"But, I am also very aware, that is just the desperate struggle of the predecessors who refused to accept defeat..."
To achieve the rank of a Demigod, one must devour both Divinity and Authority.
However, all the Divine Shards on the Western Continent already have owners, and to acquire them, one must hunt other Fabled Creatures. For ordinary Legendaries, God-slaying is surely a fanciful dream.
And in the Astral Realm, indeed, there still exist some unclaimed Divinity and Authority, but the vastness of the Astral Realm makes searching for them akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
Ultimately, it is nothing more than the last desperate struggle of the unwilling, with only a few succeeding.
For him, the "Magic" and "Arcane Arts" depicted in the starry broadcast are tantamount to manna from heaven.
However, years of experience, standing atop piles of corpses to reach the Legendary rank, have long since made the old man wary of trusting any promise lightly.
