"Is this also a human from Herag Star? A lunar visitor who came here even earlier than us?"

Angie had to raise her head to see the full appearance of this "Pioneer."

Even sitting down, this massive "Space Suit" was close to three meters tall; estimating from that, its owner's full height when standing upright should have been close to seven meters.

And.

Despite the baptism of an unimaginably long time that might well be counted in at least hundreds of thousands of years, they could still see the intricate structures within this "Space Suit," utterly different from an ordinary Full Coverage Armor.

Aside from the parts that had completely decayed, the whole thing looked as if it had naturally grown from black gelatinous fibers, likely made from some extremely high-grade demonized plant resin.

Although the remaining portions had already turned into hard fossil, one could still vaguely make out a very simple Life Support System inside.

Simple did not mean impractical; it also indirectly proved how powerful the owner of this "Space Suit" had been.

At least in Aiven's view, using this kind of crude equipment that wasn't much different from a tin can to travel from Herag to the Moon wasn't much different from crossing the vacuum with one's bare body. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Very quickly, he keenly picked out evidence from it that supported his own deduction.

Although the bodily remains inside the "Space Suit" had vanished without a trace.

In the middle of that unknown tree which had grown out from within the "Space Suit," there was, precisely inlaid, a golden fossilized skull.

As expected, the residual Strength Attribute within it did indeed lean toward "Psychic Ability," which was not affected by Magic Elements; moreover, this had been a Divine Creature who, just like Aiven, had initially attained a degree of Immortality.

"Angie, test the age."

"Okay, teacher."

horo——

Spiritual Light flashed in her eyes as Angie reached out to lightly point at that skull and the great tree that no one knew how long it had been growing.

[Witchcraft·Molecular Evolution Clock]

Leonara's original Witchcraft, just like the earliest [Microscopic Vision], had already been popularized within the Life Tree School.

"Teacher, it's 1.5 million years!"

"Mm, in that case it should be from the late period of the Second Era's Ehecoatl Civilization.

The civilization the Goddess mentioned that had already learned to hide in the World Behind the Door, and also the very ones who created that [Era Relic], the obsidian stele back then."

From the Zorjin Calendar he had already learned that the Ehecoatl Civilization was a "food civilization," possessing extremely advanced agricultural techniques and all manner of miraculous crops.

This bizarre forest that had stubbornly grown out of the Space Suit even without sunlight, and then survived for a million years, should be one of those.

So.

After thinking it over briefly, Aiven had already made a guess.

This Divine Creature from the end of the Second Era, who was like a giant.

Most likely, relying on the special nature of his own Extraordinary Ability, he hadn't gone to squeeze into the apparently mainstream World Behind the Door, the Möbius Ring, but had instead tried to make a move on Catrio's Wheel in outer space.

In the Second Era, there hadn't been endless Purifiers in outer space; as long as one could safely cross that 380,000-kilometer distance, it would count as victory.

However, this Pioneer had clearly failed for some unknown reason, even Fallen directly here.

That also cast a shadow over the hearts of Aiven's group, who were similarly chasing after Catrio's Wheel.

"Right, did you all notice? The Magic Element activity here is really high, much higher than in the Broken Star Sea."

As he spoke, Milan actually dispelled the Venom Armor on his body outright, clearly because his Magic-like Technique: Peeping Time Line had allowed him to confirm how suitable this space was.

"Mm, indeed. Even the Golden Kingdom, which is theoretically the place with the highest Magic Element activity in the Material World, can't compare to here."

However, in reality, Spiritual is most active on Herag Star during the Full Moon, and at its dullest during the New Moon.

The Moon was like a relay for Spiritual Energy; that it possessed such extremely high Magic Element activity was within reason.

Of course, Aiven did not forget the other prerequisite for the existence of Spiritual and Extraordinary Power—intelligent beings!

Just as that thought fell.

Ying——!

Chi-chi-chi...

Strange cries suddenly came from Behind the Door, along with rustling sounds.

The group exchanged looks and entered through that already damaged door in a defensive formation.

The instant they saw what lay Behind the Door, the women in the party couldn't help exclaiming again and again:

"Wow! It's so beautiful!"

"The inside of such an ugly-looking Moon could actually be this pretty?"

"..."

Even though Aiven had long since guessed from changes in surface vibrations that the Moon might be "hollow," he had never imagined that such a spectacular Ecosystem would have formed beneath the surface.

The "sky" was at least several hundred meters high; on the ground there were mountains and rivers, forests and grasslands, and countless kinds of animals and insects.

Although this was an underground world without the energy of a Fixed Star to sustain its entire Ecosystem, it possessed extremely strong Spiritual Energy.

The most eye-catching feature was a green band of light cutting across their field of vision like a river—that was Magic Elements that had almost solidified into substance!

All the creatures living here possessed all sorts of luminous organs—animals, plants, insects, fungi... dazzlingly beautiful.

Even by their standards of aesthetics, they had to admit this was a birdsong-and-fragrance paradise beyond the world.

And their arrival seemed to attract the attention of many local residents as well—blue hummingbirds, multicolored butterflies, elk with fluorescent antlers...

All kinds of strangely shaped yet undeniably beautiful creatures were converging toward them from every direction.

Just then, Liweina, who as a Warrior walked the outer edge of the formation with her sword, stretched out her hand in curiosity, about to catch a beautiful butterfly that had flown past her side.

"Don't touch it!"

Olivia, Aiven, and Milan spoke at the same time.

Olivia's [True Sight Demon Eye] had no direct offensive power, but could delve into the essence of all things in the world: material composition, transformation laws, weak points to break through...

Aiven's [Eye of Profound Wisdom] was connected to the "World Root Source."

It could see through phenomena to essence, infer the whole from the slightest clue, discern weak points, decode ciphers, capture all forms of information (biological pheromones, infrasound, warning colors...), and discover the before-and-after links, development trends, Remote Vision, detection, and so on.

Milan's [Magic-like Technique: Peeping Time Line] was even more unreasonable, able to select the Time Line most favorable to himself.

The scene that looked so harmonious and beautiful on the surface was instantly seen through by the three's Talent Magic.

Everything was shrouded in a woven illusion!

Buzz!

Without another word, a golden wave of light spread out from Aiven's body.

Within the ten-kilometer radius covered by the golden light, all scenery changed to a completely different appearance.

Eee—!

How to put it?

Grotesque!

Even among all the Ancient Gods and Ancient God's Followers Aiven had ever seen, these things, now restored to their true forms, ranked among the most grotesque.

No matter what animal they had originally been, under the illumination of the golden Spiritual Light they had all turned into the same species, differing only in size.

Their heads were like jellyfish, topped with a translucent, thick, fleshy bell, and hanging beneath were things like tattered human blood vessels and viscera, yet also like jellyfish tentacles or the shriveled, emaciated limbs of reptiles.

Seeing this sight.

Liweina, lacking adventuring experience and standing at the very outer edge of the group, almost screamed aloud, and even the battle-hardened Anita, Olivia, and Angie turned pale.

The grotesque creatures, realizing their disguises had failed, let out piercing shrieks and hurled themselves toward them all at once.

Bang!

A large cluster of thorny white roses instantly blossomed beneath Liweina's feet.

With a fierce stomp, blood-colored liquid splashed from the white petals, and in an instant all the white roses in sight were dyed blood-red.

Swaying slightly, they turned into a river of blood that surged toward those creatures.

Then it exploded into countless rose stems as thick as giant iron-colored tree trunks, mottled and bristling with thorns, and on them bloomed tens of thousands of bright, blood-like red roses the size of washbasins.

Clearly, because she was so terrified, Liweina had gone all-out in that instant.

[Heart Image: Rose Burial Ceremony]

Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!...

As the grotesque creatures leaping close were shredded by the immense power of a Titled Knight, Aiven's [Eye of Profound Wisdom] finished its analysis of them.

The Magic Element Light River and the plants were real, but the ultra–Spirit-rich environment had also given birth to this group of half-flesh, half-energy "Energy-devouring Beasts" of chaotic Attributes.

They came from before the First Era, and had clearly undergone the "natural selection" of Era Catastrophes.

Unlike humans, whose adaptability was weaker and who were also constrained by the World Will, these beings had clearly taken another evolutionary path.

They had completely lost control and become warped, their bodies simultaneously accommodating Spiritual Rules from all past Eras, like mutated organisms living amid nuclear waste.

Yet although they had survived with such chaotic, disorderly Attributes, and even persisted from pre-Era times all the way to the current Fifth Era...

It was as if they had sacrificed almost all Reason and self-awareness, leaving only the most basic instincts of feeding and reproduction.

Just then.

"Careful, a big one is coming."

From the extremely distant sky, a high-ranking individual, impossible to describe, slowly drifted toward them.

Blood vessels and nerves clung to a bloody, gigantic human skeleton, and on its neck sat a round, gray-white tumorous mass like a moon, as if it were a blasphemous product of a human brain's uncontrolled, monstrous proliferation.

From the deep ravines on it extended six thick, alien nerve synapses, whose ends had turned into lizard-like claws.

"Moon God!"

"Moon God!"

Frenzied and blood-reeking, chaotic and witless.

"There really is a Moon God?"

One like Xihe, like Chang'e, like Artemis...hazy yet beautiful.

But this one seemed like a bizarre entity completely dominated by bestiality.