Inside the restaurant, the three members of the Big-Brained Squad were devouring the food on the table. It seemed they had been roughing it for some time to deal with their fourth powerful foe, the exiled leader of the Sun Warriors.
The Astral Devourer was eating the happiest. Having been born from the Astral Ancient Tree not long ago, it was currently exploring the myriad worlds of the Void. Unlike the absolute cruelty of the previous Astral Devourer, this newly born one was neither good nor evil.
This was not speculation. There was evidence. Su Xiao had previously commissioned the three scoundrels of the Rulers to secretly assist the Big-Brained Squad, lest their questionable intelligence prevent them from defeating the Bloodthirsty Beast. Only after Black Demon joined the squad was the team from Soul Academy truly reliable.
According to the Toad's covert observations, the Astral Devourer looked like a boy of about ten, with porcelain-like cracks all over its face, hands, and other places. While resting in Soul Academy's Spirit Crown City, it had been curious about everything. A meat pie from a roadside stall caught its attention. What surprised the Toad was that the Astral Devourer actually knew to pay, and even understood that it had to wait for its change.
At the sight, the Toad's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets. This was an Astral Devourer capable of becoming a world-destroying existence, yet it knew to pay and wait for change. Although it had spent ages calculating whether the change was correct while holding a large paper bag of meat pies, and eventually walked away in annoyance without figuring it out.
When the Astral Devourer passed through an alley, something even more eye-popping happened. The aroma of the meat pies in its hand attracted the attention of