Galaxy City was expensive, but only things beyond basic necessities cost a lot.
Even poor fighters could live there for a long time.
That was because registered galactic warriors received free food and lodging.
A hundred and fifty million kilometers from Dragon Qin Lake lay a Gaia Star named Zhu Jiu Domain.
A Gaia Star was a planet with environments suitable for every species. It had not formed that way naturally, of course. The asteroids used as arenas earlier had dozens of different environments, and no asteroid would naturally turn out like that. Technology had made it possible.
Apply the same technology to a vast planet, and it became a Gaia Star.
That did not mean they had deliberately created an environment for every species. In practice, only the dominant species of the Star Alliance's three thousand civilizations could find suitable environments there.
Liemeng took Huang Ji and the others straight to the Nomu Civilization's territory: an immense stretch of ocean with a huge Crystal Palace rising from the seabed.
In a banquet hall, everyone else had finished eating. They sat watching a Green-skinned Orc continue to gorge himself.
He was eating a Cyan Behemoth larger than a blue whale. Lasers had cooked it through, and it lay immersed in three-dimensional "hot soup" with the consistency of jelly.
As he slurped up the soup, the orc controlled two flying utensils, each four meters long. Their tips constantly changed into different tools, darting through the air to carve off great slabs of flesh, membrane, sinew, and bone and deliver them to his mouth.
He slowly ate the entire beast, all two hundred-odd tons of it...
Professional warriors like them had extraordinary digestive abilities. The specialized bacteria and High-Energy Cell chains inside their bodies were ravenous. The food Earthlings ate would barely