"He is the savior who came to rescue our Symbiote race from suffering!"
Riot enjoyed the worshipful gazes of the Symbiotes for only two seconds before immediately gesturing toward Ryan and the two others who were watching the scene from afar.
The Symbiotes only then realized that there were three humans watching the show in the distance.
"Be respectful to my Master and Mistresses later. If any of you are chosen by the two Mistresses, you will be set for life and reach the pinnacle of Symbiote existence, understand?"
Riot approached the group of Symbiotes and furtively whispered a reminder.
The white Symbiote leading them 'stared' at it, speechless, and said: "This is the decent job you were talking about? Are you really Riot, and not Venom?"
"Your personality wasn't like this before. You never used to call anyone Master. Didn't you always claim that in the parasitic relationship between Symbiote and host, the Symbiote is the controller, and the host is just a walking shell?"
Upon hearing this, Riot was shocked: "Shhh! Anti-Venom, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't just say whatever you want! Be careful or I'll sue you for slander! You are slandering me!"
"The past is the past, and now is now. How can you compare the past to the present?!"
"Times have changed! This is the golden age of my Master, Ryan Parker, do you understand?!"
At this moment, Riot finally understood what it meant to have the hairs on the back of its neck stand up!
Anti-Venom's words had left it sweating profusely!
It glanced back at Ryan in the distance and happened to see him smiling at it in an inexplicable way.
It was as if he were saying, "Oh, so this is the kind of Riot you are!"
Riot didn't dare to chat with these Symbiotes any longer.
It was afraid they would spill more of its dark secrets.
And it was even more afraid that Ryan would think it was planning to rebel!
It hurriedly led all the Symbiotes to 'meet' Ryan.
Looking at the massive, surging crowd of thousands of liquid Symbiotes, Ryan was very satisfied.
With these thousands, it was no exaggeration to say that he could form a Symbiote army capable of sweeping across Earth!
Although, with his strength, if he really wanted to conquer Earth, he wouldn't need such trouble at all.
"Master, these are the Symbiotes that were just being chased by the Xenophage. Now, they are all willing to follow you!"
Riot approached Ryan with a sycophantic expression.
Then it turned to look at the Symbiotes, changing its expression in an instant, and said majestically: "Right?!"
"Yes, yes, yes!"
The Symbiotes, who had just been shocked by Riot's power, didn't dare to say otherwise and hurriedly nodded in agreement.
Moreover, they really wanted to be like Riot—to escape Klyntar, parasitize a perfect host, and become as powerful as Riot!
They could sense the parasitic relationship between Riot and Ryan, so none of them dared to target the most tempting one, Ryan. Instead, they all set their sights on the two Gwens who didn't have Symbiotes.
However, they didn't dare to move forward recklessly; they just watched eagerly, waiting to be chosen.
Ryan swept a glance over the Symbiotes and said calmly: "Those with special abilities, speak up about your special abilities now."
Apart from primitive species like Venom, in reality, many Symbiotes that propagated later possessed their own special abilities in addition to basic Symbiote capabilities.
For example, Riot's Weapon Master ability, which allows it to transform into various weapons.
So, upon hearing Ryan's words, nearly half of the thousands of Symbiotes began to chatter about their abilities all at once!
Ryan didn't interrupt this chaotic scene of self-introductions.
With his hearing, vision, and brain's computational power, even if thousands of mouths spoke at once, Ryan could clearly distinguish who was saying what.
However, although there were many Symbiotes, most of them had trashy special abilities.
For instance, skin petrification; Ryan certainly didn't want his girlfriend to turn into a stone person...
Or secreting corrosive liquid—that was too disgusting, and Ryan didn't want Gwen to turn into a venomous spider that spat acid...
And things like giantization, turning into a muscular amazon woman or something—that was even less worth mentioning...
Until Ryan heard one name.
'Anti-Venom!'
Ryan raised his hand, and the sycophantic Riot understood instantly, roaring: "Everyone shut up first!"
In the next second, all the special language emitted by the Symbiotes ceased.
"You, come here and tell me about your ability again." Ryan pointed to the white Symbiote and said with great interest.
The white Symbiote stepped forward, arrived in front of Ryan, and repeated: "My name is Anti-Venom. In fact, my special ability only works on specific targets, that is... my own kind..."
As it said this, the white Symbiote named Anti-Venom couldn't help but feel a bit awkward.
After all, its special ability had too many limitations, and compared to other kin, it actually had no advantage.
"No need to be embarrassed, continue." But Ryan didn't mind; instead, he was even more certain that this guy was the Anti-Venom from his memories!
Anti-Venom continued: "My special ability is the ability to produce an anti-matter that targets Symbiotes. Any Symbiote I touch or attack will have its abilities weakened, or even temporarily lose them. It is precisely because of this ability that I became the new Symbiote leader after Riot, leading a portion of the Symbiotes to escape from Xenophage chases several times. I just didn't expect to encounter so many this time..."
Upon hearing this, the corners of Ryan's mouth curled into a smile: "Interesting, is this the diversity of the Universe?"
One must know that in the comics, Anti-Venom is actually one of Venom's offspring.
But in this Universe, it was a Symbiote that already existed on the Symbiote Planet.
Or rather, had Venom already given birth to Anti-Venom on Klyntar?
In any case, no matter how you put it, Anti-Venom was a Symbiote well worth getting his hands on!
Especially since he intended to control all the Symbiotes!
Controlling Anti-Venom was even more crucial!
Ryan looked at the two Gwens who couldn't understand the Symbiotes' language and smiled: "This white Symbiote is not bad. Although its special ability doesn't add much to your strength—only increasing base Symbiote stats—it is very important for me to manage the other Symbiotes. Who wants it?"
Upon hearing this, both Gwens raised their hands without hesitation.
They understood what Ryan meant: possessing this Symbiote was equivalent to taking on the heavy responsibility of managing all the Symbiotes for Ryan!
And both of them were willing to shoulder this responsibility for Ryan!
The Gwen from the alternate dimension looked at the Gwen from this Universe and finally lowered her hand.
After all, the main Universe Gwen was the true Mistress, and for her, as a newcomer, to compete for it would be too tactless.
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