"I've made it so that they are in a blissfully unaware state," Min said. "Most of them are dreaming."

I knew that was a lot of qi for her to expand on such a large group. If they weren't already near the brink of death, it probably wouldn't have worked.

Dozens of victims stood tall as a horde of blue robes locals came through. Far too many of them wore robes that I would classify as formal black tie robes. There had to have been some thing going on. Maybe the blue robes athletic organization was running some fundraiser for inner city youths.

The endless line of officials who had apparently been summoned from a formal event irked me. Didn't they have actual work to do? Or were they just here getting the paycheck without dealing with the demonic cultivators in their mist.

"They felt simple," Lee said, cleverly not saying any four letter word that started with e.

"Yeah that's just great," I said. "Took them long enough."

I felt myself over. Besides a few aches from moving too fast, I was feeling pretty even.

"We made pretty good money," Egiya said.

" I think that I have a new idea of who I want to be," I said.

"Oh what's that?" Lee said.

" I've been thinking too much about killing people that are in this game. They chose to be here."

"What does that mean?" Egiya said, frowning.

"If they chose to be here, they chose to be a part of this battle. To be part of this war, they opted into that. I've been tying myself up in knots about this girl that we got last night. Xiran. I don't want to kill her."

"If you don't want to kill her just because she's a woman, just say so," Lee said. "No one will think less of you. But as a woman, I want you to know that I would not hold back."

If these two women thought that I needed to man up? We had done several things that were at least on the surface legal. We had started our own little criminal Syndicate. We hadn't sold any drugs or really gotten into any gang, politics or Turf. Really, all we did was identify demonic cultivators and fight them and kill them and retrieve the victims of their slaughter. What they were doing was beyond the pail. But every single woman inside of that sacked had decided to join.

If they were inside of the game? If they wanted to be in the game so bad?

Then I would let them have it. It wasn't for me to say at that they were less than me because they weren't a man. In fact, there were so many smart women that I trusted more that I trusted myself, including the two next to me.

Women like these diamonds didn't come that often. It was too bad that Xueyie was missing out on all this action.

"Look, it's not that I think women are inferior. It's just that where I came from there was a very strong divide between the genders or the sexes. And for years and years and years women didn't have the same rights that men did. And that became entrenched in our culture and then our society. And so every time that I think of this in my head, I have to push that thought aside and the second the thought, that is a real thing."

"You know what? That is. Oddly the sexiest thing you've ever heard you say," Lee said.

The three of us were huddled around, and that was when trouble decided to rear its ugly head again. I saw the flash of a mark. I tugged Min in to come back to us.

"It's always one more thing with these guys, isn't it," I said. "I keep forgetting the blue robes can't see this shit."

I hadn't paid too much attention to the rank structure of the blue robes. But there was definitely a series of pips in writing on either their arms or the shoulders indicating what they were. As there had been over a dozen of them inside, I hadn't paid much attention. That was until I felt a fourth round. Cultivator walking through with the club with a murderous intent. I looked and on her cheek, because Chris was a woman, she had the mark of a red Fang enforcer. And she looks like she was looking for some one. Her head was also full looking all around. It made sense if she was trying to pretend she'd have been here before even though she need to lay out like the back of her That's not the way that someone would actually react in the situation. Or at least that's my intuition told me at that moment. Not only was she burying the mark, she was actively pretending to do a job. Based on the rank on her shoulder though she was an inspector, conferring her more senior rank and definitely giving her the ability to shut down this crime scene or do something nefarious.

Min hopped onto my shoulder.

She got a good head pat.

By this time, my companions were well versed and not looking at a threat when it was still not unveiled. They knew that I was looking what at her and I knew that I wanted to get close to her. I wasn't sure if I could get one of those collars and get it on your neck or if she was just trying to silence some of these demonic cultivators before they were captured and or sent to received their summary judgment. The only thing that I really appreciated about the governmental system here was that justice was swift and acted in his fast affection as he could.

"What's the plan here?" Lee said.

"One of the higher ranking inspectors is part of the sect. I don't know how much she knows about this place, I think that she knows Wayne wasn't she letting on. She's really pulling in all the stops to pretend that she's never worked here before."

If anything, it was getting more obvious that she was acting out apart.

"Very well," I said."Let's offer her a role. A leading one."

You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.

I wasn't one to beat around the bush. Even though she looked pretty average by called diverter standards, I knew that this woman armored deep intent inside of her heart. Whatever God had shined upon me the day that I got this ability to see into the ultraviolet, I kept thinking it all the time for saving me. But I knew, in the back of my mind that it had come in the clutch so many times. That ability had safe on life time and time again.

Lee had saved my lifetime and time again and I freaking loved that woman. I wasn't going to admit it so soon, is that my complicate things but perhaps whatever we had now might blossom into something. Something. But first I had to speak to an inspector.

Blue robes on the woman for laid over a white under robe. Honestly, when I saw this woman I thought that she was going to be either the headliner of whatever blue robe bulb was going on or an honored guest that was going to be some sort of speaker or receive an award. I've made a beeline for her and she gave me a look.

If she had a gun, I swear to God that she would have pulled it at me right then. No matter how high the lighter went, there was always someone to pick off at the top. It gave me pause to think that she had the ability to be in charge of people that weren't in her sect. As one by one, three men came up to her and gave her some information or waited for her to say something and then left very quickly. I checked and done and then I had the mark. As very pleased with that. She was probably sabotaging this intentionally.

"Hello inspector," I said. "You're probably wondering why I asked you to be here today. And just so you know, I wasn't just looking for you. I was looking for all your friends."

"Excuse me? Who are you?" She said.

"I'm just a man trying to get the government to work better. And it looks like that's going to start with me talking to you."

"Why are you talking to me? And what are you doing in this crime scene?" She said.

She has to have been a bit flustered the way that her voice wavered. I shrugged.

"I just want you to know something, I said. I'm going to one hundred percent enjoy bringing you in!"

She gave me the most baffled expression of any cultivator that I'd had gotten since I arrived here. It was like she knew half the words but not in that kind of sentence. I didn't even care to expand on anything.

"In other words, you're coming with us for questioning. We have reasonable suspicion that you're a member of the Red Fang sect and I can confirm that very easily. The real question is why did you damn come into work this day and take this person's robe?" I said. Egiya and Lee took up my flanks as the woman began to turn pale.

"What do you mean? I'm not doing any of that. I'm not doing anything you say at all," she said.

Two of the low robes start to listen to our back and forth. Neither one looked like they were anywhere near us senior level and I quickly checked to make sure that they were not part of the red Fang sect.

" Hey excuse me guy over here. Hey you. Are there ways that you can check to see if someone's path of cultivation is aligned with these demonic paths?"

I was tossing a softball to see if he would swing and whiff at it. Thankfully, he caught my drift.

"We can get a specialist in very quickly to ascertain someone's based fundamentals. We wouldn't be checking someone's specific path or style... So you want us to do that?" He said.

"No!" She said, cutting him off.

She backhanded him through one of the club walls.

She moved almost faster than I could see. His partner, then realized that he was standing next to somebody with absolutely and zero remorse and decided that he had seen enough of this battle.

"Ah," I said, dropping my pretense. "A challenge."

I reached for the deep well of hatred I had for bad parenting, bad use of government resources and improv theatre. There, I found the exact amount of energy to press the attack.

I moved in a middle stance and threw several exploratory strikes at her. She met my speed with the same. Of course he was fast. She was at least their realm. I fully unveiled, I'm pushing her down with my nas and soul. If she was supply prize before, now she was frantic. It was like she knew she was in the net and I was just yanking it back up in order to get her. All she had to do was Summoner than that or turn herself in. But she had never done anything like that. She had been a mole inside of the blue rose. If I hadn't come with these new guys? She probably would have rather be out and I would have been in a different position than I was in right now. All things considered? She was about to feel by wrath. I could feel my spirit beast and my companions around me ready to take up the fight.

That she was so brazen about showing up here with a visible Mark, it had gave me pause. I was not going to be able to tell them how I knew that someone was a darn a cultivator. The cat will be out of the bag so fast that they would all have left for the hills or something like that. If the rest of the blue robes were confident, they would actually think about doing the right thing for once.

I doubt it's another blow, ducking down underneath it and going into her guard. This time I held on and pushed her to the ground. I was going to try a wrist lock on this one. What I did was get his phone around so that by the time she hit the ground her face was down. And her whole torsa was facing that direction. And then, both of her arms decided they wanted to join me on top of her body. Then, like I had before, I twisted the arms up and gave her just enough pressure too for her to realize that if she did anything, she was going to dislocate both shoulders.

"Yield, and your death will be painless," I said.

She spat on the ground.

"You will never-" she said.

I slammed her head into the ground. Both arms cracked as they connected to the ground once again. Her arms now hung lovely to her side and she was going to either need with medical attention or she was just going to be in a disabled state from now on. I had to remind myself that she had opted into this. She had decided to join the war on the wrong side. Maybe it was glamorous or maybe he paid. Well, I didn't care.

I was done with her.

"Can I get snacks after this?" Min said from my shoulder.

"Not the time, Min. Do you have the qi required to put someone into a dream state?"

We were totally getting snacks.

Min shook her head. Due to the fact that she was on top of my shoulder, I expected to actually move with that shaking.

I knew that she had something in there. Through our bond, I can feel her drawing on her rapidly refilling core.

The inspector was out. I had seen to that.

Now I just needed to get her into a dream. It would have to be very suggestive and get her to spill her beans.

There was no chance she was going to make it out alive. Another casualty to her own hubris.

We would do our best to get her talking.

Xirans information had been incredible and it had gotten us to this target right environment.

The real test was to see if what she said lined up with what this new woman said. Depending on which one knew more, we might even get more leads.

I didn't know how many leads we could get, but I was hoping for at least several to give out the next location of the headquarters.

And all we needed was for one thing to make sense. I was going to let them handle that. But as of right now? I didn't trust the blue robes as far as I could throw them.