Most of the creatures were not dangerous.
It had always thought so because no creature would hurt it, and those creatures with higher intelligence would always worship it after coming into contact with it.
It had a good feeling about being worshipped. These intelligent creatures would always obey its orders.
Therefore, it slowly had the possibility that intelligent creatures would listen to its ideas, and it also had many other ideas.
For example, the world of solid creatures might have been created by itself, but it hadn't discovered the world of solid creatures before, so it didn't know.
That was because it hadn't found the creature that created the solid world, and the intelligent creatures in the solid world worshipped it mainly because it was the creator.
It held this thought until … it met a certain creature.
This creature was also a solid creature with intelligence, and its intelligence was quite high, higher than all the creatures it had seen before, and … it had a very special ability.
When it saw this creature, it thought that this creature should be the creator.
But where had this creature been before? It was the first time it had seen such a wonderful creature appear so suddenly.
But as it observed, it felt that this creature was very different from the creator it had imagined.
First of all, this creature didn't move, but stayed in one place. If it didn't reach the edge of the world, it couldn't create a new world.
But now the world might have been created, so there was no need to create another world. But it also noticed that this creature didn't seem to want to travel around, communicate with other creatures, and so on. Instead, it was motionless.
So, it called it … "The Rooter," which mainly meant that it was fixed and not moving.
It didn't choose to communicate with the Rooter, mainly because of its past experience. It found that it only wanted to communicate with intelligent creatures. These creatures would start to constantly seek its "guidance."
If it guided too much, the creatures would become more and more dependent on it, and even lose their original ability to live.
So it thought that it was more interesting to observe the original appearance of the creatures. So it didn't intend to communicate with other creatures, including this seemingly intelligent Rooter.
The Rooter's intelligence was mainly shown to other intelligent creatures. It was very good at using various methods to deceive intelligent creatures, or make intelligent creatures worship it and then enslave it.
It observed the Rooter for a long time. It found that many new small creatures slowly appeared around the Rooter.
The transformation of these creatures was extremely fast.
While observing solid creatures for a long time, it discovered that some creatures could slowly change their shape or abilities. However, these new creatures were able to change their shape much faster than other solid creatures.
However, these new creatures would not continue to change. Instead, they would stop changing at a certain point.
It believed that the birth of this kind of creature was mainly related to the 'rooter', but this made it even more difficult to find the common ground between itself and the rooter. It believed that the rooter was a very strange creature.
The new creatures quickly began to attack the original solid creatures, occupying their territories and replacing them, slowly wiping out the original solid creatures. More and more new creatures appeared.
At first, it did not have any particular thoughts and was merely observing. It was only when some new lifeforms attacked the intelligent solid lifeforms that worshipped it that it thought of stopping them.
Therefore, it began to communicate with the Rooting One. Based on its previous experience, the Rooting One would definitely worship it and do as it was told.
But that didn't happen.
The Rooted One received the message, but it didn't have any big reaction like other creatures. It didn't respond to any message either.
However, it noticed that the Rooted One was doing something special.
The Rooted One was originally growing at a slow speed, but after receiving its message, the Rooted One's growth suddenly sped up.
During this period, it kept sending messages to the Rooted One. Because the Rooted One's new lifeforms had almost wiped out the intelligent lifeforms that worshipped it.
However, the Rooted One completely ignored it. Until a certain time, the Rooted One suddenly started a new movement … At first, it didn't understand what these movements meant. It looked like it was drilling out from the ground.
Until it found … a lot of darkness appeared around the Rooted One.
It had seen this darkness before. It was different from normal darkness. The moment it saw this pure darkness, it knew … this was the kind of darkness at the edge of the world.
It had not seen this kind of darkness for a very long time … since it opened up the world. It had never seen it before.
However, this kind of darkness appeared around the Rooted One. What did it mean? Did it mean … solid lifeforms could affect this ethereal world?
It had never seen this kind of phenomenon before, so it fell into a rather confused state. However, it at least knew that it had to stop this darkness from spreading.
So, like how it opened up the world before, it went to touch the darkness around the Rooted One.
However, it wasn't as smooth as before. The darkness didn't disappear when it came into contact with it. It felt a … force was preventing it from eliminating the darkness.
It was the Rooted One.
The Rooted One seemed to know what it was doing and used all its strength to maintain the darkness, not allowing it to change the darkness …
At the same time, it also felt that the Rooted One seemed to be filled with an emotion called 'hostility' towards it and all the lifeforms in its world.
The Rooted One wanted to destroy its world.
Suddenly understanding this, it felt fear for the first time in its life. It felt that its world would collapse, and everything in the past would no longer have any meaning.
And the truth … seemed to be the case.
The darkness around the Rooted One grew bigger and bigger, slowly devouring its world. It would also devour the lifeforms around it.
Yes, the ethereal lifeforms that originally lived in its world would be sucked in after coming into contact with the darkness … unlike before where they couldn't pass through.
It felt a great sense of danger, but it didn't know what to do. So it began to use all its strength to stop the darkness from expanding, using all its strength to crash into the darkness.
Under its efforts, the darkness decreased slightly. It felt as if it could use some method to fight against the Rooted One's … power.
It 'pressed' the darkness back.
The Rooted One also noticed this, so the darkness began to expand even faster. It found it difficult to resist this expansion. When the darkness grew bigger and bigger, it was sucked in like other lifeforms.
… What would the world on the other side of the darkness be like?
In the past, the darkness symbolized 'nothingness.' It was a place where there was nothing. Since it was a place where there was nothing, then it could put things there, put its own world.
This was a law, or so it thought in the past.
But now it realized that there was another world on the other side of the darkness.
After it was sucked into the darkness, it saw this strange world … In this world, the 'ethereal lifeforms' and the 'solid lifeforms' actually lived together.
Originally, although it could sense the solid lifeforms, it also clearly knew that the solid lifeforms were in another world. They could only communicate with the ethereal lifeforms in a very limited way. This was also a law, and the law determined the difference between the two worlds.
But now, these two lifeforms were clearly mixed together, chasing each other, communicating with each other … There was no space between them.
This was something that violated the law.
And that Rooted One was actually standing in the center of this world.
When it saw the Rooted One, the Rooted One also sent out its first communication message. It was a very simple message.
"Die."
Then, the Rooted One began to attack it.
It wasn't only the Rooted One that attacked it, but also the surrounding … solid lifeforms.
The way they attacked it seemed very simple, it was just hitting, hitting, and so on.
The moment it was hit, it actually felt a sensation called 'pain.'
All of this was so inconceivable to it, but its reaction didn't become sluggish … The attacks it received were very fierce, but it held on. Moreover, it also realized that the ethereal lifeforms in this world would support it and fight against the solid lifeforms.
And so, in this wondrous mixed world, an unusually fierce war began.
This wasn't a war that would never end. The war soon stopped, and the victors … were the Rooted One and the solid lifeforms.
It belonged to the side that lost. And just as the Rooted One said, it once again felt an unprecedented feeling, and that was … the approach of death.
It had seen many deaths, but it never thought that death would be so close to it … At that time, it thought that it would disappear from this world.
But under the threat of death, a new feeling arose in it …
It felt that, in a very distant place, there was a … world. And now, it could escape to that distant world to avoid this danger.
At that moment, it suddenly understood.
This distant world was related to its previous actions. It used to fly to the sky, and it felt that a part of its body had been split at that time.
This split body flew away from the sky and flew to a very, very distant place. There, it formed a new world, and that world was connected to itself, so it could escape there.
And so, it escaped.
Away from the Rooted One, away from everything …
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