The progress of Professionals was like stacking blocks.
Slowly accumulating, slowly building, and before they knew it, the pile grew higher and higher. When those tiny fragments became perfectly fitting components, they would eventually form a "shape" of their own.
How far a Professional could ultimately go had always depended on accumulation.
There were things one could not cut corners on. The further one went, the more obvious the advantage of "real gold" became.
A "cat statue" piled from "bricks and stones" was naturally not on the same level as a "tiger statue" carved from "diamonds."
And the more varieties of parts one possessed, the more varieties of "statues" one could naturally assemble.
"This is the greatest advantage of the Professional system: a stable, continuous system of growth."
Otherworldly beings like Big Cat had originally possessed their own extraordinary systems, yet they had ultimately integrated completely into the Professional system because of this advantage.
Most ordinary extraordinary races relied too heavily on their innate talents. Like the octopus Lu PingAn had slain before, or the energy race he had encountered earlier. They were extraordinary beings themselves, so they merely needed to advance along their own paths of evolution.
Lu Mouren himself had also moved from the stage of "collecting blocks" to "assembling blocks." Originally, his accumulation had been insufficient; he was certain to hit a bottleneck.
But he had happened to collect some "god-tier blocks," which could serve as the core of a "statue" from the very beginning.
At the same time, the Forbidden Library, a production base where he could custom-order "parts," was simply too overpowered.
The only problem was that the points required were far too expensive. Anything involving the Rule-level started at several thousand points, and if the cost tripled with every rank increase, then getting a