At first, King Atre had only wanted to flaunt his "wealth." After all, spending a million on a pile of grilled octopus tentacles was exactly the sort of thing a rich fool would do.
But after a few bites, he realized something was off.
These... these octopus tentacles tasted absurdly good.
They were even more delicious than the meat of the Legendary dragon, raised in a dedicated Plane, that he had eaten at the emperor's birthday banquet. The satisfaction brought by their fat and aroma made him so happy he wanted to fly.
"Could these really be an Evil God's tentacles?"
He had eaten a deity's flesh once before.
The emperor had taken a fancy to hunting a giant serpent-shaped deity in the depths of the Star Sea, then grilled it and shared it with them. Atre had received only a small piece.
That palm-sized piece had taken him two days to finish.
Yet now he was finishing a meter-long tentacle in just a few bites, which left him uncertain again. So he kept eating. By the time he came to his senses, he had polished off all ten.
"..."
Rubbing his stomach, he went to buy another ten.
While Atre ate as though nothing were unusual, the customers around him were already staring at him with deeply complicated expressions, as though looking at a deity. Twenty meters of food, worth two million... that was not a sum just anyone could casually produce.
Yet that was only the beginning.
Over the following day, King Atre stayed in the shop and ate a full fifty million's worth of octopus tentacles.
He ate so much that the news reached Kroya through the Tower Spirit. At the time, Kroya was taking part in a group hunt with the other members of his team.