How could someone who had been malnourished for a long time be restored to health as quickly as possible? Aside from medicine, the fastest way was to eat more nourishing food.
Perhaps many races did not understand what "nourishing" meant, but there was no harm in eating meat.
On Octopus Star, struggling Octopus Monsters and members of other races were constantly thrown by Octopus Monster soldiers into a bottomless abyss.
Struggling, begging, and cursing could not change the outcome.
Over the course of the morning, more than ten thousand creatures were thrown into the abyss. By then, they could faintly hear something chewing.
In truth, some scientific instruments had not detected any sound coming from the abyss, yet they could all hear it. Everyone could hear it, as though the sound... were ringing right beside their ears! It was not particularly loud, sometimes faint and seemingly about to disappear, but it would soon sound again, always lingering there.
When the star reached the position directly above the mouth of the abyss, the people guarding the place heard a burp come from below.
Immediately afterward, a current of air spewed from the abyss, carrying an intense, fishy stench.
Sometimes, blood mist would spray out as well, then slowly drift down.
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 equal a giant planet.
He was the ancestor of all the Octopus Clan. It was said that the Octopus Clan had evolved from one of his tentacles, which he had cut off while asleep.
Every Octopus Monster had a duty to offer itself to its ancestor. As for the other races? That was their honor! No one could refuse such an honor! In theory,