"Forget him. Let's eat first!"
Capybada ignored Babata's little tricks.
This capybara didn't hold back at all.
Whenever he found a Wood Bud Crystal, he tossed it straight into the Black Hole behind him.
Soon, with the constant feeding,
the capybara's strength began to skyrocket.
He even surpassed the Beast Emperor level in one leap, and the Black Hole behind him grew to more than 12 meters in diameter.
It still wasn't very large, but it could swallow any monster less than 50 meters tall in one gulp.
There was one thing Babata still couldn't understand, though.
Even as the Black Hole behind him grew wider and wider,
Capybada's body never changed size.
He stayed in that same adorable form.
Babata's little eyes were practically pressed against the screen.
"Hey, you little runt, why aren't you getting any bigger?"
"Fine, I'll give you one last test. Tentacle Emperor, come out!"
Although the mammal on the screen was growing at an unbelievable rate,
Babata was the sort who liked to follow things step by step.
After all, before Capybada, Babata had already raised another Emperor-Level Monster in this area.
As the saying went, two tigers couldn't share one mountain.
It was time to let those two collide!
"Huh? What's that?"
Just as Capybada was enjoying his meal more and more,
the lake before him, which had been calm until then, suddenly began to boil without warning!
"Glub, glub... Glug, glug, glug!"
Murky bubbles churned violently, as if some enormous creature were waking at the bottom of the lake.
Then, one after another, thick tentacles covered in suckers and slime
burst through the water like demons from the abyss and hurtled toward Capybada on the shore at astonishing speed!
Each tentacle was at least dozens of meters long and as thick as a barrel. The basin-sized suckers covering them were enough to make anyone's scalp crawl.
They attacked from every direction. Some coiled around Capybada like giant pythons,
while others lashed down like steel whips, their strikes tearing through the air with a shrill whistle! What was more,
the thickest tentacle split open at the tip like a flower, revealing rows upon rows
of gleaming fangs. It lunged straight for Capybada's head!
A terrifying, murderous aura instantly blanketed the area, and the lake was churned into something like a tsunami!
This was the other Emperor-Level Monster Babata had secretly raised—the Tentacle Emperor!
"Roar?!"
The sudden attack startled Capybada,
but he was now a genuine Emperor-level monster, with lightning-fast reflexes!
As the fanged maw and countless coiling tentacles were about to reach him, a cold glint flashed in Capybada's eyes.
"Black Hole, full power!"
"Vmmmm—!"
The pitch-black vortex behind him, now more than 12 meters in diameter, began spinning faster.
A swallowing force far more terrifying and domineering than the one he'd unleashed against Lord-level and King-level monsters erupted with a boom!
This time, it didn't target a single enemy.
Instead, it formed a vast field of devouring force, covering the entire area before him!
The enormous tentacles, which had charged in with enough force to strangle a fellow Emperor-level monster,
slowed dramatically the instant they entered the Black Hole's field.
It was as if they had slammed into an invisible wall coated in thick glue.
Then something happened that even Babata, hidden nearby, hadn't expected.
The incredibly tough tentacles, strong enough to withstand laser weapons, weren't torn apart outright.
Instead, under the terrifying gravity that warped space, they were forcibly stretched and twisted!
"Squish, squish, squish—!"
The tentacles were like they'd been fed into an invisible stretching machine.
They grew thinner and longer, like enormous, twisted rubber bands.
Against their will, they began to "flow" toward the center of the Black Hole!
As they stretched, the suckers on the tentacles burst one after another, while slime and pieces of tissue were stripped away and devoured.
The scene was bizarre and shocking!
The terrifying tentacles that had filled the sky now looked like insects trapped in a spiderweb.
They struggled in vain, only to be dragged bit by bit toward the eternal darkness.
"Guh?!!"
A deep, furious cry rang out from the depths of the lake.
The Tentacle Emperor's main body had clearly felt the deadly threat and intense pain!
It desperately tried to pull its tentacles back, but the Black Hole's suction was simply too strong. It had the tentacles already extended firmly in its grip,
and had even begun dragging the enormous body hidden at the bottom of the lake toward the surface, bit by bit!
"Get over here!"
Capybada growled and pushed the Black Hole's power to its limit.
He could feel that his target's energy level was extremely high, far beyond anything he'd devoured before!
"Splaaash!!"
The lake burst open as if it were boiling.
An enormous shadow, like a small mountain and covered in even more fearsome tentacles, was dragged bodily out of the lake.
Twisting and compressing, filled with terror and despair,
it was swallowed inch by inch by the 12-meter Black Hole, like a giant whale sucking in water!
[ Ding! Successfully devoured the Emperor-Level Tentacle Emperor! ]
[ Converting energy... ]
[ Host level increased: Intermediate Beast Emperor! ]
[ Black Hole Domain diameter increased: 15 meters! ]
[ Detected extractable gene fragments [Tentacle Emperor · Super Regeneration / Water Affinity]. Extract and fuse? ]
Energy as vast as an ocean surged into Capybada, and his aura swelled once more!
He felt his recovery ability had undergone a qualitative leap, and he'd also developed a strong affinity for the water element around him.
"Extract and fuse!"
A cool, invigorating energy coursed through his body. He felt as if he'd gained an almost undying ability to recover.
Inside the underground spaceship, Babata watched the shocking scene on the holographic projection as the Tentacle Emperor was forcibly dragged in and devoured.
Capybada had devoured an Emperor-Level Monster, yet his body hadn't changed at all. Only his aura had grown deeper and more terrifying.
Babata couldn't help exclaiming again:
"A monster! You're a little monster through and through!
You even took down the Tentacle Emperor that easily... Your Gene Multiplier must have increased again, right?
Heh, I'm getting more and more interested in you!"
Babata was at a loss.
He seemed caught in a dilemma.
His master, Hu Yanbo, needed a reliable successor to inherit his power and assets.
Babata had originally favored humans most.
After all, humans were one of the universe's peak races.
But today, a mammal had suddenly appeared whose talent far surpassed that of other humans.
What was Babata supposed to do?
Should he summon Capybada, or find a way to turn him into another guard dog?
Just like the Tentacle Monster that had been devoured earlier.
While Babata was still agonizing over it,
Capybada wiggled his little rump and struck a pose that clearly said he was going to eat and run.
That infuriated Babata.
"Come back! Get back here!"
As he shouted, the flustered Babata tossed six more white crystals over.
It seemed he'd made up his mind!
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