Just as Aiden said these words, he felt a violent tremor beneath his feet.
Beneath his feet, naturally, was the stomach of Tarim. Besides him and the other two titans, the surrounding area was mainly filled with the corpses of giants being corroded by Tarim's gastric juices, mixed with some soil, rocks, and raw metallic ore. The air was also saturated with active elemental energy.
All these things could be digested by Tarim and synthesized into the organs it needed for its outer shell on the planet Shiresse, making itself stronger and allowing it to eat more… This cycle would continue until one day, the entire universe would become its shell!
Since the one in Shiresse was the outer shell, naturally the stomach was its true body.
This time, having devoured two Pantheon titans, plus a mysterious figure even more powerful than the previous two, Tarim was uncontrollably excited. Although it didn't utter a sound, it constantly monitored the dynamics of these three 'exquisite delicacies.' However, Aiden's performance in the past few minutes made Tarim feel somewhat uneasy—this lump of 'food' didn't seem willing to accept its fate and was instead trying to challenge it!
'How ridiculous and ignorant!' This was Tarim's first thought.
Then, when it heard Aiden say that the plane it resided in was 'very small,' Tarim finally couldn't sit still.
As Aiden said, this plane was indeed not large. If the four elemental planes combined were larger than Shiresse itself, then this small plane where Tarim was located, simultaneously connected to five planes, was only a fraction of the size of Shiresse—roughly equivalent to the size of the Exile Lands.
In reality, its outer shell on Shiresse was already a quarter of the entire planet, with tentacles that could extend to any corner of the world!
Looking only at the outer shell, Tarim was definitely one of the most powerful Old Gods. Based on its current size, even ten sun god Golganneth could not shake it in the slightest.
But its main body was limited by the plane, and that was all there was to it.
Therefore, it couldn't wait to devour Golganneth, precisely because it wanted to absorb this Pantheon titan and use its energy to forcibly expand the plane it was in, so that it would have the real capital to devour the universe.
But now, Aiden had exposed it!
'How can this be tolerated?'
This was Tarim's second thought.
It wanted to do something to shut Aiden up, but after thinking it over, it found that there was really no way to deal with these three incredibly powerful guys. However, turning its head, its spirit scanned the small plane where its main body was located, and it immediately felt relieved—
'So what if you know? You have no means to attack me, and I have plenty of time to digest you!'
This was its third thought.
Aggramar's spirits lifted, his eyes shining, and he asked, "So, as long as I break open its stomach wall and get to the small plane outside, I can easily kill its main body, right?"
For this kind of thing, the Avenger was most willing to serve—his Flame Ripper was prepared for such occasions!
'Naive!' Tarim thought.
Who said the stomach must be fragile? Tarim's stomach was definitely the strongest stomach in the universe! Want to tear it apart with an artifact?
Tarim would use the facts to mock the other party fiercely—because that was simply impossible!
"Another way," Aiden shook his head, "All the energy in this small plane has been drained by Tarim, leaving only nothingness. So, our strength in this plane is greatly suppressed, and we can't communicate with arcane energy to use magic."
"Indeed, that's the case," Golganneth nodded.
It sounded difficult, but now the Wrathbringer was full of confidence in his 'uncle.' Since the other party had come in, he must have the confidence to deal with Tarim.
He didn't need to be clever; he just needed to obey orders!
Aggramar had already suffered several losses in front of Aiden because of his cleverness, and now he kept his mouth shut even more.
He also knew very well that he was just a thug now, and it was better to leave things like using his brain to professionals like Aiden.
"Because of the special environment, it is difficult for us to break through its stomach from the inside, and what we have to do is to make Tarim's body fight against itself."
The two titans continued to nod, although they had no idea how to make Tarim's body fight against itself.
In fact, even Tarim himself didn't know. It felt that its body structure was simply blessed by nature, even perfect. If any enemy entered its stomach, they would only have to wait to be digested. Even if the enemy killed its outer shell on the planet Shiresse, it could reshape another one by extracting energy from the four elemental planes. In addition, with the restrictions of this void world where its main body was located, even the strongest enemy would find it difficult to find this place, let alone defeat it here.
No matter how you looked at it, it was an almost invincible Old God.
How could this guy have a way to make its body fight against itself?
It thought disdainfully, did Aiden think that his mental power could affect it and make it self-harm?
Ha, that was even more ridiculous than breaking its stomach!
Hearing this, Tarim felt that its previous worries were really overthinking. This Aiden was just a braggart!
Tarim let out a cold snort full of sarcasm, the meaning of which instantly made the three living things in its stomach understand its thoughts.
Aiden subconsciously raised his head; he felt that there should be Tarim's head, or similar information processing organs, above.
He shouted loudly, "Tarim, I know that you have your own outer shells in every plane of Shiresse, and these outer shells help you collect food in the elemental planes and on the planet Shiresse."
Tarim snorted arrogantly.
"Similarly, you also have an outer shell in this void plane, and this outer shell hasn't devoured anything else for a long time after absorbing all the energy in this plane."
"So what?" Tarim spoke for the first time.
What Aiden said was all true. It felt a little uneasy. Could it be that the other party really had a way to make its body fight against itself?
It was this unease that made it answer for the first time.
This proved that Tarim, who had always felt confident, was a little restless.
It was no longer so full of confidence.
"I think it must be very, very hungry!" Aiden showed a meaningful smile.
"That's my body; I can control it!" Tarim roared.
Its body structure was very special. The stomach and the outer shell could be separated, only connected by a semi-solid organ similar to the esophagus. Its nature was to devour; this was the instinct of the outer shell, and also the instinct of its life. Even a rational person would commit crimes, and when people were extremely hungry, they would eat anything, including mud, even if they knew that eating mud would lead to their death. But when the feeling of hunger was strong enough, reason would not play any role, and instinct would instantly take over the body.
Tarim first lived in this small plane. As early as hundreds of thousands of years ago, it had already devoured most of the edible things in this plane—even including the air! After gnawing this place clean, it had to develop outward, extending its tentacles to Shiresse. And in the final battle ten thousand years ago, after devouring the four elemental kings, it gained the opportunity to advance into the elemental planes.
It was precisely because of this that it was able to become much stronger in just ten thousand years than it was at its peak ten thousand years ago!
As for the outer shell of this void plane, as early as hundreds of thousands of years ago, it had ligated the 'esophagus' itself and blocked the connection between the stomach and the outer shell.
As Aiden said, this outer shell had long been starving!
"Is that so?" Aiden was too lazy to expose the other party.
He turned to Golganneth and Aggramar and said, "Advance in this direction!"
He summoned the Silver Judgment. Although magic was greatly restricted here, and it was impossible to resonate with the energy of the outside world, the three of them themselves possessed very powerful power, which would not be restricted by the rules of nothingness.
Moreover, they were not going to deal with Tarim's stomach wall, which had a defense comparable to an artifact and was extremely thick, but to open a passage in the pile of food in its stomach?
Moving things around, and sometimes digging a hole, was simply too easy for them!
The corpses and other things in Tarim's stomach were not very tightly blocked in the first place. In just a moment, they had advanced thousands of meters.
Aiden pointed out the direction. As for which direction of Tarim's stomach it led to, Golganneth and Aggramar didn't care. Anyway, they knew that it must eventually lead to the outside world!
Now, when the two Pantheon titans heard Tarim's angry and frustrated voice, and the constantly wriggling stomach trying to obstruct the accumulation of debris, how could they not understand that the path Aiden chose had really hit Tarim's weakness?
This was of course the case.
Tarim secretly cried out badly when Aiden pointed out the direction, because it had six feeding outer shells, so naturally there were six different esophagi.
The esophagus that Aiden and the others came in through belonged to the outer shell connected to the main material plane of Shiresse, and the direction they were digging in was pointing directly at the outer shell that was connecting to Tarim's stomach!
"There is only endless food ahead; you will not get anything!"
"Dig, keep digging. Even if you exhaust yourselves, you won't find a way out, because it doesn't exist at all!"
"Ha, do you feel weak? My gastric juices are disintegrating your defenses and corpses. Before long, you will become part of my food and eventually be absorbed by me, becoming part of my body!"
—These were threats and deceptions.
Finding that it was useless, it was a little panicked.
"Stop, Golganneth; this human is deceiving you! Originally, with your ability, you could last for more than ten years in my stomach, and your father would definitely come to save you! But now, if you consume energy like this, you will be completely digested by me in at most two or three months!"
"Aggramar, don't you understand? This mortal is a pawn of the Burning Legion. He tricked you into my stomach. If you believe him, you will only die!"
—This was seduction and dissension.