"What a marvelous thing."
After quietly gazing at the thing in his hand for a while,
with that soft murmur,
the eye on Orsaga's forehead projected a blood-red radiance.
Like a searchlight, it shone straight into the primal pain.
It distorted the structures within, which had originally been perfectly stable.
It also infused Orsaga's power into it,
making it easier to digest.
Once he had finished this basic seasoning,
Orsaga tossed it straight into his mouth and swallowed it in one gulp, sending it into his stomach, which released boundless heat at every moment, incinerated everything that entered, and had already burned countless living beings and stretches of spacetime.
Before long,
as some of the information contained within was successfully broken down and absorbed,
on Orsaga's face,
a clear look of satisfaction appeared.
Along with it,
a countdown automatically appeared in his mind.
14^22 minutes.
This was the total digestion time automatically calculated after he ate something, based on how difficult it was to digest.
It used the Timeline occupied by his true body as its reference.
However,
that did not matter.
After he altered reality slightly through his Sole Dominator ability,
immediately,
just as he intended, everything contained within the primal pain naturally became nourishment for him, giving him further insight into his own essence of pain.
It was all as simple as using a cheat tool to modify some game data.
After all,
he was nearly omnipotent.
As long as he wanted to,
whether it was improving his digestion or pulling off all sorts of bizarre feats, none of it was particularly difficult.
That included, but was not limited to, leveling himself up on the spot.
Or rather, leveling up on the spot was itself one of the things he was doing constantly.
The Sole Dominator ability allowed