Epic of Caterpillar

Indeed, even with my whole family and friends helping, it took us three whole days to completely clean the entire Sun of Abyss, it provided with plenty of EXP, so much that my kids evolved a THIRD time! And my wives a second time, and well, all my friends managed to evolve too.

With the new Origin System, leveling and evolving became much faster and you could do it more times per Realm, but I think the limit was three per Realm, which I had already hit myself.

Anyways, the Recessed Beasts, as we decided to call them, were quite troublesome and problematic, enormous, and coming in countless shapes, these things were able to easily wield the powers of the sun against us, and even hide beneath the plasma.

Because they existed within the plasma itself, they were already incredibly tough, so it was hard to kill even one, and there were at least a thousand.

Nonetheless, we cooperated, fought together, and relentlessly. We learned better ways to catch them and "fish" for them, and we ambushed groups, massacring them quickly and then eating more cosmic dishes to restore energy. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Like this, at the third day, these monstrosities were finally out of the picture. I ate a bunch too, so much I felt slightly bloated. I gained a couple of Skills from them, and also a lot of additional stats.

Ding!

[You have devoured and digested [Recessed Beast (Star Eater Realm: Tier 5 ~ 10)] x50!]

[You have absorbed a tremendous quantity of Cosmic Power and all kinds of energies, which have been refined into Essence and Strength.]

[You gained +25.000.000 Essence Stat.]

[You gained +10.000.000 Cosmic Power Stat.]

[You gained +5.000.000 to all other Stats.]

[You learned the Skills: [Recessed Beast\'s Resilient Plasma Body: Lv1] [Recessed Beast\'s Plasma Cannon: Lv1] [Recessed Beast\'s Abyssal Sunlight Magic: Lv1]!]

[You learned the Title: [Cosmic Slayer of the Recessed Beasts: Lv1]!]

[Your [Fallen Divine Abyssal Recessed Bloodline (Low Grade): 1%] has increased its Growth to 100% and evolved to Intermediate Grade!]

I didn\'t want to eat them all though, as I wanted to leave the rest to cook cosmic dishes, as materials for crafting and alchemy, and more. They were more precious than Cosmic Beasts after all, a whole treasure trove for us, I only ended eating like fifty, not that many compared to the sheer amount of corpses we had stored inside of my Dimensional Item Box.

Oh, right, and because we needed a lot of helpers, we ended rising a lot of Gods that had been simply cultivating so far into World Devourer Realm, including most of the Divine Pantheons I recruited, lots of old faces showed up to their ascension, the rest of the Wyvern Gods and Dragon Gods for example, the many Beast Gods, the Demon Gods, and more.

And also we helped out the Vampires we rescued, giving them access to the Origin System, and letting them rise to World Devourers too, we needed as many hands as possible, so anything had to do at the end, they were quite fortunate to be in the right place in the right time.

"Phew, we\'re finally done with this thing!" I sighed in relief.

We had just finished having a celebratory feast after those three days of intense battles, and as we finished enjoying some ice cream while watching the sun with sunglasses, we decided to move on.

"Alright, Charlotte, start up the machine!"

"Very well, let\'s begin!"

As the gigantic cosmic artifact activated, it began spinning around the entire sun, beginning to rapidly extract a large chunk out of it.

Perhaps one third of the whole sun, which it then compressed with enormous quantities of cosmic energy, gravity, and the power of the void and chaos until it compressed into a small star, a large yellow sun similar to the one from Earth.

This sun was also kind of yellowish, white… But it was at five times bigger than the usual yellow suns I know about, and even the new one we made was several times bigger than the others.

Anyways, once the main sun was wounded, a huge chunk of its core could be seen, the entire sun was trembling, but it slowly stabilized itself thanks to the machine.

With the power of the giant cosmic artifact, the sun rapidly healed itself using sheer cosmic energy, and we repeated the same process as much as we could, exhausting all the machine\'s reserves of cosmic energy, refilling them, and doing it again.

After a whole day of this repeated process, we obtained 10 separate suns, more than enough if we ever wanted to multiply them again, or even fuse them to make another big one.

"We\'ve extracted more than enough with this, Kireina!" said Charlotte. "I believe you should be free to finally absorb this star and be done with it. We can handle with the rest. I\'ll probably merge them and then divide them again over and over."

"I see!" I nodded, licking my lips. "Then at long last… It\'s time. Everyone, this might take me a while, so you\'re dismissed. I\'ll come back to you once I\'m done."

I used my cosmic aura and domain to grab the entire sun and lift it into the outer space of the realm.

Well, we were already in the outer space, with the suns floating around very far away.

The sheer scale of this entire space was immense now that I thought about it.

When I used to be but a little caterpillar, did I ever considered that I would be swallowing planets and stars one day?

"It\'s just insane when I think about it…" I sighed, looking at the star in front of me. "Just how far we\'ve gone."

The star was surrounded by my Cosmic Domain completely, as it started to slowly melt away, being absorbed by it.

I felt an immense rush of power, the star\'s plasma, a highly refined cosmic material of incredibly high quality, began filling my body and my soul with mew power.

I\'ll forge a Psyche while ascending, it\'ll be the best to make it as strong as possible while it absorbs the Sun!

It\'s time, let\'s break my limits and ascend even further.

FLAAASH! The light fully encompassed me, as my senses were teleported somewhere else, a space, a void of cosmic appearance.

There were countless of stars here, and as I moved, they all came towards me, fusing with me constantly.

My soul absorbed their powers, and so did my body.

Slowly, over time, I became so bright, I was also a star myself.

To become a Star Eater, not only do I need to eat them, but I also must become an actual star.

My flesh, my bones, everything, replaced with the plasma, light, and energy of a star.

And as I ascended and rapidly became something else, I felt something, a strange feeling, asking me what I wished to become.