The First Order

This area is one of the human body’s weaknesses. When the axillary nerve receives heavy trauma 1 , neuropathy 2 can occur. Considering the nerve as an electrical cable, such a trauma can cause the axillary nerve to generate an uncontrolled release of electrical signals that can interfere with accurate signal transmission. When the brain gets overloaded by such signals, it will send out a pain signal. The signal overload also causes the limbs to receive a confused jumble of signals. The body then begins to secrete large amounts of calcium and potassium ions in reaction, and the resulting electrical overload is enough to paralyze the entire body for a second!

The man let out a scream as he fell to the ground, his limbs twitching uncontrollably. When he finally realized what was going on, he did not have any strength left to take on Ren Xiaosu.

Ren Xiaosu stood silently beside him and looked like he was thinking about something. The man panted for a while before begging for mercy. “I won’t bear a grudge. Please let me go. I’ll forget about today’s incident.”

Any smart person would know that their life was in the hands of Ren Xiaosu. So he shouldn’t hoot and holler rudely and unreasonably, but to leave it for later instead.

Ren Xiaosu looked at Xiaoyu. “Who is he?”

“He’s a foreman of the coal mine. He was also the one who led the group that stabbed a person to death in town last night. Since he heard that man had a habit of saving money, he started getting ideas since he had gambling debts.” Xiaoyu revealed what the man had told her last night when he boasted about the incident to her.

Ren Xiaosu walked over to the road and picked up the man’s metal weapon. Then he walked back next to the man. As he stared down at him in contempt, he estimated there to be at most four to five seconds before the man would regain his mobility.

Suddenly, the voice from the palace that had been silent for a while intoned again. “Quest: Set your foe free.”

But just as the voice from the palace started trailing off, Ren Xiaosu crouched down and jabbed the metal weapon into the man’s stomach. The sharp sound of the metal weapon tearing through leather and skin left every onlooker or anyone eavesdropping with a tingling sensation on their scalps. Then the man started bleeding profusely.

“You have around three minutes. If you can reach the town’s clinic in time and get it stitched up, there might still be a chance for you to survive,” Ren Xiaosu said calmly.

When the man heard that, he stopped caring about the pain. He immediately got up and ran towards the clinic without another word.

“Quest complete. Awarded Basic Skill Duplication Scroll.”

“Quest complete. Awarded Basic Skill Duplication Scroll.”

“Due to the loss of your weapon, a special side quest has been activated….”

Ren Xiaosu was stunned even before he finished listening. The first quest should be related to him saving Xiaoyu, so he could understand why it was successfully completed. He did not expect for the second quest to also be considered complete.

How the hell does this palace make judgments?!

Yan Liuyuan asked from beside him, “Bro, you’re letting him go just like that? What if he recovers after getting stitched up at the clinic and comes back to take revenge on you? He’s not a good person at all.”

Ren Xiaosu stared into the night. “As if that shitty clinic in town knows how to stitch someone up.”

“Bro, seeing how you’re still so ruthless, I can rest easy.”

Because of this, Ren Xiaosu was relieved that the quest was considered complete even though that man was definitely going to die. Moreover, even if he did not die, that rusty metal knife was still a potent weapon for causing tetanus. Even if he could survive the injury, he might as well be dead.

Although that man had a metal weapon, he could only afford to get the cheapest type. Ren Xiaosu would probably not have broken the knife otherwise.

A person like Ren Xiaosu had a personal set of principles that he would not stray from. Even though he had a superpower now, it would not change his way of doing things.

If he had to change, it would due to his own free will. No one else could make him do it.

Therefore, it seemed that the criteria for whether a quest was complete was not that strict? What the palace really cared about was…the attitude that Ren Xiaosu displayed?