The first time it saw someone begging to be bitten by rats, Yellow Flower Cat laughed for quite a while.
But it soon could no longer laugh, and instead felt a faint sadness. This sorrow was for all those wizards whose paths forward had been cut off, yet whose talents were mediocre.
Including itself.
The wizards gathered in the D&K shop might not have known, but Yellow Flower Cat did: the two "first-generation ratfolk" in the shop were nowhere near as powerful as first-generation Vampires or first-generation Werewolves.
That was because Rat Immortal had not advanced to Legendary Wizard merely by forging an "Ancestral Seat." More importantly, he had gained control of Giant Zero Three and mastered the Forbidden Curse developed by the Dark Council—even though that crude curse was incomplete, it already possessed a complete framework and a reasonable means of convergence. Rat Immortal had glimpsed the outline of the world through that curse, thereby anchoring his legend.
Put simply, the Vampire progenitor had advanced to Legendary Wizard because he created the legendary race of Vampires. Rat Immortal, meanwhile, created the ratfolk after advancing to Legendary Wizard, causing them to passively advance into an extraordinary race. The ratfolk's advancement then fed back positively to Rat Immortal, supporting and reinforcing his path to becoming Legendary Wizard.
Thus, ratfolk possessed less innate potential than Vampires or Werewolves, but more than the extraordinary races created by those Legendary Wizards who evolved worlds after advancing.
Such secrets concerning Legendary Wizards could only be known by wizards who had reached a certain rank.
Therefore, the wizards gathered in the D&K shop were neither those with the inheritance of High-level Wizards or born into ancient Wizarding Families, nor ordinary wizards with no channels or connections and even poorer talent. They were somewhere in between: wizards