After stepping inside the camp, I expanded my senses carefully.
My goal is to sense strange auras. Foreign auras filled with violence and destruction.
Just like the ones that I felt from My brother, Earl Riea, and Earl Carmell.
It did not take me long to find another aura like theirs.
Taking another step, I appeared in front of a thirteenth-layer daemon.
Before the daemon could react, I touched his head and rendered him unconscious. Then, I started to feel his aura carefully.
After a few seconds, I frowned.
"As expected, it's him."
The unknown Immortal.
Yes, this daemon has his aura.
No, It's not just his aura. He has been bestowed with his power.
Right now, despite being just a thirteenth-layer practitioner, he will be able to show strength beyond minor gods.
But after examining him carefully, I could not help but smile amusedly.
Well, I should have expected something like this from an Immortal.
Something is wrong with the power that he has bestowed.
Very wrong.
This power indeed gives them strength beyond the limits of mortals, but it has a very heavy side-effect.
It destroys them from inside out, slowly and painlessly.
Judging by my examination, this person should have less than one month left of life.
And if I'm not wrong, it's the same with my brother, Earl Riea, Earl Carmell, and the others that were bestowed with this power.
But–
"Why is he doing this?" I could not help but wonder aloud.
This move of his makes no sense. He is not expecting them to injure me, right? Even if he made them a bit stronger, they are still ants. Unable to injure me in the slightest.
Then, what is his goal? What does he want?
If his end goal is to descend to this world, how is he planning to do that?
I furrowed my brows. Looking at the unconscious daemon, I extended my hand, extracting a bit of the Immortal's power to analyze it better.
But just then, I felt a powerful aura moving through space to arrive at this place.
I frowned. In an instant, my wariness increased to the maximum, and my soul got ready to start a battle.
But then, the newcomer spoke up.
"Don't worry, I'm not an enemy."
I recognized her instantly.
Emerald-green eyes, black hair as deep as the night itself, pointy ears, and a multicolored jewel on her forehead.
She was [Queen of Timeless Distortion]. A powerful Immortal just like me, whose specialties were time and space.
"[Queen]," I murmured with a wary expression. "What are you doing here?"
"Don't worry, [Immortal Soul], I don't come with bad intentions. I was just checking something."
"Something?" I raised an eyebrow, but [Queen] did not reply to my question, obviously not planning to explain why she was here.
Instead, she looked at the trace of power that I was holding in my hand curiously.
"Is it from the Immortal that you said is trying to destroy this world?"
"It is." I nodded. "Why? Do you know something about him?"
"… I indeed do."
I was surprised.
Really? Does she know who he is?
You must understand that I have not gotten any clue about the identity of this Immortal yet. At the very least, neither Ysnay, nor Alice, nor I know who he is.
But now, it looks like the Queen knows who he is.
Seeing my expression of surprise, the Queen furrowed her brows before sighing.
"This one is pretty troublesome. I have not met him personally, but I have seen his traces a pair of times."
"Traces?" I asked curiously.
"Destroyed worlds." [Queen] replied. "I think that you know what it means, right?"
I wrinkled my brows and nodded.
It was just a hypothesis, but I have a pretty good idea of this Immortal's goal and modus operandi.
Going from world to world, invading them and then destroying them.
Finally, when the world is in the middle of being destroyed, he uses them to try to understand [Destruction]."
In other words, he destroys worlds to 'cultivate'.
Pretty crazy, but nothing strange when it comes to Immortals.
I have seen them doing worse things.
"What do you know about him?" I immediately asked.
At this moment, any information that I can learn about him can be useful. In a battle between Immortals, knowledge about the enemy can mean the difference between life and death.
Unfortunately, [Queen] shook her head.
"I don't know much. Just that he specializes in the concept of [Destruction]. I don't know what his Way to Immortality is, though, neither I know much about his battle style."
I see…
What a disappointment. I thought that I could finally learn something about this enemy of mine.
But just then, the [Queen of Timeless Distortion] spoke up again.
"Right, I think that I heard someone mentioning his title once."
"Title? What is it?"
"[Bringer of End and Eternal Destruction]."