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.)