This was my second time eating Earth but this time I noticed a difference.
Last time it just tasted like dirt, water, and toxins but now Earth tasted more like candy, it was a bit sour but just the right amount and it had a candy-like texture. Either I was becoming even crazier to the point where it affected my sense of taste or Real Eater made it easier to eat everything.
I got a huge influx of powers, and by huge, I mean in the quadrillions, obviously over 95% of these powers were from Najimi. This was a number that would take even my almost instantaneous integration a few hours to digest.
This gives me enough time to at least start my Cosmic buffet plans, starting with the sun.
I grew in size until the sun was just the right size to eat as a snack, and I did just that. The immense heat and gravity had absolutely no effect on me, if anything it just made me want to eat it more.
The sun tasted completely different compared to Earth. It wasn´t like candy but dissolved in my mouth, the radiation and nuclear fusion gave it a spicy note and even after fully dissolving it left a tingling sensation in my mouth.
Besides the taste, some interesting changes happened inside my body. I had numerous powers and a few got a nice power up.
My fire and heat-related powers grew several times, easily reaching ten million degrees Celsius, gravity and magnetic powers grew to a level where I could leave Magneto and Graviton in the dust, and even my radiation and light powers got a big upgrade.
The only part of the sun that did make me stronger was its nuclear fusion, it was absorbed by my NE reactor heart but the energy created compared to my heart is simply too small if anything I would need to swallow a neutron star and I was going to do just that.
However, before making my way to the nearest neutron star, I ate the other planets in the solar system as a snack, sadly they didn´t give me anything but what was I expecting after eating the sun?
I reappeared thousands of lightyears away from the place where there once was a solar system and arrived in a different nebula altogether. Before me was a giant glowing orb that made even me feel insignificant.
This was a Class O hypergiant star, capable of containing billions of suns inside and a core temperature of at least one billion. This giant blue star was so bright that I instantly went blind and that was not an accomplishment to scoff at.
Regardless of its size and luminosity, it still ended up in my mouth after I grew to even greater heights, I swear, by the end of this trip I will be the size of Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
The O Class star massively boosted my gains from the sun and I continued on my journey. I didn´t leave anything untasted and many of my powers grew on a cosmic scale.
I got cosmic winds from HD 189733b, which was around 9000 km per hour, just to show you how strong that is, Earth winds are at most 400 km per hour. Just these winds alone are enough for me to destroy Earth several times over.
I ate a Magnetar which not only gave me insane growth in energy production, but just so you know a Magnetar produces as much energy in one-tenth of a second as the sun does in 100,000-year, meaning each second, I get as much energy as the sun would in a million years. Besides the energy growth, I also got the strongest magnetic field in the universe, strong enough to rip a human apart atom by atom.
The Magnetar was so valuable that besides eating it I collected some of its Nuclear Pasta, the strongest material in the universe besides the interior of a Black Hole. That stuff was so strong that if I didn´t have Real Eater, I would never be able to even put a dent in it. Just a tee spoon of that stuff weighs as much as the entire human population together, and that includes the fatties in America. The pasta was so hard that even with Real Eater, my jaw hurt.
After a few days, I finally finished my all-you-can-eat trip. Not only was my harvest immense, but I also got to taste many new things. The only things I didn´t eat were a Black and White Hole, if my jaw already hurt from mere Nuclear Pasta, then I doubt I can chew a Black Hole and I just couldn´t find a White Hole.
After eating so many celestial bodies, I didn´t just gain power but also knowledge, I could now easily create most celestial bodies without trouble. You will never understand how fun it is to create and throw suns around like they were common fireballs.
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A/N- The Universe is a terrifying place with many things that could destroy us without us even noticing and I want to use this power for him to grow faster. He would reach this level naturally by evolving but it would take a long time, so shortcut it is.