Chapter 228

Chapter 228: Opportunity is for the Prepared "Ones"

“Hmm…”

“Isn’t that a Bunny Lizard?”

Though called "Bunny Lizard," they were neither rabbits nor lizards. Instead, they were small dinosaur-like creatures living in the late Triassic Carnian period. They belonged to the same group as dinosaurs and other dinosaur-like creatures, including Marasuchus.

These animals had long hind legs and long forelimbs. They walked on two legs and mainly ate insects and small lizards.

They could run, jump, and climb trees.

But they weren’t as strange as the "Scything Dragons" Trilobite had seen before. At first glance, they just looked like dinosaurs with long arms.

An outsider might think the Bunny Lizard was a small dromaeosaurid, maybe close to Velociraptor.

Actually, recent studies showed these small animals were more closely related to pterosaurs.

Bunny Lizards and pterosaurs shared thirty-three identical body features.

They might even have been pterosaurs’ ancestors.

At least, they were probably siblings of the pterosaurs’ ancestors.

Their inner ears—the shape of their ear blades—were especially alike. Through scans and 3D skull models, paleontologists also found brain features in Bunny Lizards linked to strong sensing abilities.

Pterosaurs had these same features.

This meant pterosaurs likely prepared their "software"—like sensing and balance—for flight long before they flew.

Truly, opportunity doesn’t come to the unprepared "ones," just like in Earth’s history of life.

“So quit complaining.”

“I cut off your flight parts and made you climb, but I strengthened other things for you.”

“In the software.”

“You’ll feel it soon!”

—-

Honestly, the Outer Gods from the Void serving Barbatos hadn’t been doing well lately.

Star-Eater Plutonium Dragons had come once.

Luckily, it was just a small group, quickly beaten back by the Outer Gods from the Void using "void magic."

But the damage remained.

Sticky, wriggling fluid-like strange creatures spread inside and outside the Fantasy Tree of Subspace. They chewed on the tree’s "law substance" and "magical fibrous," making those spots weak and crumbly.

Wind from the void blew into the tree’s inner chambers, causing disaster after disaster.

The Outer Gods from the Void cleaned as best they could, but the creatures kept coming back. Clear one batch today, new ones appeared tomorrow.

Worse, swarms of "Chaos Nails" sprouted where the sticky creatures had damaged the Fantasy Tree.

They gave off odd energy that canceled out the Chaos Energy inside the tree.

Their spore-like particles poisoned and clogged the Outer Gods’ magical circuits, stopping them from drawing magic from the void.

Still, these were just like a minor cold to the Outer Gods from the Void.

However, if anyone caught a cold every day for a year, they would develop severe exhaustion symptoms.

Above the battlefield, a group of "slime mold-like Monster Gods" and "Chaos Nails" quietly peeked out to observe everything happening there.

They had no eyes and lacked the most basic Soul.

But a vague will still existed, letting them use magic to watch the scene and send it all back to that huge, greedy will through special channels that crossed the void, Sea of Ether, and Crystal Walls.

Of course, the Outer Gods from the Void didn’t know they were being watched.

The "golden spores" released by the "Chaos Nails" had a temporary effect on them that was harmless.

At least, it didn’t cut their agility and speed in void flight by much!

Plus, with so many gods around, they felt bold and attacked this weird "unknown Chaos God" right away.

“Haha—!”

“Go!”

“Use the old trick!”

“Hit and run!”

“Buzz—!”

They chanted low murmurs from the void and rushed at Gimmerly!

“Haha, see what you can do to us?”

—-

Gimmerly stared at the creatures charging at her.

At that moment, the hatred in her heart suddenly vanished.

Because she felt a change.

An inner change.

“Wait…”

“Why did these guys seem to move so slowly?”

“Like in slow motion? And clumsy?”

“Why was it so hard for me before to keep up with their flying, but now it’s easy?”

“Had they weakened?”

Gimmerly thought they might have weakened a bit from something, but it wasn’t the main reason.

A cheetah with a mild cold might not run 32 meters per second, but it could still do over 25; anyway, dropping from cheetah speed to turtle speed was too big a gap.

And the change wasn’t just that.

Gimmerly noticed her body felt light as a swallow; though she had no wings, the soft feathers on her let her feel the wind from the void blowing by.

Even without wings, she felt she could blend into this endless, wide void!

“Whoosh—!”

Gimmerly breathed in deep, letting the magic elements flow through her lung sacs, feeling them sink into every muscle and even her bones.

Then…

“Roar—!”

She let out a long cry, recoiled and launched herself into the air in an astonishing way!

Turbulent waves swept through her fur.

But this did not interfere with her judgment and actions.

She felt her body was so agile, soaring through the air with such grace that it truly felt like flying.

Although this feeling of flying was fleeting.

“Ah—woo—!”

Gimmerly opened her blood-red jaws wide and bit down on the foremost, horrified Outer God.

“Crack—sizzle—!”

The Outer God’s crisp "law substance shell" and flexible "divine muscles" were torn apart and crushed by her sharp teeth, imbued with forbidden spells of destruction; when the delicious "shards of divine rank" turned into liquid and splashed into her mouth, Gimmerly finally knew she had not sacrificed to that "Giant God" in vain!

“Is this what flying feels like?”

In the Outer God’s shock, Gimmerly closed her eyes slightly, savoring the feeling from moments ago.

Three feelings of satisfaction appeared in her soul—satisfaction from merging with the void, satisfaction from devouring the flesh and blood of deities, and satisfaction from her soul absorbing the soul fragments of the Outer Gods, growing stronger!

However, this feeling did not last long.

It could even be described as fleeting.

Soon…

“Roar—ahhhh—!”

A frenzied roar echoed again from the Fantasy Tree of Subspace.

“Giant God—!”

“Blood sacrifice for the Giant God!”

“Flesh for the throne!”

“Roar—ahhhh—!”

Gimmerly let out another frenzied roar and lunged at the Outer Gods scattering and fleeing.

She knew none of these fellows would escape today!

Because she intended to use their flesh and blood to offer a sacrifice to the Giant God and make further exchanges!