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.

chose Hei Wan to become the leader, even

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

Lord, thus answered for him. She also wondered how

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The genial way she had talked to him had made him feel

you say these people have been abducting mercenaries?" Hei

does seem like it. They even had 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

indeed, memory confounding poison." Hei Wan

also found some Beast inciting powder on a mercenary." Hei

narrowed upon hearing

on a mercenary and not

I found it on one of the dead mercenary's body. I actually wanted someone to

I know a little about poisons, I'm not really an expert in

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 able to know what

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

and try to

leader." Hei Bao

multitude of topics. Lin Mu told her about his side of the

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,

conversation lasted for over an hour, and they only stopped when one of the masked men that came

waking up. The town head has also issued a warning."

Wan nodded her head in response and turned to

leave for now, we'll inform you when

"Sure." Lin Mu answered.

to Hei Bao and

him an identity

command, leader." Hei Bao replied, and then gestured for Lin

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

up to his desk and withdrew a hexagonal badge from it. He then handed it to

to enter the

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