Death Frenzy had said that as long as they did not die, Ouroboros could resurrect infinitely...
The World-Devouring Serpent would only appear once sorcerer civilization had advanced to the Void Realm Seventh Layer...
Thinking about it carefully, a sorcerer's advancement was itself built on devouring. Demigods ate Spell Spirits to "nourish" their Soul Bodies and gain Prison Wings; Divine Lords swallowed World Secret Domains into their "bellies" to condense secret wings; even Starry Sky and Ash had devoured the Source Angel's corpses before they were qualified to step onto the ultimate supreme.
Greedy as thieves, ravenous as parasites.
Precisely because they never knew satisfaction, sorcerers could grow all the way from insignificant lives, larger and larger, the larger they grew, the hungrier they became, and in the end...
they sublimated into serpents!
"So what?"
Starry Sky's response made it sound as though the Drama Poet had merely said something utterly meaningless, something with no value worth taking seriously. Not only the Drama Poet, even Ash, whose thoughts were churning wildly, was left a little dumbfounded by her reaction.
"That means the World-Devouring Serpent isn't a sudden disaster, but a deserved retribution... the retribution of sorcerers."
"And?"
Starry Sky's tone was still so confident that Ash instead began to doubt his own judgment a little. "So... we aren't this world's saviors. We're the source of the disaster dragging the world into the Abyss, aren't we?"
"I said, so what?"
Starry Sky's voice was cool and proud. Yet at that moment, the starry sky suddenly accelerated. Billions upon billions of stars flowed rapidly along their predetermined Trajectories. She was like the sole protagonist of this stage, the entire world dancing with her mood, and even the Drama Poet and Ash seemed to lose their luster in that instant.
Some people's wills could