"Primordial Hunger's child devoured your true body...
"Was it the one called Endless Greed, the Star Devourer, the Lord of Soul Devouring?"
Abner chose his words carefully as he asked.
During his travels through the stars as Alvin Abraham, he had heard that name in several civilizations. Everywhere, it was infamous, more loathed by intelligent beings than even devils.
Wherever that being went, it devoured everything and spared nothing.
And since the Goddess of Wealth's pathway was itself ruled by Primordial Hunger, it was hardly surprising that his terrifying son had come for it.
Abner sighed softly and said to the Goddess of Wealth's avatar, "I'm sorry, Helena... If I hadn't gathered so many Collector Pathway characteristics from different planets and brought them to the Golden Star, that greedy Star Devourer might not have come so soon."
Other planets were nothing like Earth, where vast numbers of Beyonder Characteristics and even Sefirah had converged. When Alvin first reached the so-called Golden Star, it had only half a Sequence 2 characteristic and a scattering of Beyonder materials. There was no coherent pathway to speak of.
The "humans" there were enslaved by a Monster with half a Sequence 2 characteristic. It wrung every last bit of value from them, leaving them to live in misery.
As for Helena, the Goddess of Wealth, she had been no more than the leader of a small Resistance Army then: someone lucky enough to swallow a Sequence 6 characteristic whole without losing control.
Later, for various reasons, Alvin and Helena became friends. He took her from planet to planet, gradually found the Potions for the preceding sequences, and helped her advance to Angel and become the God of Wealth. Only then did they return to the Golden Star and defeat the Monster that had enslaved the