You may have noticed somethings about the dragons. Like, how they are able to casually break the sound barrier, or how fast their regeneration are. And I will admit. They are faster than many dragons. That is because And maybe the male Platinum dragon survived a fatal and un-survivable fall and then healed from those injuries after a few days, but...

Yeah, I have nothing against that point. That was just an extra ability I gave the dragons because I wanted to. But who cares? It won't cause any change that would risk the extinction of all life on my planet.

Besides, they are the custodians of my planet. They need to be extra powerful to do their job well.

And I might have made a mistake due to oversight. The White dragons are too comfortable in their location. They have been there for their entire 28 years of living and almost caused the ecosystem in the frozen tundra to collapse multiple times over these years.

In those areas, they are the alpha. All animals are terrified of them. Well, except for the human-sized Ermines, but that doesn't matter. They are too strong and have no natural predators.

The Platinum dragons at least move through the mountain range, never staying in one place or hunting the same species of animals. In that area, those white dragons might destroy the ecosystem.

I should... No. I need to do something.

I called up my status screen, looking at my CE. I had 10 CE with a long list of decimals. It should have taken me ten billion years to get 1 CE, but with the many lives lost in these 28 years, courtesy of dragons and Giga-animals, especially the Giga-snakes, I gained a lot of CE.

Ten CE should be enough to fix this oversight of mine.

While I fix it, we should visit the second-largest continent on this planet. It is one of the two continents on the old day side, and located on this continent is the largest forest on the entire planet.

This forest extends across more than half of the entire continent, covering 72 million square kilometers of land. For comparison, Eurasia is only 54.76 million km².

Although this massive expanse of trees appears as one forest, it is actually composed of three general types of forests; temperate, tropical, and boreal, with temperatures ranging from freezing taiga, warm and moist rainforest, to dry forest. There exists a wide range of temperatures in the forest because it stretches from the planet's equator to the far north of the continent.

It is like a forest composed of hundreds of other forests.

I call it a rainforest because the two types of rainforest, temperate and tropical rainforest, account for 1/3 of this expanse of trees. And out of these two forests, the tropical rainforest is the largest, so I call it a tropical rainforest.

"Hmm..." I should stop calling it a tropical rainforest. That's a misleading name. It's a spacious area covered in trees, so I should name it the Great Expanse of Trees. That's a way better name than calling it a tropical rainforest.

Either way, somewhere in this Great Expanse of Trees is an evergreen forest.

The main bulk of the trees in this area are redwoods, pines, firs, and cycads. These trees are spread quite far apart, rarely touching one another. The soil here is not rich in minerals and quite sandy, so it lacks the variety of vegetation found in other parts of the forest.

Somewhere in this part of the forest, there is a large patch of land with no trees. Instead, the ground in this area was covered in tall grass, beautiful flowers, and large tree stumps belonging to trees that once stood there.

Suddenly, a redwood tree that was once standing tall at the edge of this empty area started falling to the side. It looked so slow, but it was actually falling quite fast, but its large size made it appear slower.

With a loud boom that reverberated through the forest, the tree collided with the ground, sending out dust. Just then, a massive centipede crawled onto the fallen redwood tree, the disturbing noise it made while it moved could be heard from far away.

This centipede has a similar appearance to normal centipedes, with a flattened, segmented body, long antennae, and many legs. However, it is significantly larger, being over 19 meters long and 3 meters wide. It has 75 segments in its body, with each body segment having one pair of large, jointed legs attached to it.

A dense, flexible exoskeleton that covers its entire body is thick, and dark brown in color, with long and thin antennae and a pair of large, curved hollow fangs on the first segment of its body.

This massive centipede bit down on the bark of the redwood tree with its mouth below its head. With no problem, it bit into the relatively thick tree bark and ate it. Without raising its head, it kept eating the tree at a surprisingly fast pace, digging deeper into the tree's trunk.

The centipede kept crawling into the redwood's trunk as it ate, and soon, its 19 meters long body disappeared into the tree. However, one could still hear the loud snaps and crunches as the beast kept eating the tree from the inside.

Soon, it reached the upper part of the tree, where the redwood trunk wasn't wide enough to fit its entire body inside, so it broke the bark and crawled out of the tree.

About 80% of the redwood tree is hollow inside, with centipedes devouring most of the wood. Despite that, it continued to eat. It quickly ate the leaves at the top of the tree, then the branches, before finishing the rest of the trunk.

Now, there was nothing on the ground. Within five minutes, the 95-meter-tall Coast redwood tree had been devoured by the giant centipede. Only the once tall and alive tree's stump remained, with some leaves and branches that it didn't bother to eat.

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Crash!

Another redwood tree fell that shook the ground, drawing the massive centipede's attention. A second giant centipede moved toward the fallen tree and started devouring it like a starving animal. It didn't bother hollowing out the tree as the first centipede had done and just ate the whole thing, from bottom to top. Like a bloody rat dropped in a tank filled with hungry piranhas, the 90-meter-tall redwood tree disappeared almost instantly.

The first centipede made a noise, turning away from its disorganized eating companion, and crawling ahead to the next redwood. When it was about to reach its next victim, it suddenly stopped and raised its head 5 meters off the ground, its long antennae twitching.

The second one did the same action, and they stayed still for a few seconds before suddenly bringing their heads back to the ground. They then used their strong jaws to dig through the solid earth and burrow underground.

Their speed of borrowing was lightning fast, and in less than a few seconds, their 18 meters long body was underground, using their tail to cover the path behind them.

In only five seconds, the clearing was now empty. There was no trace of the giant centipede ever being, except for the mark left on the ground when the two redwood trees fell.

A soft wind blew through the plane, swaying the grass softly. Suddenly, from the shadow of the treelines emerged a Tyrannosaurus Rex, more massive than any T. Rex that ever lived on earth.

It measured 17 meters long with its tail, stood 6 meters tall, and weighed over 10 tons. It had an extremely muscular body with thick, powerful legs, a long tail, and sharp, blade-like teeth. Its tough, dry, dark-green scales were arranged on its body, with its underside a lighter shade of green.

It scanned the area with its eyes while sniffing the air, searching for something. Seeing nothing, a deep gruff escaped its throat, exhaling strongly from its nose. Turning around, the T. Rex walked back into the forest, its tail slowly swaying behind it.

Despite its massive size, its movement was almost entirely silent, and it moved with the elegance of a cat. It knew where it should walk to avoid the spot that would make the most noise while still keeping its senses heightened for signs of prey.

Further into the forest, the T. rex noticed a group of dacentrurus feasting on the ferns and mosses. They didn't take note of it standing there. I mean, how could they? It is the king of stealth. Nothing would ever notice when it is sneaking up to---

Boom!

A loud noise reverberated through the forest as the ground shook, the shaking earth causing the dacentrurus to bounce up. The commotion caused them all to raise their head from eating, almost immediately noticing the Tyrannosaurus Rex in the shadow of the tree. Its entire body was covered in the shadow, with only its crimson red eyes glowing in the shadow, staring unblinkingly at them.

Screams escaped the dacentrurus mouths as they scrambled in all directions as fast as their legs could take them. The T. rex could have chased them and would have caught whoever it chased, but it ignored them and turned around, dashing through the forest and returning to the forest clearing where the noise came from, only to find nothing.

It didn't see any beings but noticed the freshly engraved mark on the ground signaling a newly fallen tree. They were here. Those massive centipedes it wanted to eat were here.

It could still smell their scent in this place.

The T. Rex has eaten many of the creatures in this area of the Great Expanse of Trees. From the two-meter tall giant Praying Mantis-like creatures to the variant species of punching Praying Mantis to the giant wasp-like creatures capable of hunting Black Mamba-sized snakes.

It has even killed a few animals that had ventured out of the poisonous forest area of this Great Expanse of Trees, where all the animals are dangerously poisonous or venomous.

It is the Apex on this land, and it knows it. Its fighting and hunting prowess were off the charts, unchallenged in this part of the Great Expanse. But those two creatures. Those two massive centipede-like creatures were impossible to catch.

Since the first day it saw them decades ago, it has always wanted to have a taste of them. Back then, they were small and smelled like the most delicious meal. But it could never catch them. It is confident in its stealth, but those guys always knew when it was coming, and they quickly burrow into the ground, disappearing out of range.

Now that they had grown larger, it wanted to fight them more than eat them. It wished to kill such a massive beast and prove that size doesn't equal power. Additionally, despite their gigantism, they always ran when it got close, so it was confident they were weak, and it would win.

The T. Rex grunted, hiding within the shadows of the trees, lying down on the forest ground and blending in. They always come back to eat more trees, and the redwood in this area seems to be a favorite, so it had to wait.

So it did. Like a true predator, the T. rex remained stationary for hours, even when a four-legged bird landed on its snout. Animals wandered by it without noticing it. And when some do, they instantly ran with all their might in the opposite direction.

Hours later, the massive T. Rex stood up, the four-legged bird that had fallen asleep on its snout quickly flying away. 'Maybe they have eaten their fill.' It thought, stretching its legs, tail, neck, and small arms. 'I will catch and kill them one day.' It vowed, turning around and walking.

Its stomach growled loudly, signaling how hungry it was. It had eaten in the morning, and it was about time for dinner. With how hungry it was, it felt like it could eat multiple Allosauruses and not be---

Crash!

Its train of thought was cut off by the thunder of two trees falling simultaneously, coming from the clearing it had just left. Turning around, the T. Rex sprinted through the forest, moving at over 80 km/h, a feat that shouldn't be possible for an animal of its size.

It sprinted out into the forest clearing, not even bothering to be stealthy, only to be met with an empty forest clearing. There was nothing there, but it could smell the remnant scent of the centipedes, and there were two new marks on the ground, exposing the fact that two new redwoods had fallen and had been consumed.

The T. Rex let out a thunderous, rage-filled roar heard 900 km away. 'I will kill them!' It roared, walking through the clearing. How could they play with it? They waited for it to leave before returning to eat before running away like scared cats when it returned.

It let out another roar, calling for the giant centipedes. "FIGHT ME!" It roared, slamming its tail on the ground. It challenged the two giant centipedes to a fight. It was going to kill them! TODAY!

Rumble!

The ground below began to shake, causing the T. Rex to stumble, but it managed to catch its balance and avoid falling. Feeling the shaking getting heavier, it looked at the ground, noticing the earth below had begun to crack.

Before it could react, a centipede shot out of the ground below it and slammed its head into the T. Rex's abdomen at lightning-fast speed, the force throwing it 30 meters into the air. The T. Rex roared in pain, feeling multiple of its rips shattered.

As it began to fall down from 30 meters in the air, it quickly twisted its body, trying to arrange itself to take the least amount of damage when it met the ground. It braised itself, but it didn't expect what came.

When it slammed into the ground from the 30 meters drop, an intense pain surged through its body, pushing the air out of its lungs. Stars filled its eyes as it choked, the loss stopping it from making any noise. The force of the fall had broken its left hand and tail, ruptured some organs, and twisted its right leg in the wrong direction.

The earth began to rumble again, and the T. Rex quickly sucked in a mouthful of air and stood up. It ignored the torturous pain surging through its entire body, especially when it leaned on its right leg, and quickly jumped to the side.

Immediately after it moved, the earth where it was once lying broke apart, with one of the centipedes shooting up from the spot like a bullet, its head rising 4 meters into the air. Realizing it had missed its intended target, the centipede quickly moved backward, crawling back down the hole and disappearing into the earth.

Without having the chance to catch its breath, the earth below the T. Rex parted again. It managed to leap out of the way, narrowly avoiding the headbutt of one of them.

But it landed wrongly, mistakenly putting all its weight on its already twisted right leg. As a result, the leg snapped like a twig. This ripping pain shot through its body, so all-consuming that it forgot what it was doing and fell to the ground.

By the time it regained its sense of reality, the ground began to shake again. With its head on the ground, it could hear the centipedes tunneling through the earth at lightning-fast speed, but no matter how it tried, it couldn't move. Its body wouldn't listen to it.

With this, it knew this was its end.

But contrary to its expectations, the centipedes did not emerge from the earth below it to finish it off, but some feet away from it. They rose 9 meters into the air before looking down at the T. Rex lying motionless on the ground. Only half of their body was out of the ground, with the other half remaining underground.

From 9 meters up in the air, these two gigantic beasts stared at the T. rex, who remained motionless. Even though it wanted to move, it couldn't. One of the centipedes suddenly moved its head toward the ground, bringing it closer to the T. rex.

Its antennae twitched before it made a noise. With this, it began crawling back into the hole it came out of, the second one doing the same. They soon disappeared back into the earth, covering the hole they had made.

The T. Rex glanced at the sky. The sun was setting over the horizon, bathing the sky in a magnificent orange and gold color. It closed its eyes, feeling its end nearing.

It challenged them to a fight and was defeated by them. Even though it was only one, it would have still won. There was nothing it could do against their tactics. It was at their mercy throughout the entire fight.

Who would have thought such a meek animal will be so strong. It couldn't help but ask itself, 'why would they run if they were this powerful? It didn't know the answer, but one thing was certain. It had greatly underestimated them and now it is paying the price for its mistake.

The Tyrannosaurus Rex closed its eyes, letting the cool breeze wash over its body as it accepted its fate.