The president's office at the Joint Medical Association headquarters was brightly lit.
Zuo You, who was nearing sixty, wore a specially made Monocle as he studied a complex blueprint on the projection.
It was the blueprint for a Tier Four Artifact that protected against Mental Attacks, which he had just earned by completing a Joint Medical Association mission.
Though its structure was extremely complex, all the required materials were easy to obtain, making it relatively accessible to him.
In his spare time, he had been studying how to reproduce these artifacts. To him, these were not tedious blueprints, but ways to stay alive.
After becoming president of the Joint Medical Association, Zuo You had been one of its most active members in completing association missions.
As one of the very best doctors in the Safe Zone, he could complete the hardest missions and earn the most substantial rewards.
By now, Zuo You had acquired blueprints for five Tier Four Artifacts. He was doing everything he could to gather the materials, hoping to arm himself to the teeth as soon as possible.
Despite being a leading authority among those of the medical Sequence in the Safe Zone, Zuo You had once lived in the shadows.
In a world where the strong preyed on the weak, exceptional medical skill was not an honor, but a death warrant.
Once his peers revealed their top-tier medical abilities, the major factions would seize them and turn them into healing machines, caged birds with no freedom whatsoever. Even their families would become hostages.
The most renowned doctors in the Safe Zone were Zhao Fengjun and Chen Fenghe.
Each had her own means of remaining safe beneath the spotlight all these years.
No one dared cross Zhao Fengjun's two older brothers.
Chen Fenghe's former closest friend and