How could someone who had suffered from malnutrition for a long time become healthy again as quickly as possible? Aside from taking medicine, the fastest way was to eat more nourishing food.
Perhaps many races did not understand what "nourishing" meant, but eating meat could never be wrong.
On Octopus Star, struggling Octopus Monsters and members of other races were constantly thrown by Octopus Monster soldiers into a bottomless abyss.
Their struggles, pleas, and curses could not change the outcome in the slightest.
By noon, more than ten thousand creatures had been thrown into the abyss. By then, they could faintly hear something chewing.
In fact, some scientific instruments did not detect any sound coming from the abyss, but they could hear it all the same. Everyone could hear it, as though the sound... were ringing right beside their ears! It was not particularly loud. Sometimes it seemed to fade away, as if it might disappear for a while, but soon it would ring out again, existing continuously.
When the star was directly above the mouth of the abyss, the people guarding the place heard a burp come from within.
Immediately afterward, a current of air blasted out of the abyss, carrying a heavy stench of blood and rot.
Sometimes, a mist of blood would spray out as well, then slowly drift downward.
This was the legendary "Earth Core Passage." At the very bottom of the abyss lived the supreme ruler of this planet—a gigantic Great Octopus large enough to rival a massive planet.
He was the ancestor of the entire Octopus Clan. It was said that while he was dormant, he had cut off one of his own tentacles, which had evolved into the Octopus Clan.
Every Octopus Monster had a duty to offer itself to their ancestor. As