The Absolute Confidence of the Strong

Drip, drip.

Cold rain fell from the night sky, striking the asphalt road outside the Moonlight Mountain City Star Envoy Branch and splashing into tiny droplets.

Tiandao stood in the street. When the rain came within a centimeter of him, it was as though it had struck an invisible barrier. Its trajectory was forcibly altered, and it slid smoothly to the ground without even wetting the hem of his black Tactical Suit.

He looked down at the barely breathing Elijah at his feet. There was not a ripple in his azure eyes, only the cold gleam refracted by the rain.

"Tell me. How many people in the Moonlight Mountain City Branch have chosen to accept parasitism, just like you?"

That was right. In Tiandao's eyes, Elijah's half-human, half-beast appearance was not simply the result of being "coerced." It had been his own "choice."

After all, the unique relationship of "symbiosis" meant that Elijah must have reached some sort of agreement with the Star Beast inside him.

If Elijah's body had been forcibly controlled by a Parasitic Star Beast,

then the unique and exclusive "Star Source" could never coexist with the Star Core within the parasite.

Naturally, he would never have been able to use two abilities at once.

Therefore, regardless of how it had happened, the outcome was that Elijah and the others had chosen to compromise and accept the power of an alien race.

However, Tiandao had no intention of judging them, nor did he care whether their "choice" was right or wrong.

He only wanted to complete his mission and purge the "abnormalities" in Moonlight Mountain City.

Yet in response to Tiandao's question, Elijah displayed an unusual degree of loyalty.

Even as dark green saliva continuously spilled from the corner of his mouth and his life hung by