The Haunted House

The invitation read as follows when translated into the common language—

2567,

I'm glad you could read this invitation. It proves you're no impostor.

Go to 13 Lankenbele Street. A test awaits you there.

Pass, and you'll become my assistant. I'll pay you a respectable fee. Fail, and you'll have to leave disappointed.

Remember, you aren't the only qualified person I've invited to become my assistant.

You have plenty of competitors.

Spirit Channeling: Nikelei

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"A test? Competitors?"

Tell everyone in advance so the competitors will be wary of one another!

Keep them on edge before the test even begins?

Qin Ran tried to guess what Nikelei, the Spirit Channeling, intended.

Clearly, the so-called "test" had begun the moment he read the invitation.

Qin Ran glanced at the main quest, [Become a Medium's Assistant for Three Months], and shrugged.

The situation was plain enough. If he couldn't even become Nikelei's assistant, working for her for three months was out of the question.

The main quest would naturally fail.

Judging by the difficulty of a second Instance, though, this test shouldn't be too hard.

Qin Ran was grateful that a Special Instance's difficulty was set by "the number of Instances a player had cleared when they obtained the Special Instance," not "the player's current difficulty when they obtained the Special Instance"!

If it were the latter, he suspected even the main quest would have changed.

It certainly wouldn't have been [Become a Medium's Assistant for Three Months]. It would have been something more specific, an event directly involving Nikelei.

The difficulty would have shot up accordingly.

Still,

Qin Ran wouldn't let his guard down just because the task before him seemed easy.

He'd heard more than enough stories about people stumbling at the last hurdle.

He had no intention of becoming