“Hiss—” Gale flicked his tongue.
Then, with a flick of his tail, his serpentine body shot out, pouncing toward the Rat King amidst the swarm of White Rats.
Adhering to the principle of striking first to gain the upper hand.
Facing the massive swarm of rats before him, Gale felt no fear; instead, he took the initiative to lunge at the Rat King.
Gale’s speed was incredibly fast.
At full burst, he was almost a blur to the rats; in the blink of an eye, his frame had already appeared before them.
An invisible, terrifyingly savage Aura, like that of a prehistoric beast, instantly erupted from Gale’s body.
Struck by this sudden burst of Aura, many White Rats collapsed to the ground, their bodies weak and limp as they stared at Gale with eyes full of terror.
Even the Rat King at the center of the swarm felt its limbs go weak and its heart tremble, unable to stop the primal fear of facing a natural predator from welling up.
To rats, snakes are undoubtedly natural enemies.
This was a fear born of Bloodline suppression, forged by the food chain over eons and practically etched into their genes.
Especially when there was such a massive disparity in size.
Although these White Rats were much larger than ordinary rats, with the Rat King measuring half a meter long excluding its tail.
But Gale’s size was also far from that of an ordinary snake.
A serpentine body a full 3.7 meters long.
To this swarm of White Rats, Gale was still an insurmountable juggernaut.
Regret instantly flooded the Rat King’s heart.
It had originally thought that despite Gale’s size, its numerous subordinates could bite him to death if each took just one nip.
But looking at its subordinates now, collapsed on the ground from the mere pressure of Gale’s Aura.
The Rat King realized it had oversimplified everything.
It had overlooked one thing.
That was Gale’s Bloodline suppression over them.
But the Rat King knew it had to force its swarm to fight and resist Gale together right now, or it would surely die.
Because Gale was already charging straight toward it.
It seemed slow in description, but it happened in an instant.
Everything occurred in the blink of an eye.
“Squeak!” The Rat King let out a forceful squeak to the swarm, commanding them all to attack Gale.
This squeak from the Rat King snapped the swarm out of their terror.
Though still terrified of Gale, many White Rats obeyed the Rat King’s command and lunged at him.
Facing the charging White Rats, Gale’s forward-moving body suddenly spun into a tail whip.
His purple tail swung with a roar, slamming into the White Rats leaping toward him.
In that single instant of the tail strike.
Over a dozen White Rats in the front were swept away by Gale’s tail, sent flying through the air.
These dozen or so rats crashed heavily into the ones charging behind them.
In an instant, the swarm charging at Gale was knocked over in droves by a single tail swipe.
Specifically, the dozen or so rats directly hit by Gale’s tail died instantly, while many of those they crashed into were severely injured.
This tail swipe was one of the attack techniques Gale had specifically trained during this period.
Generally speaking, a snake’s primary methods of attack are constriction and biting.
But as a transmigrator with human intelligence, Gale’s methods of attack were naturally not limited to just those.
Rationally developing more ways to use his body as a weapon would provide greater security for his survival in this world.
After knocking back the charging swarm with his tail.
Gale charged at the Rat King once more.
Gale’s goal was clear.
To capture the bandits, first capture their leader!
Seeing this, the Rat King was scared out of its wits.
With no courage left to face Gale, it turned to flee.
However, the Rat King had clearly grown accustomed to a life of luxury; it was so fat that its running speed was slow, even compared to the ordinary rats in the swarm.
Gale caught up and delivered another tail swipe to the Rat King.
The Rat King’s body was sent flying over ten meters, slamming heavily against the stone wall.
*Thud—* *Crack!* Instantly, the loud sound of the impact was accompanied by the sound of breaking bones.
The Rat King’s bones, including its spine, snapped from the impact; its body fell to the ground and began to twitch violently.
It clearly wasn’t going to survive.
Seeing this, Gale immediately ignored the Rat King and set his sights on the other White Rats.
These were all food and evolution progress.
Finally.
After nearly half an hour.
This battle between snake and rats finally came to an end.
However, the result was completely one-sided.
Gale had killed more than half of the White Rat swarm, including the Rat King—ninety-seven in total.
The remaining rats were scared witless and fled into holes; they likely wouldn’t dare return to this Karst Cave ever again.
“With so many White Rats, my progress value should increase by at least ten percent.” Looking at the final results, Gale’s heart burned with anticipation.
Through his growth during this period, Gale had discovered something.
As his evolution progress and body grew, the requirements for further evolution also increased.
For example, in the beginning, eating one small mouse increased his evolution progress by one percent, but now, eating ten such mice might not even yield a single percent.
It was just like leveling up a character in a game; as the Rank increases, the experience points required for a Breakthrough also increase.
However, there were ninety-seven White Rats here, and even the smallest among them was a large rat weighing at least three or four catties.
If he swallowed and digested all these White Rats, Gale felt it shouldn’t be difficult to increase his evolution progress by ten percent.
After finding a relatively comfortable and safe spot in the Karst Cave.
Gale began to devour the White Rats.
With so many rats, Gale certainly couldn’t finish them all at once and had to do it in batches.
He started with the Rat King.
After swallowing the Rat King, Gale felt his stomach was completely full.
Then he began to sleep to digest it.
[Ding!
You have successfully devoured and digested the Mutated Rat King.
evolution progress increased by 3%.] “Three percent!” Gale was pleasantly surprised; he hadn’t expected this single Rat King to increase his evolution progress by ten percent.
As a result, Gale’s size grew by another 0.3 meters.
Afterward, Gale began to devour the other White Rats.
And so it went.
Gale began a cycle of eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating in the Karst Cave.
Repeating this cycle over and over.
In the end, Gale himself didn’t know how long he had stayed in the Karst Cave.
But once Gale had finally devoured and digested all the White Rats.
Gale’s size had grown to 5.3 meters.
Several layers of shed snake skin lay beside him.
A body length of 5.3 meters.
Gale felt that even on Skull Island, he could no longer be considered at the absolute bottom of the food chain.
He was still far from the top of the food chain.
He certainly wasn’t at the higher levels either.
But the middle of the food chain?
Gale felt he had likely reached that level, escaping the very bottom of King Kong’s Skull Island.
Looking at Gale’s basic information now: —— Name: Gale; Species: Purple-striped Snake [5.3m]; Ability: Devour; life level: Ordinary Creature; evolution progress: 43% [57% remaining until the next life level evolution].