Setting aside the Legion's affairs for the moment, Cheng Yu looked at the mountain-sized monster before him and could only marvel that Dile truly was a hot-blooded protagonist.
It had all begun a short while ago. They were now the strongest team in Miskatonic University's Inner Academy. That was right-in just the time the Legion had spent developing, Dile's team had grown into the strongest team at Miskatonic University.
Incidentally, Cheng Yu and the others were only first-years.
Cheng Yu had barely played a part in Dile's growth. You could put it this way: Cheng Yu was now an immersive player, and Dile was the character he was raising.
Dile's growth had somewhat exceeded Cheng Yu's expectations. He was developing far too quickly, and so was the rest of the team. Besides Dile, Ning Qing, Tang Lan, Bennett, and the others were all progressing at an astonishing pace.
So although Dile's team were still first-years, they had already become capable Transcendents. This time, Cheng Yu and the others had been tasked with investigating a series of unusual disappearances in a city on Kashi Star.
Many Transcendent teams had already accepted this mission, but none had ended well. Either the entire team had disappeared, or some of its Transcendents had gone insane—the kind of insanity that even healing abilities couldn't cure.
Dile's outstanding performance had attracted the Kashi Star Government's attention. He had done a spectacular job on several government-assigned missions.
This had also brought Dile to the attention of Kashi Star's higher-ups. His military rank was now far above that of Cheng Yu's original identity. On Kashi Star, Cheng Yu had merely been the captain of a special-service squad, a major.
Dile, meanwhile, was now a colonel in the Special Operations Forces under Kashi Star's Military Department. Incidentally, Dile had