269 Pair of eyes (1/2)

Every primate, no matter where they were in the vicinity looked at the situation in front of them. They hadseen a lot of things when they moved to this world, even sometime before. But never anything like this.

The forest of vines were thinning, the thick canopy that could completely block out the light of the sun were shifting, ever so slowly. But their destination was clear.

A single pod had emerged in the middle sector. One which none of them could ignore. Mostly because of it's size. And secondly because the pod was turning a color they had seen only once before.

The cocoon of vines were frosting over, looking like it had become encased in a layer of crystal while the vines inside turned transparent. Their leader had gone through the same process before coming out a whole different being altogether.

But it didn't turn up as big as this. Even as the cocoon was changing, the vines continued to come together and wrap it, constantly adding more layers to it. For once, all of them had to stop fighting.

With the thing that had been keeping them alive thinning so heavily, if they got injured there might not be enough to wrap around them. At this point, it had grown big enough to cover a whole house, and the vines had steadily continued to wrap themselves around it with no signs of slowing down.

The thing began to radiate an ephemeral aurora, basking the surrounding spectators in a warm bluish glow. Every body the light washed over seemed to be rejuvenated. In everyone's eyes the form of the creature in the silhouette shifted, the slight pulsing of a heartbeat echoed through every inch of the area.

Many of them had wanted this phenomenon to happen to them. It wasn't like humans where they craved power. But beasts strive towards their survival, and besides everything else, power was the easiest way to maintain that. Their constant battle and reentry into those cocoons was because their current leader had gone through the process in such a way when he was gravely injured.

And if size was any indication for things to come, then they would have something else on their hands. Their current leader's crystal cocoon didn't even reach half the size of this, and when he came out, no one was his match even on his worst day.

Inside Zhao Wei was completely unconscious, he could not feel the changes that were affecting him. For all he knew, after his last injury he was sent up and was in another normal cocoon. The effects he had on the outside were the least of his concerns right now as something else had come into play.

[....Energy levels self fulfilled...

Forcefully rebooting functions... Advancement path map...