It was hard to imagine just what could have happened to make [Abyss], who had been so arrogant and overbearing before, treating everything with disdain, say something like that after Ye Qiyan discovered them.
They had actually realized the fact that they were, in truth, very stupid.
Yes.
That was a fact.
Things had simply gone too smoothly for Abyss.
From the moment of their birth, they had stood at the pinnacle of the Wasteland Species.
They had casually spread their power, constructing an Abyss Realm that belonged to them alone.
In the Wasteland, whenever something caught their eye, they would try to get their hands on it, then turn it into an Abyss Lifeform to play with.
Although they did not understand why those originally interesting things would quickly become boring after being transformed.
But they did not care.
Because once something became boring, couldn't they simply find something new to amuse themselves with?
Until they saw humans.
They loved humans.
Because humans were a race that displayed the traits of every other race, while even producing more interesting things besides.
So quite a few of the things in their collection were humans.
However, collecting humans was also where they were most likely to meet their Waterloo.
The Imperial Sequence Organization, for example.
Or certain powerful individuals.
They even felt that those people were stronger than them... yes! A little, just a little...
But the more that was the case, the more they loved humans.
The harder someone was to catch, the more they wanted to catch them.
And so, they discovered Ye Qiyan.
An Imperial Sequence Member who had obtained an Abyssal Mech they had casually discarded.
So they needed a few insignificant lesser gods to bear their consciousness and allow the Doorway to descend, so they could