The Isle of Azure Breeze was the kind of place that looked like a vacation spot until you read the fine print. The Kobold Sea was vast and treacherous, but the island itself? Small, barely a speck on the map, with exactly two reasons anyone cared about it: occasionally powerful mana beasts and the unfortunate tendency of said beasts to evolve past the "manageable problem" threshold.
Which was why adventurers were periodically sent in to cull anything stupid enough to hit five-star levels. The Guild classified six-star beasts as "city-destroyers in training," and no one particularly wanted to see if that policy had room for exceptions.
