Epic Of Caterpillar

It would be certainly easier and quicker to just do that.

But the thing is, if I do that, I will have to fight fur of these tribulations at the same time…

Yeah, better not.

Tribulations are quite the foes because they lack souls, origins, or anything of the sort, so you canʼt easily one-shot kill them by eating or shattering their souls like I usually do with gods weaker than me (or that I have weakened through shameless tactics).

As I think, I see that hundreds of barriers of space are finally formed over the entire tree.

Yep, I settled up hundreds, which cost around 3 million Divine Energy.

Good thing I am getting it back by eating these Gods…

Why hundreds? To be even more cautious! My motto is, ”Youʼre never cautious enough”!

”Masta, things are ready now, guu!” said Rimuru, flying to my side and hugging me.

I caress her azure hair as I kiss her.

”Thanks, my dear. Letʼs not waste any more time, go with everyone else to protect the large areas that we donʼt want to get damaged. I will slowly rank up and deal with the Heavenly Calamities as they come.” I said.

”Alright! Though… you donʼt really want our help?” she asked.

”It would be nice if you could keep an eye on the cities and stuff, even with barriers, things might emerge or happen unexpectedly. I can deal with these things on my own, but thanks for worrying.” I said, kissing her again.

”Very well, I understand guu, just donʼt be too reckless!” said Rimuru, kissing my cheek as she flew away to command everyone else.

I saw as everyone flew to their designed places they would guard, and then I flew towards an empty landscape with just a flat piece of earth.

I began to let the power I gained leak into my very being as I started to Rank up.

Ding!

[You have Ranked up to Rank 3 of the Goddess Realm!]

[A Heavenly Calamity will be summoned!]

As those words dropped from the systemʼs notifications, a distortion in space happened, generating a gigantic black hole!

BOOM!

And then, enormous black lightning came out of it, shaping itself as a gargantuan serpentine entity!

”GRROOOOOOAAAAAARRRR!”

It was an enormous, over 50 meters big Asian-like serpentine dragon made entirely out of black lightning, roaring monstrously as it released thunderbolts everywhere!

This was the Black Lightning Dragon Thunderbolt Heavenly Calamity!

Alright then, time to get real!

The dragon made of black lightning suddenly unleashed a tremendous blast of black lightning towards me, and then flies away! Heʼs rushing in the direction of the Yggdrasil Sprout!

I knew it! The Worldʼs Will wants to stop my growth, you damn bastard.

”[True Abyssal Form: Nyarlathotep]!”

I quickly activate my Path Jewel, as my body explodes into an enormous, monstrous humanoid creature made entirely out of red flesh and covered in jaws and eyes!

As the ability says, my resistance to all elements increases exponentially, and also my soul and body regeneration speed are boosted by 500%, although it also drains my Divine Energy constantly, this is the best form to fight deadly Heavenly Calamities!

I then use Instant Teleportation and emerge right in front of the Heavenly Calamity ad raise my mass of flesh over it, which I quickly shape into large jaws through the Monarch of Gluttonyʼs Path Jewel Ability, Monstrous Abyssal Maws of Endless Devouring, which I couple with a domain of devouring, another ability, named Gluttonous Divinity Feasting.

The combination of both abilities forms a space around my entire being that simply consumes anything that is deemed as a foe by me, even if they are soulless entities such as Heavenly Calamities!

CRUCH!

”GRYYUUOOOOO…!”

The Heavenly Calamity roars as if it were a real dragon, and it begins to electrify my entire body while I devour it.

I begin to entangle my entire body, but I use my Monarch of Gluttony ability to devour its very existence slowly.

However, as it is a strong Heavenly Calamity, it is resisting my devour rather well.

Nonetheless, I keep eating it away as I gain more power and use such power against it.

I grasp it with the World-Breaking Disrupting Chaotic Claws and begin to disintegrate parts of its attribute through the chaos within my monstrous claw claws.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

With three slashes, the dragon groans in desperation, a large chunk of its black lightning mass is gone in seconds.

It keeps trying to fry my flesh alive, but I keep devouring any flesh that was burn and regenerate new one constantly through the Endless Self-Renewal Ability, and then generate a second claw, the Space-Severing Void Claws!