When an issue that you have always worried about and kept on your mind is finally resolved one day,
that sense of relief and peace of mind, as if a stone that had long been pressing down on your chest has been tossed away, is truly something nothing else can replace.
Wearing only beach shorts from the waist down, the sheets and quilt kicked into a mess, and the curtains thrown wide open to let the slightly warm sunlight of late October in Beijing warm his muscles and skin,
with Europe's incident safely concluded once and for all, Meng Lang was taking a deeply comfortable, sprawling afternoon nap.
Even without it being spoken aloud, prolonged association made one roughly guess that the identity of the E-Rank rookie underdog was merely a disguise,
and that Meng Lang was actually a B-Rank participant, furthermore seemingly connected to Midnight.
In fact, that was indeed the case, because someone in his father's generation back home had been as thick as thieves with the previous founder of the Night Bureau, so after being accidentally discovered and awakened as a participant,
having undergone secret training hidden away since childhood,
Meng Lang was actually a young Night Watcher on par with Li Ze, operating one in the light and the other in the dark, roughly from the same generation.
So the story was actually very simple.
During a chance Night Armament scenario, against a terrifying monster in the top one hundred of A-Rank, he relied on that sacred power not to be eliminated, but as a consequence also split 'half' of her rewards,
and having been seen through as urgently needing this power to pass the Midnight assessment, he incurred a considerable debt of human favor without being able to get out of it.
Then, by a