The snake was in a dire situation. The revenge in its heart slightly wavered, and it lose its grip on the Blanco in its hand. At the same moment, the eagle pierced its giant beak into the snake, harming it.

The screams of the snake and eagle filled the air. The snake attempted to attack the eagle with its lethal poison, mindlessly releasing balls of poison everywhere. Some fell to the ground, some fallst into the peacefully flowing water flow, and some onto giant pillars of rock, causing them to melt slightly.

"Urgh!" Blanco cried out in pain as he fell down, surrounded by parts like scales, teeth, and finger-like pieces from the snake's body, scattered by the eagle's attack.

Among the scattered parts, Blanco noticed something strange: a pearl-like tiny ball falling among them, shining with its own luster and emitting a mysterious aura.

"A pearl of a snake?" Blanco exclaimed as he examined the pearl, Without hesitation, he opened his mouth and swallowed it.

"How could I refuse such a thing when it gives off a smell of food right inforn of my eyes,"

Within a few minutes of swallowing the pearl, Blanco lost consciousness. He fell down, landing directly among the bush field on the ground.

Nixie, her father, and the others who were freed from the snake's power rushed towards Blanco, only to find him lying silently on the ground.

In the sky, the snake fought a fierce battle against the eagle, but it realized it was slowly losing ground. It knew that once it was caught by the eagle, it would be over. The snake stopped mindlessly flinging poison balls around,

But One of the poison balls the snake had already flung out shot past the rocky terrain and landed in an area where a few giant trees were growing. One of these trees had a hollow, and at that moment, rats were going in and out of it.

Shurhs!

The ball melted through the tree branches in its path and landed directly in the hole, instantly melting the rats outside and even continuing through the hole towards the rats' den.

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In a pitch dark space, Blanco opened his eyes. He didn't feel any pain in his body, nor did he hear the sound of the forest or any other noise. It was as if his body was not with him, and he was completely in another place.

"Why am I here again?" he, who was floating aimlessly, stood up. When he did, his gaze directly landed on the fearsome skull of a human-like creature that had an extremely corrosive aura swirling around it.

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"Something strange," while observing the skull blanco noticed that the aura swirling around the skull was slowly growing. After it grew to at least three times what it previously was, it stopped.

" As I know, this skull should be the representation of my poison ability, and its growth means my ability has also grown? But how?"

At that moment, as he was doubting, he suddenly remembered the dark green orb that fell alongside him from the evolved snake and how he swallowed it.

"Is this because of it?"

To Blacnco, who was focusing his attention on the corrosive skull, there was a tiny tingling sensation fleeing from his back.

"A tickle," he looked back and saw a dark bud in the dark space. It gave the feeling that it was right at the center of the space.

"Huh!" From the dark and gloomy bud, Blanco suddenly saw a light, a tiny light with a wonderful color casting out from it. He hurriedly got closer to it and saw a tiny crack appear on the surface of the bud, and within it, this luminous shine was casting out.

"Just what is inside of this thing?" he wondered. From the crack, a few mist-like dust particles spread out, like sparkles. The specks of light roamed through the space, illuminating the area around and suddenly rushing toward Blanco. Once closer, the light began to wander around him.

When he moved, the sparkles also moved; when he stayed still, they stayed around him, sometimes coming extremely close to his face, and other times rotating in the air as if to get his attention.

"This is... Why do I get the feeling this thing is trying to play with me or something?" Blanco tried to touch it, and an illusory body of his suddenly appeared as he extended his hand.

The sparkles flew around his hand in a playful way.

"It's like a beast friend," muttered Blanco, but when mentioning about best friends, the memory of Nixie and puff with his father and mother rushed into his mind.

"I wonder what happened to them," he thought, and in the next moment, his vision went blank.

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With a slight movement, Blanco opened his heavy eyes. He felt his body, the coldness of the air, and the sound of the night. From these, he knew he was in the real world.

"Where am I? It looks like our nest," lifting up his head, he looked around. Indeed, he was in their nest. At that moment, the drakness of the nest was illuminated by the brightly glowing creatures that were flying around, some even landing on Blanco, resting themselves.

All around Blanco, the frost-makers were lying on the floor, deep in sleep. They gathered in groups, crawling close to each other. His father slept closer to the exit door, while his mother, who was in another hey bed, slept separately from the others.

And at that moment, Blanco was lying on the other hay bed alone, the only one in it, usually most of the frost-makers tried to sleep in this hay bed because its comfort was much better than the hard floor.

But this time, no one except him was in the bed.

"Looks like everyone is safe, even him," muttered Blanco, looking at Puff who was lying closer to the hay bed on the floor.

"Seems I lost consciousness after eating that thing, or maybe from falling from that height. Man, losing consciousness is getting out of hand."

In the corner of the nest, where the other hay nest is, the mother creature's eyes slightly opened. They directed toward the other hay bed where Blanco was lying, and they caught a slight movement from his body.

Her eyes immediately opened. Getting up, she rushed toward Blanco. Blanco noticed her movement and looked toward her.

As she got closer, she stuck out her tongue and licked Blanco's face and body. He felt warmth, from outside and even from within.