Devour

Coordinates: Heart — Heart Core Sanctuary.

As time passed, this newbie village was no longer a scene of chaos. It had become more like a bustling transit hub.

Although the system came with real-time translation that eliminated language barriers, cultural and factional divides still remained.

On the east side of the square gathered the small and medium-sized newbie Guilds from Dragon Kingdom, while dozens of wildly different flags had been raised on the west side.

"Wings of Freedom Guild is recruiting! We're going to attack the Left Kidney and found our own nation! That is the land of milk and honey God promised us!"

A burly man with the ID "Capital MAGA (Captain Trump)" stood on a high platform, delivering an impassioned speech. Quite a few newbie players had gathered below him.

Not far away, a group of Polar Bear Kingdom players with "Ura" suffixes in their IDs were wrestling. Their Steel Torrent Guild did not bother with anything fancy. Every member had chosen the Berserk Behemoth class, relying on brute strength and fiery brotherhood.

As for the true heavyweights—the core members of Dawn, Dragon War, and Imperial Dynasty, the early players—they had long vanished into the vast depths of the maps. Those who remained here were merely second-string personnel responsible for recruiting a few fresh faces and helping newbies level up.

Although friction between them was constant, no large-scale conflict had broken out for the time being. First, the newbies around here were pathetically weak. Second, thanks to information left behind by their predecessors, everyone knew the real treasures lay outside. Rather than wasting time here, they might as well fight over territory.

PVP was certainly fun, but PVE produced tangible resources!

Above the higher dimension, Gu Yuan surveyed these five hundred thousand restless souls.

To forge this chaotic force into a blade, he reorganized the entire quest system and built it into a tightly structured tree.

[Server Announcement: Campaign System Update: Resurgence of the Titan]

Level-One Strategic Objectives (Server-Wide Progress):

[Restart Respiration]: Completely purify both lungs and restore blood-oxygen exchange.

[Energy Circulation]: Open the material transportation route from the liver to the entire body.

[Defense Construction]: Establish a defensive belt against Void invasions across the skin's surface.

[Remaining content can be expanded]

Level-Two Campaign Objectives (Regional):

Under [Restart Respiration]: Clear bronchi B-1 through B-10. At least 3 outposts must be established.

Under [Defense Construction]: Dermis Expedition. Explore the back wound area and gather Void intelligence.

[10086 campaign objectives omitted here; can be expanded]

Level-Three Tactical Objectives (Individual/Squad):

[Daily Bounty]: Submit 100 gall crystals / kill 50 Influenza Viruses / escort one material shipment.

[Clear the Blockage]: Go to the designated capillaries and clear away thrombus debris.

[985211 quests omitted here; can be expanded]

This interlocking quest design allowed every player to find their own place.

Large Guilds fought until their heads bled over development rights for Level-Two campaign zones and taxes from strongholds.

Small groups and lone players, meanwhile, began spreading throughout the Titan's body like diligent worker ants for the experience and Bio-Energy from "Level-Three Quests."

Although the players' total numbers were not even comparable to a drop of water cast into the sea, sparks had already ignited in every corner.

Coordinates: Back Subcutaneous Tissue — Zone D, wound edge.

This was the area previously explored on stream by the player with the ID "Anatomy Class Representative."

It was unlike the damp environment inside the body.

Looking up, the sky, which should have been pink, had now been replaced by a gigantic Void rift that tore across the heavens.

It was a wound on the Titan's skin, and also a gateway leading into the endless Abyss of the cosmic vacuum.

A "Joint Expedition Team" made up of dozens of players was lying prone atop a thick hill of fat. They were the best of this batch of new players.

"My God... what is that?"

An Eagle Kingdom player spoke with a trembling voice.

On the distant black plains, a battle that shattered their understanding of the world was unfolding.

On the ground were countless [Melanoma Legion] creatures that had grown from the Titan's Necrotic Tissue. Every black, fleshy tentacle was dozens of meters thick, like a wildly flailing forest—they had been wiped out by these monsters several times before, and even their entire group working together had failed to injure the creatures in the slightest.

Floating in the sky was a terrifying creature the size of an aircraft carrier—[Void Devouring Insect].

It resembled an interstellar centipede clad in heavy purple crystal armor, nearly a thousand meters long, silently hovering within the subcutaneous space warped by Gravity Anomaly.

"Rumble—"

The Devouring Insect moved.

It paid no attention to the malignant tentacles baring their fangs on the ground. Instead, it opened a maw large enough to swallow mountains and inhaled deeply toward the ground below.

[Skill: Void Devour]

A terrifying gravitational wave erupted.

Hundreds of Melanoma tentacles were ripped out by the roots. Along with the surrounding Necrotic Tissue and even huge chunks of earth, they were mercilessly swallowed by that enormous mouth.

"It... it's eating cancer cells?"

"Is it an ally?"

"Ally my ass! It's eating the Titan's flesh! The cancer cells are just a side dish!"

The Dragon Kingdom commander's face went pale. "This monster's level is all question marks! Retreat! This isn't a place we should be!"

However, it was too late.

While feeding, the Devouring Insect seemed to grow slightly irritated by the cancerous tissue that was still resisting.

Its enormous body trembled faintly, and countless densely packed holes on its back opened.

"Buzz—"

Thousands of black dots were launched out.

They were [Void Fleas], each the size of a tank!

The moment these fleas landed, they displayed frenzied aggression. Not only did they tear apart the cancerous tissue, but their keen perception of life energy also instantly locked onto the player expedition team hiding on the high ground.

"We've been spotted!!"

"Fire! Open fire!"

Skills of every color rained down.

Lightning, poison, bone spears... they struck the hard purple shells and produced only strings of forced "-1" damage.

"Hiss—!!"

More than a dozen Void Fleas leaped high into the air, crossing several thousand meters before crashing heavily into the players.

It was a one-sided massacre.

The newbie players were like paper before these Elite Monsters of unknown level. With a sweep of their sharp forelimbs, several Divine Guards were sliced in half along with their shields.

"Run! Don't look back!"

"Run where? We can't escape! Record footage, brothers!"

In just a few seconds, the expedition team was completely wiped out, turning into white light that filled the sky.

Respawn Point: Lymph Node G4 Outpost.

This was the first base these newcomers had pieced together themselves for their own organization.

White light flashed continuously.

The players who had just died horribly emerged with blank expressions, the terror of being crushed by absolute power still lingering in their hearts.

"Too strong..."

"That big guy feels even fiercer than the Flame Demon Lord everyone's been talking about on the forums. Even God of Blades' Mecha probably couldn't take a single hit."

On the forums, a video titled Void Devouring Insect Debut instantly surged to the top of the trending list.

At the end of the video, after devouring the entire cancerous forest, the aircraft-carrier-sized giant insect slowly turned its head. Its eyes, burning with purple Void fire, seemed to stare coldly through the screen at every living being within the Titan.

Everyone realized one thing: while the internal troubles had yet to be settled, external threats were also a Sword of Damocles hanging above their heads.

[Server Announcement: Dermis Zone D has suffered catastrophic damage!]

[Warning: The Void Devouring Insect is building a nest!]

[Main Quest "Defense Construction" priority increased!]