Abyss World.
At the dawn of the world, everything began in a primitive wilderness. In the endless darkness of a sea dozens of meters deep, faint light filtered down. A black skeleton-shaped humanoid, a milky-white slime, and a long dragon sat upon a crude throne.
Below them, a humanoid flagellated single cell reported:
"Three Majesties, even though we prepared long in advance and spread knowledge, most of our roughly twenty trillion subjects have died. Only a little over two million remain!"
It was a ghastly outcome.
The Three Abyss Sovereigns had done everything they could to prepare for war during that day of development.
They had gathered all the people together and tirelessly persuaded them, explaining the basic principles of genetic evolution. Yet they had still been caught off guard.
Herodotus had immediately unleashed deadly poison, releasing several toxins at once. It was equivalent to several mass extinctions. Only one ten-millionth had survived, leaving just 0.00001%.
A population several thousand times larger than Earth's eight billion had instantly been reduced to two million—the population of a third-tier city on Earth. Li Qing had been far, far more ruthless.
If not for the massive amount of water diluting the poison and giving them time to catch their breath, probably not a single one would have survived.
The Three Abyss Sovereigns sat high above.
"Your Majesties, although our losses are immense, they were inevitable sacrifices." Before them was a single-celled life-form named Talus. He had volunteered himself and offered advice to the Three Sovereigns before him.
After all, the Three Abyss Sovereigns possessed part of a god's inherited memories. They had given these single-celled life-forms a basic explanation of the structure of the Abyss World, as well as their origins.
The Abyss World consisted entirely of the residual consciousness left behind after