212: Chapter 211 Eating the Devouring World Insect Queen, Brother evolves again.

Blocking the gate.

Luo Yu's eyelid twitched.

Using the Old Ones as a plug... what exactly is hidden beneath this lake?

Godzilla was woken up.

The king of the titans raised his head, let out a yawn, and then looked down at the whirlpool that had caused his food bowl to leak, a low purr rumbling in his throat.

Waking up on the wrong side of the bed.

Coupled with the resentment of having his food bowl smashed.

In the center of the whirlpool, the purple-gold liquid had been drained, revealing the true face of the lake bottom.

It was a black hole.

Not a black hole in the astronomical sense.

But a spatial rift that could swallow even light.

At the edge of the rift,

the purple-gold crystalline rock layers were breaking apart and peeling away.

The spatial barrier was vibrating.

Cracks visible to the naked eye, resembling a spiderweb, spread out from the edges of the black hole in all directions.

"Retreat!"

Abaddon roared.

The Three Kings retreated several kilometers in unison, not stopping until they reached the edge of the underground space.

Luo Yu did not retreat.

Godzilla did not retreat either.

"What is that?"

Luo Yu stared at the black hole.

Abaddon's voice came from far away, his tone trembling: "World-Eater Bugs, the original inhabitants of the Abyss before the Old Ones. We thought they had gone extinct long ago."

World-Eater Bugs.

A very straightforward name.

There was movement within the black hole.

No earth-shattering roar.

Only a tooth-grinding, rustling sound of friction.

A mass of grey mist gushed out from the black hole. The mist rose and, after leaving the black hole, quickly spread in all directions.

Luo Yu focused his gaze to look closer.

That wasn't mist at all.

It was countless tiny beetles, only about the size of a fingernail.

Their bodies were entirely greyish-white, they had no eyes, and their mouths occupied most of their bodies.

The numbers were too great to calculate, gathering together like a grey cloud that blotted out the sky.

Wherever the grey cloud passed,

the purple-gold liquid Origin energy simply vanished. There wasn't even a process of evaporation; it was thoroughly and completely devoured.

"These things eat energy?" Luo Yu asked.

"They eat everything!" Abaddon replied urgently. "Space, energy, matter, spirit. Forty-seven thousand years ago, we never even saw their shadows; we only saw records on the most ancient Abyss Stone Tablets. The Old Ones exhausted their entire race's strength, throwing their lives into the lake bottom to Seal them in the spatial cracks."

The grey cloud circled above the lake surface.

They were searching for food.

Soon,

they locked onto their target.

In the underground space, besides The Three Kings, only Godzilla remained standing by the lake.

A branch of the grey cloud split off and headed straight for Abaddon.

Abaddon was greatly alarmed and opened his mouth to spit out a blast of dragon breath.

The dark red flames collided with the grey cloud.

There was no burning.

The flames were enveloped by the grey cloud and were gnawed clean within seconds. Instead, the volume of the grey cloud expanded a bit.

Energy attacks were ineffective.

Abaddon turned and ran.

The remaining main body of the grey cloud set its sights on the most massive entity, Godzilla.

The sky-covering grey swarm pounced.

Su Zhiruo's fingers flew as a spatial formation unfolded in front of Godzilla.

The grey cloud slammed into the spatial barrier.

A crunching, chewing sound rang out.

The light of the spatial formation quickly dimmed.

"They are eating the spatial wall," Su Zhiruo spoke rapidly. "The formation won't hold for ten seconds."

Luo Yu patted Godzilla's scales.

"Godzilla, you're awake now, right?"

Godzilla stood up straight.

The nineteen-hundred-meter-tall king of the titans looked down at this swarm of tiny bugs flying toward him.

"Hiss."

Translation: What kind of things dare to come and snatch my food bowl?

Then,

the spatial formation's barrier shattered at the seventh second, its fragments swept away by the swarm.

The swarm pounced on Godzilla without any obstruction.

They attached themselves to the black-red scales.

The sound of chewing became a single continuous noise.

Abaddon stopped in the distance and looked back.

He had seen the records on the Abyss Stone Tablets with his own eyes: when the World-Eater Bugs pass through, everything becomes void. Even skeletons with the hardness of the Old Ones would be gnawed until only a wreck remained.

Could Godzilla's scales hold out?

Luo Yu stood in the horn groove, looking at the greyish-white bugs crawling all over the surrounding scales.

He did not activate the Atomic Shield.

He allowed a few bugs to land near his feet.

One World-Eater Bug opened its mouth, which took up most of its body, and bit down on the sole of Luo Yu's shoe.

The sound of teeth snapping.

Luo Yu's Physical Body strength had long since reached an inconceivable level due to the spiritual power feedback. For these fingernail-sized bugs to want to bite through his defense, they were lacking quite a bit of heat.

But when they bit Godzilla's scales, the situation was different.

The atomic bonding of the Planet-level scales was extremely tight, and the physical defense was maxed out.

However, the World-Eater Bugs' method of attack was not purely physical.

They were gnawing on the energy field on the surface of the scales.

Godzilla sensed something unusual.

It felt like countless mosquitoes were biting him; it didn't hurt, but it was itchy.

Very itchy.

"Hiss!"

Godzilla whipped his tail.

The swarm was flung away by the powerful kinetic energy, but they quickly flew back like maggots on a bone.

Energy attacks would be devoured, and physical attacks couldn't disperse the swarm.

These things were indeed troublesome.

The Three Kings watched from a distance with their hearts in their throats.

Belial had already begun calculating an escape route. If Godzilla couldn't stop them, they would all be finished here today.

The swarm was still gushing out from the black hole incessantly.

One-third of the remaining half of the purple-gold liquid in the lake had already been eaten.

Luo Yu looked at the System panel.

There were no danger warnings.

This meant these bugs posed no substantial threat to Godzilla.

"Godzilla, give yourself a shake," Luo Yu said.

Godzilla's chest cavity expanded.

The light patterns on his dorsal fins did not light up from the tip of the tail in the usual order.

Instead, a crimson light simultaneously seeped out from the gaps in his scales all over his body.

His surface temperature spiked.

From five thousand degrees,

it soared directly to a hundred thousand degrees.

This wasn't a breath attack.

This was the passive heat dissipation of the Red Lotus Domain.

The World-Eater Bugs attached to the scales didn't even have time to scream before they were directly vaporized.

A hole appeared in the grey cloud.

A hundred thousand degrees of high temperature exceeded the energy limit that the World-Eater Bugs could "devour." They could eat ordinary flames, but they couldn't stomach the direct radiation of a Planet-level nuclear reactor.

The air distorted under the high temperature.

The swarm fell like insects hit by pesticide, pitter-pattering down.

When they hit the ground,

they turned into small piles of grey powder.

Godzilla shook his body.

The bugs on him were cleared away.

He looked at the grey cloud still regrouping in mid-air, his eyes showing impatience.

Disturbing his sleep, snatching his food bowl, and now coming to bite him.

The king of the titans was very angry.

Godzilla opened his huge mouth.

He didn't condense a light orb.

Instead, he aimed at that grey cloud and took a deep breath in.

A gale rose from the ground.

A level-ten hurricane blew within the underground space.

The grey cloud was pulled by this terrifying suction, spiraling as it flew into Godzilla's mouth.

The World-Eater Bugs tried to resist,

desperately gnawing at the surrounding air and space to stabilize themselves.

But in the face of absolute gravity,

all struggles were futile.

Godzilla's throat was a bottomless pit.

The grey cloud was incessantly sucked into it.

The Three Kings in the distance were dumbfounded.

Abaddon's jaw almost hit the floor.

Eating?

He ate the World-Eater Bugs?

Those were things that even the Old Ones didn't dare to touch!

Luo Yu looked at the System panel.

The numbers began to jump.

[Devouring high-density energy aggregate (World-Eater Bug Swarm)]

[evolution progress: 71.4%... 72.8%... 75.5%...]

The increase was staggering.

Luo Yu understood.

These World-Eater Bugs

were essentially high-purity energy compression packs.

They had devoured the Abyss's Origin, space, and matter, storing all of it within their tiny bodies.

Now,

they had become nutrients for Godzilla.

"It can even be done like this?"

Su Zhiruo watched from the side, slack-jawed.

"Takeout delivered to the door, might as well eat it," Luo Yu smiled.

The black hole was still spitting out bugs.

Godzilla kept his mouth open right above the black hole.

However many came out, he sucked them in.

The scene was very harmonious.

Like a high-powered vacuum cleaner cleaning a carpet.

The World-Eater Bugs' intelligence wasn't high.

They only followed their instinct to devour and hadn't realized they were lining up to die.

As he ate,

Godzilla let out a satisfied burp.

A puff of greyish-white smoke rings blew out of his nostrils.

The evolution progress had soared to 88.2%.

The black hole at the lake bottom sensed something was wrong.

The speed of the bug swarm's eruption slowed down.

Then,

an extremely sharp screech came from deep within the black hole.

This sound was much more high-pitched than the previous humming, with extremely strong penetration.

Su Zhiruo covered her ears, her brow furrowed.

Luo Yu's Atomic Shield rippled, isolating the sound waves.

The spatial barrier at the edge of the black hole completely shattered.

A massive claw reached out from the black hole.

A greyish-white carapace covered in barbs; this claw alone was over two hundred meters long.

Then came a second claw, and a third.

A behemoth was trying to squeeze out from the spatial crack.

"World-Devouring Bug Mother!"

Abaddon's voice came through the mental link, filled with despair: "It's over. The Bug Mother has appeared; the Abyss Core cannot be saved."

Luo Yu looked at the Bug Mother struggling to climb out.

It was huge.

Judging by this posture, it was at least at the two-thousand-meter level.

"Godzilla, the main course is here," Luo Yu patted the horn groove.

Godzilla closed his mouth.

He looked at the big guy still struggling in the black hole.

He walked forward.

He raised a foot.

He stepped on the claw that the Bug Mother had just extended.

Crack.

A crisp sound of breaking.

The Bug Mother's two-hundred-meter-long claw was crushed to pieces by Godzilla's foot.

Greyish-white body fluid splashed out, landing on the crystalline rock layer and corroding deep pits into it.

A more wretched screech came from deep within the black hole.

The Bug Mother was enraged.

The remaining claws frantically clawed at the spatial edges, forcefully tearing the black hole even wider.

A massive head poked out.

No facial features.

Only a giant circular mouth that occupied the entire face, with rings upon rings of spirally arranged sharp teeth inside.

This thing looked extremely anti-human.

Just one look felt like mental pollution.

The Bug Mother's giant mouth aimed at Godzilla.

A grey energy pillar shot out.

This was no ordinary energy attack; this was highly concentrated "Nothingness." Matter hit by this ray would have its existence directly erased.

Godzilla didn't dodge.

He puffed out his chest and took the hit head-on.

The grey energy pillar slammed into the Planet-level scales.

Where the two met, there was no explosion, only silent annihilation.

The red light on the surface of the scales flickered once.

It was blocked.

The Bug Mother's ray could not erase the energy field of a Planet-level nuclear reactor.

Godzilla tilted his head.

That's it?

He opened his mouth.

Crimson light condensed deep in his throat.

Red Lotus Breath.

A light pillar thirty meters in diameter gushed out, meeting the Bug Mother's grey ray head-on.

It was like crushing dry weeds.

The Red Lotus Breath pushed the grey ray right back, pouring into the Bug Mother's giant mouth.

High temperatures exploded within the Bug Mother's body.

The Bug Mother's massive body thrashed violently in the black hole, its greyish-white carapace turning bright red and even beginning to melt.

It wanted to retreat back into the spatial crack.

Godzilla gave it no chance.

He reached out with both claws, firmly gripping the Bug Mother's carapace at the edge of the black hole, and pulled hard.

Tear.

The sound of the spatial barrier rupturing.

The Bug Mother's over two-thousand-meter-long body was forcefully dragged out of the black hole.

Like a giant loach being pulled out of a mud pit.

The Bug Mother left the spatial crack and was exposed in the underground space of the Abyss Core.

It had lost its geographical advantage.

Godzilla pinned it to the ground and gave it a brutal beating.

A physical beatdown.

With every punch,

there was the sound of carapace shattering and body fluids splashing.

The devouring ability the Bug Mother was so proud of was useless in the face of Godzilla's strength and high temperature.

It tried to use its sharp teeth to bite Godzilla's arm.

It couldn't bite through.

It tried to release small bug swarms to interfere.

The tiny bugs were roasted to ash by the Red Lotus Domain as soon as they came out.

A one-sided thrashing.

The Three Kings watched from the distance, gone numb.

Abaddon turned to look at Chaos Lord Azathoth: "Do you think we were a bit too conservative when we fought the Old Ones forty-seven thousand years ago?"

Azathoth ignored him.

The battle ended very quickly.

The Bug Mother was beaten to within an inch of its life, its entire body deflated by more than half.

Godzilla stopped his hands.

He looked at the large pile of mangled meat on the ground.

He opened his mouth and began to feed.

The Bug Mother's meat quality was much better than those tiny bugs.

The energy was dense.

The numbers on the System panel jumped frantically.

[Devouring high-dimensional specialized organism (World-Devouring Bug Mother)]

[evolution progress: 88.2%... 92.5%... 97.8%...]

Luo Yu leaned back in the horn groove, watching the jumping numbers.

He was about to hit the max level.

The Bug Mother was devoured clean.

Not even a scrap was left.

[evolution progress: 100%]

[Ding! Evolution conditions met. About to begin the next stage of evolution.]

[Host, please find a safe location for evolution.]

Luo Yu glanced around.

The Abyss Core,

less than half of the purple-gold lake remained.

After the Bug Mother's death, the black hole began to slowly close.

This place was safe enough.

"Right here then."

Luo Yu issued the command.

Godzilla tilted his head back and let out an earth-shattering roar.

Red light shot up into the sky.

The entire underground space was lit up as bright as day.

The Three Kings lowered their heads one after another, not daring to look directly at that dazzling light.

The evolution process began.

Godzilla's body was enveloped in a massive crimson light cocoon.

Complex energy circuits flowed over the surface of the light cocoon, and every pulsation tugged at the surrounding space.

Luo Yu and Su Zhiruo retreated to the outer edge of the light cocoon.

Mothra flew over, scattering light powder to stabilize the surrounding energy field.

Pandora poked her head out of Luo Yu's sleeve, looking at the light cocoon, her single eye full of awe.

"How long will this evolution take?" Su Zhiruo asked.

"I'm not sure."

Luo Yu looked at the light cocoon, "But it will definitely be longer than before. The stages after Planet-level have already exceeded the normal biological scope."

The Abyss Core returned to tranquility.

Only the light cocoon pulsated rhythmically.

The black hole closed completely.

The threat of the World-Eater Bugs was thoroughly uprooted.

Abaddon, leading the other two kings, cautiously approached.

"Master." Abaddon lowered his head.

"The bugs are dealt with," Luo Yu said. "The Abyss's hidden danger is gone. You won't have to worry about these things coming out ever again."

"Thank you for your grace, Master."

In Abaddon's tone, there was an extra measure of sincere awe.

They had originally thought the Abyss was finished.

As it turned out, this disaster that could have destroyed the Abyss had become a meal for Godzilla.

The gap was too large.

So large that they couldn't even muster the thought of jealousy.

Luo Yu found a clean piece of crystalline rock and sat down.

Waiting.

Waiting for Godzilla to emerge from the cocoon.

Waiting for the king of the titans

to welcome a brand-new form.

The order of the Abyss was, at this moment, thoroughly and completely reshaped.

No resistance, no questioning.

Only absolute submission.

Luo Yu closed his eyes, feeling the massive spiritual power surging into him as Godzilla evolved.

One trillion three hundred billion.

One trillion nine hundred billion.

It was still rising.

The era belonging to him seemed to have become completely solidified.