Having extinguished the Great Star River World's final resistance, the Great Star River World did not fall silent. Instead, it grew increasingly tumultuous.
Black slime spread endlessly across the land until the entire world had been transformed into a black ocean.
Until every living thing in this world had become part of itself.
The process was slow. From a sufficiently vast perspective, the spreading slime truly seemed like nothing more than a blob of slime slowly expanding.
But on the ground, its rate of spread was faster than even Wizard war airships.
In a single hour, every living creature in the Great Star River World became part of that black ocean.
To protect itself, the Great Star River World's World Origin had no choice but to enter slumber and preserve itself.
But it had still underestimated what this slime was capable of.
After covering the entire world, the black sea began devouring the Great Star River World's matter. As it devoured, black tentacles like IV tubes plunged into the Great Star River World's ley lines.
Yet unlike IV tubes, the sole purpose of these black tentacles piercing the ley lines was to absorb the abundant energy within—
Even a Civilization Devourer could not survive without energy while possessing a material body.
As energy was drawn from the ley lines, a vast wail echoed throughout the Great Star River World.
It was the Great Star River World crying.
But crying could stop nothing.
Once it began extracting ley-line energy, the black ocean suddenly churned.
One blasphemous rune after another surfaced within the black sea. Using an entire world as the foundation of an array, the black sea was activating a colossal summoning array—or rather, a receiving array.
Because the creature about to appear in the present world had not answered a