[Shackles of Reason], the Esoteric Church's warning

"Later, I secretly helped that investigator sneak into the Zoo and provided him with an escape route. Sure enough, his arrival caused quite a stir, drawing Green Clothes and Cold Crow's attention away.

"While they were distracted, I quietly performed a ritual. During it, I sensed a void, and within that void, I sensed the wandering consciousness of a great being."

"I absorbed fragments of knowledge emanating from that great being's wandering consciousness, greatly improving my understanding of and aptitude for biological modification. It was precisely that knowledge that allowed the Aurora Animal Assistance Society to overcome its bottleneck in genetic modification research so quickly and produce the first batch of [Gene-Modification Serum]."

"That ritual was also when I awakened the psionic ability [Special Personality], which brought Miller into existence. He possessed some of my memories and became an independent being, one of the missionaries here.

"With the Gene-Modification Serum, I bought off the security captain and the research team leader. Combined with the improvements in Miller's strength and my own, my position as a saint finally began to stabilize, bringing me to where I am now."

Jiu Feng's story really could have been an inspirational novel.

Surrounded by wolves and all but stripped of his authority, he had turned things around and risen to his current position. That was pretty damn impressive.

"A great being?" Yu Yuan murmured.

A few days earlier, Fang had nearly turned into a monster because of the [Blood Grand Duke]'s spiritual mark.

Ever since then, Yu Yuan had been deeply wary of these great beings.

Whether creatures called great beings were truly great was another matter, but their psionic radiation was undeniably powerful. The slightest carelessness could lead to mutations under their spiritual radiation.

Hearing about one again from Jiu Feng immediately put Yu