"I... I have been trapped here... asleep for so long, cut off from the outside world for so long..."
After Stone Mama's tirade, the skull opened and closed its mouth, beginning to speak in a rather literary fashion.
It was not actually used to Stone Mama's modern way of speaking. In its era, everyone spoke with restraint; outright insults were considered vulgar behavior.
As for its initial, frenzied repetition of "dumbass," that had merely been sleep talk before its mind caught up. Bai Ze considered itself a gentleman at heart.
Wait, who is Sheep Mama? Is that me? It sounds like some sort of derogatory name!
Tiny sparks of fire swirled around the single horn on the skull.
After a very long time, the old goat head finally managed to squeeze out a slow question. "What is... a world?"
Stone Mama immediately began showing off. "Living things these days all hide inside worlds. It's different from the past! Right, what was it like back then again? Was that the era when bigger was better? It's hard to say when things aren't from the same realm."
Halfway through, Stone Mama discovered gaps in its memory and began racking its brains, full of doubts.
"Anyway, everyone had a hard time back then. Things are all right now... ah, who knows when they'll turn bad again?"
"You can't say it was entirely because of outside enemies, either. There was fierce infighting in our era too... at least, that's the impression I have. There was never any united front against outsiders."
Zhang Ming asked, "Then where did the Demon Gods come from? Were they already there, or did they emerge from another world domain?"
"No idea. In our era, there wasn't even such a thing as the concept of world domains. Who would research