Ryan didn't say anything about this, just glanced at Anti-Venom: "Go ahead."
Having received permission, Anti-Venom excitedly made contact with Gwen's outstretched hand and seeped into her body.
Gwen's delicate body stiffened for a second, a flash of white film passed over her eyes, and then her spider suit began to change.
A white liquid substance seeped out from within her, completely covering the spider suit, and finally solidified to form a much more textured, pure white spider suit!
Even the spider emblem on her chest had turned white!
Gwen clenched her fists, jumped lightly on the spot a few times, and said softly: "My strength and speed have increased by about three times, and I can feel that I have gained an ability that can weaken most Symbiotes..."
Ryan nodded, very satisfied with this.
Spider-Man's physique is already terrifying on its own, and now that it has tripled, Gwen's strength can be said to be comparable to Hulk's!
Ryan stroked the other Gwen's head and said gently: "The abilities of the other Symbiotes here are too mediocre. I won't choose one for you yet; I'll wait until I find something better and personally pick the best one for you."
"Mm-hmm!" the Gwen from the alternate dimension nodded obediently.
After comforting the Gwen from the alternate dimension, Ryan looked at Riot and frowned: "Where are the other Symbiotes?"
Before Riot could answer, a white Symbiote head extended from the shoulder of the Gwen from this Universe.
However, compared to the hideousness of Riot and Venom, this white Symbiote looked much better.
Although it still had the iconic sharp teeth of a Symbiote, it looked quite pleasant overall and didn't seem very terrifying.
Furthermore, Anti-Venom let out a gentle female voice: "Riot probably doesn't know the current situation, because not two years after he left, a major change occurred on Klyntar. The Symbiotes, who were originally united, split into several factions, and of the original one million Symbiotes, only about half remain now..."
Hearing this, Ryan's brows furrowed even deeper.
Half are gone?
Doesn't that mean his Symbiote assets have been cut in half?
Damn!
Who did this!
"Anti-Venom, what exactly happened in the years I was gone?!" Riot's expression was also exceptionally ugly.
Don't look at Riot as a villain in the movie; in reality, it loves its kin even more than Venom does.
After arriving on Earth, it didn't just want to find a host and live comfortably like Venom; it had always been aiming to return to Klyntar, bring all its Symbiote kin to Earth, and enjoy life together!
It's just that in the end, its plan to return to the planet was ruined by that Symbiote traitor, Venom, and it died in the massive explosion of the spaceship!
If you look at it from the perspective of the Symbiotes, Venom is actually more like the big villain...
"Sigh..." Anti-Venom sighed: "This matter has to start from two years after you left. One day that year, we were patrolling Klyntar as usual, hunting the Xenophage that would appear about once a month, and the change started from that time..."
"Following our past experience, we brought enough Symbiotes to hunt down one Xenophage and surrounded a new Xenophage we had found..."
"But when we surrounded that Xenophage in a valley, another new Xenophage appeared on the retreat path we had come from. This caught us off guard; we simply couldn't contend with two Xenophages. So that time, except for me, who managed to escape by relying on my ability to restrain Symbiote organisms, all the Symbiote companions who took part in the hunt died..."
"Since then, the number of Xenophages appearing each month has almost increased exponentially, and that was when we realized there was a problem with the seal!"
"We searched the entire Klyntar and finally discovered where the problem with the seal was. It was in a deep canyon abyss where a crack of several meters had appeared!"
"We gathered the power of all one million Symbiotes, trying to block that crack, but because of various reasons, we failed in the end..."
Speaking of this, Anti-Venom paused, its expression becoming extremely complicated.
Seeing this, Riot became anxious: "What caused the failure? Just tell me, don't give me a cliffhanger at a critical moment!"
Anti-Venom calmed itself down, its eyes still faintly showing some fear and resentment: "The first reason, and also the main reason for the crack appearing, is the arrival of a person who wields the All-Black the Necrosword, calling himself the messenger of the god Knull, Gorr the God Butcher!"
"That crack was also caused by Gorr the God Butcher using the All-Black the Necrosword, and it is precisely because of this that so many Xenophages appeared!"
"However, even so, by gathering the power of our million Symbiotes and risking our lives, it wouldn't have been impossible to kill Gorr the God Butcher and reseal that crack, but the bad thing was that there was a traitor among us!"
"Some elder-level Symbiotes were bewitched by Knull and actually led a group of cowardly Symbiotes to backstab us at a critical moment. This became the straw that broke the camel's back. The battle situation reversed; we, who were originally on the offensive, began to be hunted down by the Xenophages led by Gorr the God Butcher and the traitors!"
"In that one battle alone, at least one-third of the Symbiotes died, and the surviving Symbiotes all scattered and fled during that battle. Added to the continuous hunting by the Xenophages over these past few years, my saying that half of the Symbiotes remain on Klyntar is actually a rather conservative estimate; it is highly likely that less than half remain."
"This is the major change that has occurred over the past few years..."
After listening to Anti-Venom's words, Riot fell silent, but its clenched iron fists were trembling.
It wasn't fear; it was anger, it was rage!
It was unparalleled killing intent!
Riot raised its head again, its eyes flashing with terrifying, ferocious light, and it roared to the sky: "I will kill Gorr the God Butcher and those Xenophage bastards, and I will tear apart and devour those who dared to betray us!!!"
"Gorr..."
At the same moment, on the other side of Klyntar, in a deep canyon abyss, a hoarse voice was also calling Gorr's name.
At the bottom of the valley, Gorr, wearing a white robe, covered in a white coating, and holding the All-Black the Necrosword, heard this and leaped down from the ten-meter-long crack.
It took a full tens of seconds of falling before Gorr landed, which shows how deep he had fallen.
The place Gorr arrived at was a dark space filled with an eerie atmosphere.
In this dark space, besides a pitch-black throne, there was only pitch-black matter writhing in the space.
And sitting on the throne was a tall figure with white hair, head hanging low.
"My Lord Knull, how has your recovery been?" Gorr knelt on one knee and said respectfully to the figure on the throne.
That's right, this white-haired figure on the throne was the legendary God of Symbiotes, Knull!
Knull raised his head slightly, his pair of cold eyes flashing with excited light:
"Over these years, you have continuously captured those traitors to nourish me, allowing me to recover most of my power. Now, I only need to obtain the Codex, and I will be able to walk out of this place of sealing in my prime state..."
"Originally, that Codex required a host with a Symbiote to rise from death for it to appear; this probability was astronomically low. But today, I sensed that a Symbiote has returned with its host..."
"So, Gorr, go now and kill the host of that Symbiote, then have that Symbiote resurrect him, let the Codex manifest, and I shall regain my freedom!!!"
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