The Hunt

As expected... having the template set in such excessive detail wasn't necessarily a good thing...

Sulu flew between the many sci-fi-style buildings, silently grumbling to himself.

At this moment, he could sense that as he grew, the strength of this body was also quietly increasing. It was a gradual process, as though its path had long since been "preset."

It was the equivalent of having his extraordinary "path" fixed from the very beginning, without even being given the option of taking a secondary class!

Though as a "legendary species," the Starry Sky Kin, like Great Dragons, possessed long lives.

For beings who often lived tens of thousands of years, spending a thousand years to reach Tier 5 was not something unacceptable.

But for Sulu, wouldn't the daylilies have wilted by then?

"Still, this time... the summons from the Light of Wisdom within the collective subconscious should be for... capturing prey, for a sacrifice?"

The Starry Sky Kin were a very strange race.

Even though their intelligence and civilization had developed to an extremely high level, they remained hopelessly immersed in bloody rituals and frenzied worship.

"Even newly born Starry Sky Kin like us have been gathered. It must be a truly remarkable prey..."

Sulu landed at the edge of a white plaza and silently observed his surroundings.

Those near him were all "juveniles" born around the same time as he was. The closer one got to the enormous plaza's core, the more terrifying the Starry Sky Kin became.

They came in all sorts of bizarre shapes, like entirely different races. At the very center, some had even abandoned forms of flesh and blood, becoming pure clusters of light.

"Adjust the angle..."

"Light Focusing Device One activated..."

"Release the dream bait..."

"Operation XXX, the hunting operation, begins..."

Amid mental fluctuations,