Despite the new hardships the Melting brought, the few surviving Critter Crawlers began to rapidly adapt to their new environment. After a few million years, the Critter Crawlers have bounced back from the catastrophe and are now able to survive the Hot areas, even if it isn't comfortable. Many Critter Crawlers become Herbivores, consuming the Icirnit Vines and convert the tremendous amount of Heat and Cooled Magma into nutrients. Some Critter Crawlers grow much faster, larger and sturdier to consume Herbivores, many Carnivores have spikes, deadly stingers, or elongated mandibles. Some Critter Crawlers develop mosquito-like proboscis, shed their Exoskeletons and develop Insectoid wings, to escape Carnivores, and survive by draining nutrients from Icirnit Vines and their Herbivorous Cousins. Many grow minuscule to conserve resources, and begin to burrow crude homes into Icirnit Vines and the ground, surviving off of each other and Icirnit consumption. A handful of Critter Crawlers develop frog-like tongues to more easily consume tiny Critter Crawlers.
With the widened opportunities the Icirnit evolve as well. Most stay somewhat true to their Vine shapes, and simply develop into different niches. Some Vines grow firmer, become much taller, roughly 7-8 feet, and grow elaborately-patterned branches and spoon-shaped leaves to more efficiently gather the acidic rain which has developed a rough cycle not dissimilar to Earth's Water cycle. Many Vines grow smaller, and thinner, wrapping themselves around other, larger Icirnit Vines to leech nutrients as parasites. Others become smaller, and more bush-like, to take advantage of the space between Vine Trees. Soon, many Icirnit Vine Forests flourish alongside the Magma Coastline, but further inland, it is still barren desert, apart from a few very resilient hardy Critter Crawlers.
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Natural Phenomena
-Variety of Critter Crawler and Icirnit Organisms increases drastically.
-Caseus has developed an Acid Rain cycle which many Organisms begin to use as a base in lieu of Magma.
Enam, The INVERSELY-REVERSED GOD, looks upon this disinterestedly, before speaking.
"The World is awfully dry, and very hot. I hope the world cools eventually."