It was as if … this was how these creatures were.
They had been born a long time ago. Of course, like most creatures, they did not know the reason for their birth … they only knew that they needed to survive.
This was a huge creature with a complete and long life history.
Although they were called floating island hosts, the ones that could live in dreamrocks and live in them were only 'juveniles'.
Adult floating island hosts were very few in number. Perhaps one could travel through countless galaxies and only encounter one.
This was the only one Lin had encountered …
This creature had lived here for a long time and Lin had a very detailed understanding of its life history.
Just like the other Floating Island Hosts that Lin knew of, it was born from a meteorite, and that meteorite … was actually an 'egg'.
In the beginning, it would be launched from its mother's location and slowly fly through the void. This process would last for a very long time.
Perhaps it would be very short, because the purpose of flying was to find a suitable target. Any place with elements of dreamrock, such as a Tumbler, a meteorite area, or an area with a large number of floating rocks like the Land of God, would be their target.
In its infancy, this was how the hosts were launched to find these targets. Then, they would live there and grow …
During this period, they would encounter many dangers. Many hosts did not find their targets and were destroyed because of the dangers.
However, they would not truly die. The dreamrock energy in their bodies would act as their 'thoughts'. They would always be connected to their 'mother'.
If the dreamrock they were living in was completely destroyed … The host's thoughts would return to the place where it was born. Then, its mother would create a new meteorite for it and launch it again.
However, some hosts would encounter dangers that would destroy the energy in their bodies as well. However, these situations were relatively rare. Thus, under normal circumstances, the hosts would not die.
However, many hosts would constantly repeat … the process of death and rebirth. They could not grow too big. The reason their mothers launched them was to find an opportunity for them to grow to adulthood.
However, there were too few hosts who had such an opportunity.
Every time a meteorite was launched, it would consume a lot of materials. When materials were scarce, the host's mother would stop launching them until she could replenish them with new materials.
While all the Hosts were constantly in the process of death and rebirth, one Host … stood out from the rest.
Although it seemed that all the hosts were separated from the same place, their intelligence was different. This host was the leader of its kind.
At the same time. It just so happened that it had flown to a very good place with a large amount of ingredients suitable for parasitism.
In fact. The Host could not only live in the Dreamrock, but other substances could as well. These substances were … relatively common in the Void.
Thus, it lived there.
The hosts' lifestyles were relatively similar. However, if there were no other local creatures to help them move, they would use special methods to grow.
The host did not encounter any danger there. It grew rapidly, allowing its' body 'to grow larger and larger.
As they grew bigger and bigger, these hosts were no longer pure energy creatures.
After reaching adulthood, the host's mind would be disconnected. It still could not come back from death, but it had the ability to live independently.
At this time, many creatures would start to 'breed' near the host. It felt a little like a creator. These little creatures would live around the host and form a small ecosystem.
They were not cellular creatures. How they came to be was still a mystery. However, the host could command these creatures. It would allow them to build various special structures on their bodies, turning the host's body into a real creature with all kinds of organs and systems …
After the host reached adulthood, it would also have the energy to stabilize the energy cycle in dreamrocks. Originally, the host would exhaust the energy in the dreamrocks and other materials that they lived in, so they had to constantly move.
Adult hosts did not need to do that. They could build a special circulation system in the dreamrocks and various materials that they lived in. They also had a self-supporting system. This allowed them to live without the constant consumption of energy like before. Instead, they entered a stage where they did not need to consume energy.
At this time, the host would also become a 'mother.'
The next thing it had to do was … reproduce. Like its own mother, it also took on this role. At this time, it could generate energy with independent thoughts. Then, it would put this energy into a meteorite and launch it.
Then, it would look forward to which one of them would grow to adulthood and become the new mother, taking on the responsibility of reproduction for the new generation.
This … was the specific ecology of the floating island hosts.
Their lives were not complicated. In fact, it was very simple. The whole cycle was quite long. It might be a long time before a 'mother' role was born.
The floating island hosts themselves did not have many 'mothers'. They would not wage war against other creatures, nor would they invade certain places for resources.
However, they also liked to explore new places. Usually, after launching their young, the mother hosts liked to observe where the young flew to.
Because their minds were connected, they could see the location of each young. At the same time, they would avoid launching the young to the same location.
However, if the young were to encounter any danger, there was nothing they could do.
At the same time, even the mother hosts themselves were not necessarily safe.
These creatures did not have any conventional weapons, such as explosive attacks. They usually … used dreamforce as a form of defense. The Host's dreamforce was one of the most 'invasive' types of dreamforce Lin had ever seen. It could affect the mental systems of most creatures, and it was very difficult to be blocked by ordinary materials.
However, if the dreamenergy was contaminated, they would be helpless.
So far, the host Lin had seen was in such a situation.
The main reason was that one of the young had flown to a special tumbler.
The energy of the sea of fear came from that location. It invaded the host's mother through the host's mind connection, and then began the process of contamination.
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