I know the schedule''s been a bit spotty, been very busy, so I promise that, for at least the next 4 days, including today, daily chapters posteexactly on time :) <3 -----hup! he sprinted over towards one of the tables with a free spot


    each table was wooden, filled with several tters that had mountains of hot dogs on them


    long wooden benches could be seen on either side, taking up space


    15 seconds! as the judges counted down, dorian nced at the contestant sitting next to him


    it was the real inigo montoya


    uh, hello


    i''m dorian


    he stuttered out, staring at the man


    he had never expected to meet the character in real life and had no idea what to say


    the man nced at him


    my name is inigo montoya


    the man''s voice was smooth and confident, carrying a rich spanish ent that made his words unmistakable


    after he spoke, he turned to look at the hot dogs, his eyes zing with passion


    i have no idea how i came to be here… but hot dogs, i know you are my enemy


    i will defeat you


    inigo''s bodynguage made his words seem grand,prepare to die


    "10 seconds! as the judges continued to count down, dorian noticed something


    the closer the judges got to 0, the more and more aware he felt


    his eyes widened as he realized something


    ''my soul… my powers… i can feel them returning!'' it seemed that, for this challenge, he would be able to use his full strength once it started


    he was only cut off from his powers before it began


    ''still… even if i can shift forms or use my abilities, how am i supposed to win against that?'' he turned to stare at the gargantuan obelisk the tormentor


    the god monster was huge, far bigger than anything else in sight, easily 40 meters tall sitting down


    5 seconds!"anakin… you were a brother to me


    don''t make me defeat you once more! his ears almost stretched out as he heard the jedi obi-wan rebuke the sith darth vader


    both were sitting at a table off to his right


    off to his left, he heard still more familiar speakers,i was born in the darkness… bred in it… there can be no bnce in the shadows… bane''s mechanical voice rang out


    there cannot be shadow without light


    everything in life has bnce


    thanos replied, closing his hand on the partiallyplete infinity gauntlet he wielded


    dorian''s eyes widened as he saw that


    ''oh man… they really are all here


    the various characters i''ve referenced


    think, dorian


    how do i win this? i need toplete the challenge to get the inheritance


    '' unlike the lust inheritance, the design of this gluttony inheritance seemed centered around thispetition


    he had to actively win to receive it


    3…2…1…"begin! immediately, dorian reached forward, grabbing a hot dog


    right after he did that, however, absolute mayhem unfolded


    boom dorian was sted backwards, his entire table incinerated in an explosion


    poor inigo montoya was just a regr human and died instantly, hisst move proudly stabbing one of the hot dogs with his rapier before perishing


    bits of wood and rock shot into the air, clouds of dust fizzling off


    huh?! dorian grunted out as he spun around andnded, cradling a hot dog in his hands


    he looked out at the scene before him in sheer shock


    the moment the judges said go, all of the viins sitting at the table had taken the opportunity to attack


    what better way to win a contest than to ensure that you were the onlypetitor? however, each character stayed true to their motivations, pulled from whatever movie they had been in


    darth vaderunched obi-wan away, using the mystical force that apparently worked here, jumping after him with a lightsaber


    the jedi are the ones in the wrong, obi-wan! i did what i had to because i could see that!"anakin! if that is what you truly believe, then you are lost! bwssshh the duo broke out in a lightsaber duel, jumping among the treetops of champions park,pletely ignoring the hotdogpetition


    thanos, on the other hand, had ignored all the otherpetitors and vanished, using his infinity gauntlet to teleport himself into the air, floating directly in front of the giant obelisk the tormentor


    your presence here has thrown thispetition out of bnce… how could any singr beingpete against a being of such proportion like yourself? thanos shook his head, his voice deep and methodical


    obelisk had picked up an entire table and was reaching to eat the whole thing when this urred


    the god beast turned its piercing red eyes to look at thanos


    it looked at him as if he was merely an insect in its way, unworthy of attention


    boom its massive arm whipped upward at light speed as it dropped the table and attacked


    thanos, in the meanwhile, tapped into the powers of the infinity gauntlet, causing space to freeze up around him


    when obelisk''s massive arm mmed into the frozen space, a huge shockwave spread out as greenish-blue energy exploded outward, blowing apart hundreds of trees and annihting the nearby park area


    strangely enough, the judges sitting at the long table appeared fine, some type of invisible protective barrier protecting them


    ''what in the heavens? who are these beings?! how can they be so powerful?!'' as dorian witnessed all this, a familiar angry voice sounded off in his head


    oh? master bubble! dorian muttered out as he swallowed the lone hotdog he''d managed to snag in a single gulp, looking around


    are you watching thi- boom before he could finish speaking, an explosion sent dorian''s bnce demon form flying backward a few meters, the unexpected st taking him by surprise


    dirt was sent flying in the air as a crater formed, the already damaged ground damaged even further


    thankfully, with all his abilities active and his bnce demon form out, he waspletely unscathed


    oh? you survived that well, strange creature


    bane''s mechanical voice tumbled in the air as he emerged from the cloud of dust, carrying what appeared to be several explosives with him


    ''ah, the explosion was from him


    '' dorian turned to look at the still corpse of the real inigo montoya, his eyes shing


    he also couldn''t see the other regr human, john denver, and assumed he was dead as well, killed by the st


    ''or maybe he just left


    '' denver was known to be against violence and an environmental activist


    dorian couldn''t really see himpeting in a hot dog eating contest where food would be wasted


    you killed him before i could even talk to him… his voice was full of danger as he stared at bane, his thoughts turned to inigo


    he knew the character wasn''t real, nor was the now dead inigo


    they were all made up illusions from the inheritance


    yet, the scene before him felt undeniably real, the magic that powered it advanced far beyond his expectations


    whoosh dorian''s body blurred


    in a split second, hended down on the ground next to bane, his movements incredibly quick


    for, in that moment, dorian had drawn upon both thew of lust and thew of chastity, simultaneously, for the first time


    when he did so, he felt the world around him seem to shift


    simr to how it functioned in his perfect body state… everything slowed down


    this increase was hugely noticeable


    the world around him slowed down by at least 50%


    thew of chastity and thew of lust had almost identical effects


    by using them both at once, dorian was able to increase their overall effectiveness


    eachw slowed the world down around him by roughly 25%, with his current understanding


    when he used them both at once, these twows seemed to work together and slowed reality to roughly half its normal speed


    ''wow


    '' his only thought was one of awe


    everything around him was moving at half speed


    of all the seven greatws of the demonic race that he had acquired, thisw was the one that most impressed him


    his understanding of it was still only middling, yet if he fully mastered it, he instinctively felt that he could slow the world around him by more than 25%


    perhaps by 30%, or 40%, or even more, he was unsure what the upper limit would be, especially whenbined


    even further, the fact that thew of chastity of the seven virtuousws had a simr effect and could even bebined was huge news to dorian


    the increase was far more noticeable in his bnce demon form, his best humanoid closebat form


    as hended down next to bane, heshed out with his ws in an almostzily fast strike


    his hand mmed into the huge, muscr character from his memories… and instantly killed him, ripping his heart and chest apart in one single motion, sending red blood spattering everywhere


    ''oh, right, he was just an above average human in the movies


    '' the bane that dorian was familiar with wasn''t that strong of a character whenpared to beings like him


    boom dorian felt an explosion shake the air as obelisk the tormentor and thanos began to battle


    explosions of light and sound seared out as reality itself trembled


    the two beings were colossally powerful in their own right, thanos with his infinity gauntlet and obelisk with, well, himself


    great beast, i admire your strength, but i cannot allow you to upset the delicate bnce of this contest! thanos'' deep voice echoed out as he and the huge blue demon separated temporarily


    obelisk was standing upright with blue energy crackling around his arms, his eyes shing, while thanos had his hand stretched out upward


    gworrrnnn aser beam of blue energy shot forward and mmed into thanos


    this beam twisted at thest moment as it was about to hit him, the powerful attack absorbed into his infinity gauntlet


    thanos then shot the attack back at the towering god beast, knocking it several dozen meters through the air


    when the creaturended, it formed a crater of cracked earth and fallen trees, sending up a shower of wood and stone shrapnel


    so be it, beast


    thanos called out loud,hup! thanos made arge, jerking motion, as if he was pulling something hard


    the extremely powerful infinity gauntlet on his hand shed, light sparking off of it


    a momentter, dorian''s eyes widened in awe


    for, in the sky far above, he could now make something out


    a huge object, hurtling towards them


    thanos had pulled earth''s moon out of orbit and brought it sting down towards where they were


    are you an idiot?! you brought down the entire moon to deal with a single being here?! this will wipe out th- oh right, this is all a fake earth


    dorian caught himself mid-yell as he watched the unfolding scene of apocalypse before him


    strike me down, anakin, and i will only return stronger than before!"huah! over to the side, dorian witnessed a somewhat familiar scene


    obi-wan being killed by darth vader, the duel they had apparently ending


    ''how would darth vader even eat a hotdog? he doesn''t look like he wants to take that mask off


    '' the character wore arge ck mask that obscured his face


    roaaaaar! obelisk the tormentor let out a rage-filled roar as it saw the moon descending upon them


    even dorian was shaken, despite knowing this was all fake, as he watched the gargantuan rock plunge towards them


    rge clumps of the moon seemed to fall apart, shooting down ahead of its main body in waves of ming meteors


    it was horrifying to see


    the moon blocked out the sun and the sky, a huge piece of white and grey rock that stretched more than 2,000 miles wide


    the meteors that fell from it cascaded through the air, a true ending of the world


    dorian felt the air tremble around them as the moon prated the atmosphere, huge vibrations of heat and pressure shaking reality


    my god… what do i do? dorian stared up at the massive rock, his heart dropping


    how on earth was he supposed to do literally anything about that?!there are no longer any hot dogs remaining! thus, the champions hot dog eating contest isplete! the judges are now tallying the numbers! as he was facing his death, trying to think up a n, a loud voice cut through the mess of the world around him


    dorian spun to the left, staring


    the panel of human judges were all currently sitting down casually, talking amongst themselves, ignoring the literal millions of tons of rock that were hurtling towards earth, about to cause itsplete destruction


    the results are now tallied! the judges called out confidently, apparently unaffected by the quaking waves of heat and pressure as the atmosphere of earth began to dissipate


    gworrrnnn obelisk shot another toweringser beam at thanos, one that thanos promptly reabsorbed and shot back as the two began to duke it out


    darth vader, meanwhile, silently looked at where the corpse of obi-wan had been


    upon his death, the body had vanished, disappearing


    the winner, with a grand total of 1 hot dog eaten, is the demon challenger dorian! dorian blinked


    ''that''s right… almost all of the tables and hot dogs were wiped out by the explosions from bane and obelisk


    the heat and pressure waves from the descending moon must have wiped out any remnants


    '' he slowly came to the realization as more explosions shook the air between the dueling foes


    ''i managed to snag a single hotdog and ate it quickly… many of the characters that showed up from my memories were viins, all from movies or tv shows


    as such, they all attacked each other without eating, causing the contest to be thrown into disarray…'' as he realized that he had won the contest, dorian felt a feeling of epiphany settle upon his shoulders


    he felt energy swarm his soul, a familiar feeling descending upon him


    green, vibrating energy surrounded his body, wrapping around his soul like a warm nket


    it was rxing and energizing, filling him with satisfaction


    he was undergoing another baptism of thews of the universe directly


    this time, for thew of gluttony


    as the world around him fell apart and dorian was about to vanish, teleporting away afterpleting the inheritance, he heard a voice call out in his head, ''what is going on?! what are these creatures?! how are they doing what they are doing?!'' the frantic voice of the array genie continued, ''what kind of past did you have?! what is going on?!?!'' whoosh dorian vanished, leaving behind a copsing world and a greatly panicked bubble


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