The emergence of every race.
Required the tempering of long ages.
Individuals died, bloodlines perished.
All were selections made in the course of a race's evolution as it sought the right path.
Disasters, trials, time...
All these things combined to bring forth a race adapted to its environment.
But the Long-Lived Species...
Were born with vast lifespans granted by the "Immortal."
Their flaws could not be tested by the environment through "death."
In a cultivation novel, the "Long-Lived Species" would be a bunch of demonic cultivators with unstable foundations.
That was why the members of the Long-Lived Species varied so greatly in quality.
When An Kai learned the origins of the Long-Lived Species through [Contract].
Understanding dawned in his heart.
There was a reason he had never heard of the "Long-Lived Species" in his previous life.
Their strength was one factor.
But the way their race had been established was even more crucial.
No wonder.
The Long-Lived Species had developed a false impression of all "Immortals": "weak, with strength that improved as slowly as a crawling snail."
When they first learned of An Kai.
An Kai had seen it more than once through [Side Story].
The Long-Lived Species thought that his strength improved slowly, among other things, because he was an "Immortal."
For a long time, the Long-Lived Species could not connect him, with his slowly improving strength, to the powerful city lord of Goodness Home.
The Long-Lived Species stubbornly believed that "An Kai" and the "city lord of Goodness Home" had to be two different beings.
One was an Immortal.
The other was a being who controlled the Immortal...
All things considered, An Kai actually had the God of Magic to thank for this.
If the God of Magic had not tampered with the "Immortal," the "Long-Lived Species" would