Giant Creature

As far as the heretic tribunal of Lilai City was concerned—or rather, as far as the heretic tribunals and churches in the cities at the heart of the human territories throughout the Night Valley Realm were concerned—the Dark Race was not actually that easy to encounter.

But...

Precisely because of that, the Black Prisons normally held more members of the Dark Race instead.

Things were valuable because they were rare.

Cultists were basically executed on the spot once captured, but if members of the Dark Race were caught, they would be kept alive longer whenever conditions allowed.

Of course, this was limited to the areas currently controlled by humanity, especially the east and central regions.

In the west and along the borders of the Abyss, this was uncommon. Those places were close to the Abyss, where members of the Dark Race emerged endlessly, like flying insects from ponds and forests in summer.

In short...

Members of the Dark Race lurking in the heartlands of humanity often possessed extremely high research value—or other kinds of value.

There was no need to explain the value of high-ranking ones. Every high-ranking member of the Dark Race captured alive held immense significance for researching how to counter the magic and technology of its entire race.

As for the lower-ranking ones... the fact that a lower-ranking member of the Dark Race could remain hidden in the heartlands of humanity for so long made its research value enormous!

All sorts of value were enough to warrant keeping them in confinement for a long time.

Therefore, whenever a Black Prison contained no members of the Dark Race at all, something was definitely wrong!

While Raymond was still absorbed in identifying the "experts" on either side, Lin Yu and A'yu, the two Players with clear objectives, had already