As the roots burrowed deeper, the maple leaves grew ever more vibrant.
Vibrant enough to be almost breathtaking.
The scene shifted.
The vermilion faded, replaced by a pale planet.
Mercury was dead.
Indeed.
It was still a celestial body, but he could no longer sense even the faintest trace of life or spirit from it.
It still existed, but it could no longer be called alive.
All life had been plundered, and even the planet's very soul had vanished.
It was now merely an aggregate of rocks. Rather than a planet, it was more like excrement left behind after some beast had eaten.
It was as if some sound-eating monster had been born in the air. At that moment, not even the slightest sound remained within the Temple of Time.
The Demon God Pillars' wish was to replace Earth.
Yet now, Mercury, which stood on the same level as Earth, had been devoured completely.
If this was a nightmare, it was far too horrifying.
Leff felt as though this body had already been petrified. Moving or making a sound had become unbearably difficult.
But the nightmare did not end there.
At the center of the temple.
The image brought by Clairvoyance shifted once more.
This time.
It was a vast panorama—or rather, a projection of a brutal battlefield.
Twisted branches tore apart planet after planet, devouring everything upon them.
The planets howled madly.
Great lives rose from the earth one after another.
They were UOs.
The strongest beings created by a Planetary Will for that celestial body, they could be called the physical manifestations of the Planetary Will itself.
Each one possessed the power to remake a planet. Before them, evil spirits that had wrought endless slaughter, the strongest figures from every mythology, and even chief gods worshipped by countless