There was no distinction between flesh-and-blood creatures, elemental creatures, or rule-based creatures.
In the Card People's understanding, everything within the Endless World was merely segments of information recorded upon sheets of paper with different textures. Thus, before the Card People, the information of any life or matter could be utterly destroyed by tearing apart its paper medium!
And some of the information on those sheets was the resource they plundered.
This was a biological race that had evolved amid the Endless World's profusion of rules, with an utterly novel worldview!
Perhaps, to other biological races, this race's true strength did not lie in those renowned powerful individuals, but in one overwhelming legion after another!
According to the Heavenly Net's explanation of the Cosmic Great World's information, the Card People's damage was true damage. Even the crushing suppression of superior life levels would never result in inferior creatures being unable to harm superior ones. Before one found a means of countering them at the level of truth's essence, no matter how formidable a creature was, it would be torn to pieces by the overwhelming Card People.
Whoosh, whoosh...
After the overwhelming swarm of Card People flew past, the refugee monster hordes on the ground were easily torn apart until not even scraps remained. As for those cunning Sovereigns who had descended upon the Dimensional Esophagus, they naturally would not choose these isolated settlements as their targets.
"They say this is the source of all evil, the place closest to the interference of higher-dimensional beings' consciousness, the foundation of the Endless World's chaotic rules. But now that I see it, the Dimensional Esophagus's vaunted reputation amounts to no more than this. Before our army group, it is not worth mentioning."
At a height unimaginable even to the descending Sovereigns, the Card King