Blanco noticed the movement of Nixie. He looked at her,he knew that if she hadn't acted according to the order he gave, he definitely wouldn't have been able to beat the snake.

"Hmm."

At that moment, Blanco felt a slippery sensation under his paws. Looking down, he saw that the water was flowing upon the icy layer bit by bit. He hurriedly looked toward the ice sculpture of the snake. The water flowing down fell past it, breaking some of the sides and melting them.

"Ice is... melting. I knew this isn't permanent, but to think it would be this soon. We have to get out of here quickly," Blanco urgently prepared to run away, giving Nixie orders to do the same. But at that moment, he saw the father and other frost makers rushing towards them quickly from afar.

"They heads straight into the danger," Blanco tried to send a thought to the father from his mind, but unfortunately he failed.

"Seems there's a limit to this ability."

Crack!

Blanco, who was in the momentum of rushing towards his father and others, suddenly stopped as he heard a sound from the ice crystal. He looked at it, toward the snake frozen in the center of it.

It didn't move, nor did it seem to be alive, but looking at its fearsome appearance still filled Blanco with fear in his heart.

But suddenly, Blaco's fur stood on end as he saw the eyes of the snake move slowly, turning toward him.

The gaze alone made Blaco weak in his paws.

The snake's eyes were bloodshot, and a series of memories rang in its mind. It was born with its siblings, tiny and weak, just like Blanco. Their mother, alone at the moment of their birth, struggled to feed them, becoming increasingly weak since their birth.

One day, their mother didn't return to the den with food at the usual time. The little snakes didn't notice anything unusual at first. When their mother didn't return, what arrived instead was a herd of rats with sharp teeth. They rushed into their den and began attacking each and every one of its brothers and sisters.

Alone, it tried to fight but was powerless. In the end, it chose to run away. Amidst the screams of its kin, it fled towards the den's exit and jumped out, unnoticed. That's what it thought, but once outside, it saw the corpse of its own mother being eaten by the rats. Its mother was still slightly alive, her eyes gazing helplessly at it.

The thought of running vanished from the little snake's mind, replaced by bottomless anger toward the puny and sly creatures that slaughtered its family.

After that even tho it manage to flee from there the hetrad in his hart never left him alone, It made him killed every lowly creature it met with rage. Up until now, it had been successful, but now it faced these puny creatures that were trying to kill it, just like they had done to its mother and siblings when it was young.

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The snake's eyes were bloodshot. It didn't want things to end this way; it wanted the opposite. It didn't want to end up like its mother and siblings until It successfully found those rats and slaughtered each and every one of them.

The snake's body began to leak poison again, encasing itself in a poison cocoon, melting the ice that surrounded it.

Boom!

Within moments, the ice shattered, and the poison cocoon appeared free. Blanco quickly jumped back, while Nixie and the others who were running towards it suddenly stopped in shock.

"It can't be—an evolution at a time like this. If it succeeds, a small group like ours can't stop this thing. We have to hurry and run!"

Blanco tried to run, but a wave of poison and air spread from the evolving creature, signaling the completion of its evolution. The atmosphere around them shifted, both threatening and conveying a message to others.

"Khaa!"

The poison cocoon cracked open, revealing a creature with an upper body resembling a human and a lower body like that of a giant snake, emerging from within.

"Kha-kha-kh," a shallow voice akin to a mocking laugh erupted from its mouth, its eyes fixed on the sky, brilliant and bright, basking in the sun's radiant glow. Its skin shimmered.

Blaco was mesmerized by its beauty, lost in its allure until suddenly snapping back to reality, regaining composure.

"Shit, a hypnotic effect," he looked at Nixe, then at his father and others, all transfixed by the evolved snake creatures with soulless gazes.

The creature, still gazing at the sky, lifted its hand, pointing a sharp finger toward Blacnco.

Suddenly, Blany felt a weight upon his body, his limbs growing weaker. "What kind of ability is this? How can one evolution make such a difference in power?"

Blanco noticed Nixie and his father growing weaker, yet they remained mindlessly fixated on the creature, oblivious to their surroundings.

"Not good. Without even moving, it's managed to bring us all to death's door. Others are still under the hypnosis effect, not even responding to there weaknesses, which clearly means I'm the one who has to take action."

"Ugh" Blanco stood up, his legs trembling with effort. The markings on his body began to glow, and suddenly, he surged forward with a leap towards the snake creatures.

"Overgrown snake bastard, stay back from me!"

Blanco looked for weaknesses in the snake's icy veins. If he could dislodge it from the layer of ice, it might fall back into the water—a risky but hopeful strategy.

The snake turned its gaze from the sky, its attention now fixed on Blanco. Its hand darted out, grabbing him instantly.

"Urgh!" The pain Blanco felt from the snake's grip was excruciating; its poisonous aura was easily seething around him, even causing his white fur to turn gray.

Through half-closed eyes, Nixie glimpsed Blanco being ensnared by the snake. Whne she witnessed it her mind suddnely became clerk with one though, She tried to run towards him, but her weakness overwhelmed her. She conjured a small spark and blasted it towards the snake.,

But the ice park of her is not as strong as before, it landed on a nearby pillar of rock, missing its target.

The snake paid no attention to what Nixie was doing. It pointed one of its sharp, nail-like fingers toward Blaco's neck as it held him suspended. The snake wore a smile, savoring every bit of the moment.

"I'm... going to die," a fear of death slowly approached Blaco.

Swish!

But at that moment, Blaco heard a familiar sound from the sky.

Kweeek!

A giant eagle-like bird suddenly descended from above, its talons like knives piercing into the snake. It flapped its wings forcefully, lifting the snake into the sky.

Shhh!

The snake struggled, attempting to break free from the eagle's grasp, but despite its efforts, his attack and abilities showed no sign of harm aginst the giantic bird.