After colliding with the snake, Blanco landed on the ground. He quickly lifted his head and gazed toward the sharp crystals, where he saw the snake pierced by their edges.

"It actually worked. Because it was a sudden thought, I really didn't think it would work," he mummuerd said as he got up, still looking at the snake, which was impaled by the sharp edges of the crystals. Blood was flowing from the snake's wounds, dripping down to the ground from the crystal edges.

While he watched, he felt a weakness in his limbs and lay down on the ground again.

"Did I get too much exposure to its poison? To think someone else's poison would work on me, despite me being a poison user myself....I have to find a way to enhance my poison ability somehow, but as far as I know, upgrading an ability isn't a simple thing," Blanco pondered aloud.

Crik!

But as Blanco was thinking, he suddenly heard a sound from the crystals.

He hurriedly looked, and what he saw was the snake's skin, which was losing its shining luster and slowly turning into a dead-like state.

"What is going on?" Blanco felt unease in his heart. Mustering up his strength, he got up and took a few steps back.

Crik!

Suddenly, the skin of the snake, which was turning into a dead-like state, crumbled and crushed into ashes, revealing an even more beautiful luster. The new skin of the snake appeared, white in color with blood-like veins running through it.

"Did it shed its skin? Uh, this doesn't feel good," Blanco thought as he saw the sharp crystals that had pierced the snake's body crumble when the old skin separated from its body, failing to penetrate the new skin.

The snake, previously appearing dead, suddenly opened its blood-red eyes. In an instant, it searched through its surroundings, quickly locating Blanco.

Blanco felt threatened and quickly ran back. From the lower ground, he climbed up through a pillar of large rocks.

From the snake's mouth, a giant poison ball suddenly appeared and shot toward Blanco, who was at the top of the rock layers.

Bang!

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The snake's poison ball landed nearby, causing Blanco to jump to avoid it, but he ended up falling to the other side of the rock layer. The snake swiftly moved through the ground, sliding up the rock layers. As it approached the top where Blanco had fallen to the other side, it sensed a new sensation and a smell in the air.

Water, there was water nearby. The snake felt the cold sensation in the air, sensing the nearby water flow as it arrived at the top of the rock layer. Below, it saw Blanco still rolling down toward the bottom. Near the base of the rock layer, it observed a flowing water stream, peaceful and calm.

At that moment, when Blanco finally landed below, a bunch of frogs that had been lounging around the water flow jumped into the water, stirring the surface into a frenzy.

Down on the ground, injured from the fall, the snake saw Blanco struggle to stand up on his paws again.

He gazed toward the snake with fearful eyes, then in the next moment, rushed toward the flowing water at the bottom and jumped into it.

The snake quickly rushed toward Blanco, going down through the rock layers. Despite bumping into countless rocks, none seemed to damage it.

It saw Blanco, who was flowing down through the river, slowly getting ahead of it. The snake hurriedly rushed towards him, jumping into the flowing water.

Splash!

In the water, it swiftly swam toward Blanco, who was moving erratically. It quickly caught up to him and thrust its mouth forward to bite. Blanco dodged at the last moment, narrowly avoiding the deadly jaws of the snake.

The snake turned back, darting towards Blanco to bite again. With no other options, Blanco dove deep into the water. The peaceful water flow turned into a battleground as Blaco and the snake began to struggle—one fighting to escape death, the other to capture its prey and release its anger.

Blanco, who had dived deeper into the water, struggled to breathe as the snake circled around him. He swam deeper until he reached the bottom of the water and took another push upward, touching the ground from its paws and and swimming hastily to the surface. The snake located Blanco and rushed towards him.

Splash!

Emerging from the water, Blanco leaped above its surface. Behind him, the snake followed. Its mouth opened wide, and the razor-sharp teeth filled with poison gleamed as it aimed directly to swallow Blaco, who was slowly escaping its grasp.

But at that moment, from behind a nearby bush, Nixie suddenly jumped out. Her mouth was already murmuring a icy blue frost spark, and she directed it toward the snake above the water.

Crik!

A layer of water turned into frost, enveloping the snake, who's Nixie's main target.

Thud!

Blanco landed on the frosty layer and gazed back at the figure of the giant snake, now frozen into an ice sculpture. Its appearance filled Blanco with a frightening feeling.

Looking at it, Blanco felt the sensation of being at the bottom of the food chain. Despite having abilities superior to others of his race, compared to creatures at the top of the food chain, he was still an easy prey.

"This is hard to swallow. If I faced something like this alone, I don't have enough confidence to win. I need to be more than what I am now to survive in this world," thoughts flowed through Blaco's mind as he gazed at the frozen snake.

Nixie also admired her creation of the ice sculpture. After a moment, her eyes shifted toward Blaco, who was standing nearby. She took a step forward, slowly approaching him.