An elegant white mecha with two pairs of wings resembling blades on its back could be seen traveling amidst the vast darkness of space illuminated by the gentle starlights and pale bluish flames from its thrusters…
While the 15m tall body of this mechanical wonder seems towering according to human standards, it is a mere space dust if compared to the other celestial bodies in this infinitely expanding cosmos.
After a while….
The white mecha finally stopped its journey as it finally reached its destination which is a red planet but its size is almost as big as the giant gas planet from a certain man's home universe.
And after observing this gigantic red orb of landmass from outside of its atmosphere for a while, an almost transparent curtain of blue light big enough to cover this colossal ball was emitted from the white mecha's pair of visors.
A few seconds later…
The light curtain finally vanished and the white mecha shook its head as if it was disappointed because it failed to find something it seeked.
["Harvester to Devourer, do you copy?"] spoke the white mecha into its communication channel, its feminine voice signed that it was piloted by a woman inside.
["This is Devourer, copy. How is the situation?"] from the other side of the channel, a masculine voice was heard, meaning that the pilot of this mecha had a man as a partner.
["Ha… negative, just like the others…"] sighed the pilot of the white mecha with utter disappointment.
She was already expecting some native alien life forms to slaughter. But after literally searching through every planet in this solar system, she found nothing… Just some floating balls of landmass or gas…
Why couldn't she find anything to kill in a place this big?!
["Ahahaha tough luck Harvester~ And don't forget to pay your debt later~"] Her partner sneered at her misfortune, as he had won their bet….
Yeah, just before they began their exploration of this solar system, they betted the existence of other life forms except the ones in her former home planet which had already been annihilated.
If they exist, then she wins and the duration of his prior debt from losing the spar would be doubled.
If they don't exist, he wins and the duration of his debt would be reduced only until midnight and she has to wear a naked apron for half a day….
["In our next world, okay? And you have to cash-in yours too, Devourer~ fufufu~"]
Well, losing and winning are part of life so she just needed to accept it and become better next time.
Oh and because she got less time to dom him, should she intensify her offensives? Hell yeah she should!
Thus, her partner unknowingly dug his grave and wouldn't expect the wild night that was going to come….
In any case, if it wasn't already obvious enough, Devourer and Harvester were the code names used by the pair of love crazed spouses.
Ryoma picked Devourer because he was currently using the full transformation mode of The Getter Emperor's Larva and had a goal to devour every celestial body in this Solar System.
And his wife, Esdeath chose Harvester as her code name because the machine she was currently transformed into, Hel, has the ability to harvest souls to make both her and itself stronger.
So why did they use the full transformation mode? Because both of them were curious how it would feel to become…. a robot….
It felt quite weird in the beginning, especially for Esdeath because she suddenly could feel the workings of everything inside their body unlike when she was a human, and she got extra organs to work on, like the weaponries installed in her mechanical body and the wings on her back.
Life was quite bothersome for her in the first week because she still wasn't accustomed to her new body, making some silly occurrences happened which made her dearest husband rolling with laughter from time to time, like unconsciously activating her thrusters with full power which made her crash against asteroids, trying to yawn from the boredom but shooting off torrents of beams from her mouth instead, her wings suddenly detached alongside the sudden deactivation of her thrusters mid flight which resulted in her floating in the no gravity zone helplessly, and more….
While for Ryoma? It wasn't as bad as his dearest wife because he already knew how it felt to have an almost perfect control of his body after his first evolution. But, he still felt disoriented as he got much much more components to perceive and control.
Though one question remained….
Why did they bother to use code names? Well, because they wanted to and they felt that it was appropriate to use it when they're using their machines just to get the right atmosphere….
Moving on...
["Devourer, you can go and eat your fill so we can prepare for the next phase."]
["Roger that, Warping in 3…2…1!"]
Following her partner/husband's words, a swirling green portal opened up a million kilometers away behind her. Its cosmic proportions made the giant red planet she had examined seem like a tiny marble compared to it…
And a few moments after the opening of the colossal green portal, A demonic red titan could be seen slowly coming out of it. Starting from its hideous visage followed by its terrifyingly gigantic body with an equally enormous red cape on its back.
As the red titan complete figure had finally emerged, the colossal portal began to collapse inwards before disappearing into nothing….
Then the titan moved, and contrary to its size which dwarfed every celestial object in this solar system except its core, it crossed such a massive distance between him and the red planet in less than a split second.
["Sigh... We have come this far but it still isn't enough…."] spoke the man who had transformed into this demonic red colossus, Ryoma Nagare as his right palm hovered below the crimson planet.
In his eyes, the planet which should've been a lot bigger than his wife's previous home planet was akin to a slightly smaller basketball in his hand. But still, even with this monstrous size of his, he was still insignificant compared to the vast expanse of cosmos which made him amazed for the umpteenth time during this three weeks celestial objects buffet.
A moment later…
The crimson planet shape began to crumble as its gravitational pull couldn't contest against the immensely superior gravitation field of the looming hand of the Devourer. But, the devourer, as if unsatisfied by the slow absorption speed, began to channel some of his energy, making the planet that was slowly crumbling into his palm immediately get consumed by green rays emanating from his hand like it had been sucked by a black hole.
["And this marked the annihilation of all planets in this solar system…."] Feeling the increase of his strength and size once more, he nodded proudly because he just achieved something which should be impossible for the previous him. But….
["Wow~ You have become so big~"]
A certain someone said something which made the grand figure of his crumble…
["Really Es? Again?"] asked the towering titan with a deadpan as he turned his massive visage to blankly stare at the seemingly microscopic figure sitting on his immensely wide shoulder.
His adorable psychotic wife had somehow picked up a new hobby a week after they began this operation….
That was to spout lewd jokes at random moments!
Okay, he knew that she was pent up but hadn't they agreed that they wouldn't do any wasteful sexual activities until the goal has been achieved?!
["Fufufu~ It's Harvester, remember? And was i wrong in the first place~?"] replied his tiny wife cheekily, she even corrected how he addressed her…
And to be fair, she didn't say anything wrong…. If she didn't say it lustfully like that! So, he just stared at her, with his pair of planet sized eyes, menacingly….
["Alright~ alright~ I'm sorry okay~ I couldn't help it, we haven't… you know…. made love recently…"] Finally giving up her teasing, she apologized as she lamented at her current bedroom situation.
Both of them knew that if they have sex then it would take at least a week or even more for them to be satisfied because of their endless passionate love for each other and their inexhaustible stamina. And because they were currently in a dire situation which made them unable to waste so much precious time they could use to strengthen themselves for the looming threat of the beast, they had agreed to not do any kind of sexual acts. At least until he finished his evolution.
But still, it had been three weeks already for fucks sake and he hadn't even devoured the sun to initiate his evolution! She wanted to make love with her dearest husband! She wanted him to fill up all of her three holes, one top, two bottom with his sticky, thick, and warm seeds! It was entirely his fault that she was addicted to his ministrations and now she had to wait for a long time to be injected with his blissful love drugs!?
That was why, until she got her injections she would pester him with sexual innuendos!
["Uhh….."]
Didn't she realize that he could hear her loud internal rants? Maybe she did, that was why she ranted in the first place?
["Okay, a date with just the two of us in the next world plus a month of your husband's full course, deal?"]
So Ryoma, as a good husband himself, had to provide alternative solutions!
["Deal!!"]
That was easier than he thought….
[Mast– Mr. Devourer…. are you going to be offline for a long time again?....]
Or not...
["Fufufu~ Indeed~ my lovely Devourer will abandon you! Starting from a month, then a year, and longer! Until he has completely forgotten about you! AHAHAHAHA~"]
Uh-oh, it seemed like his wife wouldn't let this chance slip to make his adorable maid even more depressed…
[*Sob… Master, is what your unstable wife said…. true?]
Yeah, she succeeded… his maid even forgot to call him using his codename and was that a sob he just heard??
["Huh?! who the fuck did you call unstable?!"]
["Esdeath…. my sweet and gorgeous murder machine, don't go too far with your teasing okay?"]
So he, as the only man present, decided to put a stop to their childish quarrels before it became another world war!
["Fine~ that's because you asked nicely~"]
Peace regained on one side, now into the other….
["And you, Housekeeper…."]
That was Theresa's codename, he wanted to call her Administrator but she refused because it might make her position superior to him and she didn't want that.
[Yes, Mas– Mr. Devourer?]
["We can start working on your body after i finished my date with my dearest wife, how about it?"]
This would serve as his appreciation towards Theresa's services and a test against his conjecture of her having feelings for him alongside to prove her yandere tendencies, three birds with one stone!
[Ah.. Ahh…. Master, is– is that true?!]
Huh? Why was her reaction similar to his wife's when he proposed to her?? So his maid actually fell for him!?
["Yes! So cheer up okay? I'm not going to abandon you or anything, you know?"]
Nevertheless, he didn't take his words back as it worked out very well to cheer up his a.i maid. And for the headache that would soon follow… ehh…. yeah he would leave that to his future self!
[Hm! I'll hold that promise of yours, Mr. Devourer!"]
'[Ehehehe~ finally, Master will make me a body~]'
The tiny saplings of forbidden feelings he unknowingly planted, had been watered deliberately by the man himself….
[Ding! System Antithesis Unlocking Progress Updated!!]
'[I will be able to touch him directly~ feeling the warmth of his hands when he gives me praising headpats, the hugs he promised me alongside the smell of his body, kisses– Ah~! patience Theresa, patience! You need to get the permission of his annoying wife first!]'
[Current Progress: 33%]
But he didn't know that it only made them grow faster than they should be…..
'[Or should i get rid of her? But My dear Master will be sad that way! What a dilemma~ Ehehehe~]'
It is unknown what would happen when this forbidden tree finally bore fruits…..
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'Phew! that was close!'
He finally made all of his household members happy! It was the best case scenario right?
["Heh~ Blatantly giving a promise which is akin to a proposal in front of your wife? Fufufu~ it seems like i need to teach my rebellious husband some lessons later~"]
Or not…. as he could see the visors of his wife began to shine menacingly which made the colossal body of his tremble after knowing that his wife would definitely become more outrageous when she cashed-in his debt…..
But….
["The absolute limits…. don't you dare break them!"]
He needed to remind her that no matter how much he loves her, there are things he won't let her do to him!
["Fufufu~ don't worry~ I'll only break your hips and mind with the things you love~"]
At this moment he realized that he fucked– no, he would be fucked up….
["Uhh…. with that being said, let's go back to business shall we?"] He averted his eyes awkwardly from the tiny yet menacing figure sitting on his shoulder into the core of this solar system, a colossal yellow blazing orb of gas.
["The Last One! The Sun!"]
The brightest one who gave warmth and light upon this cold and dark region of space, the sources of all life in many legends and myths! And now, this flaming gas giant would be the final tribute for his ascension!
["So Housekeeper, is everything ready?"] Calling Theresa with her codename, he inquired about their army's preparation because he had a gut feeling that they would attract so many hostile forces when he began his evolution.
[Affirmative! All troops are ready for deployment!] she confirmed it to him with her usual professionalism, it was like the previous blasphemous thoughts inside her mind didn't exist in the first place.
["Well done! And you Harvester? Ready to do what you did best?"] He nodded in approval then looked back into the tiny ice Empress of death on his shoulder.
["Fufufu~ say no more, Devourer!"] The said Empress gave her answer while brandishing her twin blades with excitement.
She hoped that one of his predictions in which this universe is actually empty missed because she couldn't wait to break the record of her slaughter!
["Then let's go! Warping to the sun in 3…2…1!"]
As the countdown ended, Ryoma shot a giant torrent of emerald rays from his mouth into the space in front of him which stopped after reaching some distance as if hitting something and began expanding in a circular motion before finally stabilizing and forming a swirling portal which his titanous form entered soon after alongside his wife on his shoulder.
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["This thing is bigger than i've expected…"] Ryoma said in awe as he finally arrived right in front of the Sun.
It has a radius which spans over millions of kilometers, dwarfing the Sun on his previous life's solar system with its meager seven hundred thousands of kilometers radius. Making him who was going to devour it, felt like a small ant trying to drink from a water droplet a few times bigger than him. Even now, he could feel the immense gravity of this yellow giant trying to pull him into her scorching embrace as a sign of her defiance against her inevitable fate.
["It's a futile attempt to delay your demise…."]
But he didn't budge in the slightest against this massive star gravitational pull and searing heat, because who is he?! He is Getter Emperor! The Devourer of Worlds! A mere star wouldn't be able to stop him!
["Housekeeper, begin the next phase preparation!"]
Before the evolutionary banquet began, some preparations for the probable events following it were necessary.
[Affirmative! Deploying all troops! in 3…2…1!]
Following his maid's countdown, countless portals with varying sizes opened up behind him and soon after, endless amounts of fully unmanned diverse mechanical troops poured out from them, ranging from 15m tall metal giants into the five sphere shaped supercarriers/mobile factories the size of Mars.
So how was he able to gather so many troops in around three weeks? Simple, the size of his internal industrial complex expanded proportionately alongside his growth, making its production capabilities increased by leaps and bounds overtime.
["Split the battlefield into six regions…"]
[Affirmative! Warping to designated outposts in 3…2…1!]
As their supreme authorities ordered, the swarm began to split equally into 5 formations with a supercarrier as their leader then warped away to their posts, forming a defensive perimeter on his top, bottom, left, right, and front.
And those perimeters were again split into 4 zones.
Zone A was the furthest one from him, ranging from 0.5 LY away at the edge of the space-time restriction domain he was going to deploy until 0.4 LY.
This Zone would serve to herd the incoming enemies into one point of entry to the next zone which would become the main battlefield in each perimeter by opening up a straight lined gap in the restrictive domain in order to counter the enemy fleets that would definitely arrive from all directions of this Solar System.
Zone B which ranged from 0.399 LY into 0.3 LY was the main battlefield mentioned prior. Most of their grunts were stationed here to intercept the incoming enemies.
Next is Zone C. This zone which ranged from 0.299 LY into 0.2 LY was where their over the horizon artillery mega structures with the purpose of firesupport and sniping valuable targets were located.
And also in this zone, The Wall of Ramiel, their countermeasure against the enemy's over the horizon bombardments was set up.
This Wall consists of massive amounts of space fortresses which have a shape resembling the Fifth Angel, Ramiel from Evangelion series but a few times bigger than the original counterpart that were set up into an orbit in the outer rim of Zone C with Ryoma's mechanical body as the center.
And when this wall is activated, each Ramiel will generate a one sided energy barrier that resonates with one another, forming an even more robust and wider range of protection that is capable of enveloping the zones inside them completely. Furthermore, by utilizing particle frequency and type recognition, any attacks from inside whether they are solid objects or energy can bypass this wall, making these defensive perimeters way more formidable than they should be.
Then there is Zone D, their last line of defense. And as the last line of defense, it was the most fortified one in a sense as in this zone, the majority of their elite troops were stationed here including the five planet sized supercarriers.
But If you are wondering why he ordered his system maid to split the battlefield into six while he only had five supercarriers as outposts, it was because…
["My dearest Harvester, I'll be counting on you!"]
He left his back to the one he trusted the most, Esdeath!
["Leave it to me! Now go have your feast, My dearest Devourer!"] She leaped from his shoulder then rushed with full speed to her designated battlefield, Zone B.
["Ice: Advent of The Empress!"]
And once she arrived, she activated her trump card directly as she no longer had to worry about her body breaking apart after receiving a shard of her dearest husband's power. Though her Ice Empress form was quite different when she used it in her mechanical body yet still retained the harmony of elegance and ferocity.
Her thorny ice crown was replaced with a sinister yet graceful ice halo hovering above her head, her full body battle armor changed into thin and almost invisible ice layer covering her body from head to toe except her visors and thrusters with a sigil of her Imperial Arms on the chest, and she no longer had an ice cape but rather the two pair of wings on her back shone beautifully in white-bluish luster.
In any case, why didn't her dearest husband send troops to escort his ice empress? What a joke! It was because he knew her the most! She is an army of her own!
["Rise, My Einherjar!"]
And as to prove her inner claims, tens of thousands towering Ice Valkyries holding assortment of weapons were created in less than a blink of an eye with her mere thoughts.
Their numbers might seem like a drop in the ocean compared to her dearest swarm of metals but their strength vastly exceeded his troops except for his elite few as each one of them could shatter a planet with their full powered strike when she tested them in simulations!
In any case, how did she become this absurdly stronger already? Once again it was thanks to her dearest husband's shard of power and this mechanical form he gave her which enhanced her control and output of her Ice Power to an unprecedented degree. She too didn't forget to train this gifted power of hers during his celestial objects buffet because she didn't want to be left out while the love of her life became stronger overtime.
And seeing that all of their troops had been stationed on their respective posts, Ryoma laid down their first and the most crucial defense measure. ["Activating Smart Space-Time Stabilizer!"]
Upon his command, an invisible wave of energy spread from his titanous body as its center, sending small ripples into space and time for 0.5 light years across before returning to normal instantly like nothing ever happened….
[Housekeeper reporting! Spatial Jump is unusable!]
["This is Harvester, I can no longer use Mahapadma"]
But the result had proven otherwise as both his two partners were no longer able to use their space and time altering abilities.
["Roger that, Space-Time Stabilizer functionality confirmed! Setting up exemptions….."]
For his own wife, his maid's exclusive unit, his Zhen Xuan Wu, and his new unit which was currently underdevelopment inside one of the supercarriers.
[All preparations have been completed! We can now proceed to the Last Phase, Mr. Devourer]
["Then Let's begin!!"]
As he began charging his power, green arcs of lighting started coursing through his titanous body, converging into the three green crystals on his chest. The obscene amount of energy gathered could even shake the whole space of this solar system even though it had been solidified by his stabilizer!
["Ahh…. something that i thought would forever be unreachable… is now going to be devoured by my dearest husband as an afternoon snack! Ahahahahahaha~"] His dearest wife laughed as she watched the absurdities unfold while sitting on top of an ice throne.
A little more than two weeks ago she was just a slightly stronger human who posed as a small general from an empire on a small planet, but now? she was going to witness the annihilation of the sun by the love of her life!
["Devour….."]
And this is it, the moment for his ascension had finally come!
["GETTER….. BEAM!!!"]
Thus, with a cosmic scaled torrential burst of the all devouring Getter Rays, the sun…. was no more…..