A crescent moon hung in the night sky.
Several children were hard at work pounding medicinal powder using their tools.
Meanwhile, Lu Chen closed his eyes to rest while checking his current quest objectives.
[1: Complete a performance rated B-class or above using only a Wizard's abilities from start to finish (0/1)]
[2: How can a brilliant performance have only a light side? Try playing a villainous role and make at least one hundred people feel fear towards you (16/100)]
[3: Leave behind a legend capable of enduring into the present era]
The first and third quests were long-term missions, and their results would not be known until this flashback ended.
The count for the second quest, however, had changed somewhat unexpectedly.
"Already 16?"
Counting them up, the three he had killed previously, plus the five children here, and even counting the female passerby Selina, that still only came to 9.
There was probably only one possible explanation: when the System tallied the count, it included more than just those who were directly frightened by him.
Anyone who experienced fear because of a terrifying incident originating from him could be factored in.
Looked at this way, it was very likely that some unknown chain reaction had been triggered after he killed that down-and-out aristocrat and burned down the house.
Perhaps it was because the corpses looked too gruesome, or because the cause of the fire was too bizarre, or something else entirely—people who got word of it had felt t…
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