Chapter 456
The surface of the Black Planet, completely consumed by the Evolution Fluid.
The endless black sea stretched out like liquid night sky.
The surface glistened like oil, but beneath it, a pitch-black darkness loomed, its depth unfathomable.
Occasionally, enormous bubbles would rise to the surface, bursting with a foul stench that mixed the smell of burned rubber and thick oil.
The sky was always covered by thick gray clouds.
Whether it was because the sea level of the black ocean had risen too high, or the clouds were too low, the cloud layer was so close that it seemed as though one could reach out and touch it.
Looking up at the sky, a faint light from the sun could be seen through the haze, but it was only dimly visible, like light filtered through mist.
And sometimes, the rays of the sun, breaking through the clouds, would turn into a sinister black light upon touching the black sea, scattering and fading away.
Once grand mountain ranges now protruded above the black sea like isolated islands.
Eroded cliffs rose toward the sky like sharp teeth, and their surfaces had turned a dark, grim color, melted by the Evolution Fluid.
The land, barely left on the high ground, glowed with a reddish hue, like rotting flesh.
In the air, Evolutionary Objects would drift, but even they couldn’t escape the influence of the Evolution Fluid.
Twisted wings, multiple eyes, and blackened, melted flesh dripped down like goo.
The objects, grotesque from the start, had become even more distorted due to the Evolution Fluid.
In the depths of the black sea, huge shadows could sometimes be seen moving.
Something writhing beneath the surface looked like living seaweed or a giant snake.
Occasionally, tendrils rising from the surface shimmered with a metallic sheen, and their tips were sharp hooks.
In the remaining highlands, what could still be called the surface, remnants of past civilizations lingered.
Eroded buildings and broken roads.
But among the remnants of that civilization, there were no humans—only byproducts of the Evolution Fluid, now in slimy, mutated forms.