Lightning Is the Only Way

"What do you mean redacted!?" a young man with black hair shouted. He wore black robes, and his aura was hidden.

"As I've said, the name of the person that accepted the mission is redacted," a young girl with white hair said nervously. She appeared fearful and nervous in front of this person.

"How can it be reacted!? Do you know who I am!?" the man shouted with rage as his hand slammed on the table. The table that had been made out of Immortal King materials was pulverized in the process.

"I-I'm sorry," the girl said with a quivering voice. "I can't do anything about it. Sir needs to go to the assassination stronghold that came into contact with the mission taker to investigate."

"I'm a Senior Judge!" the man shouted in anger, making the girl flinch. "I'm the highest-ranked person for investigations in Underworld! I'm personally looking into this case since the circumstances around the mission have been suspicious! I have the highest form of clearance in Underworld, except for the Elders!"

"Sir, I'm really sorry, but I just can't tell you," the girl said with fear. "None of us know who accepted the mission. You can only find the answer from the assassination stronghold that came into contact with the mission taker."

The man gritted his teeth. He had never been so humiliated! He had been in Underworld for over 150,000 years, and he had climbed to the highest position for internal affairs. He was the person that assigned the tasks to everyone else when something didn't seem right with a mission.

Underworld had several agreements with the Peak Sects, and these agreements had to be upheld. However, some greedy individuals might try to go against these agreements because of profit. They might give Underworld cleverly disguised fake currency or give wrong information to Underworld regarding a mission, which would end with people of Underworld dying.

This person was at the highest rank of the investigation department.

Additionally, a lesser-known fact, he was also a double agent of the Nine Elements Sect.

Someone had killed the upper echelon of a High-Tier Sect under the Nine Elements Sect's banner. Because of that, this hidden ace of the Nine Elements Sect, this double agent, became active. He had to find the person that accepted this mission and inform the Nine Elements Sect!

However, he, who had the highest authority, couldn't find the information in the central archives.

Intelligence and information were some of the most important things for Underworld. The entire survival of the organization hinged on being able to keep secrets. After all, if the Peak Sects found out the locations of the major strongholds and the headquarters, Underworld might be eradicated.

Because of that, information was stored in three differently ranked locations.

The lowest rank was the local stronghold. Everything that happened in this stronghold would be archived locally so that the investigation department could verify the information.

The next higher-ranked information hub was the central archives.

The central archives gathered all the information of the continent they were on in one spot. There were five such archives, each corresponding to one area that one Peak Sect ruled over.

Someone like this Senior Judge never bothered to go to the local strongholds. His clearance was incredibly high, and he always visited the central archives. He could access everything in the central archives.

Senior Judge was in the central archive responsible

central archive

had definitely messed up! It was mandatory to give the

these rules! After he found out which stronghold gave out this assassination mission, he would kill the master of that stronghold! This person had broken

made the Senior Judge's work more bothersome, which was probably

his eyes. "Which

the girl said as she interacted with the Formation

two seconds, for whatever

with annoyance at the girl for several

Spit it

she said

words!" the

the girl stammered.

was a

she fell to her knees. "I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry!"

Judge became even more

to a fuck-up, but the fact that the stronghold was also redacted held an entirely different

provided by the stronghold, while the name of the stronghold was provided by the central

for more than a day, obviously,

Stronghold!' he thought as he gritted his teeth. 'That's the only explanation that would make sense! All the information from Insurance Strongholds gets directly transferred to the Hivemind instead

ranked secret in Underworld, just behind the location of the headquarters and the Keeper's identity. Not even I can find out the location of

anything here. I can't even go to the local stronghold

I can only go

shouted at the crying girl.

slowly calmed down as she followed the man's orders. She stood up, but her body was still shaking

you find out anything relevant to this mission, inform me. You know how to find me,"

the girl

SHING!

Judge directly

his eyes as he took

some seconds, he looked at

Underworld for

never went to the Hivemind. Seems like today will be my first time,' the