Chapter 1910: Chasing the Fragment
"So many legs. All kinds, too—they should satisfy most people's tastes."
At first, there had only been a single pair of legs running up and down.
Later, the number of legs gradually increased. They no longer merely ran back and forth; some grew directly from the stairwell, while others hung haphazardly across the passageways through some kind of hook-like structure.
Near the bottom,
they practically had to squeeze their way through the "forest of legs." When necessary, they had to cut down some of the plump legs blocking the way to clear room to advance.
In any case,
all these manifested legs displayed "human characteristics," rather than the legs of Abyssal Demons.
This indirectly revealed the true nature of the Book of the Dead.
The Yellow Robe King had also conducted considerable private research on this supreme grimoire. He had tried to learn it in his youth, naturally ending in failure... After all, who did not want to become stronger?
He looked at the legs filling the stairway and commented softly:
"Humans should have been the 'protagonists' of this world, but an accident amid chaos gave birth to us, allowing us to rule everything.
Humans, who were not born in accordance with the World Rules, could only pile up on 'the reverse side of the world.'
When that accumulation reached a certain scale, it formed in a special inverse state. That was how the Book of the Dead came to be.
This grimoire was the first product born from defying the world's development. Its primary purpose was likely to drive away, destroy, and ruin us Abyssal Demons.
It was fundamentally impossible for us to cultivate this thing.
Who would have thought that after countless eras, Gray actually found a method to cultivate this grimoire? To