Chapter 186: A New Sensation!

"Instead, we must weaken it using a corpse-poison potion before we can kill it," Wu Jiajie said. "And the corpse-poison potion will likely require extracting raw materials from the Undead race before it can be brewed."

He tossed his pen onto the desk and delivered the final verdict, "In other words, you need to fight the strongest swordsman of Nostia, battle the Undead, and slay a dragon."

"This quest looks like one, but it's actually three," Wang Chen sighed.

"As expected from a senior; your experience is truly vast," he praised sincerely.

Originally, Wang Chen had only intended to subtly hint to Wu Jiajie about the difficulty rating of his quest.

However, he never expected that Wu Jiajie's deduction would reveal so many details about the quest.

Although it was only speculation for now, Wang Chen found it extremely valuable as a reference. He also agreed with this method of deducing quest content through required materials.

Just like with the Gale Clan quest earlier, if Wang Chen had understood this method sooner, he would have been able to deduce that the materials he collected were meant for crafting the Gale Bow.

And following that, by figuring out who needed the Gale Bow, he could have uncovered various quest details.

Of course, this still required a prior understanding of the Gale Clan's information.

Wang Chen silently resolved in his heart to learn more about various secret realms and alien races in the future. Aside from raw strength, this was a crucial soft skill for a professional.

While Wang Chen felt he had benefited immensely, Wu Jiajie felt that the more he thought about it, the wronger it felt.

"The winding difficulty of this quest is extraordinary. Why do I feel like a four-star rating wouldn't even cut it?" he muttered.

A trace of sheepishness appeared on Wang Chen's face, which Wu Jiajie immediately caught.

Wu Jiajie's eyes widened. "Don't tell me you drew a five-star quest?!"

Wang Chen nodded.

"Holy crap!" Wu Jiajie leaped up from his seat with a whoosh. "For real?"

"Luzhou hasn't produced a five-star quest in decades... Wait, no, two five-star quests popped up not long ago."

"Still, that's insanely awesome! I never expected your potential to be this high, Wang Chen!" Wu Jiajie said excitedly.

From an experiential standpoint, the difficulty tier of a class advancement quest is positively correlated with a professional's strength and potential.

Since Wang Chen was currently only at the peak of the third-tier, the immense difficulty of this five-star quest was most likely due to his exceptional potential.

"We've really struck gold!" Wu Jiajie paced around the room excitedly. "When those five-star quests appeared earlier, the guild master even sent people out to scout and find the professional who accepted them so we could recruit them."

"In the end, we came up empty-handed. After all, the Advancement Temple is an independent institution, and our Professional Guild can't meddle there."

"But! Now the professional who accepted another five-star quest is right in front of me!" Wu Jiajie looked at Wang Chen with fanatical eyes. "And he's already been recruited by our guild!"

"Haha! Life is truly full of surprises and unexpected turns!"

Wu Jiajie rubbed his hands together excitedly like a fly. "Once we find the other professional who took on a five-star quest, we're going to soar straight to the heavens!"

Hearing this, Wang Chen awkwardly touched his nose and said weakly, "Actually... those previous two five-star quests were also accepted by me..."

Wu Jiajie's joyful expression froze, then collapsed into a look of startled suspicion.

After a long moment, he asked in a trembling voice, "Really?"

Wang Chen nodded apprehensively, constantly feeling like Wu Jiajie might pass out from sheer joy at any second.

"Awoo—"

Sure enough, upon receiving Wang Chen's affirmative reply, he let out a howl and began dancing around in celebration.

Apprehensively appreciating Wu Jiajie's primitive dance moves, Wang Chen prepared to cast a Hymn of Sanity on him at any moment to prevent him from fainting dead away.

It took a good long while before Wu Jiajie finally stopped. He seemed to snap back to reality suddenly and asked, "Why didn't you tell us you accepted a five-star quest before?"

"Well... you guys didn't ask," Wang Chen scratched his head.

Had he known that a five-star quest would cause Wu Jiajie to throw such a fit, he would have kept it secret for another day or two.

"That counts as one of your personal achievements. Why would you wait for someone else to ask? You're supposed to speak up and learn how to showcase yourself," Wu Jiajie said, looking disappointed in him.

"Forget it, none of that matters anymore." He quickly adjusted his mindset and looked at Wang Chen with glowing eyes. "Anyway, you're already a member of our guild!"

"I'm going to call the old man and share the good news," Wu Jiajie said, reaching for his phone.

Wang Chen hurriedly stepped forward to stop him. "Brother Jie, absolutely not!"

Seeing Wu Jiajie's puzzled look, Wang Chen explained, "Think about it. What will the guild master's reaction be when he hears this news? He'll be just as excited as you are."

"But the guild master is getting older. I'm afraid his heart wouldn't be able to handle this level of surprise."

Wu Jiajie was suddenly enlightened. "Then what should we do? We can't just *not* tell him, right?"

"I didn't say we wouldn't tell the old man. I mean we can be a bit more indirect," Wang Chen persuaded earnestly. "Just drop the news bit by bit so he doesn't get overly excited all at once."

"I see. So let me figure out how to ease into—wait?" Wu Jiajie looked at Wang Chen in bewilderment. "So when you made me guess your quest rating just now, you were also doing it to ease into it?"

Wang Chen smiled sheepishly. "Yes."

Wu Jiajie said speechlessly, "I'm not that old man the guild master; my heart could function as a car engine and still be fine. Why on earth were you beating around the bush with me?"

"I was just... practicing in advance so I could be smoother when breaking the news to the guild master," Wang Chen bluffed randomly.

Internally, however, he thought, *Forget it, looking at you, your heart is probably just as risky.*

...

After all the commotion, the matter of the class advancement quest was finally sorted out. Wang Chen and Wu Jiajie left the suite and headed toward the main exit.

They needed to return to the Professional Guild. Although both possessed portable teleportation arrays, they couldn't be used inside the Advancement Temple, so they had to go outside.

As they passed through the temple's grand hall, they inevitably found themselves temporarily swept into the commotion.

Because the public screen in the hall displayed the information that a professional had accepted a five-star quest.

Naturally, the people coming and going were thrown into an uproar once again.

"The third five-star quest! Luzhou is about to produce a generation of powerhouses!"

"No, my intuition tells me all three quests were taken by the same person. Luzhou is about to give birth to a super powerhouse!"

"Do you guys think this super powerhouse could be Wang Chen?"

"Wang Chen? Who is that?"

"Holy crap, bro, you don't even know Wang Chen? He's that top-tier high schooler who filed a real-name lawsuit against the Luzhou Public Security Bureau! All the major media outlets have been reporting on him these past two days!"

"Do me a favor and stop guessing blindly. I heard Wang Chen's class is just a Life Shaman; how could he possibly accept a five-star quest? Even though Wang Chen is a righteous, hardcore man, there's no need to blindly hype him up!"

"Exactly! Don't you know that one blind fan is worth ten haters?"

"..."

Wang Chen walked through the crowd, unable to help a bitter smile when he heard everyone mentioning him. "At this rate, I've really officially debuted."