"Roar!"
At that moment, an urgent distress signal came in from America, laced with despair: "...Requesting global support!
An unknown, terrifying giant beast (code name: Devourer) is destroying the East Coast!
Our attacks are completely ineffective! I repeat, requesting support! Any kind of support!"
Inside the War God Palace, everyone had just recovered from the shock of the Thunder Dragon Emperor being instantly killed, only for their hearts to sink once more.
The Thunder Dragon Emperor had been terrifying, but at least it had been a "known" threat native to Earth.
But this "Golden Horned Beast"—just its appearance, its ability to devour matter, and its immunity to every attack...
All of it inspired a despairing sense of being crushed by a higher dimension, as though it had come from the depths of space!
It had even eaten the Statue of Liberty like a cookie!
What could possibly stop it?
Almost everyone instinctively looked toward the round figure on the screen—the one who had just "sucked up" the Thunder Dragon Emperor.
Capybara had naturally received the distress call and Babata's warning. He rubbed his chin.
He looked at the mighty Golden Horned Beast on the screen.
Then he felt the immense energy he had just gained by devouring the Thunder Dragon Emperor, which he had yet to fully digest.
And behind him, the Black Hole stirred, seemingly interested in the "Golden Horned Beast" too.
"Tsk. I just finished seafood, and now they're serving up a main course."
Capybara muttered, then gave the order without hesitation.
"Babata, calculate the fastest route.
Hong, Thunder God, change of target. America's East Coast. Full speed ahead!"
"Yes, Master!"
Hong and Thunder God had no objections.
"Understood! Calculating route... At full speed, we're expected to arrive above the target sea area in 27 minutes!"
Babata replied.
The three dark silver ships turned around in an instant, their engines roaring at full power as they became three dazzling streaks of silver light.
At a speed far beyond what Earth's technology could comprehend, they tore through the clouds above the Pacific Ocean.
They raced toward the East Coast of America, on the other side of the planet!
Inside the War God Palace, everyone watched tensely as the three ships' dots sped across the map.
They also watched the near-live images coming from the other side, showing the Golden Horned Beast wreaking havoc.
No one seemed particularly optimistic.
Leaving everything else aside...
Just look at the difference in size between the Golden Horned Beast and Capybara. It was simply...
About an hour later.
Under the breathless, anxious gaze of countless people, the three dark silver ships crossed the Pacific at astonishing speed and finally arrived above America's East Coast, shrouded in smoke and reduced to ruins.
The Golden Horned Beast, code-named "Devourer," hovered above the ruins of what had once been the bustling NY Port.
Its cold, dark golden eyes swept indifferently over the three newly arrived "little things."
There wasn't the slightest flicker in its gaze. It looked at them as if they were no more than three insignificant flies.
Its body was covered in mysterious patterns.
In the glow of the setting sun, it reflected a hard, metallic sheen, radiating an innate nobility and indifference.
Compared to its enormous body, more than a hundred meters long, the three ships—impressive as their technology seemed, yet only a few dozen meters long—
And the "passengers" they carried really did look insignificant.
Especially when the main ship's hatch opened and Capybara, round and clad in Cosmic Armor, flew out to hover in midair.
The whole scene... instantly became bizarre and... wildly out of place.
Even the people of America, fleeing in panic and watching the scene on the few remaining screens, fell briefly silent in stunned disbelief.
Th-this was the reinforcements who had come to help?
That... capybara?
A flicker of something almost human—confusion, perhaps—seemed to cross the Golden Horned Beast's eyes.
Its simple mind couldn't understand.
Why would a creature with a decent energy signature, but such a tiny body and such a "lowly" form, dare to hover alone in front of it?
"Roar—"
The Golden Horned Beast let out a low, majestic roar. It wasn't an attack so much as a warning and a demand to leave.
An invisible pressure spread like a tangible wave, making the surviving human structures in the distance tremble.
Yet Capybara seemed completely unaffected.
He even flew a little closer, tilting his head as he examined the Golden Horned Beast.
Especially the dark golden horn on its head. His mental energy conveyed a clear thought:
"Tsk, tsk, that horn... It's obviously worth a fortune. What an incredible energy signature.
And those scales—must be great for defense. I bet I could make a few good suits of armor if I peeled them off."
His tone was like someone picking out ingredients at a market or appraising an antique.
The Golden Horned Beast couldn't understand his words.
But it clearly sensed the undisguised appraisal and covetousness in his mental fluctuations.
As one of the peak bloodlines among the Starry Sky Behemoths, when had it ever suffered such "insult"?
A mere "bug" was sizing it up?
"Roar—!!!"
The Golden Horned Beast was thoroughly enraged! It stopped hesitating and opened its massive jaws, aiming them at Capybara as he hovered in the air!
A devouring force erupted—far more terrifying and concentrated than the one it had used to devour the Statue of Liberty!
This wasn't simple suction. It was a law of devouring that touched the very essence of space and matter!
The space in the target area began to twist and collapse,
while rubble and steel beams in the ruins below rose uncontrollably into the air, sucked toward that enormous mouth, which seemed to connect directly to a cosmic Black Hole!
This attack could swallow a small mountain with ease!
Yet faced with that terrifying devouring force, Capybara didn't dodge. Instead, he excitedly twitched his whiskers.
"Heh-heh, a contest of devouring? I know all about that!"
As he spoke, a massive Black Hole appeared behind him.
It was more than ten times larger than his own body.
Even against the Golden Horned Beast, this Black Hole was large enough to contain it.
But both possessed the power of devouring.
When their forces collided, they actually managed to hold each other in a stalemate.
"Well, look at that! You're pretty impressive!"
Seeing this, Capybara laughed instead.
The Golden Horned Beast had to be one of the most powerful early-stage bosses.
It wouldn't be any fun if it went down too easily.
Two forces of devouring, both touching the essence of the laws, crashed together in midair!
The Golden Horned Beast's power came from the supreme innate talent of its Starry Sky Behemoth bloodline.
It was filled with raw, savage force and a greedy will to devour all things, as if it meant to chew up and digest everything before it—
Including space itself.
Capybara's Black Hole devouring, on the other hand, was purer and deeper.
It carried the cold indifference and absoluteness of a cosmic body, the ultimate embodiment of warped space and the annihilation of matter.
"Shhh—!!!"
There was no earth-shaking boom.
Only the soul-shuddering sound of energy annihilating, and the strange, grating noise of space being forcibly torn and twisted.
Where the two forces met, all light vanished, forming a region of absolute darkness: a Void Region.
Even the images transmitted by satellite signals warped violently and broke into static!
Below, the land and ruins were wrenched by the two forces like a rag tormented by two invisible giant hands.
They tore and bulged in wildly unnatural shapes!
Seawater surged inland, only to evaporate in an instant!
"Well, look at that! You're pretty impressive!"
Capybara felt the pressure coming from his Black Hole. Far from panicking, his bright black eyes burned with an even stronger fighting spirit.
His thoughts raced. He stopped simply competing with the Golden Horned Beast over the "amount" of devouring power.
Instead, he began applying the rudimentary spatial-law principles he had learned from the Yunmo Star Inheritance, along with more precise control over his own Black Hole!
"Now... spin!"
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