Rotten and Worse: This World Was Full of Malice Toward Me

Under Negary's gaze, Tranquility chose to retreat for the time being and shrank back inside.

Ever since Tranquility had crawled out of the God Abyss in the Divine Abyss World once more, he had gained a profound understanding of death.

Yet the String of Truth of death had not fully emerged. If he wanted to become the God of Death, he had to be like Negary and draw out the String of Truth of death from its hidden state.

That required him to draw incomparably close to death itself.

During that period, Tranquility had traveled through world after world, following in death's footsteps, only to discover that to truly approach death, he first had to begin with life.

Life and death were two opposing yet mutually dependent truths.

By rights, the String of Truth of death should have appeared not long after life came into being. Yet that was not the case.

Though the truth of life existed, its String Puller remained in an extremely secretive state.

Thus, Tranquility surmised that the String Puller of life was either too powerful or in some special condition, which was why the truth of death found it difficult to emerge.

So, while searching for the secrets of life in Life Worlds, he also played the God of Death, spreading the presence of death.

Back then, the world had truly been wonderful. There were no plots targeting him, no traps, no agonizing choices, no playing dead, and no Negary.

Then the Myriad Phenomena Organization extended its tentacles into the Life Worlds as well. Both sides maintained restraint, however, until news arrived from outside one day.

Negary had broken through Grelrigs's seal upon him. On that very day, the Myriad Phenomena Organization, which had previously lived in peace with him, directly attacked him.

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