Azathoth remembered.
These universes were indeed devoured by Him personally.
Ever since he broke through the barrier and entered this fictional world, he has been wandering here... This is a mysterious and unknown world, it is vast, empty, and crowded.
Every piece of nothingness here, every subjective or objective "thing", is a concentration of time and space in the low-dimensional world. In this seemingly empty world, it contains energies and "indescribable" creatures that the low-dimensional world can never imagine.
And since He came into this world, all the "unspeakable" things here have been killed.
Azathoth spent a long time... No, objectively speaking, "time" does not exist in this world at all. After His arrival, He killed all the native creatures of this world in the "past", "present" and "future" with absolute overwhelming power and became the only ruler of this world.
After emptying this world, Azathoth fell into eternal emptiness. He wandered in this world like a silent wanderer...
Later, He cut off a small piece of His disordered body and created a new life. He was the embodiment of despair and deception of Azathoth. He was originally a ball of energy in a disordered state, so He was named: [Chaos].
The Crawling Chaos, Nyarlathotep.
After creating a life, Azathoth's wandering was no longer dead and boring. This mad little life, although low-intelligence and weak, could make some sounds... letting Azathoth know that he was not alone.
During this long wandering, Azathoth had been trying to find a way to break through the barriers and leave this world. Finally one day, He found it.
It was a low-dimensional energy aggregate, and also an extremely rare energy source in this world. It floated in the void, pitch black, with countless light spots moving slowly within it.
When Azathoth saw this energy body for the first time, he was surprised by the energy contained in it. Being in this world, he could see through the most subtle structure of this energy body at a glance. He roughly calculated the total amount of energy needed to break the barrier, which was equivalent to five such low-dimensional energy aggregates.
In other words, if He could swallow five of these energy aggregates, He might be able to break through the barrier again and leave this lonely and empty place.
But when He tried to devour this energy aggregate, He discovered that this energy actually had self-awareness, and He encountered strong resistance. It was at this time that He learned the name of this energy aggregate:
-universe.
With Azathoth's overwhelming power, He can directly suppress the consciousness of the universe and forcibly devour the energy in it, but this process is too slow, and He discovers that there are some low-dimensional creatures living in this low-dimensional universe, which will also affect his devouring speed.
So He directly separated a part of consciousness from Chaos, used mysterious power to reduce its dimension, and stuffed it into this universe. After all, Chaos was just a toy created by Azathoth, and its strength was extremely weak, but it was more than enough to deal with those low-dimensional creatures.
In addition, Azathoth separated a part of his own power and merged it with the free natural energy in this empty world to create a new ideological life, like countless bubbles suspended in the air, and named it [Key to the Gate], Yog-Sothoth.
Finally, He cut off a portion of His own polluted power, from which He gave birth to a maternal life that looked like a meat ball, and named it the [Black Goat], Shab-Niggurath.
As the three lives entered the universe, Azathoth shook off some debris from his body and followed behind them. At the same time, he concentrated on devouring the energy of the universe starting from the outside... Soon, the three Chaos killed all the low-dimensional lives in this universe. Azathoth also tortured the will of the universe to such an extent that he completely swallowed it into his body and assimilated it with himself.
After devouring a universe, Azathoth began to look for the next energy aggregate... In this way, he quickly devoured the second, third, and fourth universes...
After four universes were assimilated into his body, Azathoth felt that his estimation of the energy of the universe might be wrong. After devouring four universes, he still did not feel the opportunity to break through the barriers of the world. But at this moment, he had no choice but to continue looking for universes to devour, trying to win by quantity... Finally, after a long search, he discovered the fifth universe.
This universe is located at the top of this world. It is larger than the previous four universes combined, and the energy it contains is astonishing. Even Azathoth, who slaughtered all the creatures in this world, can feel threatened by it...
If Azathoth is the material master of this world, then the universe before us is most likely the greatest energy master of this world.
The first time he saw the universe, Azathoth was certain that as long as he could swallow the universe, the energy within it would allow him to break through the world barriers and leave here!
Azathoth continued to let Chaos and others enter the universe according to the previous method to slaughter the low-dimensional life in it, while he himself devoured the energy of the universe bit by bit from the outside. However, this universe, whether it is the cosmic consciousness or the low-dimensional creatures living in it, is far more powerful than before.
When Chaos and his companions first entered the universe, they were defeated by twelve powerful low-dimensional creatures. Those creatures were even about to transcend this low-dimensional universe and become creatures in the world where Azathoth was...
In desperation, Azathoth let Chaos and others temporarily recuperate in the universe. He relied on his powerful strength to suppress the consciousness of the universe and forcibly devoured the energy in it... As He continued to assimilate the universe, the consciousness of the universe became weaker and weaker, and the strength of the twelve powerful low-dimensional creatures gradually declined as time passed in the low-dimensional universe.
The cosmic consciousness seemed to be aware of the horror of Azathoth, and it actually cut off a corner of itself and threw it into a corner of the universe, and then fell into a deep sleep, allowing Azathoth to devour it as if it had given up resistance.
The cosmic consciousness fell into a deep sleep, and Azathoth's devouring speed suddenly increased. At the same time, Chaos and others had also rested. At this moment, the powerful creatures that once blocked them had become weak, so they launched an attack again.
But this time, another creature that was about to break through the low-dimensional universe appeared and forcibly delayed their steps.