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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.

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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.

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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.

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.)