Chapter 122: Chapter 122: Discovering the Truth
In a courtyard in Gray Rock Town.
Lance slowly opened his eyes.
He immediately reached out and touched his flat stomach.
The spot where the Poison Blade had pierced him was indeed fully healed, without so much as a tiny scar remaining.
Although this wasn’t the first time he had experienced the miracle of returning from the dead, he was still amazed by this Power that defied the rules of the material world.
Lance sat up from the cold stone slab and opened his panel.
He truly never expected this death to trigger and unlock a brand-new Heroic Profession.
An extremely bold idea immediately popped into his head.
’Could it be that every time I die and successfully resurrect, I can just get a free hidden Profession closely related to the heroic feat "I successfully resisted death"?’
Filled with this intense anticipation, he unhesitatingly clicked open the detailed description of the new Profession.
But when he saw the specific words on the light screen, the look of anticipation on his face froze instantly.
The Heroic Profession unlocked this time was worlds apart from his previous one, the Pale Guard.
Because in the panel information for this brand-new Profession, an abrupt, unprecedented note had appeared!
[Profession: Jhin, the Virtuoso (Heroic)]
(When the marionette cuts its own strings, it transforms from a prisoner of fate into...)
The rest of the message seemed to have been forcibly erased by some kind of Power, vanishing into thin air on the Blue light screen.
This was the first time Lance had ever seen a personalized note within the rigid system information.
’Was this a trace intentionally left behind by the first mysterious predecessor on this continent to successfully become a Jhin, the Virtuoso?’
’To be able to leave their mark within the Profession’s information stream... they must have been an incredible person.’
Lance suppressed his shock and continued scrolling down to see the prerequisites for this mysterious Profession.
[Prerequisites:]
[1. Basic Attributes: No single Attribute threshold. The total overflow Attributes from breaking the Attribute Lock must be three points or more.]
Below this harsh condition, the highly personalized note appeared again.
(You must prove to the world that you are an anomaly who defies common sense. Only by breaking free from the prison of the flesh do you earn the right to break free from the prison of fate.)
Lance stared at these words, falling into a brief silence.
’This would be extremely difficult for any Ordinary person.’
’Just accumulating enough overflow points to break the Attribute Lock is already a nigh-impossible task.’
Lance could easily tell from this sentence that the predecessor who had successfully taken on this Profession was an absolutely outstanding individual.
Judging from the mysterious messages left before, this person’s life path seemed to have been manipulated by others since birth.
In the end, they had relied on their personal Power to forcibly break free from the cage of fate.
Lance continued to read on.
Surprisingly, the section that followed didn’t have the usual Skills requirements.
[2. Special Requirements: ...]
[Condition 1: Your life, or a long period of your past experiences, was once filled with man-made falsehoods and lies. (Complete)]
[Condition 2: Your destiny was once, without your knowledge, precisely manipulated in secret by a superior being or a very powerful organization. (Complete)]
[Condition 3: You did not succumb to the script others wrote for you. You relied on your own wisdom and Intuition to discover the truth of the first two points, and in a state of extreme clarity, developed an intense obsession with tearing apart this web of fate.]
Just as Lance was reading Condition 3 word by word, the text "Complete" began to materialize with extreme slowness at the end of the line.
The impact of that single word was immense.
For a moment, Lance even felt his Spirit fall into a disorienting trance.
He felt as if his brain had been struck by a sledgehammer, and his once-solid understanding of the world shattered.
Immediately after, a bone-chilling cold shot up his spine to the back of his head, causing goosebumps to erupt all over his body.
’My destiny, even my life and death... have been secretly and precisely manipulated all this time?’
’How is that possible!’
’But I’m a Transmigrator!’
’I’ve always firmly believed that every step I’ve taken, every decision I’ve made in this world, has been of my own free will.’
’But now the system panel was coldly telling me that it was all a lie.’
"Who’s doing this?"
Lance slapped his throbbing head. The sheer shock was so overwhelming he even felt a momentary dizzy spell from a lack of oxygen.
The air around him seemed to thin.
He forced himself to take a deep breath, trying to calm his racing heart, and compelled himself to calmly read the rest of the panel first.
’Because logically, the hidden mastermind manipulating everything from behind the scenes would never have intentionally let me discover this fatal secret.’
’And yet, the system panel has laid the truth bare right before my eyes.’
’Analyzing it from this angle, at least, the system panel is my own personal, secret cheat. It’s definitely not a tool created by the mastermind.’
’Extrapolating further from that, it’s highly probable my transmigration itself wasn’t manipulated by someone else.’
’So, the "manipulated life" the panel is referring to must be the original owner of this body!’
’The cowardly young Lance who had already died tragically at the very beginning of the story.’
Having figured this out, Lance’s breathing gradually steadied, and he continued to read.
[3. Trial Requirement: Whether it was through your own conscious intent or not, you have successfully escaped, reversed, or shattered your controlled destiny three times. (Complete)]
When he saw this judgment, the hair-raising sense of horror from moments ago receded as quickly as a tide.
Lance let out a long, heavy sigh of relief.
’Since the system has judged it as complete, it means that I’ve already, without realizing it, successfully escaped the manipulations of that mastermind at least three times.’
’This proves I definitely have the ability to fight against that kind of fate manipulation. Things haven’t gotten so bad that they’re irreversible.’
’But which three times were they?’
Lance’s mind began to race, his thoughts flashing like lightning through his past memories.
’If they went to such great lengths to manipulate my life, it must mean I hold some kind of important value to them.’
’Since I have value to be exploited, they would never let me die so easily before they’ve squeezed every last drop of use out of me.’
’Death is the ultimate, most violent way to break a predetermined script.’
’Thinking about it carefully, including the original owner... I’ve died exactly three times so far.’
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