Chapter 492: Striders (2/2)

After seeing that Gravis had stayed silent for a while, the Empress smirked. Her horizons had expanded, and with that expanded horizon, she was now able to find more answers to questions she hadn't even had in the past.

”Your explanation has given me a solid guess for another mystery of the world,” the Empress said with a smirk.

”Oh?” Gravis asked.

The Grand Elder mostly remained silent and let the Empress and Gravis talk as he was just thinking about the world and Heaven. Right now, he was questioning a lot of things, which he hadn't questioned before.

The Empress pointed toward her back. ”Look behind my throne, into the distance. What do you see?” she asked.

Gravis was unsure what she was referring to, but he complied anyway.

”I see your Empire,” Gravis said. ”I see some resting beasts, some resources, and some plants, but I still don't get what you want me to look at.”

The Empress chuckled a bit as she shook her head. ”I said look, not use your so-called Spirit.”

Gravis had, obviously, only used his Spirit to look behind her. His eyes wouldn't be able to see any farther than his Spirit Sense's range anyway unless something truly gigantic was far in the distance.

Gravis walked behind the throne and looked past it. Nothing had really changed. He saw the same things. ”I don't get it,” he said after a while.

”Do you see those beasts that look like herbivores?” the Empress asked.

Gravis indeed saw them. They kind of looked like green and brown cows without the horns. ”I see them, so?” Gravis asked.

”Try inspecting them with your Spirit,” she said with a smirk.

Meanwhile, the Grand Elder's eyes widened as he realized what the Empress had just found out. As he thought about it, he also realized how much sense it made. No one had ever questioned the existence of these beasts. After all, they simply existed like any other beast. What differentiated them from the rest?

Gravis moved his Spirit Sense towards the herbivores, but his eyes widened as he realized something terrifying.

His Spirit Sense couldn't reach far enough to feel these herbivores. How was this possible!? His Spirit Sense had a reach of over 150 kilometers!

The Empress saw Gravis' face and giggled. In the past couple of hours, she and the Grand Elder had shown this same look on their faces, but now, it was Gravis' turn.

”These are the Striders, Gravis,” the Empress said. ”They are visible from nearly any location with an Empire on it. They reside in the absolute center of the entire world, the place where only the most powerful Emperors can live.”

Gravis' mind was going crazy. ”But you're only the leader of a level three Empire,” Gravis said in shock.

Normally, such a comment would have been seen as disrespectful, but the Empress understood that Gravis didn't mean it that way.

”Exactly,” she answered with a smirk. ”These striders are over 100,000 kilometers away from here. If you look very closely at their feet, you will realize that they are standing on something white and fluffy. That's the cloud layer. They're not standing on it, but it looks like they are due to them just being that big.”

Gravis still couldn't fully comprehend what he had just witnessed. He had seen these herbivores a couple of times, but he had never even paid any attention to them. To him, they simply looked like some distant cows. Yet, he hadn't known just how distant they were!

Gravis looked at the cloud layer and found that it resided around 20 kilometers above the floor. If that same thing held true at their location, these beasts must be truly massive! Gravis did some quick calculations and found that every single Strider was over 20,000 kilometers tall! This felt incomprehensible to Gravis. On top of that, there were over 20 of them!

”Every single Strider has an above-average power when compared to a level five Emperor,” the Empress explained.

When Gravis heard that, he finally realized why these Striders existed.