A few minutes later, Miles walked past a faded long white line signifying that he was 500 meters away from the safe zone.
Miles immediately halted, not daring to pass this line. He was still an Awakened and not yet a super Soldier. Any ordinary Ultra beast would kill him if he went too far from the safe zone.
He planned on hunting around this area first before deciding to move forwards.
However, after an hour of search, be didn't find a single beast around the 500 meters zone.
Having no choice, he walked forwards by a hundred meters.
Along the way, he was incredibly cautious, making his movements slow but steady. But the movement of grasses was simply too obvious.
That, he couldn't hide. However, his suit had blended with the colors of the grasses, making him partially invisible.
Another few minutes later, Miles reached 700 meters. But at that moment, his spine suddenly tingled. And a sense of danger made his hair stood up on end.
Astonished, Miles raised his head upwards to inspect where from, but he saw nothing apart from a heavy shade of trees, keeping the sun rays from pierce through.
Miles blinked his eyes in confusion but then he retracted his gaze, casually moving forwards, as though nothing had happened.
He had only walked five steps forwards when his face suddenly turned fierce.
"Whoosh!"
Instantaneously, his body swayed in a strange manner and his figure seemed to blur.
In that instant, a dark blur flew past his ears with an astonishing speed that was almost comparable to that of a bullet!
If Miles hadn't performed the technique in that instant, it was unknown what would have happened.
Miles's eyes glinted with a cold light and he simultaneously sent his reached backwards with his right arm, towards the yellow flying thing that had missed him.
"Got you." he immediately grabbed the yellow blur in midair with his hand.
Miles laughed coldly, looking at the tiny little thing squirming with fear, lying between his hands.
It was a little yellow snakelike beast with a flat and streamlined body which allowed it to glide in the air for short periods of time with astonishing speed.
In school, Miles had heard about the snake before, although nothing much but he still heard bits and pieces of the information.
The Soaring Threadserpent can be a very dangerous beast in the wilderness if one knew nothing about its features and its characteristics.
But, if one was informed about it in the first place, it would be quite easy to take care of.
One of its characteristics was its speed. Its speed was definitely very fast, to a terrifying level but it can only move in a straight line on the air.
And it uses its sharp horn like tail to pierce through its opponent just like a bullet would.
A new awakened would definitely die if it encountered something like this. Although Miles was also a new awakened, he was almost on the verge of becoming a Super Soldier. He could easy dispatch a beast of such caliber.
But to an unaware seasoned Awakened, it was unknown what would happen.
Especially when bitten by it.
A Soaring Threadserpent rearly uses its mouth, releasing its toxins as it contains a very powerful toxin it had accumulated for a few decades or even centuries.
Even a Super Soldier would die upon being bitten if not treated within a few days.
Its other characteristics was that, it flies. One might be thinking so what if its flies.
But that was truly ignorant thinking because it flies backwards!
As Miles was about to get a closer look at the beast in his hands, he felt something was off as he recalled the information about the Treadsnake moreover, his instincts hasn't relaxed yet.
In that moment, he suddenly recalled the words and a single word came to Miles's mind as he shouted in his head.
'F*ck!'
His heart skipped a beat and his legs muscles tensed and inflated, almost twice its previous size as he stomped his foot and exploded backwards with a violent rush.
His right hand which had been holding on to the beast quickly released its hold. However, that wasn't enough to save him from his current predicament.
Although his speed was amazing enough to stun anyone, he wasn't faster than the snake that he had been previously holding.
Another characteristic of the Soaring Threadserpent was that, its thinnest part wasn't actually it's tail but its head instead!
Normally a snake would definitely have a slight circular shape at the end of one part and a eyes with a mouth born with it which indicated that it was the head part of its body.
But a Soaring Threadserpent was true at its deception.
Its head was cylindrical, the same as its body but only smaller which would definitely allow someone to mistake the head for the tail and its tail had the perfect contour on a snakes body with a sharp horn to boot.
With its speed, it was able to pierce its prey with ease but on the premises that it was unable to do so and its prey suddenly got a hold of it, it would definitely be surprised to realise that the head which it had caught was just it's tail.
But that simple second for it to take the prey to confirm it's conjecture was enough for the serpent to strike a deadly counter attack.
Miles had cleanly and perfectly gotten hold of the little beast but as he recalled the information regarding the beast, he was fast to make an explosive retreat.
But that wasn't enough.
The Snake's head suddenly rose like an anaconda, its speed surpassing all limits as it immediately bit at Miles's retracting neck!
It was the only vulnerable place that wasn't covered by the combat suit.
Miles's expression changed drastically and he could only watch with widened eyes as the Soaring Threadserpent bit at his neck.
He smiled bitterly and muttered to himself. "Fvck!"
"I've been careless!"