Chapter 123
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Chapter 123: Major Eye Upgrade! 6/6
Ralekin’s roar traveled through Subspace’s remaining roots into Valaharl.
He commanded his Second Seat subordinate Galadent to resolve Valaharl’s crisis immediately.
Though Ralekin issued this order in panic, it unexpectedly aligned with Galadent’s own thoughts.
"Huh…"
"Correct. We must seize the initiative!"
"Waiting idly would only lead to death."
According to reconnaissance by Outer Gods from the Void, that strange Outer God vanished after killing Obaid following Yusuf’s death and uprooting the second cluster of World Nails.
This being appeared to enter prolonged dormancy.
During this period, the monitoring Outer Gods from the Void spotted him only once—digging a massive pit before refilling it.
This inexplicable behavior provided no reassurance.
Rather than becoming docile, the entity grew more threatening.
Countless mortal Warriors flooded this world through unknown means. Bolstered by powerful reinforcements, the Valaharl people gained significant strength.
They launched aggressive assaults—harassing demon strongholds, thinning demonic presence, gradually steering the world toward "order."
Per ongoing reconnaissance by Outer Gods from the Void, the toppled "World Nails" had been re-erected near Obaid’s demise.
This stood as both brazen mockery and tangible threat.
"Huh…"
"Whoosh…"
The infuriating golden specks multiplied and intensified. Though Galadent could bury himself within the City of Dimensions to avoid irritation, these lights disrupted his Chaos Energy flow, filling his mind with persistent buzzing.
Worse still, Valaharl itself drained Chaos Energy efficiently, accelerating the world’s return to "order."
All developments favored entropy’s decline.
"Fortunately…"
Galadent gazed skyward through his cranial compound eyes.
There…
"Buzz—!"
"Zizz—!"
Several Outer Gods from the Void vibrated translucent wings, darting across the sky—mercenaries hired by Ralekin.
Their Divine Bodies paled beside the Chaos Demon God’s might; some measured merely one-fifth of Galadent’s bulk or smaller.
Their weight proved negligible!
Petite forms naturally lacked potent magic power, rendering them incapable of forbidden spells.
They appeared feeble.
However, compared to other deities, they had an unmatched advantage—mobility.
Flight greatly boosted the mobility of these Outer Gods from the Void, letting them move fast with no barriers.
Though magic was weak against them, living long in the Void gave the Outer Gods high magic resistance.
Wide-area strategic magic couldn’t hurt them badly, and single-target magic couldn’t aim well; in the divine war, they were poor at attacking but tough to kill.
In the divine war, the Outer Gods could harass foes.
Against mortal and demigod armies, they had a crushing edge, easily wiping out those support troops.
High mobility made it hard for regular deities to destroy them physically, and high magic resistance made spells less useful.
These pests became hot items in the mercenary market.
“Good, send them out to cause trouble!”
“Kill mortals and slow that guy down.”
“Hope you can do this!”
—-
“Huff… hiss… huff… hiss…”
Trilobite lay in the cave, snoring real loud.
This was a huge step forward.
How is snoring a big deal?
Well, it really is.
Because to snore, you need lungs!
Fish like lobe-finned fish and cartilaginous fish can’t even snore!
Trilobite could snore freely because he upgraded his swim bladder; he spent twenty thousand Chaos Energy to make it a true lung!
Though far from the alveoli of archosaurs, the double-circulation lungs of lizard-like beings, or the air sac system of bird-neck true dragons, Trilobite now had a real, working lung that could stretch.
He hit the level of early ichthyosaurs.
At least he wasn’t just a "breathing swim bladder" anymore.
He kept his gills but used degeneration scraping to trim extra gill arches, cutting their number and role, making gills a backup for underwater.
Lungs did the main work, gills helped out.
Now, Trilobite took a big leap toward becoming a true terrestrial vertebrate!
But he fell asleep and snored not because the change needed rest; last time, he changed from Pander Fish to Tiktaalik Fish without sleeping, so upgrading one organ didn’t need it either.
Trilobite slept deep because he ate too much.
“Huff… zzz… huff… zzz…”
“Well, sleeping after eating is fine.”
“Better than some who eat but don’t sleep, running around talking trash anywhere.”
“Hmm… back to sleep… can’t sleep now.”
"Time to get up!"
"Uh… ah…"
Trilobite yawned and scanned his surroundings with compound eyes.
"Not bad… not bad…"
【Um… well…】
【What do you see?】
The system sister’s frail yet trembling voice echoed in his mind.
Somehow, Trilobite detected something unusual in that tone –
Fear!?
"Huh?"
Still half-asleep, Trilobite couldn’t immediately grasp her question.
Only when his foggy mind cleared slightly did he understand.
"Oh! This!"
"You’re asking about my eye upgrade?"
Trilobite had truly spent 10,000 Chaos Energy points resolutely upgrading his eyes!
His vision had undergone remarkable enhancement!
"Well… my eyesight improved significantly."
"But you should understand what kind of improvement this is."
【What kind of improvement?】
"Hmm…"
Trilobite turned his head, observing everything through his now "smaller" yet densely packed compound eyes.
"Compound eyes increased from 800 to 4,000 per side, improving resolution about fivefold."
"Now I can count my fin filaments, though that’s all I can distinguish."
"Everything around still looks pixelated."
Human eyes distinguish 0.05mm characters through billions of visual cells working together, achieving 500-million-pixel resolution.
Most arthropods’ vision – one lens per optic nerve – naturally suffers poor resolution.
Prioritizing cost-efficiency, Trilobite chose the insect path over vertebrate or jumping spider evolution.
"However, my motion detection improved dramatically."
Though resolution-limited, Trilobite’s insect-like compound eyes used wide distribution and sequential imaging to greatly enhance dynamic vision.
He could now track high-speed movements invisible to vertebrates or cephalopods.
The trade-off…
remained his poor resolution.
【I see…】
"Specifically, I distinguish 5mm symbols at best. Smaller objects blur into color blocks."
Unbeknownst to him, this 5mm measurement assumed his subjective length was 1.8 meters.
Trilobite inexplicably sensed the system sister sighing in relief.
"Ah, this upgrade followed our predetermined plan."
"Besides, what use is discerning thousandth-scale objects?"
"My true purpose was…"
"Boom—boom—boom—!"
Trilobite swam slowly from the City of Dimensions.
He gazed upward at insects dive-bombing large mushrooms on a "small island"!
"Insects!"
