All Chapters of Doomsday Gluttony: I Level Up by Eating: Chapter 31
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Chapter 31
Ryatt’s POV The crowd didn't stop cheering immediately. Even as the black orb pulsed with a sickly, oily light, the people in the stands were laughing, pointing at the "special effects.""Is it going to explode?" someone in the front row yelled, leaning over the railing. "Do the light show!"Then the heart fired.A lance of jagged, violet energy erupted from the orb, slamming into the front row. It didn't explode. It was worse. The beam hit a man in a jersey, and I watched his chest cavity cave inward as a glowing, sphere of light—his core—was ripped violently through his ribcage. The light flew upward, absorbed into the black mass of the heart. The man didn't even scream. He simply collapsed, his skin graying and cracking into fine silt before he hit the floor. "Run!" I screamed, but my voice was drowned out by a chorus of agonized shrieks. The heart fired again, and again. A dozen beams flashed out like hungry tongues, lashing into the crowd. People were turning to dust where the
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Chapter 32
Ryatt’s POV "It hurts, Ryatt. Kill me. Please, you have to kill me before there’s nothing left to save."The System’s voice wasn't a notification anymore. It was a dying gasp vibrating in my skull. I looked at my hands, then at the pulsing, obsidian monstrosity of the Heart looming above the arena."How?" I screamed at the air. "I'm empty! You took everything! I have no skills, no Shadow Leap, no blades—nothing!"The girl holding the blue dome groaned, her knees buckling. "Ryatt... I can't... the pressure...""Listen to me!" I grabbed her by the shoulders, forcing her to look at me. Her eyes were clouded with shimmering azure light, leaking tears of blood. "The System is talking to me. It wants to die. It’s telling me to kill it, but I don't have a weapon. How do I stop that thing?"She shook her head, a violent, desperate motion. "You can't stab it with steel, Ryatt. It’s a vacuum of energy. You have to overload it. You have to... you have to turn yourself into the blade.""Explain
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Chapter 33
Ryatt’s POV My vision was a fractured kaleidoscope of grit and gore. The air tasted like ozone and copper. I lay on the arena floor, my chest heaving with a rhythm that wasn't mine—a heavy, double-thudding pulse that vibrated through my bones. "Look at them," a man’s voice rasped nearby. It was thick with a new, terrifying strength. "Look at the 'Givers' now."I forced my head to turn. My neck felt like it was made of rusted gears. A few yards away, Delgrad, Akalai, and Fron were no longer the radiant figures that had loomed over us. They were small. Dim. They knelt in the dirt, their fine robes shredded, their skin pale and sweating. Blood—dark, human blood—leaked from a dozen shallow cuts on Delgrad’s face."Please," Akalai whimpered, her voice cracking. "We... we brought you order. We gave you the System.""You gave us a slaughterhouse!" a woman screamed. She stepped out of the shadows of the wreckage, her hands glowing with a ferocious, swirling orange light. She wasn't an Awak
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Chapter 34
Ryatt’s POV The air didn't just feel heavy anymore; it felt toxic. Every breath I drew tasted like ozone and rotted incense. The entities—these "real" gods—stood among us with an aura so vile it made my stomach churn, a greasy, cloying pressure that demanded we all drop dead just to stop offending their sight."Cleanse the surface?" I croaked out, forcing myself to stand tall even as my knees threatened to buckle. "You're talking about billions of people like we’re a bad crop of wheat." The leader, the one draped in sunlight, didn't even turn his full body toward me. "Wheat is useful, little thing. You are more like a mold that has infested the silo. A minor administrative error.""Administrative error?" I spat, the red and blue cores in my chest thrumming in a dissonant, violent harmony. "Delgrad and the others... they spent centuries torturing us. They called themselves gods. And you’re saying they were just middle management?""Managers?" The female entity in silver laughed, the
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Chapter 35
Ryatt’s POV Fron’s breathing was a wet, rattling sound that tore through the silence of the clearing. She didn't look like a goddess anymore. She looked like a mother who had run out of time. Her eyes, clouded with pain and a sudden, sharp vulnerability, flickered toward the girl huddled against my chest."She isn't his, Ryatt," Fron whispered, her voice trembling as she looked at me. "Delgrad... he never knew. He thought she was just another tool, another piece of the Abyss.""What are you talking about?" I asked, my grip tightening on the child. The Crimson Eye was still screaming in my socket, draining us both, showing me the girl’s fading life-force entwined with Fron’s."She’s mine," Fron said, a tear carving a path through the grime and blood on her cheek. "I hid her. For years. I kept her deep in the dark of the Abyss because I knew... I knew what they would do if they found her."She gestured weakly toward the sky gods hovering above us, their golden armor shimmering with pre
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Chapter 36
Ryatt’s POV The lead sky god didn't look like a conqueror anymore. As he ascended toward the jagged tear in the atmosphere, his golden radiance flickered like a dying bulb. He looked down at me, and for the first time, I didn't see divine superiority. I saw a man who had realized he was standing in a room with a rabid dog."Look at him," the silver woman whispered, her voice trembling as she hovered beside her leader. "It’s inside him. The corruption... it’s feeding on the essence.""Do not look at it!" the leader barked, his eyes snapping away from mine. He looked sick, his face pale with a frantic, twitching anxiety. "We are leaving. Now! Before the contagion takes hold of our own light.""We're just letting it live?" she asked, her wings beating in a panicked rhythm. "The harvest—""There is no harvest! Only rot!" he screamed. He turned his gaze back to me one last time, his lip curling in a mix of terror and disgust. "You want this world, little parasite? You can keep it. You can
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Chapter 37
Ryatt’s POV The wind didn't howl anymore. It just hissed through the gray, dead grass of the wasteland where it all began. I stood on the cracked asphalt of the old highway, the same place where I’d first looked up at a faded tournament poster while coughing blood into a rag. Back then, this place had been a hive—a nightmare of screeching monsters and shifting shadows.Now, it was silent."Nothing," I muttered, my voice sounding thin in the stagnant air. "There’s absolutely nothing left."I walked past a rusted car frame, my hand resting on the hilt of my blade. I kept waiting for a mutated gargoyle to drop from the sky or a crawler to burst from the dirt, but the silence remained unbroken. Every monster was gone. The rifts were closed, and every core had been released back into the atmosphere or into the chests of the desperate survivors at the stadium. This wasn't a zone anymore; it was just a graveyard of dirt and rubble.I crested the final ridge, looking for the spot where my li
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Chapter 38
Ryatt’s POV "Let it all go, Ryatt," the Architect whispered, her eyes fixed on mine with a terrifying, serene exhaustion. "Let the world finally rest."I looked up at the obsidian sky, the barrier grinding closer, a literal ceiling of death descending upon every living soul left on this planet. I thought of the stadium. I thought of the people I’d fought beside, the ones who didn’t know they were just background noise in a genetic experiment. "You're asking me to watch them all be crushed," I said, my voice cracking. "Every single person. The survivors. The ones who still think there's a tomorrow.""They are data points in a failed simulation, Ryatt. If you let it end, the suffering ends. Forever.""No," I growled, the word tearing out of my throat before I could even process the logic. "No, I won't do it. I don't care if I'm a clone. I don't care if I'm the twenty-seventh version of a dead man. I’m here now. They’re alive now."The Architect’s expression shifted, a flicker of somet
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Chapter 39
Ryatt’s POV The sky was hemorrhaging. It wasn’t just a breach; it was a cosmic dam breaking, and the water was made of teeth and obsidian scales."Oh god," I choked out, the air around me shimmering with the heat of my triple cores. "What have I done?"A roar that didn't belong to the atmosphere tore through the void. Thousands of the creatures—massive, multi-limbed horrors with wings that looked like torn silk—were flooding through the fissures I’d punched into the barrier. They weren't just falling toward Earth; they were banking, turning, and accelerating toward the distant spheres of other planets and moons like a swarm of locusts sensing a fresh field.*Ryatt!*The Architect’s voice didn't come from the air. It exploded inside my mind, channeled through the link between my three cores and the one she had just surrendered. "I see them!" I screamed back, my voice lost in the vacuum-pressure whistle of the breach. "There are too many! I can't stop them all!"*Close the crack!* her
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Chapter 40
Ryatt’s POV I didn't just move; I tore through the vacuum. The Triple Core within my chest wasn't a battery anymore—it was a sun, screaming for release. The stars around me blurred into long, white streaks as I pushed my speed to the absolute limit. My skin felt like it was being sandpapered off by the sheer friction of reality."Move, you bastard!" I screamed at my own limbs. "Move!"[Warning: Triple Core Speed Active. Energy output: Maximum.][Proximity to target: 50,000 kilometers... 20,000 kilometers... 5,000 kilometers...]The moon wasn't a moon. As I closed the distance in a matter of seconds, the gray, cratered surface I had looked at my entire life began to peel away like a scab. It wasn't rock. It wasn't dust. Beneath the crumbling crust of the lunar shell lay a colossal, organic mass.It was white—a blinding, translucent ivory that pulsed with a rhythmic, sickening thud."What is that?" I gasped, my voice vibrating in the hollow of my throat. "System, scan it! What am I loo
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