Meeting her again

Zynx clone appeared at the teleportation circle at top of the mountain.

He looked around to see if it was around but could not see anyone.

Although it was not around, he continued walking stealthily.

According to the wizard, the direction of his village was eastward, so he moved toward the east.

After walking 100 m, he sensed someone at the edge of his spiritual sense range.

It was at his path, so he wanted to see what type of monster was it.

Zynx carefully approached it and saw stalker wolf from before, lying down and staring at the spot, from where he disappeared.

His spiritual sense range was only 120 m, so he could not sense it before.

Zynx realized if he had not used stealth before teleporting, then he would have wasted another token.

He bypassed it and began to search for a type of monster around him.

…

After 3 hours of exploring, he had noticed the various type of monster.

Most of them were a mortal realm monster like rat and wolf and only little of them were in the earth realm.

And even those earth realm monsters were just at the level-1.

'So my encounter with stalking monster is just my bad luck.'

Zynx wanted to teleport his main body, but before that, he wanted to check whether wolf from before was still there.

…

Using stealth, real Zynx teleported as he knew Stalker wolf was still there.

He carefully bypassed it and arrived at the location of his clone which was still in human form.

From Mia, he understood that his clone would not be affected by the time limit of transformation skill.

If he created a clone in his human form, then it would permanently remain human until he canceled it.

After meeting up with his clone, he and his clone moved together in search of prey.

Zynx neither cancel his clone nor summon it into snake form.

Although its power was only 12 % of his, it could act another eye of Zynx.

And another reason was that his human transformation was limited and had almost reached today limit, so his clone had to act like one if he was to encounter human.

…

Thanks to his skill, 'Spiritual sense' Zynx could easily found out the location of the monster so his hunting became easy.

Mortal monster preferred grouping together, so he would only target group of them.

All he needed to do was guessed their path using spiritual sense, wait at the suitable location and ambush them with clone and poison spirit.

A number of the monster in each group was more than 20; therefore his target was quantity over quality.

2 hours later,

Level: 4/10 (10%)

[Ancient bloodline (Blue crystal) = level 3(22.25%)]

According to his estimation, if he was to follow the same pattern as this, then within another day, he would level up.

He was trying to sense the surrounding monster when he suddenly heard the notification from Mia.

[Digestion complete]

[Ancient bloodline (Blue crystal) = level 5(75%)]

[Your poison has obtained a new function.]

[Different from before your poison can affect the soul of the victim.]

[You have obtained new skill 'Control (Poison)'.]

[Control (Poison): You can control the attributes of your poison.]

"What does that mean?"

[Your poison contains attributes like paralyzing, slowing and corroding.]

[With this skill, you can control which attribute to use.]

"You mean to say I can use unlimited paralyzing poison, slowing poison and corroding poison."

[Yes, but not completely right.]

[In a simple sense, you can turn on/off the attributes already present in your poison.]

"Huh, does that mean if I cancel all the attribute of my poison, then in the eye of other it will become water?"

[Yes]

…

While searching for monster Zynx chanced upon the mysterious lake surrounded by greenery, the water of the lake was crystal clear but there was no creature inside it.

Even with his spiritual sense, he could not sense anything.

He approached it and touched the water and found out; it contained poison that should be why others repelled it.

This was the first source of water, he had encountered after coming to this world.

His body got cleansed when he went through the process of evolution and after that, there was no way to clean it, so he said,

"Should I take a bath?"

[Yeah, you should just look at your body.]

Zynx looked down his body; it was covered in dust and blood of the monster.

There were only 10 minutes left till his transformation cooldown reset and after that, it would go back to 1 hour and 30 minutes, so Zynx transformed into a human.

Snake could not wear human clothes, therefore, each time when he transformed into a snake from human, he would put his clothes inside the void stomach.

So right now he was in his birthday suit.

Zynx canceled his clone and jump inside the lake.

In just a minute, he was finished with his cleaning but decided to enjoy buoyancy of water for some time.

After some time, he heard the movement from behind him, so he looked at that direction.

His 'Spiritual sense' was 1 km and according to this there should not be any creature inside his range, but he was sure, it was a living creature as he could recognize its foot, stepping on the fallen leaves.

He didn't have enough time to run on the land, and swimming in the lake could cause a ripple on it, so he dived inside the lake and used stealth, completely erasing his presence.

Because Zynx was not causing any movement, the lake started to become tranquil.

…

5 second later, he saw the female walking toward the lake.

Her face was covered in black so Zynx could not make out her face, but when he saw the emerald color hair and silver knight armor, he recognized who it was.

'Sigh, I have never expected to meet her again.'