Epic Of Caterpillar

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Enormous masses of flesh roamed a desolate land filled with creatures just as horrible as them.

The masses of flesh were covered in countless eyes, jaws, and tentacles, and groaned as if they were in constant pain.

Enormous floating brains tried to attack them with powerful psychic lasers, but even after raining them with these attacks, the masses of flesh would regenerate and even gain resistance to their attacks eventually, attacking them and eating these brainy creatures, assimilating their bodies, and quickly gaining more mass.

As the time went by, Neuron glanced at this spectacle repeat over and over.

"How wonderful! So this is the true existence of a being between mortals and gods, the perfect vessel for Kinesis-sama! They had already eaten each other, fusing in the process, and now, they are beginning to eat other floating brain creatures… How fascinating! Those Floating Brain Creatures are Living Deity Rank Divine Beasts… To think that such mighty creatures would become fodder for this entity!" laughed a mass of several brains stitched together, with a single and beady crimson eye on its center and several tentacles around its formless body, Neuron.

Neuron was fascinated with the research of the unknown, of the physical bodies, of the reaction of cells to many things, his entire life, since he was born as a humanoid Mind Demon on a Small Family in Thanatos that he had been in love with research and experimentation, especially the experimentation with the living.

Since he was six years old that Neuron stitched rats together to see how they could react, although they died many times, he slowly perfectionated his techniques, until one day he managed to create a two-headed rat, and then he began to craft more abominations, chimeras made with his very two hands and some alchemy to aid on his creations.

Neuron clearly had a different mind than others, a different soul, even, he was never particularly corrupted by others, he simply grew strange and wicked.

He had a grotesque mind, and the Demon himself admits this and embraced his fascination, to the point where it became an immense obsession.

As the years went by, he worked as an alchemist to get by, until his Epic awakened, and he was then called by Kinesis, the God of Brains and Telepathy, the progenitor of his race.

Kinesis saw tremendous potential in Neuron's mind, intelligence, and ideas, and slowly encroached him into a loyal believer, he needed a mortal that could understand his desires and shared his goals, for what he was planning to one day do, overtake the Thanatos Pantheon and defeat Thanatos!

Kinesis told Neuron about his inspirations, his hopes, and his dreams, the dream of a perfect vessel.

Neuron quickly grew fascinated with the idea of an entity that was right in the middle between a mortal and a god, a being that was not restricted by both side's restrictions, and that could enjoy both of their benefits…

And after so many years, he finally had managed to acquire it!

The perfect vessel!

A being between a mortal and a god, with a potential that could rival even Supreme Gods!

He even had to give up on his old and decaying body and transfer his soul into his current body, but that was but a small price to pay for his goals to finally be achieved!

For his dreams, the dreams he shared with the highest figure of authority for Neuron, Kinesis!

Neuron has lived so long, and he had undergone many hardships of his own as well… but now, finally, finally!

He had finally reached his goal, and now, he had to slowly let it ripe for Kinesis to take over it!

Neuron glanced at the fleshy monstrosity get bigger and bigger until it covered several kilometers… its gluttony was simply insatiable, and it kept devouring more and more Divine Beasts.

Kinesis had told Neuron that whenever this creature almost emptied the Divine Realm of the God, is that when it would be finally ripe.

The God of Brains and Telepathy had been planning such a thing a long time ago, and he was not particularly alone either.

Of course, he was not a fool, if he wanted to take over the Pantheon, he would not simply do it alone.

Even with a perfect vessel, by himself, he would not be able to fight against all of the Gods of the Pantheon, right?

This is why he slowly found some allies within the Pantheon, other Gods that thought the same as him, and some that even were brainwashed by his special powers.

Those that were not brainwashed were promised an ideal vessel as well, as long as they helped Kinesis when the time came, he would divide his vessel and share it with everyone that helped him.

Of course, he carefully picked those Gods that were not too fond of Thanatos nor too close with him, those that found him annoying or not a proper Demon God.

Although it could be hard to believe for his closest allies, Thanatos was thought to be a 'lazy and insecure Demon God', sometimes even addressed as 'Incapable of taking decisions', this was all due to his over cautiousness, and his scheming nature that liked to plan many steps ahead before even doing something.

It was not until he had guaranteed victory that Thanatos would act, and because he always was like this, he did not fit well with most of the lesser Demon Gods who had bestial and berserk-like natures, similarly to Geggoron and Megusan, who were not as patient and wanted to devour their enemies and grow stronger, such Gods even considered the mere concept of 'waiting' to be unnecessary.

Guided by such bestial natures, Thanatos found them dangerous and not proper intelligent beings, he did not often let them join on his meeting with the other Demon Gods, and he would only meet with those he trusted and was close with, although the actual Patheon had many other Demon Gods within that usually never showed up on his Divine Realm but were below his command.

And through the passing of many years, these Gods who have neglected a seat at his side grew a strong grudge, although they were 'protected' by being part of the Pantheon and living near the Thanatos Kingdom Territory, he barely did anything for them that could prove that he was a strong leader that deserved their respect.

Kinesis had an easy time convincing such Gods, and by using a bit of the power of his divinity that could easily meddle with Brains, any weak God such as Demigods was easily brainwashed and convinced to join his side.

"GROOOOOHH…!"

The creature groaned, as its body had once more gained an enormous body pass… Neuron was almost laughing out of happiness, his entire oozy body was wiggling with excitement.

"To think that this used to just be a few small parts of the original being! If it were to be the original being that was here… Kinesis-sama might have even attained an even greater level of power! Nonetheless, this is enough! Kinesis-sama, it is ready!" said Neuron, as the mind of Kinesis, which was ever-present on his Divine Realm, emerged and answered his call.

"Oh? It has grown incredibly big in this little time… Amazing. Indeed, this might be, this might be it! Neuron, you've done well!" said Kinesis, praising his servant with great fervency as Neuron could not help but groan in happiness.

"Ooh, my lord, it is an honor, an honor to please my God!" said Neuron, it could not be much of a stretch to say that he was grotesquely fascinated with his God, such kind of fascination clearly transcended common sense and physical bodies.

"You've earned this, Neuron, you can finally have what you've always desired…" said Kinesis.

"What… I have always desired?! No… it cannot be… My God…!" cried Neuron, as a bright pink light flashed towards him, embracing him!

This was not a simple light, but Kinesis' soul!

"Have you devoured the Souls of the Divine Beasts as I told you?" asked Kinesis.

"Yes, my God!" moaned Neuron grotesquely, as he could not be happier now.

"Good, then you're also ripe, Neuron, I shall now devour you, as you can become one with me for eternity!" said Kinesis…

Indeed, Neuron was also part of Kinesis's plans, he was not only a servant but also part of his plans to become stronger and even surpass the limit of a god and a mortal.

Neuron's soul could not be anything but incredibly abnormal. Since the moment he acquired an Epic that he became someone different, and through the constant touchups that he did on his own soul and also that Kinesis did with several artifacts, his soul grew more and more grotesque, gaining a strange trait not often found in souls others than Kireina or Elrinneth…

Chaos!

Neuron, who had lived for more than a thousand years had been slowly nurturing his soul, changing it, mutating it while still being a mortal, and through Neuron's power, he even taught him how to slowly assimilate Divine Souls such as those of Divine Beasts, one of his biggest secrets!

Through this, Neuron slowly nourished his soul to become something truly grotesque.

Although he had not achieved the enormous amount of grotesqueness that Kireina has, Neuron had achieved the changing point that Kinesis once theorized about!

The powerful Chaos Attribute could only be born in completely abnormal Souls, chaotic masses of contaminated essence and energy of several sources, merging constantly in a chaotic mess.

Through this experiment that he made on Neuron's soul, he finally achieved it!

Although he quickly realized that if he used anyone else, it would have most likely failed.

This was because Neuron was completely grotesque since a young age, any other normal mind would be corrupted and being eaten by its own soul.

However, Neuron kept its 'sanity' within the insanity, managing to achieve Chaos!

Even more, because he possessed an Epic of a Demon General, someone comparable to a Hero, his soul was abnormally strong and blessed by Fate, giving the last ingredient for Chaos to be born and stay within his soul, shrouding it until it became a Chaotic Soul!

And through these last hundreds of years since achieving it, Kinesis had made him nourish such soul, until it could finally reach its utmost ripeness, and become ready for the God to devour and assimilate!

Neuron always knew that this was his very purpose, he knew it for more than eight hundred years since Kinesis revealed him his plans, and even then he had fought and worked very hard for this very day to finally come!

Kinesis was surprised that such a strong will would give itself away for his cause, and truly admired his courage and devotion.

"Now that your Chaotic Soul is ready, Neuron, it is time for you to become one with me, are you ready?" asked Kinesis.

"Yes… my lord, I've always been ready!" cried Neuron, it was more than a living being, crossing the barriers of appearance, of gender, of anything!

He was simply devoted and fascinated with such a being, of Kinesis!

Kinesis, a cold and scheming Demon God could not help but have been moved by Neuron's efforts for so many years, he was indeed a commendable mortal, someone he admired.

Just so Neuron could go in peace, he decided to thank him.

"Thanks for your efforts, Neuron! I will make sure to do as you desired! Become one with me, so we can stay together for eternity, and make this world ours!" said Kinesis, moving the grotesque Chaotic Soul's emotions, as it laughed devilishly.

"Yes, my lord! Make me one… with you!!!" moaned Neuron, as its grotesque body was completely devoured, and its Chaotic Soul as well, being triturated into countless pieces and then absorbed and assimilated into Kinesis soul.

Kinesis then felt a rush of power, something deep within him was… awakening!

"Thank you, Neuron! Thanks to your devotion, and your foolishness, I have finally managed to reach what I have been looking for this long! Chaos!" laughed Kinesis, as, within his soul, a monstrous and grotesque power awakened, countless crimson eyes, jaws, tentacles, and other chaotic features began to appear, as his power and magic affinity began to warp!

A sphere of twisting colors and darkness emerged inside of his soul, this was a Chaos Core!

"It even managed to create the Chaos Core! Amazing, Neuron! I cannot help but be fascinated by your devotion!" laughed Kinesis, as he also inherited the power of Neuron's Epic!

Now that he had acquired the 'ideal' soul, the only thing he needed was to take over the enormous and grotesque monster within his Divine Realm, and acquire the ideal vessel!

"Everything is finally coming together… All these years of working so hard! Thanatos… I shall devour you today!" laughed Kinesis, as he assaulted the beasts within his Divine Realm, grabbing into his gigantic soul and beginning to battle it, slowly devouring and eroding it!

"GRROOOOOOWL!"

"Gahahaha! Become one with me, you are the fruit of Neuron and my labor! Now, come together with the rest of your family, and let us all become a single and perfect being!"

Flash!

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