Urgent Response (Part 2)

After Fran entered the Adventurers Guild, that familiar receptionist's voice rang out again.

"Hello, is it that you need..."

"I need a catalog of all First Order Magic Creature that your Association can currently transport to the Spirit Realm."

Fran interrupted the question abruptly. The receptionist hesitated for a moment, then turned around and took a document from under the counter, handing it to Fran.

"Hello, this list is updated every time the Spirit Realm Market starts, so if you need it, you can ask me. The Magic Creature materials on this list may have already been reserved by someone else."

Fran didn't speak, but quickly opened the file, glanced through it briefly, and then quickly turned the pages.

Fran's voice rang out immediately after the receptionist's voice faded.

"I need materials from these three types of Magic Creature. Urgent! I'll wait here; I can get 300% Spirit Crystal."

The receptionist, somewhat dizzy, took the document and noticed three marks on it. She was about to speak up and remind the recipient not to scribble on the document when...

"Please wait a moment, sir, I'll be right back."

Upon hearing the 300% price increase, the receptionist immediately forgot all her complaints. The scribbling on the documents wasn't the point now.

After being assigned to the Spirit Realm, most of the jobs were small ones, and the receptionists didn't earn much commission. But this time was different.

With a 300% price increase, according to the Association's internal incentive range, she could receive a year's salary in one lump sum.

The receptionist left in a hurry and returned about ten minutes later, informing the Fran Association that the process was already underway.

Fran remained silent, lost in thought, until an hour after Fran arrived at the Association, when the three Magic Creature corpses Fran needed were finally delivered.

Fran didn't linger. After paying, she immediately returned to the Material Realm, leaving the receptionist, who still wanted to continue serving her, stunned.

After Fran returned to her house in White Flower City, she immediately headed towards the back of the house.

She found a small open space, released the Magic Creature corpse she had brought back from the Spirit Realm, and then briefly surveyed her surroundings. No one noticed her actions.

She took a deep breath and used a spell she rarely used: [Cloud Mist Spell].

White gas emerged from Fran's fingertips, instantly engulfing an area within a hundred meters of Fran. The servants still inside the room were unaware of what was happening, only experiencing complete darkness and being unable to see their surroundings.

Fran's [Cloud Mist Spell] was very thick, almost completely blocking out the sunlight. She deliberately created this environment for her next move.

When verifying a person's identity, the Alliance considers not only their appearance but also their mental state and physical characteristics.

Now Fran needs to solve the latter problem. The physical information that the Alliance relies on is similar to the DNA, fingerprints, and pupil data from Fran's previous life.

Although the two rely on different principles, a person's physical information is absolutely unique and cannot be changed simply by changing their appearance.

Fran had once calculated that the Lord of Radiance had changed his body through that book.

She discovered that apart from her appearance being altered, many of her physical characteristics hadn't changed much.

Her blood information remained unchanged, although Fran was confident that the Alliance did not have her blood sample.

The Alliance's blood tests rely on something called Bloodline Genealogy, which Fran hadn't looked into in detail because she found it unreliable just from hearing about it.

This bloodline theory decomposes blood characteristics using multiple parameters at the same time, arguing that no two individuals in the world have completely identical parameters.

This theory is far too abstract and too challenging to Fran's scientific thinking from her previous life. Moreover, it suggests that after someone dies, a new individual might possess the same parameters.

Since the Northern Lands Society lacked research in this area, Fran didn't know if it was true or not, but she felt it was meaningless whether it was true or not, because she only needed to use it.

She stroked the Magic Creature called the Costa Lizard, whose Dark Red skin was uneven, a unique arrangement of Lizard internal organs.

When she touched it, she could feel many small bumps and dents, which seemed to have no discernible pattern. But since this kind of Magic Creature lived near the Abyss, wasn't it normal for its body to undergo some mutations?

She applied the Sunflame to her fingers and inserted them into the Costa Lizard's neck. A thick, dark purple liquid flowed out, slid to the ground, and made a sizzling sound.

Fran canceled the Sunflame and pressed her finger on the blood. Upon contact with the blood, she immediately activated her [Blurry Shell] ability, allowing her to quickly become compatible with the Magic Creature's blood.

When Fran's fingers touched the deep purple liquid, it was as if a small opening appeared, continuously drawing the liquid in.

At the same time, Fran could feel her body's aversion to the deep purple liquid, and her instincts seemed to want her to stop immediately.

However, Fran suppressed this thought with her willpower. After about three minutes, Fran stopped, took out a drop of her own blood, analyzed it with magic, and then compared it with the bloodline series chart in her mind.

"My parameters dropped by three Block, which is enough to make me untraceable by the Alliance in terms of bloodlines."

At the same time, Fran also opened the Panel and checked her status changes.

[Attribute: Constitution 40.1]

Her constitution decreased by 0.2, which was the result of her forcibly compatibility with the blood of a lower-level Magic Creature.

Fran's physique already surpassed that of ordinary Second Order Profession User, so if she used First Order materials, it would result in this outcome—a decrease in her abilities.

However, this was only temporary, because Fran's [Blurry Shell] trait was much more useful than she had imagined. Originally, she had intended to sacrifice a slight decrease in her physical constitution in exchange for a complete change in her physical characteristics.

But now she could feel that her body was merging with the new blood entering her body, assimilating it, and making it a part of her.

"It will probably take about half a month to adapt to this change, and by then my physical condition will have improved again..."

This is because Fran was pressed for time and didn't have time to choose a suitable Magic Creature.

Based on the components within her body, she should choose either human-related Magic Creature or aquatic Magic Creature.

But the truth is, time was of the essence for her, and in order to escape danger as quickly as possible, she had to choose the fastest method.

Immediately after the initial alteration, Fran looked at the other two Magic Creature and touched them, preparing to change their other physical characteristics.

Fran spent an hour in the flower, completely altering her physical characteristics. In the Alliance's physical-only tests, she was no longer the Fran she once was.

Her fingerprints, pupils, and skin texture all showed minute changes, which were enormous from a detection perspective—so significant that these features were almost impossible to belong to the same person.

Her breathing became long and even, and her heartbeat quickened slightly.

However, her appearance has not changed at all, and she believes that if others could see her face, they would be able to recognize who she is.

Fortunately, the Alliance hasn't gone so far as to implement this universal physical characteristic testing scheme across the entire the Alliance; otherwise, Fran might have had to deal with the Alliance's certification issues.

The Alliance seemed to have great trust in their physical characteristics testing. In their view, even the Transmutation School could hardly change the composition of blood and most of the body's texture, which was sufficient for detection.

Therefore, when the Alliance needs to find someone, they only need to use prophecy to find clues, narrow down the search, and conduct large-scale testing within that range, and they will always find the person they are looking for.

After resolving the issue of her physical information, Fran began to address another problem: her mental fluctuations.

Although, in a sense, it was already very difficult to determine the nature of her mental fluctuations.

Because she studied too many different School of magic, her mental fluctuations became extremely intense and rare.

In this situation, perhaps those mages who have witnessed Fran's mental fluctuations will be able to detect her based on this characteristic.

However, it's impractical to have Fran use the mages she'd met in the Law Domain to investigate all possible suspects during testing.

The Alliance will use standard instruments to detect Fran's mental fluctuations. All these characteristics will be turned into cold numbers after being captured, losing Fran's true characteristics.

Unless they conduct detailed testing on Fran's other visible characteristics, it will be difficult to catch Fran based solely on the detection methods Fran knows, but that involves issues of cost, research and development, and personnel.

Fran estimated that her mental fluctuations had been detected as soon as she entered the Law Domain.

Although she estimated that the two sides would not be able to catch her without meeting in person, Fran still had to take precautions just in case.

A series of ideas popped into her mind, including quick methods such as self-harm and head transplantation, but Fran chose a quick and relatively effective one.

She used [Aether Manipulation] to continuously transform the surrounding Aether into her own Mental Power.

She made some minor adjustments, and five minutes later, Fran's Mental Power began to change. This time, she resembled a mage who had just advanced to the First Order, possessing only a handful of spells.

This method is extremely effective, Aether can also enhance her Mental Power recovery speed, but it also has side effects.

She could no longer use the Aether for anything else; as soon as she canceled her disguise, her mental fluctuations would return to normal in five minutes.

These were the costs she had mentioned earlier, and she accepted them readily.

Others, however, cannot pay this price even if they wish.