Skilled at ignoring the strange creatures that looked unpleasant just from a glance, Cid moved through this world where, for the moment, he was the only conscious being. This was the world of the natural order of life. After sensing his surroundings for a moment, he fixed on a direction and advanced toward it.
As Cid moved forward, the number of those disturbing creatures gradually decreased. However, their bodies became larger and more solid.
The farther he went, the more terrifying, grotesque, and bizarre they became. Even though ninety nine point nine nine percent of them were in deep slumber because they lacked physical bodies and true spirit, the overwhelming presence emitted from their enormous forms could still easily shatter the soul of an ordinary person.
If someone capable of resurrecting life discovered this place, and also had enough tolerance to command a group of completely lawless beings, then as long as that person wished, they could easily unleash a disaster in the real world.
Unfortunately, none of that pressure meant anything to Cid.
Right now these were just soul forms. Even if their original bodies revived, if he actually bothered to fight them it would take him at least one move and at most three to deal with them.
Expecting the aura of these souls to affect him was unrealistic. The only real possibility was that he might get so disgusted by their appearance in the world of the natural order of life that he wiped them all out.
At the very least, their appearance genuinely made him feel physically uncomfortable.
Hmm?
Cid's field of vision, which should have passed quickly over this area, suddenly stopped. He made a quiet sound of confusion and slowly moved backward.
Was it... this dragon that used to be here?
Cid stopped in front of a black dragon and examined it carefully.
According to his memory, the last time he came here, the one occupying this position was a dragon that looked like a tree, not the dragon in front of him with its dark gray scales.
That had been the first time he entered the world of the natural order of life. It was also the first time he saw that tree like dragon. The tree dragon had left quite a deep impression on him. At the time, he had even briefly considered freezing its soul and taking it back as a specimen for his collection.
Of course, the tree dragon itself was not important now. The soul bodies here were basically useless anyway. If he took them out without resurrecting them first, they would just disperse on their own.
Instead of thinking about the tree dragon, it made more sense to think about why this black dragon had appeared here.
It was not that the black dragon could not exist here.
The problem was that in the world of the natural order of life, all souls existed in a sleeping state. Without outside help, the only way they could change position was through the slow movement caused by the passage of time.
According to Cid's estimate, reaching the current situation would require at least several hundred years.
So...
Where did the original tree dragon go?
He looked around.
Forget the tree dragon. Aside from the black dragon in front of him, there was not even a single other dragon nearby.
That was strange.
Cid circled around the black dragon with his gaze several times. After thinking for a moment, he reached a conclusion.
Why was he even thinking about this?
This had nothing to do with him.
That was the whole point. Why would he care about something like this when he had nothing to do with it?
First, he was not the owner of this place. Second, it was just one missing soul. That was not a big deal.
Besides, even if all the souls in the world of the natural order of life revived and tried to deal with him, the ones who should be worrying about how to escape would be them.
The only thing he would need to consider was how to make sure not a single one of them got away.
Life had two ultimate answers.
What does it have to do with me.
And what does it have to do with you.
After reaching that conclusion, Cid immediately felt refreshed.
He stopped thinking about the tree dragon and continued moving in the direction he originally chose. Passing by one sleeping soul after another, Cid finally stopped.
He had reached his destination.
The end of the world of the natural order of life.
If the world truly had an end, then Cid believed that this place, the resting ground of sleeping souls, the world of the natural order of life, was that very edge.
At the same time, based on his deductions and what he had personally seen, this should also be the place where the God of the Biblical faction slept.
Evidence?
Cid looked at the strange space ahead.
From the entrance of that separate dimension, endless Holy Light flowed outward. Surrounding the outside of that dimension floated tens of thousands of spell formations that were clearly designed for attack.
That was the evidence.
Even though he was far stronger now than when he first arrived here, looking at the tens of thousands of spell formations still made Cid sigh in admiration. Just how cautious was the Biblical God to prepare so many powerful spells purely for defense?
No. It would be more accurate to say that it was precisely because he had become much stronger since his first visit that he could now understand just how powerful these spell formations really were.
If these formations had truly been arranged by the Biblical God, then even though he had nearly mastered the core knowledge stored in the library, when it came purely to magical attainment he would at best be evenly matched with the Biblical God.
And even that fifty fifty assumption only held if those formations represented the Biblical God's full strength and if the Biblical God had not improved at all over the years.
Back when Cid first came here, he had intended to greet this powerful existence and maybe have a quick fight for fun.
In the end, no matter how much he called from outside, he could not wake the sleeping figure inside and had no choice but to leave in disappointment.
Thinking about it now, if he had actually woken that being back then and started a fight, it would probably have turned into a battle to see who could kill the other first.
Otherwise, with this many magic formations, even that red dragon that looked ridiculously durable would probably be killed instantly if it came here.
No. It was possible that the red dragon would not even last as long as he could.
Cid's gaze moved across the countless spell formations and focused on a few of them.
The attack power of those particular magic circles was probably only around SS class. In theory, attacks at that level would not even break the defense of that red dragon.
Well, that was assuming those spells did not have some unusually high anti dragon effect.
Even from this distance, Cid could feel the presence of extremely high quality sleep coming from inside the separate dimension.
After taking a quick look and confirming that the Biblical God was still asleep, Cid left the world of the natural order of life.
"The position of that separate dimension seems a little different from the last time I came here. I probably remembered it wrong."
As he withdrew from that strange perspective, it felt like removing a filter from his vision. The sight in Cid's right eye once again sank into darkness.
When he opened his right eye again, the missing part of his field of vision returned. However, the Magical Power flowing inside his right eye remained there.
The bright crimson pupil stared directly at Asia, forming a pair of heterochromatic eyes together with the black pupil of his left eye.
His gaze passed through Asia's outer body and reached straight into the depths of her soul.
Her soul...
Aside from being a little unstable, there did not seem to be any problem.
???
Then where was the problem?
Wait. I forgot something.
Cid canceled the soul grasp that his left eye had been applying at zero point zero one percent strength. The moment he did, Asia's slightly unstable soul immediately settled down.
Without the interference of the soul grasp, this time Cid's right eye could finally see it.