[Mission Evaluation: The Stars Fall Silent]
In the familiar Warehouse, Fu Qian examined the head cage in his hands as the notification sounded in his ears.
Forcing a higher being to accept an outcome it didn't want was undoubtedly a formidable task.
So, until the very last moment, even after the mission-complete notification appeared and a sense of accomplishment exploded in his heart like a supernova, Fu Qian didn't try to take off the head cage.
Once he'd decided to do it, Fu Qian wasn't about to give his opponent the slightest chance.
The instant he appeared in the Warehouse, it was as if some barrier had broken. His head felt lighter, and the head cage appeared in his hands of its own accord.
The transition from the Containment Scene to the Warehouse had automatically brought the sweet nightmare to an end.
At the same time, all the various mutations and curses on his body vanished without a trace.
But that didn't mean he'd fully recovered.
At that moment, the frenzied emotions in Fu Qian's mind had merely stopped growing without end. The joy that had been pushed to ever greater heights remained, and it would take a long time to fade.
``` [With Carnival of Noise approaching, Chervus, the Night Watcher chief in the Dunis region, received some unpleasant news: local officers had submitted several cases of illnesses believed to have supernatural characteristics.
At first, the mutations received little attention. That changed when the Night Watchers assigned to investigate discovered that the affected people all belonged to the same unusual group.
The mysterious symbols found at their meeting place led the investigators to connect these illnesses, whose origins they couldn't identify, with the eerie figures depicted in the manuscript.
Chervus, who received the investigation report, showed far