While his existence achieved a glorious new stage of power due to Assimilating an enemy in The Cavern of Existence, his other body was actually making headway in the First Sea, Abzu.
He had been going across it to try and find other entities that had been spending their time in this Sea erasing the countless Corrupted Growths that rose up over the years. His goal was simple: to see what state they would be in and what information he could obtain from them about Tian, about Observable Existence, about the mysteries that The Groundskeeper had only partially illuminated.
The Groundskeeper was only a singular source of information, and there could be many things he chose not to say. Beings of such profound Depth often had agendas that stretched across eons, motivations that they concealed beneath helpful facades and reasonable explanations. If one wanted the truth, they could only find it out themselves by learning of the bigger picture through multiple perspectives.
