What is that...

Thing...?!!!

The appearance and fall of the snow mountain were too sudden. The earth seedlings who stared dumbfoundedly upwards could only muster one thought: the massive snow mountain above had already filled everyone's vision.

"Quick, block it!"

Accompanied by a shout mixed with anger and fear, the stout man among the three clan leaders of the earth—known for his blood—suddenly bent down. Countless thick black and blue veins connected him to the earth, like blood vessels, instantly twisting and flipping the entire earth, swallowing all the earth seedlings.

The remaining tall and thin elder and the black-haired woman expanded their forms in response; one transformed into an empty skeleton, the other lost her human form and grew madly like a fungal carpet along the skeleton, covering the former with layers of thick yellow flesh.

Bang!!!

A collision sound, too intense to be described in words, reverberated within the massive cavity deep within the earth. The hastily formed giant of [Bone] and [Flesh] was crushed to its knees by the snow mountain violently thrown down by Leon.

Even though countless small bones were shattered and broken, and broken stones scattered everywhere, creating a rather tragic sight, the entire body did not disband entirely, barely enduring the hit.

Whoosh...

After unconsciously taking a deep breath, the two earth clan leaders expanded the cavity within the earth again, struggling to remove the snow mountain overhead, while the stout man had completed his preparation, with numerous black and blue "blood vessels" binding the earth seedlings, quickly spreading through the gaps between [Bone] and [Flesh].

And with [Blood] in place, the giant earthy-yellow structure assembled by the trio finally faintly resembled a human.

Even though this massive body lacks skin, organs, and facial features, its current form is far from complete. That vast and heavy feeling already possesses enough intimidating power to make one's heart race.

...

Seems like I went a bit easy.

After squinting at the situation below, Leon first frowned and then actively spread his will, locking onto other snow mountains within the Northern Kingdom's territory, activating the effect of the [Man behind the Queen, Off-White] once again.

One, two... Five, six... Nine, ten!

In the shocked eyes of the three clan leaders and earth seedlings, ten enormous snow mountains larger than those before penetrated the earth directly, as if without physical entity, crashing towards the earth's core like meteors!

It's too unbelievable!

Facing an attack ten times the terror it was before, even the stout man, who was the most confident, turned pale and showed a deep look of fear in his eyes.

He never imagined that, being at the pinnacle of all earth seedlings and receiving blessings as the earth's favored child, he would face such ferocious strikes from the "earth"!

"Move quickly!"

Through the [Earth Shell] that connected all the earth seedlings, feeling the confusion and fear of his clan members, the black-haired woman shouted hoarsely, full of regret:

"We are the children of the earth! As long as we actively face it, the snow mountain cannot kill us!"

Yes! We still have the earth's blessings!

Upon hearing the desperate reminder from the black-haired woman, the earth seedlings, whose minds were seized by the snow mountain, finally awoke from great fear, exerting themselves together to advance towards the falling snow mountains.

This [Earth Shell] assembled from [Bone], [Flesh], and [Blood] is the incarnation of the entire earth! As long as it stands on the earth, it can endlessly repair and renew itself, and the snow mountains are also part of the earth!

Earth seedlings will never perish on the earth!

Under Leon's surprised gaze, the earthy-yellow giant, almost the size of half a snow mountain, roared as it leapt upwards, crushed by the first snow mountain with broken bones and torn muscles, but quickly repaired its limbs and roared against the second, third, and fourth snow mountains.

Even though, due to the difference in size and mass, the earthy-yellow giant was shattered by the first snow mountain and ground to pieces by the subsequent ones.

Amazingly, it not only didn't completely vanish, but was rapidly restructured and revived, even starting to reverse devour the snow mountains thrown down by Leon, extracting the earth's power from them and quickly expanding its own form, growing several times larger!

Humans are merely visitors; only we, the earth seedlings, are the true dominators of this land!

Having arduously swallowed the ten snow mountains "sent" by Leon, feeling the unprecedented strength in their grasp, the earth seedlings forming the [Earth Shell] were overwhelmed with joy and looked upwards together.

That black-haired, black-eyed human is indeed terrifying, able to throw down ten snow mountains at once, an ability terrifying enough to instantly destroy a small country if placed elsewhere.

But what he faces now is the earth's favored children! Not only will we not die under his attack, but we can also absorb the snow mountains he throws down, thus becoming more... more...

Looking at Leon's back, at those mountain peaks gradually emerging from nothing, all the earth seedlings staring upwards suddenly opened their mouths wide, with eyes slightly larger than humans filled with despair unbeknownst to themselves.

One, two... Ten, twenty... Ninety! One hundred! A total of one hundred and seventeen snow-topped mountains hung upside down above, crashing down like raindrops.

Above those hundred and seventeen peaks, a hexagonal mountain range larger than all the peaks combined, with sides stretching for hundreds of kilometers, was slowly and unstoppably descending towards the earth's core!

...

It's over... It's all over...

Watching the [Earth Shell] being completely shattered by the thirty-ninth mountain, seeing the compatriots repeatedly crushed to death and resurrected under the relentless snow mountains.

Listening to their screams as they're ground into powder one second and resurrected the next under the earth's blessings, only to be crushed to death again, the cleaner's mother could only laugh bitterly, then closed her eyes in extreme pain.

It seems today marks the final end for all earth seedlings.

In the future she saw, that hexagonal snow mountain spanning the northern icefield, dividing the two kingdoms, would eventually be thrown whole into the earth's core by that man, filling most of the earth's core and sealing all earth seedlings leaving the stone marrow world to death.

And losing the core as a anchor point, the stone marrow world reliant on it would also be hurled from the current world, breaking into dozens of fragments in the impact and scattering with the spatial turbulence.

Even if she wouldn't be killed in the upheaval owing to her connection with Melly's mother, she would lose all her clan members, becoming the only remaining earth seedling in the whole world, the last tear of this race...

Recalling that cold and despairing end, the cleaner's mother broke free from the chair binding her and charged towards the disasters deliberately avoiding her.

Rather than becoming that pathetic last one, let everything end prematurely now!