Just as the evil power was about to strike along the trail of its divine sense.
The Chronicle Keeper made the most decisive choice, completely severing and abandoning that strand of divine sense stretching across space.
Shrouded in darkness, the strand instantly went out, like a lizard shedding its tail to survive.
At once, a tearing sensation came from the very origin of its soul.
But it successfully broke free of the Soul Beast's power invading along the connection of its divine sense, and its consciousness retreated in disarray to the other end of the Spatial Rift.
It finally returned to the Sea of Civilizations.
Still shaken, it suddenly realized what sort of existence had attacked it.
This was a special life-form born directly from rules.
In terms of its level of existence, its living structure was more perfect than that of their Inscribed History Race.
Any ordinary creature that devoured vast quantities of other creatures' memories would inevitably fall into confusion, unable to identify itself.
The more it devoured, the more chaotic its memories became.
The Inscribed History Race also possessed the ability to devour, but this process filtered out many components.
For example, creatures' emotions and memories.
But rule-born life had the support of a unique living structure.
This explained why that evil creature, despite devouring countless millions of beings and merging innumerable chaotic memories and extreme emotions, had not gone mad or suffered a collapse of self under that immense torrent of information.
Instead, it consolidated and refined all those resources into a controllable force of war.
Their living structure, founded on the essence of rules, made devouring and assimilation as natural to them as eating was to ordinary creatures.
No matter how much they devoured, their core consciousness never changed.
Everything from outside would ultimately become