"Yes!"
[Advancement quest triggered: First Performance!] Quest description: After surveying the fates of animals and humans, you seemed to gain an insight. Fate was fickle, yet it drove all things forward. Behind everything, its threads could faintly be seen. All appearances were like dreams and illusions, like a grand magic show. You sought to master this sleight of hand to deceive others and deceive fate itself, and even, in the near future, fully master the power to alter the course of fate. Quest requirements: You must perform a grand magic show before a sufficient audience, using deception to stir others' emotions and thereby change their fates.
Perform a magic show...?
Chen Lun pondered.
No... that's just a way of phrasing it. In terms of its deeper occult meaning, I should only need to accomplish something that meets the requirements... deception, emotion, and changing fate.
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By the time Chen Lun returned to Kazt Town, the players' defensive battle had long since ended.
Throughout his journey back, he had been using his authority to observe them, occasionally pilfering... safeguarding their spoils.
The players had fought fiercely and had no time to notice the transcendent materials vanishing from the ground. Even if they noticed, they would only assume the materials had disappeared on their own because they hadn't been picked up in time.
Everyone had performed very well in this battle. Clearly, they hadn't slacked off after advancing to become Transcendents, which greatly pleased Chen Lun.
Polaris had undoubtedly been the most outstanding among them. He had grown increasingly proficient with [Animal Mimicry] and had invested all his accumulated skill points into it.
Using the Mechanical Glove's flames alongside flexible animal transformations, he had become the only player on the battlefield to die just once while also scoring