How did Vieira Dune manage to swallow up Mother Earth? After all, Mother Earth was a conceptual entity without any ego. She was an amalgam of data, like a cloud server. However, that meant that it was possible to infect her if Vieira Dune infiltrated her mind like a virus and continued to grow inside it. Luciel’s Soulstone would make the process even more likely.

Many of the gods and demons of the heavenly world had set aside all their differences and cooperated just to catch Luciel. Some even compared him to the Heavenly Demon. Even a remnant of a being like this would be an incredible help to Vieira Dune, who was already on the edge of exuviation.

‘But it’s strange.’ Although Luciel’s Soulstone was a priceless treasure, Mother Earth was as powerful as Luciel, if not stronger. Even if she had no sense of self, she had desire. Didn’t she realize that she was in danger? She must have had some kind of defense mechanism.

But if that were so, that meant that there was only one reason Vieira Dune and Mother Earth had united: ‘Mother Earth wished for it as well.’

Of course, this was only Yeon-woo’s guess. It was also entirely possible that Vieira Dune simply swallowed up her mother, or Mother Earth welcomed her because she had a scheme of her own. Only the...