As the Star Plasma Vessel Incident quietly drew to a close amid that silent contest beneath the Tombs of the Star Corridor, Tengen ultimately chose to compromise in the face of absolute force and even deeper calculations, voluntarily abandoning the cruel assimilation with the Star Plasma Vessel that came once every five hundred years. Yet the truth of the undercurrents behind it was clearly beyond the outside world's knowledge.
To the old conservatives of Jujutsu Society's higher-ups, seated behind their screens, and to the vast majority of jujutsu sorcerers who knew nothing of the circumstances, your escort team had not only withstood countless assassination attempts brought on by the bounty, but had also successfully protected the Star Plasma Vessel, completely unharmed, until the assimilation deadline under all manner of extraordinarily adverse conditions.
This embellished "success" naturally became a dazzling, substantial achievement, prominently recorded in your service records.
As a result, the evaluation process for your promotion to Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer encountered virtually no meaningful obstacles. Everything proceeded naturally, falling into place.
To demonstrate their recognition of your outstanding performance in this special-grade escort mission, the higher-ups even made an exception and waived the complicated assessment procedures, directly dispensing with the mandatory stage that normally required a semi-grade 1 to undertake missions alone and be evaluated by others.
This meant that, in name, you had now entered the small, uppermost tier of power and strength in Jujutsu Society, enjoying privileges, intelligence access, and enormous mission payments far beyond those of ordinary jujutsu sorcerers.
Yet for you, who stood at the true pinnacle of this world's combat power and had even single-handedly killed the thousand-year-old curse user Kenjaku in a simulation, the title of Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer seemed far too insubstantial and insignificant.
You currently had a far grander plan,