VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

Elio used his skill and analyzed the entire lake that he could see before him. He analysed the entire structure of this lake, every single element that existed inside of it as well as things that made up this lake. There were various elements of this lake that were unique, like the giant fishes that existed here however, he was not interested in them.

"What's that?" There was something at the very center of this lake and at the bottom of it at that which attracted his attention.

{ "Hmm?" }

The creatures that had come with them were now scattered around the entire lake, playing by the edge of the lake or inside the water. It did not seem like the giant fishes were interested in these creatures, and Elio had not known the reason for that until a while ago.

But, now that he knew how there come a day when countless monsters of high level come up to this paradise in search of salvation, he knew the creatures that get to feast upon these great beings was none other than these fishes.

They ate those monsters, at least their dead bodies, or the ones that were alredy deadly with by this divine beast and they grew with those bodies and got stronger. That was how they got so big and that was how they were of such a high level despite their relative simplicity.

They had evolved in this way and they were not simple creatures anymore. They were stronger, more intelligent beings that weren't interested in the flesh of these simple animals anymore.

Aside from a few that fancied their brains, they were only interested in those crisped monsters that fell into this lake after the upside down waterfall stopped.

{ "That seems to be like the core of this forest… well, I don't really know either. I can't go down there anyway so I've never seen that thing or known much about that." }

"You can't go down there? Is there some kind of barrier or something? Or is there some other problem?"

Elio wanted to know why this amazing creature was being like this… it actually looked a little unsure about this lake, it almost seemed a little fearful.

{ "It's not like there's a barrier or something… I don't like water. That's all." }

It almost shivered as if it was thinking about something it absolutely hated or could not bear.

It was the same kind of reaction that children have when their mom forces them to eat their vegetables.
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It seemed like the divine creature did not like water, though, at the same time, Elio knew the water wasn't a weakness of this creature since he had seen it fight the aural monsters around the upside down waterfall that appears on the red nights.

"So you've never gone down there?"

{ "Why should I? It's not like that thing is anything important. It's simply something that maintains the natural stability of this place, it's not like getting that thing will change the winds above us." }

The concept of core was a little different here, as the creature started explaining to them.

The core in this context meant the center, the absolute center of something, and this entire forest, and this entire paradise for that matter was a plain with that thing as the center of it all.

The creature did not know it was something important or something that mattered, but it explained to them that it did not have any special presence to it that could indicate some unique characteristics.

It was simply something, something unique, but at the same time, something that didn't really catch the attention of this divine beast.

"Don't you find it strange though?"

Elio looked at the pretty purple eyes of this creature with a smile and then looked back at the absurd data that was presented to him.

That thing was a blank, even to his eyes that had given him not only the map of this lake, but also a detailed analysis of each element of this lake.

"You're a divine creature, you have divinity, you are curious and though you don't like water, you know pretty much everything about this place.

If I ask you about anything present in this lake, you'd know about it or at least a little about it. But, not that thing."

The only thing that this divine creature knew about that thing was how that was the core of this place, that too was not because it knew anything about thing but because it knew about the characteristics of the things that existed alongside that thing.

Now that Elio had raised the question, the creature thought about it as well…

{ "Hmmmm… you're right, human." }

There was something more to that thing.

It wasn't that this creature did not know about it or was interested in it. Whatever that thing was, neither his eyes that could see past this creature's concealment nor the divine creature themselves knew anything about that thing and they didn't even want to know about it for some reason.

Elio also had an innate feeling that whatever it was, it wasn't of any great importance, and that very contradicting thought made it a little weird.

"Will I get hurt if I go down there?"

[{ Master? You want to go down there? With those fishes? }]

Sera was worried, and her worries were valid.

Those things down there were not something simple, and as this creature had just said, it did not like water and would not come down with them.

They would be on their own if they go down, and that lake was already saturated with Mana so they will also have to make use a barrier scroll along with his newly learned spells if they wanted to go down there.

"We will have to go there, Sera. I have a feeling that we will know how to get out of here if we go down there."

He didn't know why he had that feeling, but he could feel it… there was something about that thing that corresponded with the 'blankness' of this place.

There was something about it that also made his Eyes curious so, he had to go down there, and to go down there…

"Will you come with us?"

{ "Oh, no! Why would I?!" }

He will have to use his special spells that he had created for just a day like this one.