As the shock brought by the Aeon of Destruction had yet to fade, the scene on the Light Screen suddenly shifted, and a new Aeon appeared.
It was an enormous insect, larger even than a star. Its upper body possessed a humanoid torso, yet it had no human head, making it seem both uncanny and grotesque.
At the same time, an introduction to this terrifying being appeared.
"Originally a coleopteran creature from the world of Beetle, a survivor of Beetle's massive slaughter, the last remaining child of the Coleoptera."
"Amid endless loneliness and hatred, it opened the Path of 'Propagation,' ascended to godhood, and began reproducing itself in near-infinite numbers, forming a swarm that blotted out the sky."
"This was the Aeon of Propagation—Tayzzyronth."
"This Aeon, terrified of loneliness and solitude, copied itself without end and led an overwhelming insect swarm to devour everything in sight, bringing forth the terrifying calamity that made the forests of the entire universe tremble: the Swarm Disaster."
"Endlessly devouring, endlessly 'propagating' more—that was the meaning of the Aeon of Propagation's existence."
When people in the real world saw this, their scalps did not merely tingle; their hands and feet turned icy cold, and a crushing sense of suffocation gripped them.
The Swarm Disaster had already been terrifying enough, yet they had never expected such a calamity to have been caused by an Aeon.
No one knew just how powerful Aeons were, but Aha had given everyone the impression that if He wanted to destroy the Solar System, it would be no harder than an ordinary person spitting out a mouthful of saliva.
Perhaps only Aeons could contend with such a disaster.
Then, just as the people of the real world were thinking this, a new development appeared on the Light Screen.
As the Aeon