The Devourer of Gods

The Descent of Gods

Chapter 6:

The sky above the capital didn't just crack—it shattered like a sheet of cheap glass.

Three massive pillars of blinding, golden divine light pierced through the atmospheric rift, vaporizing the clouds and slamming directly into the central plaza of the Tiger Clan estate. The sheer kinetic impact sent a violent shockwave ripping through the courtyard, obliterating stone pagodas, shattering reinforced walls, and throwing hundreds of panicking guards into the air like autumn leaves.

Austin stood firm in the center of the shaking courtyard, his boots anchored deep into the fracturing stone. He casually adjusted his grip on Vivian, who was still draped over his shoulder like a broken ragdoll, her face pale with absolute, suffocating dread as she stared at the glowing figures emerging from the golden smoke.

As the blinding dust settled, three towering figures stepped forward. They wore immaculate, pristine white armor forged from starlight, and their eyes burned with the cold, arrogant light of entities who looked down on the mortal realm as a cage for insects.

The leader, a man carrying a massive golden halberd that radiated an aura of absolute space-suppression, scanned the area before his eyes locked dead onto Austin. "Target identified," the leader’s voice boomed, vibrating the teeth in Austin's skull. "The taboo Devourer bloodline has initialized early. By decree of the Upper Realm's God-Hunting Tribunal, this entire mortal planet is now quarantined. Your existence ends tonight."

With a casual wave of his halberd, the leader released a single crescent wave of divine qi. The attack didn't just cut through the air—it literally sliced the concept of distance, traveling instantly toward Austin's neck at a speed that a normal mortal cultivator's brain couldn't even process.

BZZZZT.

Austin didn't dodge. He simply let his Golden Core Stage 9 (Peak Realm) aura explode outward in a column of pure, jet-black gravity.

ACTIVATE SKILL: SOVEREIGN REJECTION

The divine crescent wave slammed into the invisible black wall inches from Austin’s face. Instead of cutting him, the massive, god-level attack stopped mid-air, violently vibrating as the swirling gravitational vortex around Austin began forcefully bending, compressing, and breaking the divine law within the strike, neutralizing it into harmless golden sparks that rained over his boots.

The three Upper Realm assassins stopped. Their cold, arrogant expressions instantly shattered into looks of absolute, wide-eyed disbelief. "What?!" the leader gasped, gripping his halberd tighter. "A peak Golden Core mortal... just blocked a strike from a Divine Immortal?"

Austin smiled, a dark, predatory tilt of his lips. But before he could order the Void Slime to attack, the System text boxes violently flared in his vision, blinking in an emergency shade of absolute crimson.

WARNING: THE IMMORTAL ASSASSINS ARE LINKED VIA A TRI-SOUL LIFE MATRIX.

IF YOU CONSUME ONE, THE REMAINING TWO WILL IMMEDIATELY INITIATE A 'DIVINE KARMIC DETONATION', EXPLODING THE ENTIRE CONTINENT TO ASSURE PLANETARY PURGATION.

SYSTEM NOTICE: TO SAFELY DEVOUR THEM, YOU MUST COMPRESS ALL THREE INTO A SINGLE LOCALIZED AREA AND SEVER THE SOUL-MATRIX SIMULTANEOUSLY WITHIN 3 SECONDS.

Austin’s eyes narrowed into dangerous slits. The three assassins were highly trained divine soldiers; they weren't going to just stand close together and line up to be eaten. If they realized they were losing, they would trigger the continent-wiping self-destruct mechanism instantly.

"Form the Trinity Array!" the leader roared, realizing Austin was an existential threat. "Purge the sector! Do not let the anomaly breathe!"

The three assassins instantly leapt into the air, splitting into three strategic directions to encircle Austin from the sky, their weapons glowing with a blinding, apocalyptic heat that threatened to turn the entire capital into a sea of magma. The countdown appeared in floating numbers of black fire directly over the center of the courtyard:

DIVINE ARRAY INITIALIZATION: 00:02...

00:01...

Austin stood in the center of the triangle, the ground beneath him melting from the sheer heat of their descent. He didn't look up at the gods. Instead, he reached into his inner world space, a look of absolute, universe-ending madness flashing in his abyssal eyes. He didn't need them to stand together. He would make the world bring them to him.

"Slime," Austin hissed, slamming his bare left palm directly into the cracked earth. "Invert the horizon."

The tiny Void Slime shot off his shoulder, diving deep into the center of the courtyard and transforming into an absolute, localized cosmic black hole.

SKILL ACTIVATED: PRIMORDIAL GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE!

BOOM!

Space itself warped. The three flying Divine Immortals shrieked in absolute terror as their flying momentum was violently reversed. The immense, irresistible gravity of the black hole didn't just pull them down—it forcefully dragged their three separate trajectories backward, smashing their bodies together into a single, tangled heap directly in the center of the plaza.

Before they could even process the bone-shattering impact, Austin’s shadow snapped shut around them like a giant steel bear trap, perfectly severing the Tri-Soul Life Matrix before they could trigger the karmic detonation.

The Void Slime opened its jaw—stretching wide enough to swallow the entire center of the estate—and snapped shut over all three gods simultaneously.

GULP.

DEVOURING COMPLETED. THREE UPPER REALM IMMORTAL SOULS REFINED.

TRI-SOUL DIVINE MATRIX DIGESTED.

CULTIVATION LEAP: GOLDEN CORE STAGE 9 TO NASCENT SOUL REALM (STAGE 1)... STAGE 3... NASCENT SOUL REALM STAGE 5!

VOID SLIME EVOLUTION PROGRESS: 75%. UNLOCKED NEW SKILL: DIVINE AUTHORITY SHIELD.

The blinding golden light vanished completely, leaving the courtyard in absolute, dead silence. Austin stood tall, his hair billowing as a massive, golden-and-black Nascent Soul avatar materialized behind his back, radiating a pressure that made the laws of the mortal plane groan under his sheer weight. In less than twenty-four hours, he had bypassed centuries of cultivation.

Austin casually tossed the shaking, terrified body of Vivian onto the dirt in front of him. She looked up at him, her mind completely shattered from witnessing a mortal casually snack on three gods from the heavens. She couldn't even speak; she could only whimper like a dying animal.

But before Austin could look toward the main palace where the rest of her family was hiding, the sky high above the rift didn't close. Instead, it turned a deep, blood-red color as a massive, celestial eye—the size of an entire continent—slowly opened within the cosmic void, staring directly down at Austin.

A booming, ancient voice that shook the literal foundations of the mortal planet echoed from the cosmos.

THE TRIBUNAL ASSASSINS HAVE FALLEN. THE ANOMALY HAS REACHED THE NASCENT SOUL REALM EARLY.

THE HIGHER REALMS WILL NO LONGER SEND SOLDIERS.

OPENING THE GATES OF THE WORLD-CORE DUNGEON. LET THE PRIMORDIAL GOD-BEASTS DESCENT AND PURGE THE INFESTATION.

Across all four horizons of the mortal continent, the ground split open into thousands of massive, glowing abyssal trenches, and the thundering, world-ending roars of millions of ancient, locked-away primordial monsters began echoing up into the sky.

Austin looked up at the massive celestial eye, his own abyssal eyes widening as a wild, unstoppable, and bloodthirsty laughter tore from his throat. The higher realms thought they were punishing him by unleashing a continent-full of monsters. To the Devourer of Gods, they had just delivered an all-you-can-eat buffet straight to his doorstep.

He gripped his fist, the massive Nascent Soul avatar behind him roaring in synchronization.