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A black planet filled with evolution liquid.

There, a massive chase that could even be seen from Earth was unfolding.

I was chasing a shark fleeing across the evolution liquid-filled black planet.

My steps were still clumsy, yet the aftermath was entirely different.

Every time my enormous footsteps thundered, the evolution liquid surged as if an earthquake had struck.

It felt like being a human sprinting around in an ant colony.

With every step I took, I felt the flow of air, the waves of evolution liquid, and a gigantic vibration.

Normally, if I weren’t used to moving my body well, my movements would have been sluggish, but now, having grown so large, it felt quite amusing, as if I were a giant traversing the universe.

Hehe.

‘By the way, it’s surprisingly fast.’

Despite its considerable size, the shark external being was swiftly cutting through the sticky evolution liquid.

However, perhaps due to my own size, which encapsulated the mini reaper garden, chasing it wasn’t too difficult.

As I continued to pursue with my large, thunderous steps, something felt strange.

‘Is it getting bigger little by little?’

At first, I thought it was an illusion, but the size of the shark external being was steadily increasing.

‘?’

There were no nearby objects to devour, and all the remnants of sharks scattered across the black planet had already been absorbed…

Despite this, the shark external being kept growing in size.

‘How on earth is it increasing its mass?’

The more intriguing point was that it wasn’t simply expanding in size.

If it were just getting bigger, I could think of it as a balloon inflating, but intriguingly, its grade was also gradually rising.

It was truly a mystery of an object.

While I chased it, filled with such wonder, I started to feel that my movements were becoming increasingly smoother.

The evolution liquid was so viscous that it was hard to move, so I thought it was just me getting used to the situation…

‘The evolution liquid was decreasing?’

And when I noticed something odd, the level of the evolution liquid had already dropped a little.

Could it be that the shark external being was drinking the evolution liquid?

‘?’

Not long after I realized that, it seemed as if the shark external being’s grade began to increase explosively beyond a certain threshold.

As if exchanging the rise in grade for evolution liquid, the level of the evolution liquid also plummeted sharply.

It wasn’t slowly sucking it in as it had before, but rather, results appeared instantly without a process.

In no time, it had already entered a ‘reduced state’.

It seemed as if the evolution liquid had always had this level.

That was the evidence that the world’s rules had become chaotic, and the first indication of the shark external being showing its external aspect.

Then, the clouds that had been covering the sky vanished, revealing a colorful color universe.

The air transformed as if it had become liquid, and it wasn’t as thin as ordinary seawater.

It felt like a nasty, thick liquid similar to evolution liquid.

Finally, after the shark that had been fleeing came to a stop, it slowly turned its head and began to look at me.

The floating shark external being had now grown colossal enough to swallow even my gigantic form in one bite.

*

It swallowed the black liquid.

Of course, the shark external being knew it was poisonous.

No matter how mindless a swarm might be, it could instinctively feel that such sticky liquid could harm it.

Yet, it swallowed it.

It kept running while constantly doing so.

To defeat the enemy.

And to devour the enemy and grow stronger.

A simple and primal desire to consume everything in this world was the sole reason for the shark external being’s existence.

But it felt empty.

The more it consumed, the emptier it felt, and that emptiness could not be filled no matter how much it ate.

Knowing it was a meaningless action, the shark external being was driven by instinct, endlessly devouring the black sea.

What it could swallow now was only this black liquid.

However, the black liquid did not mix with the shark external being.

Rather, the more it swallowed, impurities mixed within the body of the shark external being, causing it to deteriorate.

Impurities permeated through the schools of sardines, distorting its form further and further.

It was a phenomenon that the shark external being’s intelligence could not comprehend at all.

It was merely ‘matter’ without any grade, yet it couldn’t be consumed.

Now, the more it swallowed, the more it felt its whole body crumbling, yet the shark external being couldn’t stop.

As if something were controlling it.

And finally, at the moment when all senses shattered and the world turned pitch-black.

A massive ‘something’ appeared.

So large it seemed to touch the universe.

With an endlessly extending black exterior…

A god.

I finally realized.

That black liquid, which I thought was nothing, was a part of the god.

The shark external being was merely unable to recognize it as it was a fragment of an overwhelmingly powerful existence.

At that moment, witnessing the existence of the god, the black liquid mixed within the shark external being and completely transformed it into a different being.

Now, the shark external being couldn’t reach the universe, but it had become an entity with a size that seemed to touch the sky and a fragment of godly power.

Godly power, albeit a minuscule part, now allowed the shark external being to consume everything just by merely recognizing it.

As if only results existed without any processes, the moment it perceived, the prey was already in its mouth.

With that power, the shark external being swallowed all the black sea, stopped running, and slowly turned its head.

Once a predator so strong and large it seemed invincible, it now appeared much smaller than itself.

And as if a satisfied predator were playing with its prey, the shark external being moved leisurely.

There was nothing to fear now.

The gaze looking down at the gray being held no trace of fear, nor the will to escape.

It merely looked at one arm.

Then, without any premonition, the arm of the gray being was suddenly torn off in an instant.

There was no process, no resistance.

As if it had already occurred, only the result remained.

Thus, the arm of the gray being was already inside the shark’s mouth.

It was truly the moment of overwhelming victory.

But the instant it swallowed the arm of the gray being, everything twisted.

Things that had not been visible began to reveal themselves.

From behind that gray being, the massive fragments of the god flickered.

‘!!!’

Only then did I realize what it had swallowed.

The moment of recognition came too late.

A loop of some cycle began to enwrap the existence of the shark external being itself.

Unable to resist, the shark external being that had already mixed with a part of the god was powerless.

No, it was even stripped of the will to resist.

It was a sweet-smelling cycle.

As if it had naturally belonged in that cycle, the consciousness of the shark external being was sucked into that sweet cycle.

Thus, the sardines making up the shark external being fell endlessly to become countless fish-shaped breads raining down on the black planet.

*

I was blankly staring at the rain of fish-shaped breads pouring down from the sky.

‘What is this?’

I was truly startled when one of my arms was abruptly torn off.

The ability to devour simply by viewing it was akin to my ‘Halo of Death’.

Thinking about it casually, it seemed like it would be a long and arduous battle, and I felt immense regret inside.

‘I should have torn it to shreds before it could play with me.’

Yet, suddenly entering the garden on its own was a delightful conclusion, as I wished all external beings were like this.

Hehe.

Just as I chuckled quietly, a giant pirate ship flew nearby.

‘Mom won!’

‘Strong Mom!’

‘Mom is amazing!’

Inside the pirate ship, mini reapers hopped around, celebrating the victory with excited expressions.

And as they scooped up the fish-shaped breads raining down from the sky with the giant pirate ship, they began to sparkle at me and make requests.

‘Fish-shaped Bread Festival!’

‘Festival!’

‘Giant Mom Festival!’

It seemed news of the festival had spread all the way to the mini reaper garden, as various colored mini reapers filled the ship.

Feeling good that the external being had easily fallen, I released my giant form and found a suitable place to prepare for a picnic with the mini reapers.

The spot I settled in was a familiar place, a highland filled with mirrors in a purple city.

It was the city I had wandered around in as mini Yerin and also one buried under evolution liquid.

‘Next time, should I bring Yerin too? I wonder if she wouldn’t like it?’

Perhaps due to the influence of being swept up in the evolution liquid, I lay down in a scattered open lot where all the mirrors had shattered.

While lying there, I spotted hungry ghosts lying quietly with their eyes closed on the ground.

The large white hungry ghost and the colorful hungry ghosts.

They looked as if they had found peace after a long journey.

Their expressions seemed to reflect arriving at paradise after a hard-fought battle.

The mini reapers were oddly kind to those hungry ghosts.

Could they be newly recruited hungry ghosts?

After a moment of waiting, the red reapers began to set up a campfire in the empty central open lot.

‘Fire!’

‘Revolution!’

The sweet scent and sound of marshmallows roasting.

Kyu-hing-hing.

This was truly a picnic atmosphere befitting the mini reaper garden.

But the hungry ghosts that had arrived in paradise were watching it with shocked expressions.

Hehe.