To Cosmic Demons, a few years were no more than a drop in the ocean. The same was true for Dormammu. As the ruler of the Dark Dimension and part of the universe's laws of darkness, those days when he had commanded the winds and clouds across the cosmos seemed very far away.
If his experiences over the past few years were written into a book, its title might have been Dormammu's Happy Life.
Demon Gods had all kinds of standards for happiness, making it difficult to define. But for Dormammu, one criterion was particularly important: being full.
It sounded simple, but it was actually extremely difficult. Filling the stomach of a Dimensional Demon God was harder than climbing to the heavens. Many races regarded Dormammu as an incomparably evil god precisely because of his insatiable Greed and a stomach that mortals could never fill through any sacrifice.
Yet over the past few years, he truly had eaten his fill. But that brought an unavoidable problem: he had gained weight.
It sounded absurd, but Dimensional Demon Gods really could gain weight. Their absorption of energy was not instantaneous. As mentioned before, Dimensional Demon Gods needed time to absorb energy. They had to remain intensely focused for a long time before they could turn a vast quantitative accumulation of power into a qualitative change and use it to strengthen themselves.
For many relatively weak minor Demon Gods, once they got something to eat, they had to fill themselves up quickly, digest it with all their might, and increase their power to keep from being beaten to death. But for Dimensional Demon Gods like Dormammu, the need to grow stronger was not so urgent. Their main purpose in eating was still to satisfy their instinct to feed.
Moreover, The Ancient One had