Ves recalled everything he witnessed during his recent visit to Ocanon VI.
The entire planet turned into a hunting preserve. Large groups of hunters had set up shop and regularly hunted the mutated beasts that constantly popped up across the untamed planet.
None of that sounded particularly noteworthy, but what surprised Ves the most was that the people who took up this lifestyle had started to cultivate according to the instructions of the Hunter's Code!
Back then, Ves quickly figured out that the Huntsman deliberately reformed the Hunter's Association and encouraged the spread of mysterious rituals in order to profit from all of the successful hunts.
It was only now that Ves filled in the remaining pieces of the puzzle and understood the Huntsman's entire layout.
Just as Ves suspected, the Huntsman definitely engaged in a form of predatory or carnivorous cultivation!
By setting up all of these hunting preserves and stimulating the development of a large and prosperous extraordinary hunting community, every professional hunter would constantly transfer a variety of energies including maybe faith energy through sacrificial rituals!
The Huntsman did not even have to do anything to sustain this cycle aside from rewarding the hard-working hunters with miniscule injections of his own strength!
The god pilot and his support staff came up with a meticulous plan and executed it perfectly.
With the help of the extensive background of the Red Association, the Huntsman was already far ahead of the Destroyer of Worlds.
It wasn't Irene's fault. The fact of the matter was that a former off-shoot of the Five Scrolls Compact had access to much more complete high-level cultivation knowledge than a relatively young and shallow first-rate superstate!
Even though the New Rubarth Empire once represented the dominant attitude of the human race, it was clearly lacking when it came to respecting and preserving old traditions.
Ves did not ask why the mechers declined to give the Destroyer of Worlds the same level of support they provided to the Huntsman.
He also did not ask why the Destroyer of Worlds took the initiative to ask the mechers for assistance.
What was the point of asking questions when he already knew the answers?
Ves just became a little more disappointed in the Red Association.
In an age where red humanity confronted multiple existential threats, the mechers still refused to do what was best for the greatest whole and instead sought to advance their own interests.
What if the Huntsman and the other 4 god pilots who led the Red Association failed to resist the looming calamities?
Leaving out the Destroyer of Worlds seemed like a mistake! She was by far the most destructive god pilot among them. She possessed the best chance at harming whatever God King-level adversary that was on the way.
However, the decisions of the mechers was not entirely illogical. If Ves looked at the Red Ocean from a resource-oriented perspective, then it was clear that this small dwarf galaxy could support the growth of only a handful of god pilots.
The more True Gods vied for the same pool of resources, the more their overall progress slowed down.
The current population of humans in the new frontier was highly deficient. The short time that the greater beyonder gate opened up for business was clearly not enough to fill up all of the available living spaces in just a relatively small corner of the dwarf galaxy.
Ves widened his eyes in realization.
So that was why the Polymath was so insistent on producing a lot of batch humans!
Her ploy to explosively increase the population of humans by producing them en masse out of biofactories may be a desperate attempt to increase the production of faith energy!
That certainly explained why the mechers embraced this initiative even as they rebuked the Polymath's ambitious takeover attempt.
Every major policy decision appeared to be related to the power of faith in one way or another.
Ves began to comprehend so many more high-level layouts now that he was able to understand the greater context that drove the decision-making at the top.
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