Oderklas, Fafnir, and Balalaika weren't the only ones who sensed it. Many powerful beings in the Abyss Plane were also doing the same.
Some turned a deaf ear to the noise, some ignored it, some listened carefully, and some simply looked at the source of the noise.
After all, they were all too familiar with the owner of the fluctuation.
Angor didn't know that so many people were paying attention to Toby. He was still immersed in the joy of Toby's breakthrough.
Toby came out of the cocoon while still in his Serpentine Bird form. The first thing he did was to fly to Angor and Greya to express his joy.
First, Toby screeched in front of them as if he was telling them how happy he was. This was the first time Angor and Greya heard a Serpentine Bird's voice, but Toby's familiar tone, frequency, and pauses allowed them to guess what Toby was talking about.
Most likely, it was disbelief and joy.
Toby became more and more excited as he spoke. In the end, the serpentine bird turned around and began to move around in the void. Toby was venting his frustrations and using up his excess energy to familiarize himself with his new body.
Angor didn't stop Toby. Instead, he hovered nearby and observed Toby.
However, Toby didn't seem to be studying his new skill yet. Instead, he kept squealing like a filial child who just got a new toy.
Angor watched for a while but couldn't find anything useful, so he gave up. He still had plenty of time to study the Serpentine Bird's power.
While watching Toby, Angor noticed that Greya wasn't saying anything. Angor looked back and saw Greya looking at Toby as well. She was smiling, but there was something else in her eyes.
"What's wrong?" Angor asked Greya through their Spirit Bond.
Greya hesitated for a moment before she spoke her mind. "When Toby approached me, I felt something familiar."
Greya didn't explain what that feeling was. She just thought it was some kind of aura, which was similar to what she felt when she encountered a legendary monster.
When Toby turned into a griffin, he already had a certain aura around him. However, it was far from the aura of a legendary monster, so Greya didn't pay too much attention to it. But now, after transforming into a serpent-bird, Toby's aura had also evolved, becoming more and more compatible with the aura of a Legendary monster.
"As Toby experiences more calamities, the Air Wings on his body will not get closer to that Legendary Demonic Creature, until one day …"
Toby became it.
Angor understood what Greya was trying to say. Both the legendary aura and Toby's aura reminded Greya of that legendary monster. She still couldn't stop worrying about it.
"Toby is Toby. He will never change." "It doesn't matter even if it does. There's still a long way to go. We have plenty of time to figure it out."
As long as it was a problem, there would always be a solution.
Greya nodded. "I hope so too."
"Perhaps there's another possibility. Toby's consciousness might have belonged to that legendary monster in the first place. It's just that it hasn't fully awakened yet, "someone suddenly spoke into their ears.
They turned around and saw Sunders elegantly walking toward them in his gentlemanly suit. He didn't hide the fact that he eavesdropped on their conversation through the Spirit Bond.
"Toby becoming it … Maybe that's the right path," Sunders slowly voiced out a terrifying thought.
"No, Toby is not the same!" Greya quickly refuted.
"How do you know? You only got the heart of a legendary monster. You never interacted with it, so you don't know anything about it." Sunders paused a little. "Of course, this is only my speculation. There's a high chance that it's wrong. But since you're already talking about its future, you have to consider this possibility. "
"Besides, Greya, you know it yourself. Apart from Toby, have you created any other creatures with self-awareness? "
The answer was no.
Apart from Toby, Greya had never created another creature with complete self-awareness.
Whether it was the Twisting Protozoa or Section Ephemera, they were all products of Greya's Genesis spell, but they were all functional creatures without self-awareness.
Greya remained silent after hearing Sunders' words. As a knowledgeable wizard, she had done many experiments. It was almost impossible for her to break the chain of logic. Of course, she had considered Sunders' words before. But this was the real source of her uneasiness.
Greya tried to hide her uneasiness, but Sunders pointed it out in front of her face, forcing her to face the problem.
Angor was also thinking about this problem while Sunders and Greya were talking.
The consciousness of one's self was the most primitive desire of a human being. This was an innate desire, and it was in this desire that the framework of consciousness gradually formed.
Toby's "Taste Disaster" was similar to searching for, or rather, awakening one's self.
If Sunders was right, Toby's "Taste Disaster" might be looking for the source of his consciousness. And the source was most likely the legendary monster itself.
"This is only one of many possibilities, and it's not very likely. But as you said, we have to face its existence," Angor said, "even if it's true, it doesn't matter."
Angor's words attracted their attention.
"A complete consciousness doesn't just have a physical self. Its high-level structure also includes emotions, experiences, and subjective emotions that are influenced by objective existences. "
"So what? Toby is still Toby."
Angor's words sounded a little idealistic. But Greya had to admit that Angor's words were like a fresh spring that poured water on her dry and restless heart.
Everything had variables. So what if Toby's consciousness was the legendary monster itself? It was still Toby, and Toby was still Toby.
Greya, who was arguing with Sunders, also stopped and gave Angor a grateful look.
"Sometimes I wonder who has lived for hundreds of years." Greya sighed and looked at Angor. "You're better at seeing things than I am."
While they were concerned about Toby's distant and unpredictable future, Toby himself was having a great time. He was flying up and down in the void, wagging his long tail, like a baby bird that had never flown before and regarded the void as a playground.
While Toby was having fun, he didn't notice that a crack was slowly appearing on one side of the sky.
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