Bizarre Realm

Keith is a Great Gourmet.

It’s an exceedingly elegant Heart Stealer, with a tall and slender figure, an attractive contour of features rich in charm (from a Heart Stealer’s perspective), and even the tendrils at its chin are smoother and longer than those of other Heart Stealers. It holds a unique status within its species, second only to the elder brains that govern subordinate Heart Stealers.

The so-called Gourmet is essentially a human actor.

Except, unlike human actors, Keith mainly performs eating, that is, it’s an eating stream actor for Heart Stealers.

In terms of strength, Keith is not powerful; it’s merely a barely High Tier Heart Stealer, and even some of the developed Shadow Heart Stealers are stronger than it. But its Mind Power is very special; Keith has a strong Emotional Resonance ability, which makes it a natural actor.

Feast Arena.

Located on the sixth satellite, Gemini Star of the Garden Planet, it is a gigantic circular building, somewhat similar to an Ancient Rome arena, capable of accommodating a large audience at the same time.

Crystal Clusters float around; they are curios from the Heart Stealer tech tree, the [Emotional Resonance Stone].

Generally speaking, not-well-off Heart Stealer communities have such a landmark building, that is, a Feast Arena providing eating stream services for everyone. It is necessary to mention here the physiological structure of Heart Stealers; they must periodically eat brains, and this craving is strong, but sometimes they cannot obtain that many brains, they can only watch the eating streams, using the Emotional Resonance Stone to satisfy their own craving for brains.

This is the reason why the eating stream trend has been prevalent among Heart Stealer communities for tens of thousands of years.

Therefore, the status of a Great Gourmet is very high!

Although the Heart Stealer Expedition Fleet Keith belongs to has already been corrupted by Su’en, the craving for brains is not that strong anymore, but they turn to pursue something called ’Essence.’ However, the Heart Stealers are still Heart Stealers, watching ’eating streams’ monthly to satisfy the craving for brains is necessary.

So sometimes Keith’s eating stream performance attracts tens of thousands of Heart Stealers.

But around the Feast Arena, there are several distinct different Heart Stealer camps. The first is the camp of Su’en Followers, they are priests, possessing Divine Power granted by Su’en, although mostly only able to cast Third Ring Divine Arts, they are stronger than other Heart Stealers, and they wear a badge, a large head full of tentacles on their chest.

The second camp is the Shadow Heart Stealers, they are a type of Heart Stealer with black skin, able to stealth in shadows, guided by Su’en, they are a new generation bred by the elder brains, and because the breeding plan is not thoroughly completed, these monsters can only remain invisible temporarily. Due to some side effects during breeding, their Mind Energy is weakened, their Spiritual Energy Pool is not as good as normal Heart Stealers, but their Mind Shockwave is still very strong.

The third camp is the Heart Stealers’ Mechanical Masters, Su’en Heart Stealers possess highly advanced Alchemy Technology, these Alchemy Path Heart Stealers are followed by various Mechanical Robots, they are the main combat force of the Heart Stealer Expedition Fleet, the combat power of Su’en mechanical soldiers in slaughter mode is relatively high, and their numbers are also very large.

"We invite the Great Gourmet - Keith!"

The gravity on Garden Planet is only half of that on the Material Plane, Heart Stealers are accustomed to flying using the Levitation Skill; just a little Spiritual Power is needed to finish daily walking.

A Heart Stealer host stands in the center of the Feast Arena, outputting mind communication in a lavish tone, transmitting it to others through Crystal Cluster Stone, also resonating its own excitement to the audience present, using human words to describe it, it is a warm-up act before a performance, using the Emotional Resonance Stone to pass on its excitement to others incidentally.

Keith gracefully strides, slowly walking toward the eating stage.

It can fly, but flying onto the stage looks silly, it is a famous Great Gourmet, it has to have presence, so it walks like humanoids, moreover, it must walk with flair, showing the side of its face to the audience at a forty-five-degree angle, allowing the audience to notice the six strong and smooth tendrils on its chin.

If it weren’t for a bit of accident, Keith might even be promoted to become a Soul-Eating Monster, that is, one of the higher Heart Stealers.

A thunderous round of applause erupted.

Su’en Heart Stealers only make such sounds when praying to Su’en and attending the Feast Arena, instead of communicating through mind communication.

"Ladies and gentlemen."

"Today we will taste a human with an Intelligence of 19 points."

Keith, as customary, begins to introduce today’s main course, and incidentally stirs the audience’s emotions. Upon hearing that the ingredient has 19 points of Intelligence, the surrounding Su’en Heart Stealers become agitated, as they have not tasted such high-grade goods for a long time now.

They can hardly wait.

Keith gently calms the audience’s emotions with an elegant gesture, and continues to introduce, "It comes from the twelfth Skull Farm on the eighth satellite, produced on the Terra Planet before our eyes."

"It’s the ninth batch of slaves captured by the Expedition Fleet during the Dark Era, now bred to the fifty-second generation."

"It is an excellent breed!"

As a top-tier Great Gourmet, Keith needs to enliven the emotions of all the audience, he details in introduction, "Its ancestors are a Northlander, the dull Northlanders were not supposed to have such high Wisdom."