Then he turned around and glimpsed at the city wall entrance with a leisurely expression. His leisurely expression turned into horror upon catching sight of a snake bigger than the city gate slithering towards the city while emitting a visible poisonous fog in the atmosphere which made all the people who contact faint.
John stopped at the entrance of the city and discharged endless poisonous fog with the help of the wind. The poison quickly spread all over the city and all the people lost consciousness in a matter of moments with only a small number of people still standing. John looked at the small number of people and shifted his attention away.
Joe Vika and other awakened ones gathered together and looked at the giant snake with fear and one of them asked Joe Vika "My lord, what do we do?"
Joe Vika replied while looking at John who moved slowly towards the city "The snake is probably after something from the city or for us. Because no people in the city died under the snake's poison. Everyone just fainted and will be fine, after a few hours."
A three-meter tall man with bulging muscles looked at the giant snake with a ferocious expression on his face and asked Joe Vika "My lord, how about we fight the snake and kill it."
Hearing the man's remark, others who followed the man and with the same physical appearance as the man looked at him in horror and one by one tried to calm him with words.
"Clan head, calm down with the presence of his highness. We didn't have to do anything, he will take care of it."
"Yes! Father, calm down. His Highness will find a way."
Joe Vika's brows wrinkled upon hearing what they were speaking about him. They cared little about what he would think and more about their own. Joe Vika got furious, but he put aside the anger after he thought about the current situation. He couldn't afford infighting with the remaining people.
At the same time, Joe does not want to lose his assistant general and one of the humans who has undergone an evolution ceremony successfully and created the Black Bear family. He is an important component cultivated with much hardship. He's responsible for taking over the city's logical and economic process. Joe can't afford to lose a potential city guardian in a moment of madness caused by the animalistic element in the bloodline.
So, he showed genuine worry on his face and said to him "Ford, be calm. Don't lose your cool."
Ford calmed down upon hearing Joe's voice due to fear and remaining rationality. He was confident that Joe would kill him if he didn't come back to his senses and did something that threatened Joe's survival and plans. As he had seen indifference behind the kind Joe Vika.
Ford took deep breaths, adjusted his mood, and said to Joe "I'm okay, my lord. I got carried away a little."
Joe Vika nodded his head at the Ford and didn't pay any more attention to him. He concentrated on the giant snake that entered the city at a leisurely pace.
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Meanwhile, Ford heaved a sigh of relief and thought(Losing your rationality in the middle of a deadly situation is very dangerous. I need to control my emotions, the animalistic nature of the animal's bloodline is very unstable.)
Ford was one of the few people who went through an evolution ceremony using the bloodline of the Black Bear species that rampaged through the land they are on right now. The Black Bear species is known for its overwhelming strength which is almost on par with high humans. But its other abilities are weaker than the high humans.
So Joe Vika along with other trained human soldiers easily destroyed them using various tactics and weapons. Ford is one of the people, who performed exceptionally in the beginning and got a chance to go through evolution and gained a Black Bears overwhelming strength. He went from ordinary soldier to assistant general of Joe Vika.
So, he knows about Joe Vika more than anyone else in the city.
As the group of conscious people planned what to do. John entered the city and demolished the city gate in the process. He began to release even more poisonous fog into the atmosphere and made everyone faint including those with slight resistance to poison. At the same time, he also kept an eye on the only one high-human in the city.
Because Joe remained conscious even after everyone in the city fainted? John glanced at him and slithered toward him at a slow pace and then looked at him with a grin.
Joe Vika examined the giant snake closer and felt the magnificence of the evolution. Then he looked at the fallen comrades around him with a complicated expression. As they can't even remain awakened before this magnificent creation. They are not even qualified to put up a fight against this snake.
With an unwilling expression, he closed his eyes and slept peacefully.
John inspected the high human Joe Vika with his small tails used to read memory. He found nothing extraordinary with his current grasp of the concept of evolution and life. So, he ignored this and inserted the tails onto the head of Joe Vika and tried to read their memories.
But John stumbled upon the trouble of not being able to read the memory of Joe with his tails. His tail responded negatively like there was no place to perfectly insert the tail, to read his memory. John tried a few more times and stopped after numerous attempts.
He tried to read the memory of the other giant humans. But this also resulted in a very violent reaction from one of the subjects. So, John stopped his actions, after confirming he couldn't read the memories of the highly evolved and violent species memories. Which are not recorded in the genes or they are emotionally changing every moment.
High humans are an advanced species that's different from normal humans. Ford is under an unstable violent factor from a bloodline that is constantly changing his emotions. With complex thoughts, John read other normal human memories even if they had small mutations like Ford but with a stable mood.
John read everyone's memory in the city and got to know about the kingdom more thoroughly and his information about the high humans also increased. The process took about a day or two. He began to skip through their useless memories. He poisoned them every few hours to keep them in sleep.
Some of the people died in the process due to sleeping for a long time without eating anything.
John departed from there and traveled toward the river he came from at a steady pace. As he understood the consequence of what he had done. After going through all the memories of the people in the city. There's probably an army of high humans coming after him.
John didn't want to wait and suffer any injury or confront the people of the kingdom, which would not settle well with his philosophy of survival. John is sure he would suffer tremendously if he faced the kingdom's forces head-on. He also found detailed descriptions of potionists and beast masters from the memories of the people.
The potionists have some method to nullify his poison and even increase their resistance against his poison. The kingdom would probably have weapons to hunt down large beasts like him. Otherwise, a kingdom won't survive in this crisis-ridden animalistic world for 1500 years.
John decided that he didn't want to read memories of humans actively from now on and wanted to focus on something else. As the gain isn't worth the risk. If he continues to do so, he will surely acquire the attention of the majority of the kingdom and will face insufferable consequences.
Even though he didn't kill the people in the city actively. There are still some people who died due to long periods of starvation, because of their very weak immune systems against his poison. He also killed a few military camps at the beginning. So, John didn't expect the kingdom to forgive him for not killing the people in the city.
He knows that human nature in this world is not much different from his previous world. They would probably be very curious why he doesn't kill and eat the people in the city and what he did in two days when people were not awake. So, John fled from the city's range and entered the forest.
Meanwhile, in the city. People woke up one by one and Joe Vika was the first one to be awakened, followed by the Evolved people and people with higher poison resistance.
Joe Vika looked at all the people with puzzlement and thought (What's the matter with this snake? Why did it make us unconscious for two days?)