The forest had taken a dark turn, and what began as a simple hunt had soon turned into a bloody confrontation. However, Zyric had no intention of letting the matter end so easily.
"There is nothing wrong with killing scumbags like them," Zyric thought to himself.
Zyric clenched his fists and glared at the two men who had been sitting in the tree and were now climbing down from it.
"Boy, have you lost your mind? You killed that poor thing!" the two men shouted at Zyric.
"Hmm, yeah, I killed it. But what about you two? You wiped out that snake's entire family. What about that?" Zyric asked angrily, glaring at them.
"Oh, so that's how it is. You killed our friend over that little snake? Jacob, come on. Let's show him what we're capable of!"
With that, the man called out to Jacob. Before long, both men's bodies became covered with strange black hair, and large spikes began growing out of their shoulders, making them look extremely terrifying.
"Unfortunately, your beasts may look scary, but they're not strong," Zyric said with a smile.
The next moment, he charged straight toward the two men.
As soon as Jacob and the other man saw him approaching, they clenched their fists and prepared to strike.
However, halfway through his charge, Zyric transformed into a Red Monkey, causing his body to grow much larger and making him look far more intimidating.
He immediately swung his powerful fists at the two men.
However, their bodies were much smaller than his, and they took advantage of their agility to dodge his attacks.
Since Zyric was using the Red Monkey's genes, his body had become unusually large, which also made him slower.
He quickly leaped into the air, hoping to catch one of the men while they were still airborne.
However, Jacob proved to be quite clever. As he fell toward the ground, he immediately changed direction.
Meanwhile, Zyric's enormous body made it difficult for him to control his movements properly. As a result, he lost his balance and crashed to the ground.
"What happened, kid? Can't you do anything right? Anyway, it's strange to see a kid like you possessing a Fuzan Vault. Or could it be that you're actually a beast?"
"Huh?" Zyric responded.
The man continued to mock him.
Growing angrier by the second, Zyric rose to his feet while still in his Red Monkey form. He quickly moved backward before charging toward the two men, who were now back in the tree.
With a single punch, he snapped the tree in half. He then immediately separated the Red Monkey's genes from his body and switched to the Velociraptor's genes instead. This allowed him to use the Velociraptor's speed to reach the spot where the two men were about to fall.
Zyric arrived just in time.
The next moment, a Red Monkey emerged from his body and appeared right behind him.
"What? H-How is this possible?" the two men exclaimed in shock.
Both men struggled helplessly in midair, unable to change direction as they fell.
"Look, we're sorry! Please—"
Before they could finish begging for their lives, the Red Monkey grabbed both of them by the throats and slammed them into the ground.
It then punched them three or four times, leaving them severely injured.
Afterward, the Black Snake tortured them for a long time.
Nearly four hours later, the Black Snake finally left the place and returned to where its family's corpses lay—the very spot where its entire family had been killed.
It approached the bodies of its wife and child and began crying bitterly.
A little while later, Zyric suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the sky. Looking up, he saw a strange black sphere rapidly approaching him.
"What kind of nonsense is this now?" Zyric exclaimed in surprise.
The sphere resembled a meteor, hurtling through the sky while trailing black smoke behind it.
The next moment, it crashed to the ground with a loud thump!
Whatever the strange, smoke-covered sphere was, it seemed to possess some kind of life.
It struggled to get back on its feet but soon stumbled and fell. It tried to stand again, only to fall once more.
On its third attempt, however, it couldn't even manage to get up.
"Is it dead?" Zyric wondered in surprise.
He immediately approached the strange sphere.
After all, daylight was about to break, so if anything went wrong, he could still escape.
Zyric tried to touch the sphere-like object, but his hand passed straight through it.
"If it doesn't even have a physical body, how could it die?" he wondered aloud as he stood up.
Just then, Zyric noticed something strange.
The Black Snake was sitting in front of its family's corpses when a white light suddenly emerged from their bodies.
The lights gradually took the forms of the snakes they had once been, and the spirits of the Black Snake's family began floating through the sky.
As the white lights rose into the sky, Zyric suddenly noticed that the Black Snake wasn't moving at all. It continued staring at the spot where its family had disappeared, its body completely motionless.