In the real world, on the day the Extra Chapter aired, eight in the evening, Station 13.
Amid the eager anticipation of countless Dimensional Audience members.
The Stellaris Extra Chapter titled "The Innate Strong 2" began!
As the familiar opening theme faded and the screen lit up, what greeted the Dimensional Audience was neither the familiar Ember Base nor some brutal battlefield teeming with Star Source.
Instead, it was an ordinary elementary school playground bathed in sunlight, and a small figure sitting alone in the middle of it.
It was the young Tiandao, his chubby baby cheeks still flushed a healthy pink.
His black eyes, which had yet to undergo Star Core Surgery, were as clear as a washed sky, leaving a deep impression.
Yet when the camera zoomed in and focused on Tiandao, the Dimensional Audience immediately sensed the unique aura that set him utterly apart from other children his age.
They were calm eyes—so calm that they held not the slightest trace of a child's innocence or bewilderment, but instead revealed a cold indifference.
As though, even at this age, Tiandao believed that he and everyone else had never belonged to the same world.
That loneliness, which shut the entire world outside, immediately made the Dimensional Audience feel how different this child was.
Ring, ring, ring!
As the dismissal bell rang, countless elementary school children were picked up by their parents.
Only Tiandao was different. He left the school alone.
But just as Tiandao passed a park beside the school, something unexpected happened.
Three delinquent teenagers with outrageously dyed hair lounged beside the slide, cigarettes of unknown origin dangling from their mouths.
Seeing Tiandao appear alone, the blond-haired leader stubbed out his cigarette and sauntered over with a nasty grin.
He deliberately blocked Tiandao's path and gave a