot and landed right in front of it.
As soon as the snake saw Zyric suddenly appear in front of it, it spread its hood and glared at him angrily.
"Hey, hey! Don't be scared. I just came to talk to you. Would you like to become my friend? I mean, would you let me tame you? Look, the truth is that my team isn't complete yet. You're a snake, so if you become stronger, we could do a lot of things with your poison powers. Just think about it."
Zyric explained to the black snake.
"How dare you? Wait a minute. How are you even able to talk to me?"
The snake whispered to Zyric.
"Forget about that. If you let me tame you, you'll be able to move in and out of my Fuzan Vault. Look!"
After saying that, Zyric summoned Velociraptor, Fat Insect, and the Red Monkey.
The moment the Red Monkey appeared, it became frightened by the darkness and unfamiliar surroundings. It was the first time it had ever been in an environment like this, where everything seemed so different. Even the air here carried a strange kind of energy.
"Zyric, what is this place?"
The Red Monkey asked in surprise.
"Look, you'll get used to it."
Zyric replied to the Red Monkey.
The Red Monkey began observing its surroundings, turning in circles as it looked at everything.
Meanwhile, the black snake looked genuinely astonished because Zyric was showing it things that ordinary humans could no longer do.
"I'm sorry. If I were alone, I would have come with you. Still, it was nice to meet a human like you, someone who at least bothered to talk to me. Usually, the moment other humans see me, they try to kill me with sticks, axes, spears, and things like that."
After saying this, the snake started moving away again.
"But I'm not like them. You can stay with me if you want."
Zyric said as he crouched down in front of the snake.
"But I'm sorry. Didn't I already tell you that I would come with you if I were alone? But I'm not alone. I have a wife and a daughter, and I'm very happy with them."
The snake replied to Zyric.
Zyric then noticed that the snake was carrying some food with it. It consisted of a few pieces of meat taken from a dead beast.
"Oh, I see. I've disturbed you, haven't I?"
Zyric said to the black snake.
"It's okay."
The black snake replied before turning around and leaving.
The black snake had finally met someone who treated it differently from other humans. However, it had no idea that this unexpected encounter was far from over.