Amid the chaos of the universe, matter tore apart and returned, and everything stood in the hazy primordial age.
Crash.
"Ani is my name. My talent surpasses the upper limit of your biological intelligence. Perhaps you cannot even imagine how powerful I am."
The tall, muscular giant strode forward. His eyelids gradually drooped, while his skull swelled larger and larger. His enormous hydrocephalic head slowly became disproportionate to the body beneath it.
He resembled a shriveled mantis carrying a giant watermelon on its head.
Gurgle, gurgle.
Writhing white neural tubes extended from every direction around his brain, piercing into the body beneath his neck, into his arms, and into his thighs. He looked like a cyborg connected to countless energy conduits.
The sight was utterly revolting.
"This martial art is also a suicidal one, created solely for this moment of brilliance. Every time I use it, my head must be given a new body." He introduced it simply and coldly. "This is an evolved branch of Cicada Molting, one that burns everything in the body for explosive combat."
His body was filled with surging, boundless power.
The light and heat unleashed by a giant body spanning countless light-years, burning everything in an eruption, already rivaled the explosion of a truly massive supernova.
Endless radiance spread through the void.
The immeasurable light and heat made him seem like ten thousand suns shining at once just a centimeter before one's eyes.
"This world was originally logical. Wind was wind, water was water, and light remained light. Yet beyond those rules existed things that defied logic. Lifeforms—these are the most illogical, most incomprehensible things in the universe."
"For example, you!!"
He spread his powerful arms and strode forward, speaking slowly. "No matter how intelligent a lifeform is, it always enjoys doing things it