"By all rights, an existence that has truly reached the level of an Upper Great Old One should never lack a mind. Even we, renowned for our madness, possess reason born from madness once we reach this realm. Yet the King of the Hounds of Tindalos somehow managed exactly that!"
Yog-Sothoth said this in a tone even he could not understand.
Then a trace of remembered terror immediately appeared on his face.
"Then I suddenly remembered that, during some millennium or other, I once saw a report in an ordinary wizard civilization!"
Yog-Sothoth brought forth some information directly from his memories.
"That record said this: for any problem involving a higher-order species, a corresponding lower-order species can be found within its social relationships!"
Yog-Sothoth showed the report to everyone.
"I thought it was very useful, so I tried searching through many civilizations, covering almost every species in the world. But in the end, I thought of something!"
"Something at the very bottom of the entire food chain!"
While Yog-Sothoth described it, the Mysterious Lord was also thinking. Indeed, everyone was considering the matter from that perspective!
But just as Yog-Sothoth was about to reveal the answer...
The Mysterious Lord abruptly connected a few things!
Mindless, extremely aggressive, undying, and without any corresponding connection to the world!
"A parasite!" they both exclaimed.
The Mysterious Lord and Yog-Sothoth spoke the very same word in unison!
The Mysterious Lord was initially a little stunned, seemingly surprised that his idea had been confirmed.
Yog-Sothoth, however, wore a look of pure disbelief!
What was going on?!
I!
Yog-Sothoth!
The Lord of Omniscience and Omnipotence!
The mightiest, wisest intellect in the world!
Something I spent a hundred million years establishing through experimentation matched an idea you came up with in a few minutes!
Yog-Sothoth felt rather