"The Best Clerk"

The Cause-Free Illness incident quietly subsided.

Over the past few days, Chen Xuan still set aside two hours to visit the gymnasium and treat the "patients" who had been called back from out of town.

The final count of those afflicted reached 2,306. More than half of those cursed could be traced to this past week. In other words, the culprit's efficiency in casting curses had noticeably improved recently.

Chen Xuan guessed that the person's ability had probably advanced in rank.

That would also explain why, after affecting so many people, the ability was still only LV1.

Perhaps it had initially been at the green tier, then risen through repeated use.

What would have happened if Northern Heaven Institute had not discovered this?

Would the ability have continued advancing until its owner became something like the "King of Misfortune"? If humanity had been destroyed by someone like that, it would have been rather ironic.

"According to the history you recorded, have ability users ever caused any particularly serious destruction?" Chen Xuan asked curiously as he looked at Lin Qing.

She was wearing a clerk's uniform and humming a little tune as she wiped down the shelves.

When Chen Xuan had first hired her as a clerk, it had mainly been to meet the requirements for the shopkeeper's upgrade. With her rainbow-colored dyed hair and ears covered in ornaments, she did not look like a proper worker at all.

However, he soon realized he had been completely wrong.

Although Lin Qing liked to sprawl across the sofa and munch on snacks during her downtime, and even enjoyed using her toes to grab tissues, she was meticulous when she worked. Whether serving customers or keeping the shop tidy, she gave it her all and was beyond reproach.

Even the old man who