A dazzling pillar of light descended from the dark heavens and crashed heavily into the ground.
Breaking free from its bewitchment, the crazed Alioth immediately noticed the pillar of light. Its black mist-like body rolled across the ground as it swiftly swept toward the light.
After the dazzling pillar vanished, it revealed a young figure. He wore a somewhat disheveled white research uniform, his hair a little messy, and in his right hand he held a cat with its limbs dangling as it licked its lips.
A silent roar accompanied Alioth's advance. Everything in its path was swallowed into its body of dense black mist. At this moment, it revealed a massive, dog-like head and bit down at the young man.
"Wow, look what I found! A rare life-form! And it's time-aligned! It goes perfectly with your spatial attribute. How about making it your little companion?" Luke smiled as he raised the cat in his hand, then tossed it toward Alioth's gaping maw, which resembled the bottomless abyss, amid the cat's snarling meows.
Meow!
The thrown cat spun through the air before Alioth caught it in a single bite. Just as it intended to swallow Luke as well, it suddenly seemed to choke. Coughing, it shook its huge head as if trying to spit out what it had just swallowed.
Its black, cloud-like body boiled violently like rolling storm clouds. Under Luke's watchful gaze, Alioth, that extraordinary storm life-form, continuously shrank in size until it finally became a funnel-shaped black tornado. At its very bottom was a gigantic abyssal mouth.
The cat, having swallowed Alioth whole like a dragon drawing in water, let out a satisfied burp. Its puffed-up fur finally settled down. Meowing, it jumped onto Luke's shoulder and repeatedly smacked his head with its paws, making his already