The forest had fallen into an eerie silence, but Zyric was about to witness something that defied all logic. What happened next would leave him questioning everything he thought he knew about life and death.
"Ghosts!!!" Zyric exclaimed in shock.
The spirits of the two snakes had separated from their bodies and were now spinning around in midair.
The little snake's spirit was playing around with its father's spirit.
After a while, the little snake's spirit flew toward Zyric, startling him. Nevertheless, he gathered his courage and extended his hands toward it.
The little snake wrapped itself around his hands and began showing him affection.
Zyric gently stroked its head in return.
Then, he noticed something else.
Strange white lights were also emerging from the bodies of the three dead men.
"Oh my God! What's happening here?" Zyric exclaimed in shock.
The lights shot into the sky and quickly disappeared.
Meanwhile, the spirits of the Black Snake's wife and child also began rising rapidly.
The entire sight was both strange and terrifying.
Suddenly, however, both spirits approached the black sphere and began circling around it.
Before long, the sphere dissolved into black smoke, which entered both spirits.
Black smoke began emerging from their bodies as well.
The two spirits then turned into streams of black smoke, which rushed toward the Black Snake and entered its body.
Before long, the Black Snake's eyes turned red, and its body began expanding rapidly. As it grew larger, its body started cracking and breaking apart.
The transformation seemed to cause it considerable pain.
Within moments, the Black Snake's shadow, which stretched across the ground toward Zyric, grew larger and larger until it became bigger than Zyric himself.
"What? How did it become so huge... and so powerful, too?" Zyric exclaimed in shock.
He had never witnessed anything like this before, nor had anyone ever taught him about such a phenomenon.
It was clear that the Black Snake had become incredibly powerful.
"What happened to me?" the Black Snake asked in surprise.
"Whatever happened, it turned out well. From what I can tell, your family is still with you, and you've gained this power because of them," Zyric said, gently stroking the Black Snake.
"Ah, yes! That's true!" the Black Snake replied in surprise.
It had gained incredible power and now looked far more dangerous and terrifying than before.
Both of them were astonished by what had happened and were still trying to figure out how the transformation had occurred.
Just then, they noticed another golden light approaching from the sky.
"What is that now?" Zyric shouted in surprise.
"If you want to stay alive, run away from here or hide somewhere! Hurry!" the girl's voice called out from inside Zyric's Fuzan Vault.
"Oh, so you're really enjoying troubling me, aren't you?"
Before Zyric could say anything else, a beautiful girl appeared in front of him, with two horns protruding from the top of her head.
Zyric was astonished to see such a beautiful girl standing before him.
However, she completely ignored him.
"Look, your family is with you. If anything happens to you, your family will perish along with you. If you want to stay alive, come with us," the girl told the Black Snake.
Zyric was shocked to see that a girl had actually emerged from his Fuzan Vault.
She was clearly alive, yet she had two horns on her head.
That meant she couldn't be an ordinary girl.
Meanwhile, the Black Snake fell silent, lost in thought.
"Anyway, I don't have a family anymore. Even if I do, they're inside me now. So, if I go with you, perhaps I can find a good friend," the Black Snake replied.
With that, it extended its tail toward the girl.
Before long, both the girl and the Black Snake disappeared from where they stood and entered Zyric's Fuzan Vault.
Zyric peered into his Fuzan Vault and saw that the Black Snake had arrived inside.
In a way, he had successfully tamed the Black Snake.
"I... I... I... I've... I've got a new friend!" Zyric exclaimed, overwhelmed with amazement and excitement.
But what Zyric didn't know was that his new friend had just awakened a power that even the Black Snake itself couldn't fully understand.