It seemed to be another calm and peaceful day.
At least, that was how it seemed to the Star Melters on Star Source Holy Mountain.
Although reports of famine caused by the drying up of the land kept pouring in from across the Super Refining civilization, and tens of thousands of Star Melter civilians were living in dire straits, the Star Melters on Star Source Holy Mountain still seemed frozen in the moment a hundred years ago, when they won a glorious victory in the earth-shaking battle against Emperor Mother Bean.
That seemingly invincible Demon King had ultimately met its end at the foot of Star Source Holy Mountain, where it had been sealed away and suppressed.
So,
even though calamities had struck one place after another over the past century, the Star Melters living near Star Source Holy Mountain had remained untouched. They lived with the superiority and confidence born of inheriting their civilization's entire history.
The land within several thousand kilometers of Star Source Holy Mountain had shown no sign of drying up or turning barren. It was like a completely different world from the parched lands far away.
Two figures flew across the sky.
They were two Gold-ranked Star Melters known as Centaur and Shadow Trace.
Like Extraordinary Scholars, the backbone of the Academic World, Gold-ranked Star Melters were a true pillar of the Super Refining civilization. Their numbers and strength would largely determine the civilization's overall, foreseeable might for a long time to come, unless something like the technological explosion of the Academic World's Golden Age occurred.
Unlike the Dark Gold-ranked Star Melters, whose names were almost always drawn from the stars and whose power rivaled that of true gods, Gold-ranked Star Melters had names as varied and unusual as those of the millions of ordinary