I'm Already a God, and You're Only Now Telling Me There Are Monsters?

Chapter 10: Chapter 10: Devouring Attribute

「The next morning.」

Gu Qing had just woken up and finished washing up when he received a WeChat message from his mother, Wen Wanyi.

[Wen Wanyi: Your sister won first prize in the national essay competition she entered last month. Are you free to come home this weekend to celebrate with her?]

[Gu Qing: Of course! I’ll be back tomorrow afternoon.]

He chatted briefly with his mother.

Gu Qing closed the chat window and pulled up his panel to check his Digestion Ability stats.

[Total Digestion Ability +83]

’Just 17 more points until I get the Attribute—Devouring.’

’It’s Thursday morning.’

’If I go back tomorrow afternoon, I still have two full days and one night to farm Attributes.’

’With Qian Duole, the "Big Eater," and his bottomless pit of a mouth that never stops snacking, I’ll definitely be able to get the Devouring Attribute before I go home.’

...

Time flew by.

In the blink of an eye, it was three o’clock on Friday afternoon.

Gu Qing tore open a bag of potato chips and handed it to Qian Duole.

"Here, have some chips."

"I can’t. I’ve been eating too many snacks lately and gained over ten pounds. I’m going to turn into a real fat pig."

Qian Duole said no, but his body was very honest as it reached out and took the chips.

A classic case of the stomach controlling the brain.

Seeing that Qian Duole had indeed put on quite a bit of weight, Gu Qing thought, ’I can’t just keep doing this to my roommate.’

’Once I get the Devouring Attribute later tonight...’

’...I’ll stop feeding him snacks.’

About half an hour later.

[You have eaten with your roommate Qian Duole for over an hour]

[Appetite +1]

[Digestion Ability +1]

[Total Digestion Ability increased by 100 points. You have successfully obtained the Attribute—Devouring]

[Devouring: Your Digestion Ability is greatly enhanced]

’I finally maxed it out!’

Gu Qing stared at the text notification, a thrill of excitement coursing through him.

After calming down a bit, he looked at the description for the Devouring Attribute and fell into thought.

’Digestion Ability is greatly enhanced?’

’That’s way too vague.’

’Without any specific numbers, there’s no way to know how much it’s actually improved.’

’Once I get home tonight...’

’...I’ll have to eat a huge meal to test it out.’

...

Gu Qing’s home wasn’t far from campus.

Only about thirty-odd kilometers.

It was a two-bus ride.

He could get there in just over an hour.

Gu Qing traveled light, leaving the dorm with just his phone.

Just as he arrived at the school gate to wait for the bus, he saw several security vehicles driving onto campus.

’Why are Security Officers at the school again?’

’Are they here to investigate the two previous disappearance cases?’

’Or...’

’...has there been a new case?’

Gu Qing’s brow furrowed. He immediately took out his phone to tell Gao Fei about it and ask if he’d heard any news from his sources.

Gao Fei quickly replied that he didn’t know, and that his girlfriend from the external relations department hadn’t heard anything.

Gu Qing felt a lot more relieved after getting that reply.

No news was good news.

At that moment, the bus arrived.

Gu Qing didn’t give it any more thought and just got on the bus to go home.

...

A little after five in the afternoon.

As soon as Gu Qing got home, he saw his parents already busy cooking in the kitchen.

He glanced at the labels floating above his parents’ heads.

[Designer]

[Teacher]

His father, Gu Mingbo, was an advertising designer, and his mother, Wen Wanyi, was a high school Chinese teacher.

The two labels fit their identities perfectly.

"Dad, Mom, I’m back. Do you need any help?"

Gu Qing asked, walking up to his parents.

Wen Wanyi immediately shooed him away. "Your dad and I are almost done with dinner. We don’t need your help. Go get your sister from her room and tell her to come eat."

That’s right.

Gu Qing also had a younger sister, three years his junior, who was a high school senior and about to take her college entrance exams.

Just like him,

his sister had also inherited their parents’ good looks. She was very beautiful and was a famous "goddess" at her school.

He left the kitchen and walked straight to his sister’s door.

Seeing the door was ajar,

Gu Qing didn’t think much of it and pushed the door open, calling out:

"Silly Yao, come out and ea—"

Before he could finish, the words caught in his throat. He was stunned by the scene before him.

His "school goddess" sister was sitting in her chair, furiously picking at her feet. After she was done, she took a big whiff, the smell making her frown.

Gu Yao: "..."

Gu Qing: "..."

For a moment, the two siblings stared at each other without a word. The silence was terrifying.

"Silly Yao?"

"Silly Yao, where are you?"

"Weird, she’s not in her room. Where’d she go?"

Gu Qing was the first to break the silence. Pretending he couldn’t see his sister in the chair, he shouted into the empty air a few times, then turned and left to avoid making things even more awkward.

’Good thing she was just picking her feet. If she’d been picking something else, it would’ve been more than just awkward.’

’Yup, definitely have to remember to knock next time.’

But the moment Gu Qing left, the color drained from his "school goddess" sister’s eyes. Her body went limp, slumping back against the chair, completely still.

[Deceased: Gu Yao]

[Date of Death: April 3, 2026]

[Cause of Death: Goddess image completely destroyed, resulting in social death]

...

In the living room.

The family of four sat together eating dinner.

Gu Qing and his parents chatted and laughed throughout the meal, but his sister remained silent, quietly looking down at her phone.

"Xiaoyao, what’s wrong?"

"Your brother came back specially to celebrate with you. Why are you just sitting there not saying anything?"

"Are you not feeling well?"

Seeing her usually chatty daughter so quiet and reserved, Wen Wanyi couldn’t help but feel a little confused.

Gu Qing held back his laughter from the side.

’Dear Mother.’

’Your precious daughter just suffered a social death in her room.’

’And as everyone knows, dead people don’t talk.’

"Mom, I’m fine."

Gu Yao said, looking up at her mother.

After speaking, she didn’t forget to shoot her dear brother a harsh glare, her eyes filled with resentment.

As she glared at Gu Qing, he was also staring at her.

But he wasn’t looking at her eyes. He was looking at the label floating above her head:

—[Novelist]

His sister was still a high school student, but she was an excellent writer and loved to read novels, so a [Novelist] label floating over her head made perfect sense.

Designer, Teacher, Novelist.

’These three labels on my family members seem a bit too ordinary. They have no farming value at all.’

’What a shame.’

Gu Qing was a little disappointed.

He had been hoping that if his parents or sister had some awesome labels, he could come home often to farm Attributes.

’Guess I got my hopes up.’

He didn’t dwell on it.

Gu Qing quickly got serious about eating.

He started wolfing down his food.

In less than half a minute, he finished the entire heaping bowl of rice in front of him.

Then, he devoured bowl after bowl of rice and other dishes.

His appetite was frighteningly huge.

He had to eat as much food as possible, as quickly as possible, to test the effects of the Devouring Attribute.

Meanwhile, his unsuspecting parents and sister were a bit stunned watching his exaggerated way of eating.

’Eating so much so fast... has our son/my brother been possessed by a Pig Demon?’

...

For the next two days of the weekend, Gu Qing ignored the strange looks from his parents and sister and ate voraciously at all times.

After a round of testing,

the results were quite astonishing.

His body had become so abnormal that it could even digest dietary fiber.

Even more abnormally, no matter how much he ate over the past two days, he only ate and never pooped. It seemed he had completely lost the ability to excrete waste.

’Then again, "lost" might not be the right word.’

’To be more precise—’

’it was an optimization.’

It seemed his body’s food utilization rate had reached its peak. As long as he ate something, it would be almost completely digested and absorbed, producing no waste.

"Weird. I only eat and never poop, so how come I haven’t gained any weight? I’m still just as lean and muscular."

In the bathroom, Gu Qing stood naked in front of the sink, looking at his lean, muscular reflection in the mirror, and couldn’t help but wonder about this.

He thought for a moment and guessed it was probably because his physical body was too strong now.

So much so that the way his cells stored energy had undergone a fundamental, qualitative change.

That’s why he wasn’t getting fat.

And this—

was completely beyond the scope of a normal person.

"I never thought my first step into the Extraordinary would be the ability to eat like crazy without gaining weight, and even optimizing away my excretory functions."

"Girls would cry with envy if they saw this."

"After all, what girl doesn’t want to be a fairy who can eat whatever she wants without getting fat and never has to go to the bathroom to take a dump?"

"I wonder if this Devouring Attribute can evolve in the future."

"If it can, that’d be awesome. Maybe one day I’ll evolve to the point where I can swallow a planet in one bite and just devour the entire universe."

Gu Qing thought, letting his imagination run wild.

He was now very much looking forward to the next three Attributes.

Lightning Reflexes;

Muscle Knots;

and Extraordinary Comprehension.

’This first Attribute, Devouring, is already so heaven-defyingly powerful.’

’The next three can’t be that bad, no matter what.’

’They’ll definitely make me even more Extraordinary.’

...

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