Chapter 1497: The Human Stalk (Part One)
Going against the grain. Defying all convention.
As someone who had once been warned and docked Sanity Value for slacking off, Fu Qian certainly wasn't running away because the mission environment was too harsh.
Granted, as mentioned earlier, the plot-heavy introduction and the clearly defined setting made the mansion at the end of the road seem like a place he absolutely had to visit.
But as a widely read man, Fu Qian also knew that another important part of any adventure story was forming a party.
That's right. He wasn't walking the other way to search the edge of the map for some hidden item. There was a person in that direction.
A woman.
A woman even stronger than him.
Of course, she was only stronger because she was still Second Order while he'd fallen from the heights.
In the most literal sense.
Whenever he surveyed his surroundings, the first thing Fu Qian did was check his own condition. But this was something he'd never encountered before—
He'd returned to the state he'd been in just after the thug had finished digesting.
That's right. He'd clearly started the mission as a Second Order, with all his skills and items fully equipped, but Fu Qian was certain that he wasn't even a blank-slate demigod anymore.
By every measure, he was back to the level he'd been at when he first entered the academy and met Jianxin.
Even stranger, his skills and items were still usable, but both their number and their variety had been reset to what he'd had back then. Everything he'd acquired since had vanished.
For a moment, it almost made him wonder if the server had lagged and rolled back.
As expected of a mission numbered one. Every one of