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.

Wan to become the leader, even if she is weaker than them.' The Lord

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

Lord, thus answered for him. She also wondered how they were going to

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to grasp her personality. The genial way she had talked to him had made him feel strange, thus he wanted to know a little

you say these people have been abducting mercenaries?" Hei

does seem like it. They even had memory confounding poison with them."

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 her spirit sense to

memory confounding poison."

found some Beast inciting powder on

narrowed upon hearing

it on a mercenary and not on a culprit?" She asked to

the dead mercenary's body. I actually wanted someone

not really an expert in this. I'll have to ask

in understanding. He already knew that they would need an alchemist to take a look at it, as only the people capable of making it would be

then, we still need to investigate its source." Hei Wan spoke and then turned towards

first and try to find

Hei

about his side of the story, and

her body upon imagining the scenes of 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

and Lin Mu's conversation lasted for over an hour, and they only stopped when one of the masked men that came with Hei Wan entered the room. Hei

town head

Wan nodded her head in response

here. You can leave for now, we'll inform you when we find more about things."

"Sure." Lin Mu answered.

to

an identity badge as

and then gestured for Lin Mu to follow

Bao and went to the room where the emergency signal plates were kept. After entering the room, his attention was instantly pulled

hexagonal badge from it.

use this to enter the safe house if you

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