4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

The Star of Devouring Things.

Civilized creatures gave this creature such a name due to the countless corpses it was made of.

The 'star' it spoke of was these land masses that had fallen apart and were now joined together again to form a giant creature.

Although the civilized creature did not yet understand exactly how this creature had acquired their completely unrecorded knowledge, it knew the creature's purpose.

And that was to grow.

Like many creatures, it aspired to grow bigger and stronger.

The last hunt was just the beginning ...... The materials the Devouring Stars obtained from their prey allowed them to go on to create the Light of Eternal Motion.

Although they made very little of it this time, they were able to hit it more accurately.

Like last time, the carapace fired the created light, the last time in a very scattered direction, but this time, they were almost all aimed in one direction.

After the Eternal Light was fired, a few eras passed and a huge creature reappeared on .......

This creature was similar to the last one, a creature several kilometers in size.

These creatures are called 'stationary drifters', and they come in many varieties, generally of great size, and float in the surrounding void.

The creature that came this time wasn't dead yet, though it was close, and died the same way it did last time, from being eaten to death by a parasite inside its body, and the light of eternal motion hit it very precisely.

The last time there was a lot of scattering, apparently because the Star of Prey wasn't sure where the target was, so it was shooting all over the place to search for it, but this time it was able to determine the target's location.

Although the civilized creature didn't know exactly how it confirmed this, it clearly had a way of learning and perceiving things.

Once the creature was close enough, a large number of carcasses went straight to the target without the need for roots.

They were mainly equipped with small thrusters, and once aboard the creatures, they began to dismantle them quickly, but of course the civilized creatures went with them.

The civilized creatures studied the giant creatures wandering in the void in some detail this time, and discovered that the giant creatures were essentially a kind of bio-aggregate.

The aggregates were wonderful, because they happened to be somewhat different from the creations with which the civilized creature was familiar.

They had been constructing new creatures out of a variety of internal organs, biological bodies, and other materials, whereas the Devouring Star was made up of a large number of corpses, which could be said to be disassembled structures.

The Drifters, on the other hand, are made up of complete creatures, and the creatures that make up ...... are the same parasitic organisms that live inside them.

These creatures may have lived in places like land masses, and when they run out of local resources, they will start a civil war.

There is a victor in the civil war, which devours the corpses of all the losers and grows larger and larger, eventually reaching a size of several kilometers ...... while they are initially only a few meters in size.

Then the victor, which eventually grows into a giant creature, will have the ability to move through a static void, and they will seek out new resources.

The parasites inside them are also a group of losers, but these losers did not participate in the civil war, they hid everywhere and survived.

After the victors grew and began to move, they lived inside it as parasites.

The creatures themselves have little ability to store anything that moves, and when they grow they have ...... so the parasites themselves can't make much of a difference unless they are hit by an eternal light.

It seems that the Devouring Star also has a deep knowledge of such drifters.

After dismantling the first and the second, it turns out that the shells are using the material to start constructing more creatures to attack with the perpetual light.

This was actually a rather long process, as it took several eras for the Eternal Light to respond when it was fired.

However, every time the Eternal Light was emitted, it was successful.

Only a small portion of these giant creatures were used as emitting materials for the Eternal Light, most of them were used for the Phage Star's own growth.

After the Devouring Star had acquired enough resources, it began to continue growing and transforming.

It didn't just grow randomly this time, but it grew some strange structures.

This structure was actually the power organ of the drifter.

The drifter could move in the static void, relying on a special kind of organ, and now the Phagocyst could create this organ.

However, the number of organs it created could not move all the land masses.

After hunting down ten drifters, it never fired the light of perpetual motion again.

Probably because it realized that the surrounding void was empty of drifters, the Phagocyst gathered most of its body structure into one land mass.

Although it was originally widely distributed, it actually didn't occupy a very large area when its bodies were gathered together.

After it gathered here, it began to transform the land mass, and in addition to creating a large number of bodies, it also created a huge organ on this land mass that was hundreds of kilometers in size.

In fact, the resources obtained from hunting creatures did not allow it to build such a large organ, so the organ was made up of parts of its own body.

At first, the planet seemed to want to keep hunting to grow, but when it realized that this was not working, it concentrated its resources on one land mass to make it move.

Eventually, the other land masses were left, and this one, which had been equipped with organs, left its original location.

It moved deeper into the stillness of the void, but the civilized creatures left with the block.

The particle creature, which had been watching them, was able to follow the land mass away from its original position, and for the first time in many years could see elsewhere in the void.

The journey had begun.

Leaving its original position, which had been affected by the active field, the Phage Star went into repose, but this had no effect on it, as there was a lot of activity stored in the bodies of the land mass and the surface.

Like its name, the Phallus was on a journey to bring destruction to other creatures.

After traveling for some time, the Eater encountered its first target, a shattered world, nothing special, except that it was full of creatures.

The Star of Eater sent a large number of carcasses as an army, killing all the creatures on it as resources to be recycled.

It also excavates the surface of the broken world, taking away all the useful things it can find.

What's special is that even though it killed so many creatures, it didn't kill the civilization that followed it.

After absorbing the resources of one place, it moves on, continuing to move deeper into the void ...... in search of more resources.

The creature would continue to grow like this until some time when it changed.

While 'observing' this information, Lynn also discovered something special.