After getting familiar with his environment max started heading north as aryar advised him to, he saw different species of birds and smaller animals who bolted at the sight of him, most of them were completely foreign to him he had never seen them on the blue planet.
But the one thing he confirmed that the these animals were mostly larger than the animals back on earth he once saw a bee the size of a finger buzzing by and an eagle twice the size a normal eagle this made him more cautious of this new world.
He kept walking until it was getting past midday, he would rest a bit when he got tired and keep walking after a simple meal.
Max kept walking till suddenly he felt the surrounding forest had become quiet. It somehow frightened him, he felt like something or someone was watching him, ever since he was a kid he had always been sensitive of his environment and he always trusted in his intuition.
There was also this kind of pressure bearing down on him and adding the fact that he felt eyes on himself he started to sweat.This made him tighten his grip on the crossbow he was carrying, he was carrying the crossbow instead of the gun because a gun was too loud in a forest and might draw unnecessary attention.
Suddenly max caught the shadow of something fast lunging towards him from the right and he immediately rolled backwards without hesitation and pointed his crossbow to what it was only to see the shadow withdraw as quickly as it came he followed it only to turn pale with fright at the sight that greeted him.
On a large branch above him a large snake was currently looking at him with fist sized eyes and a forked tongue that flicked at him as if to savor his taste and smell.The serpent was about 8 meters long and and was green with occasional brown stripes across it's back,it was as it's width was about an adult man's waist and it's face looked hideous.
But observing carefully max found out that the snake was injured it because it wounds all over it's serpentine body and even a long deep gash across its neck almost reaching its eyes.
But even with the injuries it had max wished he could get as fast away as he can from it, this wasn't a joke he was just a normal civilian,a student and the martial arts and weapons he did not promise him the slightest security and comfort.
His girp on the the crossbow tightened more and he was ready to pull his shotgun any moment from his system storage he would much prefer not to provoke this snake if had the chance.
"I say big brother, can we both pretend to never have seen each other and go our separate ways". max asked aloud but it was no use as the creature was uncoiling itself away from the branch it was coiled around slowly making itself towards him.
Aryar soon provided him with information about the snake as it had seen a lot of creatures in the multiverse and was able to analyze it even when it was not in it's full strength.
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Green vine python
STRENGTH: 332(110)
AGILITY: 410(140)
STAMINA: 345(70)
SKILLS: Tail whip,acid spray,bite
A python known for it's for it's deadly ambushes and fearsome agility.
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Even with it's injuries this python was stronger in all aspects than him, this made max more cautious especially with it's agility which was more than twice his making him unable to react.
As the snake slithered towards him max pulled more distance between them took aim with the crossbow and targeted the exposed injuries of the snake. He let fly an arrow which flew with precision and embedded itself into an injury around it's neck.
The snake hissed in pain and and increased it's speed, as max was reloading the crossbow the python lunged at him and he had no choice but to stop and roll to his before standing up with his back to a tree watching the vine python as it's raised it's head waiting for another opportunity to lunge at him.
He had seen one it's skills as bite and he knew it was no average bite looking at it's massive maw he knew that the moment he got himself into that maw he would be in trouble.
As for escaping it wasn't like he had not thought about it but he would be a retard if he exposed his back to a creature that had more than twice his speed and was familiar with the environment.He might be scared but he wasn't stupid.
After taking advantage of his terrain and firing more than three bolts without seeing any immediate effects he started to think fast.
"No I can't go on like this!,the crossbow is too slow and this bastard is too large without dealing large damage I'll lose in stamina and die. Seems like I still have to use the shotgun".after gritting his teeth max took the shotgun from Aryas space.
Taking aim he fired at the python's head the creature sensing danger tried to dodge but it was to late even though it avoided death it was still hit and got blinded in one eye and started trashing around whiles hissing.
Max soon became exited he had already noticed that the python had incredible hard scales and even the crossbow could only deal some superficial injuries with did not deal any serious injuries to the python.
The python also seeing the threat the new weapon posed became more cautious and made use of it's agility trying to get close to him as much as possible.
Max made use of the forest making use of the trees to dodge whenever the snake lunged at him whiles he continued to deal damage with the gun,because he had practiced some martial arts he was able to deal with the python not giving it much chance to approach him whiles trying his best to finish it soon as he could feel himself getting slower because of the maneuvers he was making.
As a person weak in close combat the worst thing that could happen was to let a creature good in close combat to get near him,that would be courting death and he wouldn't even know how he died.
The snake also continued accumulating injuries as the fight prolonged it suddenly poised backwards and some green liquid shot out of it's mouth heading for him at a fast speed.
Max didn't hesitate to lean to his left almost falling down as a result, he had never been in combat before so his moves were all awkward and slow.
Looking where the liquid had fallen he the tree behind him corroding and remembered it had a skill like that.
He turned back towards the python only to be met with a tail whip coming from his left which sent him flying.
At that moment max felt like he had been hit by a truck, the pain was so intense that he couldn't scream he felt like all his left ribs were broken and couldn't move much from where he had fallen.
The snake to lost some some of the luster it had in it's eyes and looked more tired nevertheless it's slithered towards him eager to eat the foolish creature that dared to fight against it. It could have avoided the fight but as the territorial leader here how could it back down from a fight?.
Max could only look on in horror as the snake approached him,his shotgun was beyond arms reach and he couldn't reach it, the crossbow to was unloaded and was of no use in this situation.
He really felt screwed now.