A secluded corner of the Colorful Mist Coast beach, far from the areas where players gathered.
Waves gently lapped at the silvery-white beach, while the colorful mist over the distant sea refracted the sunlight into a dreamlike glow.
The God King sat quietly with his back against a rock, facing the sea.
A screen floated before him, displaying a wealth of materials he had downloaded from the library and saved to his personal forum page.
He had been on vacation for three days, but still hadn't found a breakthrough.
However, the contents of the book before him had caught his interest.
The book described a world called "Dreamweaver's Homeland."
It was the world's predecessor, where Tu Hu had led the Fuzzling civilization to rise.
The events described reached back to before the world had suffered its destruction, before even the Dreamweaver civilization had come into being.
The world's level had been low, but its harsh environment had been like an ultra-low-spec version of Monster World.
Every civilization had waged wave after wave of war over resources.
The book's protagonists, the "Immortals," had carved out a bloody path to world domination in that very landscape.
What particularly fascinated him was the account of Kui, the 23rd Immortal King.
At a pivotal turning point in the development of his civilization, Kui had asked himself: Why do we always exhaust our resources after winning the next war... What are we missing, besides individual evolution, that would make warfare more efficient?
Kui and the leaders of his people had pondered this question for a long time.
They eventually realized that warfare was inefficient because they had only a vague understanding of the battlefield.
On battlefields in those days,
orders were delivered by shouts and flags, or by a handful of messengers. They were slow