Transcendence Act

A few days passed.

Su Wen finally enjoyed a few quiet days.

On a weekend morning,

the television was broadcasting recent major news:

According to the latest data released by Coastal New City's Mental Review Bureau,

the unstable occurrence of "special illnesses" in our city has become increasingly frequent. To protect the safety of all residents, viewers and their families are requested to contact us promptly upon noticing early warning signs.

According to statistics, after training, 89.7% of Transcendents may be able to control their own abilities.

"Controllable extraordinary abilities are the foundation of social progress. Those that lose control become special illnesses. That's all there is to say."

Su Wen sat in the courtyard, drinking soybean milk from an old-established shop at the alley entrance that he had bought during his morning exercise.

Over the past few days, he had used Appraisal several times.

But he had never found another Treasure Girl like Jiang Menghan.

As for the mental review mentioned on television,

every college student had undergone one.

He was no exception.

But no obvious extraordinary factors had been detected.

If powerful "bad luck" did not count, then Miss Jiang had none either.

But based on the information obtained through Appraisal:

Mind Essence, Sublimation Lineage, and Origin Knowledge represented the three great directions of human civilization's advancement.

All of them could lead to extraordinary advancement.

The Mental Review Bureau could only examine genetic affinity, one of the six minor points within the Sublimation Lineage. It was normal for it to miss many things.

At the very least, he was already ahead of the era when it came to identifying hidden extraordinary abilities.

The next second,

a countdown began turning in his eyes:

15 natural days remained until the Player's predetermined death time.

Timing began.

Would he choose to begin the game?

He had no right to refuse.

He shrugged, sat before his computer, and clicked Continue.

Transcendence Act

Game Type: Story-driven action game

Real-Time Duration: Twenty days

Game Difficulty: Low

Game Background: Time: Early Origin Era. Location: Westminster Palace, House of Lords, England.

Grand Duke of Bavaria Joseph Reinhardt was invited to participate in the drafting of the Transcendence Act, where he encountered an assassination attempt in the banquet hall by the antisocial extraordinary organization Zero-Sum Game.

Afterward, Sophia Reinhardt succeeded him as Grand Duke and strongly pushed for the establishment of the Northern Europa Transcendence Act, which in turn influenced the formulation of United Nations regulations.

After the Transcendence Act was enacted, the Night Watch imposed far greater restrictions on Transcendents. Moderate factions such as the Clock Tower, the Great Library, and All Souls College, Cambridge gradually declined.

Society fractured, civilization's stability fell, and collapse gradually approached, laying the groundwork for the later Inner Ring Explosion, Border Contamination, and The Transmitter incidents.

Game Objectives:

One Star: Eliminate Zero-Sum Game assassins (3).

Two Stars: 1. Push for the establishment of the Transcendence Act. 2. Change the Grand Duke of Bavaria's mind. (Complete either one.)

Three Stars: Hidden objective.

Note: Completing the minimum rating will prevent the Player's death in reality.

Trial Ability: Language Mastery (European language family), Appraisal (no cooldown)

At civilization's crossroads, how would you choose?

On the screen,

Su Wen appeared in a dark alley, dressed entirely in black.

He first checked his attributes.

Nothing else had changed much.

But one section was especially conspicuous:

Sublimation Lineage: Life Resilience (Benefiting from the gradual enhancement of the Origin Point of Life - Trade Wind, your life force is greater than before.)

Spiritual Energy Affinity (Benefiting from the gradual enhancement of the Origin Point of Life - Trade Wind, your ability to condense spiritual energy is stronger.)

Natural Correction (Benefiting from the gradual enhancement of the Origin Point of Life - Trade Wind, your appearance will better conform to natural aesthetics.)

Overall Evaluation: You can take more hits, but you are still worthless in combat. Any form of direct melee combat is not recommended.

The facts proved it.

The strength increase from morning exercise was nowhere near as useful as lying down to sleep with a pot of flowers beside his pillow.

Su Wen thought having a longer health bar was quite nice.

As a devoted Soulslike player,

putting his health bar up to forty first

could never be wrong.

After all, health represented room for error.

Looking at the health bar that was twice as long as before, he felt only one thing: safe.

As a story-driven action game, Transcendence Act offered story guidance similar to Cyberpunk 2077.

Su Wen, who had never been to London, did not need to worry about missing plot developments due to gaps in his knowledge.

Tomorrow, hereditary nobles would gather at the Westminster House of Lords to revise the act.

As the Grand Duke of Bavaria and a hereditary noble of Europa, Joseph Reinhardt was holding a banquet at the Cairns Hotel tonight.

Phase Task Objective: Infiltrate the banquet hall before eight o'clock.

First, you need an identity that can enter the banquet hall.

(Perhaps, compared to an invited guest, a Cairns Hotel waiter would attract less attention.)

The game scene began.

He walked out of the alley.

Not far away stood the resplendent Cairns luxury hotel.

Across from the hotel was London's famous Thames River.

The river's night ripples reflected the golden banquet lights on the hotel's second floor.

Su Wen looked along the riverbank and saw distinguished guests gradually entering the venue.

Although he knew little about these nobles, whose families still held significant inheritances in modern Europa, the game had suggested disguising himself as a waiter.

Then he roughly understood.

"The Zero-Sum Game's extraordinary assassin is probably already among them. And what he wants to do is probably very similar to what I want to do."

Su Wen activated Appraisal.

He inspected the guests one by one:

Appraisal: Duke of Bedford, Andrew Russell, fifteenth Duke of the Russell Family. Extraordinary inheritance: Origin Knowledge - Knight - Devotion.

No wonder he was a top aristocrat who drove one of the world's limited eighty Bugatti Veyron 16.4s.

Even before Su Wen had been removed from the family register,

he had never encountered a world-class big shot like this.

Appraisal: Carla Spencer, the most outstanding painter of the younger generation of the Spencer Family, an invited artist for the future theme of Kassel Documenta. Extraordinary potential (unactivated). Involved Future Timeline: Swarm Effect.

Appraisal: Heron Campbell, sixth in line to inherit the Sua'gair Duchy. Extraordinary potential (Leader, activated).

The golden and purple profiles were indeed splendid.

Since Qin Mingyuan's appraisal background had been white, representing a research scholar,

then these golden and purple appraisal backgrounds represented nobility.

By drawing on experience, Su Wen found another use for Appraisal.

"Using colors as markers is a bit like a gacha game, but in this situation, only an absurdly lucky player could pull something like this."

He locked onto a waiter whose appraisal frame was black.

Appraisal: Evan Lucas (alias), Zero-Sum Game Tier 1 Transcendent assassin. Extraordinary Characteristics: Agility Specialization.

"That's you."