A certain farm near Busan, a group of beings enjoying a simple barbecue and drinking session in front of a country house that stands in the middle of a vast land planted with healthy crops that aligns to an avenue, an array or a setup for improving the Qi of this land. A normal occurrence for this group to do this before resting.
Inside the house, the living room area Liliana was playing a game called I'm on observation duty, next to her is Specter joining the fun in finding anomalies in the game.
Specter: Sis why did you reprogram it, adding more horrors and the difficulty of stuff is quite hectic? even the time setting was in seconds plus the anomalies spam so fast, how the heck we gonna finish this till 12?
Liliana: We can, just help me a little if I miss small changes in some rooms ok. She snaps her fingers to create another screen for Specter.
Skadi just looks at them before she walks out of the house while holding the plushie that is biting her hair.
Grand, who walks out of the kitchen carrying some food trays and tupperware containing marinated meats saw her, he floated and delivered the tray of food to the two then he followed Skadi out. When he arrived outside, the 1st thing he did was to observe Skadi's movement.
Skadi approaches her dad sitting in front of a big table, she is quite small but she moves nimbly grabbing her dad pants to climb to his lap. The plushie was released yet it was still biting her hair, it was like a bag when it attached itself to her back.
Tobi knows it, he easily picks up Skadi with one hand, he plans to put her on top of the table yet he sees her puffing her cheeks, he smiles then puts her on his right tight to sit on.
Skadi was happy then pointed the barbeque on the table, her dad grabbed it and gave it to her.
Gladi: don't eat the stick. She and Nameless were sitting in a stool that leveled the same height of the table.
Here we go again, you're going to eat the snacks for our drinks faster than us. Tobi watches Skadi who just cleans up the meat in the skewer in one go.
Grand sees his master trainer smile, he knows his master understands joy, loneliness and other emotions but whenever he talks to them he never shows any of those emotions or personal desire, he was just maintaining a poker face, as if he had nothing. Is not that he had no emotions nor it was his choice, whatever it may be Grand knows he will never change because he always considered himself as a human. He always follows the meaning of his existence, a bystander that never belongs to any world, to any stories and scenarios.
Grand never forgets that day, that entity in the form of a soul. The mother of those childrens, his master trainers portrait his own joyful emotions within a minute. That scene made him decide to create a plan, a plan that had 1 - 5 % success even the two other pokemons knew it was. He just needs to find the world where that being Isekai'd, of course he also needs to search every timeline it had. There will be a lot of work because if she was born as a character, there will be a lot of her. similar faces, similar voices, similar skills yet the souls are by no means the same or same colour. He just needed to find who had the true dragon soul sleeping within all of them. He already had enough money to buy a timeline of a world but it was not the time yet to execute this plan, his master trainer outer soul was a surveillance to monitor them on how large it is before he thinks deeply someone called him out.
Pika "Grand, why standing there? we need more meat here" Chopin levitates and flies to Grand, snatching the tupperwares that is being moved using telekinesis.
Grand just smiles and follows her until both arrive at the spot where Lex and Koko are barbecuing the marinated meats.
Chopin put down the tupperware and moved to her spot next to the two rabbit-like creatures drinking to their full capacity.
Grand finishes helping the two also move to his spot, ignoring the bottles and gourds of high tier drinks. He then pulled his own brewed series of wines aligning it to the table.
Genga "My own specialty, I don't know if this will pass everyone taste but pls help yourselves"
Soel: Let me do the honor to taste it my junior.
Koko and Lex soon finish their cooking putting everything on the table, everyone starts the booze party.
Liliana and Specter also came out of the house because of the delicious smell of foods, they had no resistance at all joining the fun.
Tobi: The two still not in the right age to drink as for you Liliana just takes a few glasses only because you still need to wake up early to tend to our farm, you're the one who insists on being a farmer.
Liliana: No problem with that, I paid some sprites and the land deity around here to help out.
Tobi nodded at her yet before he said something again to everyone, a shadow covered the entire farm. A massive flying ship traveling slowly to a certain direction.
Nameless: Do know why you bought this land, clans ships always take this route to travel for the tower.
Liliana: It's the vibe and those beings in the ships cannot even see us here, the only thing visible to them was farmland even the house was just a hut to them.
Gladiia: The vibe is ok as long as no random dungeon crack spawn within the land.
Munch "Teacher put a lot of work in the array and adjusted this spot in this world system making sure no disturbance occur"
Tobi: Looks like something interesting happening inside the tower. Any idea, there is a tier 14 in that ship. Then he looks at the direction where the tower is visible, even though the tower is there but in reality it was just a virtual one that connected to the real thing standing to a high tier world plane where the management of this territory stands up. The other towers in otherworlds of this territory were the same, the towers had another function; it became the means of transversal to different worlds for normal or low tier beings.
Koko sends her mental message to everyone, an auction with incredible treasures that even a chaos tier who can make worlds cannot even resist to join the fun and of course some tier 15 in this territory will watch it sideways.
Specter: It means a lot of beautiful ladies, preeminent women from different clans or families that this territory had will be there right right, her eyes are sparkling like gems looking at them yet all of them look at her in shock.
Tobi shakes his head and pulls a guitar from his inventory, should we sing a song to forget what she said.
Skadi who just keeps eating decided to poke Specter in her cheeks, that made Specter shrugged.
Nameless laugh and said to her dad minimize the volume if you're the one singing.
Hey hey, I had a manly voice and I can say that I can win a competition if I ever think of joining one.
Chopin suddenly extended her right arm to stop Grand.
Pika "Let's em cooked"
Liliana: Let me do the singing, just don't laugh if I had a bad tune.
Everyone claps and Tobi starts to play the guitar then a blue screen appears in front of Liliana, it contains the lyrics of the song that is to be sung.
...…
An hour before midnight, Tobi delivered Specter and Skadi to their own room, checking that both two were fast asleep; he flickered appearing outside.
The Pokemons are cleaning up the area that they had used for the drinking session. Two gazes lock on to him making him look back at the terrace of the house, it was Gladiia and Nameless.
Tobi: I'm going for a walk, I'll be back before sunrise. Saying with a smile before he vanishes in that spot.
Gladiia: Where do you think dad's destination is?
Nameless: Do you know the thing that Lim had said in the dinner, I think it was the time for those devourers to have their roll call for check ups.
Gladiia: Wait, wait what I know is hmm, according to dad's memory some of them were sleeping. I did dive deeply inside the SODM in one of my missions and I encountered one of them. It's easy to know because the moment I saw it a special marking tattoo materialized before I thought to attack it blocking my view and indicating that this being was a colleague of the family.
Nameless: Yup that's it, a huge movement they all coming to this territory surely, giving a sighed then she continues because he just left the list inside his room and dad is really good at trolling, I already contacted grandma to send a SOS signal for those territories that are in neutral and good alignment.
Gladiia smiles worriedly: Should we gear up?
Nameless: No need for that, my presence is enough. I've done a lot of aura farming you know.
Gladiia look at her who acting cool for some reason.
Then both turned around because they knew someone was listening.
Gladiia: Sis what's up with the getup? Four meters from them stands Liliana who is wearing a manly black suit with a matching windbreaker, she also holding a long katana "a kodachi".
Liliana: Do we go to war? Happiness painted in her face, this will be her 1st huge fight after her awakening in reality.
Nameless: If you want a fight I can give it to you, those being had a contract to auntie and if you ever killed them auntie will be a little mad at you, you know what it means about that contract surely right.
Liliana pouted: I know, they will be included in her monstrous army, just a few seconds her attire disappeared returning to the later house outfit she had.
Gladiia: Chopin, Grand, Lex guard the land properly.
Nameless: Koko you know what to do, her eyes were sharp fix at Liliana that wanted to say, why Gladiia is coming not me yet she received an instant reply. A hunter's job, to supervise entities that are ready to fall from grace.
Nameless: Let's go….. She and Gladiia walk out of that world.
Liliana: Overprotective guys, I can control myself ok. She sat in a materialized rocking chair then looked up.
Koko also sat a meter next to her then materialized a small table putting snacks and drinks on it.
Koko: watching is not bad, from time to time you also sparred with Tobi.
Liliana: I never win against pops even though I'm stronger than him. Dad and my aunties can defy or destroy that contract they had signed, why do they still maintain the status of a bystander.
Koko: The three decided to exist that way. When I look at them, they are there yet they are also not present. They are just like a fiction of imagination, they exist but also never exist. You know it right they chant those words within their mind infinitely. Observing them also made me learn the true meaning of the word entity. Nameless do know it yet I know you already do so, you are already above them.
Liliana: I hate it but what can I do? I was born like this and I already know that your job was to be my attendant and serve me as your master.
Koko: I never hide anything to everyone yet your grandma, Ame Warashi never wanted you to take that place, to sit on that throne.
Liliana: hmm, I know and I also love to stay like this. Well let's just watch this event silently then. She picks up the bottle of soju and opens a pack of potato chips, picking and eating one chip at a time while her eyes fix in the vast starry sky like she can see everything and nothing cannot be hidden from her.
...…
They all scattered in different parts of the middle realm, hiding deep within the SODM. Some are active and some are sleeping yet of course there are some that were not included in that contract list. Some are old devourers that escape in the net or the three 1st bystanders just let them go and others were young who just entered this tier after the bystanders were kicked out of the three realms.
A certain area inside the SODM, a huge entity. A blackish silhouette yet this was just its actual form, black aura was leaking and its whole figure slowly forming to a woman. It trembled, it was its awakening in a long time then countless golden lines slowly materializing up. Each line was like a wound that bleeds too much creating a flow of waterfalls made of blood. Soon each of those lines become eyes, those pupils are mirroring the cosmos. Then it talks, No.1 why did you wake me up, moving its head yet every single of those eyes also fix in that direction. A particle size entity, nah because of the size of this devourer was huge that's why the other party was small.
The other party was a humanoid one, A giant if this being was inside of a world but not in front of this entity, a bulky one without a head because its facial features were in its body and it had 4 massive arms with tribal tattoos curve on it. A huge mouth that smiled in its belly, it had 64 pairs of wings made of flesh without feathers and multi virtual halos.
It replied, it's time for a roll call according to our contract we signed from them.
I see then I appreciate you for waking me, it's rare that you didn't attack me you know. A sarcasm, all of its eyes were now sharper and releasing killing intent yet without any movement from the other party it stops its provocation then continues its words. Is it your formal appearance?
The other party replied back, I don't remember it clearly but thanks to the contract we all received the blessing from them letting us learn the way or for us to find a new path of being true devourers not just a blob of flesh and appendages. I recreated this form in someone's memory that I had put aside before I became a devourer, a fallen wing race that I had fought that leaves a good impression on who is strong they are. Let's stop chatting already, everyone has started to gather and it's very bad to let them wait right.
I see, give me a moment then. A couple of seconds this entity is getting smaller and smalle become a regular size human.
The flesh giant looks at the other party with confusion because it is having hard to maintain its human essence, it keeps shifting to a humanoid that its whole body was the cosmos. One more minute the being was able to adjust to a beautiful woman wearing a modern dress, it looked up at the flesh giant and said how it is?
Not bad, no one will think that we devourers now had a new form yet its eyes were focused on the woman's squirming shadow but before they continued their chat someone entered this area that made them look at it.
It was a huge whale-like creature bigger than the flesh giant, it had 4 mouths and 6 eyes, fins made of something gruesome, in the middle of its head had a crystal that was being enveloped by countless tentacles inside of it a humanoid creature was trapped lastly some area of its body had face with cannons was attach to their mouths. Its voice echoes in their mind. Both of you are taking a long time so they sent me to fetch the both of you. The humanoid creatures flicker appearing above it, the fleshy giant commented on it. What a fabulous appearance you had for their man, so you're a kun before becoming a devourer.
The whale replied, I cannot retain my total appearance, that majestic one not like this abomination yet thanks for the compliment. Did you already tell No.2 that the bystanders were not here in the realms anymore except for one. Today we all awoke because of the calling for a roll call. We are all gonna march as it says to go to that location where the contract was, this will be fun. Do you think that lazy guy will come?
The woman said, that guy will to be precise he should be the no. 1 among us who replace the old generation that has been hunted and eaten by three leading bystanders.
The whale responded because he is the one who made these propositions, if not for him we all would be dead by now.
A certain part of the middle realm that was near the so-called dead zone, a certain huge territory that aligned to chaos or evil was being eaten. The administrators, managers and their army were being killed, the whole territory was being overwhelmed by the presence of shadow beneath in aka the being hidden inside the SODM of that area. Multiple massive tentacles plunge out of the SODM, encircling the whole territory. Each opens up, turning to mouths screeching, releasing terror and pressure, applying fear then lowering instantly the sanity of each being in that territory soon countless of black hands shoot out. They all tried but they all failed, all of them were thrown inside of those mouths even those cosmoses leaving nothingness but the stillness of the SODM then this entity's whole body plunged out. It released its dreadful aura in total output scattering the realm yet those devourers who also awakened responded in a few seconds.
A pure dark canine creature with a single mouth yet for some reason other mouths appear when it snarls, four eyes with golden pupils and multiple black circles like a rinnegan. A multi tailed entity and then it slowly shrinks turning to a human wearing normal old clothing matching with a dark black cloak. It talks to itself, commision done this should be enough for my ration and spending, to be lazy for countless chaos years again after this check up. He looked in a certain direction then added, looks like they started to gather. He can feel it all devourers; they didn't conceal their aura, fluctuating all up high around the whole realm before he moves, someone suddenly jumps from his back and hugs him, a pair of white arms wrapping his neck. A white haired woman with different eye pupils wearing a maid uniform called him, Mr. Devourer. If you didn't release your aura a while ago I will never find you. Let's go now, the others are waiting. It's been a long time since everyone has gathered again.
The guy easily put down the woman, he replied while walking out of that area. Don't call me Mr. Devourer and of course the other being like us, the real one's are the bystander who hunted, ate those old devourers and a life full of killings.
The woman followed and talked back to him, if we are crazy then they are the crazier bunch of entities yet every time I saw one back then why do I pity them?
Tsk pitying the racial race that stands in the top of the food chain of the three realms. You still remember what those three did to confine all devourers in a single domain, we never felt that move. The only thing we know back then was we are all pin down and wrapped by those chains yet they didn't kill us, giving us three options that leads to this time, for those who sign the contract like us benefitted but those three toyed the others by not stating the whole information of the whole deal to the other devourers leading them to choose the other two options.
The woman replied, no one died so what's the problem they just put bans on the others oh we are almost there.
The two are quite fast, not even a couple of minutes. Both can see the others' devourers, their old companions waiting for them in a void pathway between two huge territories. This group ignores the armies of both territories that standby and observing their actual movements. The man look at them with a smile, he still remember that day he had pulled everyone's shackles ascending them to transcendence causing them becoming a abomination creatures as for them not losing sanity until now was because of him shielding their soul and sanity linking it to his, he was not alone as a devourer roaming the middle realm, he had them. Within his heart and emotion he thanked the bystanders giving them a blessing as an exchange for accepting the contract, that made them remember their actual appearance and finding a new path as a devourer. A skeleton that was clad with a holy armour wave, walked and greeted them while discussing the route of travel where they can feel the contract location.
Not far away from this area, 10 territories apart. Two dragon-like creatures dive out of the SODM, both instantly fired ray of aura burst from all directions from those grotesque tube appendages that protrude out all over their body and moving so fast that no one can escape from their attack, breath that scorches worlds in a blink of an eye. Those beings that were on high alert didn't notice these two devourers, even the tier 15's deployed in this territory didn't survive the onslaught. Everything is being melted, life force and soul was grasp by unseen power dragging and then being absorbed by these dragons. This was their creed of hunting and eating without any mercy.
These dragons didn't even have scales, every part of their body was made of fleshy muscles that hardened enough to withstand a normal attack from a tier 15 being.
The two slowly entered their humanoid form, both were now wearing a military uniform from an old asian country. A cap and a long black cloak with purple inner lining making them part of a unit. Both are carrying a katana and a gun, the male one licks his lips then talks to the female partner of his.
It's been so long both of us have eaten some entities, hey your face. He looks at the beautiful face of his partner that slowly deforms, turning gooey and countless eyes appearing on it.
The female replied after she fixed her transformation, it is still harder to maintain a humanoid form than our new dragonic abomination form.
Well it's not like the thing that looks like a bean blob fat fleshy dragon with plenty mouths, eyes and extra appendages though. We should at least thank them this time right.
The female reply: yup oh do we bring our children as our entourage.
They were already inside of my cultivation system, smiling back at her yet within seconds the two laughed so hard like a madman before vanishing in that place traveling at a speed to the location where some devourers are gathering.
A few minutes after that two disappeared, a devourer flying up in a hyperdimensional speed. What it passes froze entirely yet this ability is not created by magic but by phenomenon form just by the presence of this being. A white long snake, each schales had eye marks combining with runic markings, multi wings form of human flesh radiating with a blood like aura. Two mouths, one is normal and the other can expand in the size of half of its body. This being pauses and comments on the emptiness of this area.
It can see it, the previous scenario that happened here. This place should have had a large territory aligned to chaos.
Those two couples really didn't live a single survivor, quite rare for them, well it's not my problem. The creature continues its travel following the route that the two took.
These events continue, different types of devourers wake up and those who didn't harbernates also gather to the large pathway that was made for them by those territories aligned to good or order. Each of the management of this territories had taken action upon receiving an order from the cosmic adventure commision hub, the alarm notifications in each territory never stopped. For these territories not to be flatten and eaten by the emergence of the devourers.
All along Tobi was not faraway from the main entrance of the upper origin realm. Facing the huge city territory in trance yet to be precise he was observing the movements of each devourer using his huge outer soul.
He looks at a certain area like his eyes passthrough the last barrier of the realms. Lim appeared next to him and gazed in that area too, it's been a long time since she saw her creator. Yup something or someone is approaching the realms.
Tobi: Should I let her see a crazy scenario. Lim was so focused in that place not knowing that he already pulled his contract to those old guys and an old feather pen. He didn't need to open up the contract, as long as he remembered what line and clauses to be changed, it will change by his will and intent.
...…
Outside the realms where only darkness remains, a golden aura circle expanded in a size of a peak cosmos. Tentacles gust out like it was trying to hold the edge of this portal not for it to close. Soon a woman walks out in the middle following her was her kin and a furball creature is sitting in her head.
Alice looks back at Sikare, is it really ok that you're the one entering using that body?
Sikare: Relax mother, as long as I hold the portal steady I can control this puppet body without any lag and my BASS will be assisting it. The voice was from the being in the portal yet it synchronizes with the lady wearing a scientist or a doctor outfit.
Before Alice replied back three presence entered their perception. Alice smiles and without any pause she fishes out these three.
The three realms consciousness felt dizzy wanted to throw up yet they were now sitting in their owned torture chair. Adjusting themselves and fixing their gaze to Alice that materialized a chair to sit on then created a table pulling a bunch of papers like it was an office.
Sikare only stands next to the table waiting for her mother's command, she was a doctor in profession that should be the one examining those devourers that had a contract with them.
The eldest of the three shouted at Alice, a while ago it was an iron eater then you and what's the meaning of these. Release us now or else all of you bystanders will never be able to enter realms anymore.
Alice didn't reply but Alicia her BASS appeared, eyeing the three consciousnesses yet before she said something Sikare called her mother while pointing to the realms.
Alice: Eh, so making me a bait for these three to leave their bodies. She releases the three consciousness and also looks in that direction.
...…
Sharona: There is no such thing as a plan. She can feel it, she is still banned from going out of her office and Hiiro was just there as her guard knitting her eyebrows.
Hiiro: So it's time for him to devour everything. Something was banging at the border of middle and upper origin realms, yes of course it was a huge outer soul. The outer soul of the 1st bystander.
Sharona: He was just telling who's the boss that was also a joke for him, he is a lazy guy yet this move is also a surveillance and to make sure that every powerful being in the top does not go down without any vigilance. He can just snipe them out if they think of harming any member of the family and there is also Ame Warashi, our auntie waiting for those old guys that kick her out.
Hiiro: Are you sure you're not going to stop this?
Sharona: Why should I do that, you know when they all were kicked out. Those in chaos and order alignment started to fight each other. He is just covering up everything and not harming anyone though. Just made me some tea, damn it these documents never stop coming looking at her table desk. Those documents just keep popping out of nowhere.
...….
The realm's consciousness had just watched this huge outer soul that covered the lower and middle realm that had been standby all along shakes moving back a little to charge, banging itself to the upper origin realm again and again then it paused a little. It moved back again and it did something gruesome, it was like a slime or a Pac-Man in the video game opening its mouth so wide then it really happened the whole realm was now eaten and now inside of this huge outer soul.
Alice was laughing, the upper realm consciousness was on her knees coughing blood.
Alice: So you guys can bleed too or your bodies were being captive by him offsetting the intangible setting recreating the three of you in front of me being a human. She looks at them with interest yet she will not do something for now.