Thane stood before the great beast and began to slowly adjust his breathing. He was centering himself, regulating his pulse.
"Focus... This is like the Thesis Defense, my first job interview, or the first time I preached... Let's do this!" Thane imagined that he was about to walk into a high-stakes boardroom instead of a monster-slick dungeon.
The Celestial TV activated without fanfare and appeared before them.
Yet when Thane gazed at it, there was a fierce expression on his face, not irritation, not excitement, but the kind of sharpened focus he usually reserved for crunch time, when everything else had already gone wrong, and only execution mattered.
His breathing continued to stabilize as the TV channel resolved into view.
[Discovery Wild Fantasy: Monster Core Harvesting —Episode: Giant Beast Pt. 4]
Thane didn't say a thing as the Celestial TV immediately pivoted channels, bypassing the usual fluff and surfacing a targeted deliverable.
