The monster let out a loud screech.
A ntal pulse shot into Naless Death's mind.
The ntal attack didn't hurt him at all, but it served its purpose as a distraction.
In that split second, where Naless Death was distracted, the monster pulled its World back into its Core and turned to run.
"Did it just… run away?"
Naless Death stood frozen for a heartbeat.
He 'stared' ahead, watching the creature disappear into the trees with wild speed.
He didn't rember ever seeing a God flee, though to be fair, he didn't rember much at all.
But it revealed sothing.
The monsters here may have reached divine levels of strength, but they were still monsters that followed instincts.
They acted like beasts, and ran away when they encountered soone strong.
Naless Death chased the monster.
Gap Movent allowed him to enter Pseudo Gap and covered thousands of miles with a singe step.
His body vanished and reappeared, again and again, chasing after the fleeing monster.
His use of Ti Dilation made his senses stretch the world longer with each movent, allowing him to track it more clearly.
He was slower than the monste, since it was also using Ti Dilation to escape, but he didn't need to catch the monster directly.
He only needed it within range.
Ragnarok Exhalation Dragon Breath
A thick stream of purple flas erupted from his mouth, blazing forward and swallowing the monster's escape path.
The trees caught fire, the sky above twisted under the oppressive heat, and the ground cracked beneath the shockwave.
The monster screeched as the flas licked across its back, searing its skin.
It didn't stop running, but the damage slowed it.
Naless Death kept using Gap Movent, weaving between the trees and debris, continuing his pursuit.
The monster zigzagged, leaped over mountain valleys, and smashed through stone cliffs.
It even unleashed a barrage of ti-slowing pulses to create distance, but Naless Death closed in steadily.
And then… the distance vanished.
Naless Death appeared above the monster.
He used Abyss Mirror and summoned the Death Sword stored within it.
The black blade pierced downward, faster than the monster could react.
It stabbed through its back, tearing through its soul and slicing its Core.
The monster twisted, trying to use Ti Dilation to slow the attack, but it was too late.
A single, silent second passed.
Then the monster's body collapsed, lifeless.
Naless Death didn't waste ti. He knelt beside the corpse, and called upon Darkness.
The monster's head was the first to be devoured, along with a portion of its soul.
Naless Death devoured only parts where the mories were stored.
He didn't know how he knew such information that soone should only know after devouring billions, perhaps trillions, but he didn't complain either.
Flashes of images poured into his mind.
A young creature crawling on a quiet planet… training, evolving, hunting… eventually reaching the Site–
"What the fuck are these mories?" Naless Death stopped the mories.
He waved them off like smoke.
"I don't give a fuck about your upbringing. Show the important parts."
The mory flow obeyed.
The pointless childhood sequences vanished.
The scenes jumped ahead, focusing on the monster's exploration of this Site, its hunts, and its encounters.
Information began forming clearly in Naless Death's mind.
"So this jungle is called the Jungle of Red Silence."
He muttered to himself as more mories unfolded.
"Right now, I'm in the outer ring of the jungle. The ants live at the border of outer and inner ring of jungle."
Apparently, the closer to one was to the central ring, the stronger monsters one could encounter.
It seed the central ring has so kind of precious resource that allowed these monsters to grow stronger, and thus the stronger were located near the central ring of the jungle.
The outer ring where Naless Death was the ho of 'weak' monsters.
These monsters were at the bottom of food chain.
Generally, their rank world be Stage-4 Grade 5, Level 1 to Level 2.
Levels were sub-ranks of a Grade that began from Stage-4.
Each Stage had five Grades, and each Grade had ten Levels.
Even two beings at the sa Stage and Grade could have a massive power difference depending on their Level.
The one he had just killed? It was Stage-4, Grade 5, Level 1, and among Level 1 monsters, it was average at best.
And the ants that were the target of the Quest?
"All of them are at least Level 1. The strongest among them is Level 3."
Naless Death slowly exhaled.
"I'm supposed to kill thousands of these ants, and reach and kill their Queen."
The monsters were in constant territorial war so it was common for them to kill each other.
The stronger monsters would move closer to central ring while the weaker ones will be pushed to the outer ring.
The competition was so harsh that only God monsters survived in the forest.
"I need to get stronger fast if I want to live here, and escape this damned place."
He stood over the corpse of the monster.
The devouring process had ended. Now ca the tricky part.
"What should I take?"
Stage-4 monsters were too strong for him to consu fully.
His existence was currently Pseudo Stage-4, and he couldn't devour the entire corpse to take everything it had.
"I need to choose what to keep and what to discard," he muttered.
He hated the idea of discarding anything.
Right now, he needed strength. Every scrap of it.
He was going to fight thousands of ants, all of them as strong as, if not stronger, than the monster he just killed.
He stared at the corpse for several seconds, grinding his teeth.
Finally, he made a decision.
"I guess there's only one choice," he said. "I'll corrupt my Darkness Seed."
He raised his hand. Purple energy swirled over his palm.
"Let's use Void.
"I'll create a new Divinity. If this works, my Darkness should evolve, and theoratically it should gain gain the ability to devour existence of others and use it to boost my existence, just like how I devour their Concepts and techniques."
Right now, Darkness couldn't devour existence.
It wasn't his limitation, but rather the way the elent worked.
It could devour energy, mories, life, but not existence.
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