A few moments later the snake finally found its first and most easy prey; it had hunted - the frog. So after confirming no large creatures were around, the snake used its last bit of strength and slithered towards its prey at the fastest speed it had ever been and swallowed it, then disappeared into the nearby bush.
Two days later.
A meter-long black snake with crimson eyes slithered around the branch of a large tree and looked at the orange-yellow sun in the sky lazily as it yawned. Then it looked at the data about itself in its retina.
[ Bloodline Creature(1/4).
Age: 0/100 years.
Race: Snake(juvenile).
Talent: Endless growth(2%) ]
Finally after hunting and consuming more than fifty frogs the snake finally made up for the loss of body size and even made progress in the shedding process. So the snake decided to take a rest on top of the tall tree for a while.
It's lazy and won't do anything if it's not in danger or urgent need. What this snake expects all stability where it doesn't have to face unexpected dangers and unexpected luck. All it needs gradual development with a stable environment and less danger.
While bathing in the sunlight, the snake also began to think about basic things about its talent.
The snake is contemplating its problems on its own (I can control the talent's endless growth to make it active or passive. But for now, it's better to keep it passive, as I am still a little snake that can be killed easily. Mainly now I can think more rationally after the shedding process. So I think it's better to continue the shedding process faster. But I still think there are more things to remember. So I better continue to hunt and grow big, it will increase my chances of survival.)
After digesting the frogs it ate with endless growth skills. It began to look for animals that were bigger than frogs and had a large population to sustain it for the next few growth cycles.
So, the snake began to roam around the forest looking at the animals. The snake used smell sense with its tongue to track the animals around it and used heat sense to determine the size and threat of the prey.
The snake also used camouflage to move without getting caught on other animals' prey lists and used breath-holding skills to avoid some animals that noticed its presence.
So with this routine of skills to track and hide. The snake began to track animals starting from its surroundings. The snake first looked at the bird's nest in the trees and compared the size of the bird to its nest. The snake dismissed this thought of hunting the birds as prey.
As the bird will weigh less and along with their small size it's not worthwhile to hunt birds as a primary target. But if it's near it there's a chance the snake won't mind eating as its snack.
So, the snake looked at other animals to hunt. The snake moved around the forest with caution. Within a few moments, the snake found numerous animals.
But most of them are not suitable for hunting targets. Because some of them are much larger than it is, considered to hunt and some are low in numbers or they are much smaller that they can't be used as hunting targets even with their large numbers.
As it may take more time to hunt them and it's not worth it. Finally, after a few hours of looking for a hunting target, the snake found a suitable hunting target that it was looking for.
In a pond in the middle of the dense forest. Where various animals quench their thirst with water without openly showing their aggressiveness. The black snake climbed the large tree beside the pond while camouflaging its color to the background of the environment. The snake also began to hold its breath and looked at the animals that were drinking water in the pond.
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The snake decided that it could better see most of the animals here without actively looking for them. There are various types of animals surrounding the pond. From large animals which are as tall as most trees to small animals which are much smaller than one-tenth of the snake. Most of the animals are plant-eating animals. Occasionally one or two meat-eating animals appear here. Which are not here to drink water purely.
One particular animal caught the snake's attention. Which is not much biggest or the smallest not even the medium-sized animal present here. The animal is larger than the smallest animal but smaller than the medium-sized animal.
The animal is more than a meter in height with a very strong body and long hands. It is one of the most populated animals beside the pond that are drinking water. There are many of them with most of them in the trees. This species looked like they lived on trees mostly and they seemed to live in groups.
The snake considered them as the most suitable prey because they live in a group and it can hunt them individually with little effort. Even so, the snake doesn't want to straight up hunt them in groups. As it can't ignore the chances of them attacking it in a group.
So the snake began to observe the animals that walk on two legs and use hands and tails to move between trees like a large monkey. The snake began to recall some type of knowledge, but it didn't know the source of this knowledge.
The snake ignored the reason for that and began to think about real-time problems, after several instances of recalling something. The snake began to stalk behind the large monkey group for a few hours and found that these monkeys mostly live in groups and eat mainly leaves, fruits, and other plants. While also eating insects sometimes they didn't seem to hunt the animals specifically.
It also found that these animals were very strong in strength as most male animals fight among themselves for another large monkey for mating which the snake can't seem to understand. But in this situation, the snake found a very interesting fact that it rejoices very much.
It can pick up the large monkey's dead body after the two large monkeys fight one of them gets heavily injured and the other monkeys leave the heavily injured monkey and move on.
The snake began to rejoice in this free meal. So it eats its first large monkey without much more effort and swallows it whole thanks to the reason the monkey is smaller than it. So, the snake began to stalk the monkey group from that day onwards.
While steadily increasing the number of large money groups that it follows to pick up more free dead bodies of the monkeys. Single large monkeys provide about 10% percent of the energy needed for the snake to shed its skin again and grow anew.
Within just a few days without doing anything drastic the snake saved the amount of energy it needed to shed its skin. The snake is inside the hole in the middle of the large tree that has a width of 10 meters. The snake found that whatever it ate was digested quickly and saved in the form of energy beside an organ in its stomach.
So, no matter how much it eats everything it eats is stored in a way that it can't understand and it can't also grow an inch normally. Every drop of nutrients that it eats is saved other than what it needs for survival.
The snake looked at the hollow space of the tree which is six meters wide and ten metres in height. Even such length space only occupies one-tenth of the tree. The tree is very secure due to the purple poisonous fog that it releases in the surroundings via the purple flowers.
Which does not seem to affect the snake in the slightest. So the snake chose the tree which has natural protection for its very big size enough to accommodate it as its home. It also arranged the space with some of the flowers and leaves of the tree.
After settling down in the cozy space with only a two-meter wide space entrance showing the two large silver-white moons in the sky. With its tongue slithering in the atmosphere, the snake concentrated on its retina as the information appeared before its eyes.
[ Bloodline Creature(1/4).
Age: 0/100 years.
Race: Snake(juvenile).
Talent: Endless growth(100%) ]
Then the snake looked at two large monkeys' bodies and several other small animals that it hunted on its way home and left around itself to replenish its energy. After confirming everything was ready the snake triggered the process of endless growth.
Its meter-long body began to grow as it lost its stored energy in its body. Soon within a few moments, the snake grew up to two metres in length while getting all-round body strengthening.
It sheds lots of scales and other useless things from its body in the process of expelling old and unnecessary body parts.
After the sudden growth strengthening the snake's body stopped growing. But the snake is not skinny this time, as the energy stored in its body is calculated enough to be healthy even after the growth process. It is a natural process of the body adapting and adjusting itself to sustain life and increase survival chances of itself with the given skills and abilities.