Chapter 16: The numbers are rising
The rock learned something new. Silence now sounds different because it didn't know the contrast before.
Silence and singing. Beautiful and... Destruction.
The rock was thrown out of the planet's crust, out of its temporary shell, which was still as hard as a diamond.
It sank deeper and deeper, trying to escape silence and destruction. On the surface there was destruction, but below there was silence. It doesn't want to hear either.
There is no way to escape.
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1/1 Philosophical Breakthrough!
You've reached cultivation level 9!
You are now in the [Planetary Realm] realm.
Statistics!
Energy level (E) = 1 000 000 MW
Core Thermal (T): 5000K
Field size (d): 100000.0 km
Progression to the next area = ??
Its territory grew larger and wider, and the rock once again heard the sound of destruction above. Smash the earth, smash the mountains.
It's not music.
It wants music.
It escaped deeper, sinking further towards the center of the Earth, away from it all. But it found more silence.
The shock wave ends the propagation around the Earth.
Splash Damage Calculation:
201 021 321 x [civil] & 51 223 001 123 x [birds] and ERROR_INTEGER_OVERFLOW
Settle......
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ERROR_INTEGER_OVERFLOW / 20000 xp
Discard overflow XP
You've reached level 12!
Statistics!
Weight (m): 1 069 226.4kg -> 8 553 811.5kg
Diameter (d): 9.23m -> 18.45m
HP: 144 -> 233
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Kill two birds with one stone
Causes more than 20% damage to birds
Numbers, numbers, so many numbers – all on the rise.
But now it's silent. The rock was so deep that no music could be heard. It doesn't feel a beautiful flame. It really wanted to do that. It is not depressing. It's not sad. It doesn't shock.
But it does have a sense of loss. Setback. This is a greater loss than it had felt before, as the rock never really lost anything noteworthy.
There is no beauty in the sky and no music. All it senses is destruction. Fire storms, magma, shattered surfaces. Not even sunlight was there, as the boundless clouds of dust and ash covered the sky, blocking out the daylight and leaving the land below forever dark.
The loss hit it deeply, so the rock tried to burn the sound out of its head because it didn't want to remember what it had lost.
But the stone does not have and cannot be forgotten. It's all seared in its mind.
It. OK. No. Forget.
That last-minute music played over and over again in its head, teasing the continuation of the melody that the rock would never hear.
Lose...... It lost something.
The rock didn't even properly process the numbers it got as it sank deeper and deeper into the Earth's mantle. It did not move when the planet let out its last trembling dying breath, nor did it move when it felt the presence around it fade away, foreshadowing the most powerful cues.
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Ki
slaye
Causing more than 20% harm to your parents and other family members
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Class Merge Unlock!
Merge [Interstellar] and [Cultivator] into [Planet]?
Y / N
Congratulations!
You are now level 12 [Planet]!
Start the planetary fusion process...
It took the hint just to make it disappear faster. But it doesn't take into account the results. It doesn't look at new data. It does not observe itself growing, merging with what surrounds it to become the biggest thing.
Now, it doesn't care.
No, there was only one thing stuck to that stone. It loses something, so it needs to get something. There's a balance in the world, right? A certain amount of energy becomes a certain amount of momentum. It gets it. The world moves in balance.
It has put all its efforts into its exploration. The exploration is still ongoing. Waiting to be realized. The distance indicator has bottomed out, but the quest takes a lot of time to unlock.
So, the rewards are certainly appropriate.
The rock clung to hope. Can this quest bring back music?
It didn't shed tears. It has no despair. Because it's a rock, these things are not in its nature. For most problems, rocks always have a simple solution.
So it waits.
Wait.
Wait.
But the music didn't come back. It heard this voice in its head all the time.
So the rock finally understood the true meaning of loss. Because waiting has never been difficult. Now it can't wait. This is wrong.
It should have been easy.
Nature.
So it struggled in waiting, and the planets rumbled above it, getting closer and closer to the rocks.
However, in the end......
The pursuit of tutorials
launch
Reach the foot of the mountain.
Current height: 0
Difficulty: Legendary
Reward:?? (Legendary)
Settle......