Free chapter.
By this point, the book had reached 500,000 words and been divided into 18 volumes.
Since that was the case, this seemed like a good time to write down some thoughts and notes.
First of all, thank you all for your support during this time. This book had achieved far better results than my previous two, and I was incredibly grateful to everyone.
Next, I would answer a few questions and fill in some details.
Recently, many people had questioned why Morien, who had once clearly been human, now favored insects alone.
Since people had asked, I would explain it all here at once.
This could also answer many of your questions.
Morien's aesthetic preferences had not started out as a fondness for insects. They had changed several times.
The Oldest One Morien had been no different from an ordinary person, as everyone should have been able to tell.
We called him Morien Unit One.
At that stage, if Morien were to split, what emerged would definitely be human.
In fact, that was indeed the case.
The Morien in every world was equivalent to one "split," and at that point, Morien still considered himself human.
But what sort of circumstances had he faced when he had first transmigrated?
Iron Morien had been forced to remain in an enclosed space with a rotting, stinking human corpse for a week after arriving in his world.
When Cursed Morien opened his eyes, he saw twisted, grotesque Transfigured Humans.
The people around Mystery Morien had looked normal enough, but what had those normal people been doing? They had been wantonly burning, killing, looting, raping, and plundering, endlessly radiating humanity's malice and most primal desires.
The first Beyonder ability Morien had mastered was reducing his sense of presence, while the second was seeing