At Trillan Junior High in late September, the sun shone brightly, and the weather was scorching.
Inside Class 1, Grade 7.
Tiandao Siming sat bored out of his mind in the back row, his gaze unfocused as he stared out the window.
Though he appeared to be daydreaming, he was actually looking over his status panel.
Name: Tiandao Siming (Ember Organization Reserve Member) Age: 12 Rank: Rank 1 Star Envoy Base Star Energy Value: 850 Star Source: Vector Control (Development Level 95%) Star Core: Stellar Eclipse Heavenly Eye (Compatibility 100%) Attributes: Strength S+, Agility S+, Spirit S+, Constitution S+ Skills: Star Energy Control (Master Level), Blink Step (Master Level), Star Beast Knowledge Encyclopedia (Expert Level)... Current Popularity Points: 850,000 Popularity Loaned: 1,000,000 (Maximum Reached)
As the broadcast of "Stellaris Prequel: Ember" gradually approached the end of Season 1,
Tiandao was no longer the former 'big-name popularity debtor' who could not scrape together even a single Popularity Point from his pockets.
He was now a 'popularity tycoon' holding a staggering 850,000 Popularity Points!
However, although Tiandao now had the means to fully repay his 'popularity debt,' as the saying went, the debtor was the boss.
Since he already knew he would definitely be able to pay it back, he was in even less of a hurry to do so.
After all, even before the final "Year-end Fireworks" arc had arrived, he had already amassed such an astonishing stockpile of popularity.
Once the blazing climax at the end of Season 1 officially aired,
wouldn't his Popularity Points shoot up like a rocket—bam bam bam—in a mad surge?
Tiandao conservatively estimated that, judging from Stellaris's current popularity on Station 13,
once that fiery finale officially aired, he would conservatively rake in a staggering three million Popularity Points.
And that was without