The colossal serpent covered in nine colored scales had become completely motionless. The golden eyed ape had done the same. As a matter of fact, every soul beast within sight had frozen where it stood. Ancient eyes that had witnessed hundreds of thousands, and in some cases millions, of years all focused upon a single location. Their attention was locked onto the place where Alex and his group had appeared after stepping through the spatial rift.
There was no greed within those gazes. There was no desire to hunt. There was only fear.
Kremlin was the first to notice. His divine senses had been sharpened through centuries of battles and countless life and death encounters. Almost immediately, he detected a subtle change in the atmosphere. The hostile pressure that had surrounded them only moments ago was gone. The predators were no longer preparing to strike. They were waiting. Waiting to see what would happen next.
