Tang Qi had asked that question because, at that moment, he had caught sight of something terrifying from the corner of his eye.
Tang Qi should not have seen it in the first place. But in order to peek at the flaws in Rose's Ascension Path, he had quietly activated Omniscience.
By accident, his peripheral vision swept across the new visitors who had arrived in the library's Thirty-Third Sector alongside the three of them.
There were seven figures in total. They were humanoid in shape, but their race differed drastically from humans in every detail.
They stood around half a meter tall, even more goblin-like than goblins. Their heads, bodies, and limbs were all composed of emerald leaves, pale moss, and filthy swamp mud.
Tang Qi immediately learned that their race was called the Glan Marsh People, but the information related to them was unimportant, because the bodies of these Glan Marsh People had all become containers.
They were walking empty shells. The truly terrifying things were hidden inside their bodies.
Tang Qi saw one of them—or rather, he saw its outer outline.
Yes, there were no details, only an outline.
It was a "worm," at least in outward form.
It was transparent, yet colorful.
It seemed not to exist, yet it truly did exist.
When it existed, it was roughly the size of a thumb. At least, that was how it appeared in Tang Qi's eyes this time.
It resembled a glass larva that no one could possibly sculpt—utterly ugly, or perhaps utterly beautiful, and utterly terrifying.
It lay quietly on the moss-formed brainstem of one of the Glan Marsh People. It did not move, feed, or gnaw. It was like the most well-behaved passenger in the world.
Tang Qi stared at it, yet it did not notice him.