The smoke, thick and dark, climbed towards the sky as the flames began to slowly settle. Ryan stood and watched as the ape turned to ash. In that moment, he felt something, a feeling he had never felt before, not even when he came to this world.
His drive, the reason he did everything he did, had simply been for revenge alone. However, as he watched the burning corpse of the ape, something stirred within him—a clawing need for more, for even greater power.
"This place will be flooding with beasts soon," Grant walked over to his kill, pushing his hand through the already impaled chest of the ape and pulling out the core. "You also were kind enough to create this cloud of smoke, giving them our exact location."
