Devour: From Swamp Lizard to Mighty Dragon

He became a Pochi lizard in a game, not even a monster. Weak and slow, he crawled along at the bottom of the food chain.

Yet he remembered the fate of this world.

War was coming. The gods were at odds, and the continent was about to be plunged into cataclysmic upheaval.

As for him, he barely even qualified to be cannon fodder.

Fortunately, no one knew that deep in his soul lay a forbidden skill so enticing that even the gods would drool over it.

It was his chance to defy fate, and his only path forward.

From then on, he began to lurk, devour, and evolve in the swamps.

He seized the talents of every kind of prey;

with every transformation of his bloodline, he drew closer to becoming the forbidden itself.

From lizard, to dragonkin, to a being surpassing even the dragons...

When the final battle arrived, the gods looked down upon the battlefield,

only to see an unrecorded colossal beast spanning heaven and earth, tearing open the sky.

Countless legends of night swirled around its body,

and forbidden light burned in its eyes.

It turned out that above the divine throne,

there had always been beings beyond the naming of mortals,

and one had completed its ultimate ascent to godhood

from the deepest mire.

Note: This is not a conventional devouring story. The protagonist will later travel to the human world and develop his own faction and forces. If you dislike that, don't read.