A few minutes after Jing Wei and Duan Ke left, the people in the room were finally able to relax and take control of themselves.

The Hei Corps could barely lift themselves up from the floor right now. They sat up from the kowtowing posture with the support of their arms and looked at the aftermath. They saw the rubble that was strewn around due to the collapse of the roof and the book shelves that were fallen as well. But in the end, their gazes settled on one of their comrades.

It was the same person who had reported about the abnormality and the same one who was also scolded by the lord. The person in question was currently stuck in the kowtowing posture. Unlike others who had lifted themselves, he was still stuck there.

One of the masked men dragged himself to the man who was still kowtowing and spoke,

"Hey! Are you fine?" He spoke.

Suddenly the lord, who was bowing all this time, plopped down onto his throne.

"It's no use. He's already dead." The Lord spoke with a tired tone.

"Wha… what?" Everyone uttered in unison.

The masked man who was near the kowtowing man shook him and saw him fall over onto the other side. The masked man who was kowtowing until now was bleeding from his eyes and mouth. His pupils had overturned into his skull and he was no longer breathing.

The veiled woman gasped and looked over to the lord and calculated her words before speaking.

"My Lord, were they?"

"I fear yes." The lord shortly spoke while rubbing the bridge of his nose.

The lord could already feel the headache coming. He hadn't thought that a routine mission would end up causing such a huge mess. He had lost one of his Core condensation realm cultivators and had also offended a hidden expert that was at the very least a Dao shell realm cultivator.

The other masked men were finally able to lift themselves off the ground. They stood up shakily and looked over to their lord.

"What was their cultivation?" One of the masked men asked.

The other masked men also joined in on the question as they were curious too. They did not understand the meaning of the interaction between their leader and their lord.

The Lord heard the question and sighed with dissatisfaction.

I chose Hei Wan to become the leader, even if she is weaker than

realm cultivator since she was able to fly using a spirit sword. Though she could be stronger than that too." Hei Wan answered

could sense the growing dissatisfaction in her Lord, thus answered for him. She also wondered how they were going to approach this matter in the

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genial way she had talked to him had made him feel strange, thus he

have

exactly know, but it does seem like it. They even had memory confounding poison with them." Lin Mu

the small vial of memory confounding poison that he had stored in the ring. He then passed it to Hei Wan, who took it. She looked at it for a minute and seemed like she was using

indeed, memory confounding

some Beast inciting powder

narrowed upon hearing

mercenary and not on a culprit?" She asked to

actually wanted someone to look at it and

poisons, I'm not really an expert in this. I'll

that they would need an alchemist to take a look at it,

even then, we still need to investigate its source." Hei

try to find out

Hei

multitude of topics. Lin Mu told her about his side of the story, and Hei Wan intently listened. While she already knew most of this, she still wanted to

Lin Mu fighting against the culprits. Her curiosity about Lin Mu's background was increasing by the minute. But she knew that asking it outright might be troublesome, thus she decided to wait

one of the masked men that came with Hei Wan entered the room. Hei Wan looked at him

residents are finally waking up. The town head has also issued

Wan nodded her head in response and turned

can leave for now, we'll inform you when we find more

"Sure." Lin Mu answered.

then turned to Hei

him an identity badge as

replied, and then gestured for Lin Mu to

signal plates were kept. After entering

withdrew a hexagonal badge from it. He then handed it

an identity badge for our corps. You can use this to enter the safe house if you need to report something or if there's an

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