"We shall take our leave now, Mrs. Brown. Thanks for your assistance at times like this." Miguel, Silas's father, stated his gratefulness as they stood outside, ready to leave now.
"It was just my duty to help," Mrs. Brown responded with a light smile. Silas nodded, and with that, both made their way back to their home.
Entering the home, Silas immediately made his way to his room without so much as a word. Locking the door behind him, he was greeted by the sight of two pups bouncing with excitement at his return. Their small tails wagged furiously as they barked in delight.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm back," he remarked while making his way straight toward his study desk.
'We can't wait...' he remarked with the presence of the great serpent constantly ringing inside his head as he tightened his grip over the pen in hand.
'It's in the nature of a serpent to be a master in patience, precision, and ruthless execution; they have poor eyesight but can sense vibrations through the earth. The Great Pearl Serpent is a colossal beast. I assume it can detect us from miles away using this sense alone. For now, it's waiting to confirm there is no danger to its life.
It's likely he doesn't recognise the humans to be a threat to its life right now; it must be cautious of any other evolved beast present here, like Grey Hound from before.'
Silas frowned with his eyes lit up in sapphire sparks, 'Thankfully our neighbourhood doesn't have any other evolved creature just yet, though there are a few who will evolve in the following few days. I hope they don't go on a rampage like that hound...'
A deep sigh escaped his mouth, and he tossed the pen aside; his arms reached down to pick up the two pups in his arms, the warmth of their fur seemed to soften chills in his heart, and while looking outside through the gap in his curtains, he observed the strangely quiet surroundings.
'Currently most creatures and humans haven't awakened yet, but slowly but surely they will evolve; within a month everyone will evolve with Ase. This one month time is all I have to secure a safe place to live for my family when half the world will be chaos, and to do that...'
"I can't wait for people to adapt; I will force them to adapt." Silas's facial expressions darkened, and turning his head towards the direction of the serpent, who was observing from a distance of miles, he stated
"... We will hunt you down tonight, you damn earthworm."
"Ruff!"
"Gruff!"
Suddenly the two pups started to jump fiercely over Silas's lap, and jumping down from his arms, they started to run across the whole room in excitement.
'Did they sense my thoughts?' Silas was a bit surprised seeing them suddenly so heated up and excited, "Oh right? Tamed Beasts share some kind of bond with the soul of the Tamer; they also share the emotions, huh?"
Silas chuckled seeing the pups, who seemed excited to hunt a mountain-like serpent, which even Silas was unsure about; he couldn't help but laugh.
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"What a confidence you have there," Silas giggled, and, nodding with a serious face, he moved his attention towards the white wolf pup.
"Very well, join me in the hunt tonight then; your name shall be 'Asra,'" and moving toward the black one, he announced, "Zerath."
"Gruff!"
"Ruff!"
The pups nodded, surprisingly not much excited but rather like some soldiers receiving commands. Silas chuckled seeing those expressions, but his own face became slowly darker and colder. "Then let's start the plan for the hunt."
With that said, he turned his attention back towards the paper and pen in hand while being lost in deep thoughts, thinking of a thousand scenarios with all possible endings in which they lose so they don't lose the 100 scenarios in which they win.
And without realising it, it was already midnight when Silas finally felt prepared. "Wake up..." he commanded the pups lying over his desk in front of him.
Their eyes immediately perked up the moment they heard him. Silas quietly opened the windows in his room and slid outside with the two pups hanging over the pocket of his hoodie; he was also carrying a bag on his back.
"Let's hunt," he said before leaping down from his window to the road outside. This time he wasn't even slightly hurt or not even a little flinch; his physical flexibility had increased several dozen times, and he immediately dashed forward like a bolt of lightning.
'Physical enhancements since taming the two pups are insane... I have already surpassed peak human body limits; the current me might possess the strength of some animal, like a wild wolf...' Silas noticed
'I can cover a distance of about 2.5 meters in a single step, my jumps can easily cover 7, and my endurance...' his feet hit the ground, crushing the stone into dust underneath as he bolted forward at an even faster pace.
"It's insane!!!" he remarked with a grin; the thrill seemed to take control of his heart.
'I have full control over my body; it's actually moving the way I want?!' he thought as he practically ran down that slope while still having full control of his body.
"This is insane!!!" he shouted, full of excitement, and ran for straight miles inside the woods with barely any serious exhaustion before taking down his pace as he arrived in the region where he finally felt the presence of the serpent.
'... Musky like some leather or dump soil.' Silas noticed the smell; there was no living creature in the whole area nearby, not even something as little as an ant.
'I see why, though.' Silas frowned with his eyes sparkling; he could see the pressure emitted by the presence of that Serpent in the region.
'A dense amount of Ase can create gravity-like pressure in the surroundings. The Serpent is constantly releasing his dense Ase in his surroundings, which instinctively ward off weak creatures. He has claimed this region as his own...' Silas frowned and quietly stepped forward towards the woods, deeper in the direction where Serpent was awaiting him.
"Grrrr..." The wolf pups could already feel the danger ahead; they growled fiercely, smelling that familiar scent, and finally Silas arrived in front of an enormous hole in the ground, almost 8 meters in diameter and depth; he couldn't tell at the moment, there was dark pressure looming inside that deep lair of the Serpent with air strangely humid and salty.
"Found you," Silas muttered, eyes gleaming with sapphire sparks. He gripped the two metal rods hanging on his back tightly, with every muscle coiled with focus and no hesitation. He leaped into that pit with Asra and Zerath right behind him.
"This might be the dumbest decision I ever made!!!" Silas yelled as he was falling down deeper and deeper, but midway he stabbed his metal rods in hand over the walls of that hole while quickly grabbing his two pups. midair
"... But it's the decision that will lead me forward." Silas grinned, and taking out the rod once again, jumped down, this time landing safely on the ground with a path leading straight towards something like a huge underground cave with two pairs of slit green eyes shining in the dark.
"There you are..." Silas muttered while tightening his grip over the metal bars, and his eyes shone in the direction of that serpent whose eyes alone seemed to be as big as the pups beside him.
'Species - Giant Pearl Serpent
Grade - Green
Width: 5 meters
Length: 50 meters
State: Slightly cautious
Strength: Tremor Senses, Giant, Toxic Breath, Enormous Vitality
Weakness: Vulnerable Head, Slow
Speciality: Apex predator who remains cautious against even the weakest enemies, known as a strategist under holes, it knows to use its surroundings against its enemies.'
"As expected, it's strong." Silas frowned, but that wasn't out of fear or shock; rather, it was just plain caution against a formidable enemy. Silas started first as he tossed the long, sharp-edged metal rod straight toward the serpent's eyes.
With that, he, along with his pups, immediately rushed towards the serpent, but midway, the rod thrown at him got tossed away by the serpent's tail, and flickering its tongue, the serpent immediately responded in the same manner.
Releasing poisonous breath in the dark, which almost instantly filled the whole place in an instant, turning back, Silas realised the path from which they came had already been collapsed, and they were now trapped inside this underground cave-like chamber with the serpent full of poison.
'But I didn't come here without a plan...' Silas smirked as he took out a pocket lighter. 'This serpent originally didn't possess poison; when it evolved, it mutated with its surroundings, creating a special organ for poisonous breath, which works with the same concept as underground gases, which means...'
"It's like gasoline in the air..." Silas remarked while covering up the pups under him as he lit the flames, instantly igniting all the poisonous gas like gasoline, which lit up the whole cave in an instant, creating a tight explosion.
"Aaaahhhh!!!!"