Chapter 799: KILL! PERFECT RATING!

【Ding~, slain one Eighth-Rank Mid-Grade Divine Blood Envoy, Psychic Points +40,000.】

Although bolstered by Divine Blood Art and Blood Rage Pills, Lu Wenliang's physique had become grotesquely formidable.

Yet he still could not withstand Xu Jingming's furious onslaught; merely seconds later, a system alert sounded.

Whoosh—

All golden thunder in the sky retracted into his body, restoring the night to darkness.

Lu Wenliang's body had turned completely charred, falling from the sky like a rag doll.

With a flap of his Thunder Dragon Wings, Xu Jingming shot forward as a golden streak to catch Lu Wenliang's corpse.

He removed the space ring from his finger and placed the corpse inside it.

Handing the rest over to the Public Security Bureau completes the mission.

"Incredible! Xu Lord, you truly are Lei Di!"

When Xu Jingming flew back to the rooftop of the residential building, Yang Yao's expression was electric, his voice thick with reverence.

He had assumed Xu Jingming merely holding Lu Wenliang off would be a victory.

Yet he never imagined Xu Jingming had actually slain Lu Wenliang!

Beside him, Catherine gently bit her red lip, gazing at Xu Jingming with complex eyes.

Though both were SS-Rank Psychic Awakeners, she was vastly inferior to Xu Jingming!

More crucially, her mother—her own teacher—was a Supreme Power!

With her mother's backing and the Holy Church's resources, she had endless supplies to waste.

Yet even so, her cultivation speed still couldn't match Xu Jingming's.

She had always been unable to understand this.

After all, another SS-Rank prodigy from Great Xia, Su Yu, cultivated at nearly the same pace as her.

Only Xu Jingming was the exception.

"Mission completed. Send your people to clean up. We'll return to submit the task."

Xu Jingming, having exited Thunderstorm State, stored his Heaven-Defying Halberd in the space ring and ordered.

Though he had exerted every effort to contain his Dou Tian Shenlei during the battle,

some lightning still splashed outward, destroying several residential buildings.

And this was the drawback of high-rank Psychic Awakeners.

Their power was so immense that buildings, impregnable to ordinary citizens, could be shattered at will.

Of course, this only applied within city limits.

In the Wild Zones, greater power and wider range were always preferable.

That was precisely why the Public Security Bureau would spare no effort to arrest high-rank Psychic criminals.

Even if they failed to capture them, it was acceptable—as long as they were expelled from Great Xia.

For if such high-rank Psychic criminals unleashed slaughter within the city, casualties would reach at least ten thousand.

"Understood!" Yang Yao replied respectfully.

Yet at that moment, a clear voice rang out from the distant sky:

"No need."

Hearing this, Xu Jingming immediately looked up, his SS-Rank Dou Tian Shenlei flickering faintly across his body.

He sensed the aura of an Eighth-Rank High-Level Weida Master Zongshi.

Under uncertain allegiance, he must remain perpetually alert.

Hu—

A gust of wind surged forward, and a voluptuous, stunningly beautiful woman landed on the rooftop terrace.

"Director!" Yang Yao immediately bowed respectfully.

"Hmm."

Zhou Yu gave a slight nod, her beautiful phoenix eyes fixed on Xu Jingming:

"Don't harbor hostility toward me. I am Zhou Yu, Director of the Public Security Bureau. Hand over Lu Wenliang's corpse."

Zhou Yu wasn't just beautiful—her voice was melodious, brimming with the warmth of an elder sister.

Seeing this, Xu Jingming no longer hesitated; he retrieved Lu Wenliang's corpse from the space ring and handed it to Zhou Yu.

"Good." Zhou Yu, having confirmed the corpse's identity, nodded in satisfaction.

Her bureau's Interrogation Division had many experts; even a corpse could yield abundant useful information.

More crucially, with Lu Wenliang, the Red Robe Grand Bishop, dead, Tianming Sect's threat in the Demon City would diminish greatly.

As for the space ring Xu Jingming took from Lu Wenliang,

she did not ask—and had no need to ask.

After all, it was Xu Jingming's rightful spoils; the Public Security Bureau had no authority to intervene.

"Xu Jingming, you completed this mission exceptionally well.

I will grant you a Perfect Evaluation in the subsequent mission report."

Tasks on the Swordbearer Forum were rated as Ordinary, Excellent, or Perfect.

After all, capturing a criminal at the cost of thousands of civilian lives

was vastly different from capturing one with zero casualties or completing a mission flawlessly.

The better the evaluation after mission completion, the more favored one became on the Swordbearer Forum.

Originally, when Zhou Yu first learned of the mission from her secretary, she intended to give Xu Jingming only an Ordinary rating.

Even when she learned that the Thunder Temple's experts had not arrived, and she would need to intervene,

She had already been planning to rule Xu Jingming's mission a failure.

But when she arrived at the scene and discovered that it was truly Xu Jingming alone who had carried out the kill, she changed her mind.

"Thank you, Director Zhou." Xu Jingming gave a slight nod, without bowing as deferentially as Yang Yao had.

On the one hand, he was not a member of the Security Bureau, and did not fall under Zhou Yu's jurisdiction.

On the other hand, his strength already allowed him to treat Zhou Yu as an equal.

"I never expected that you, who were still competing in the Genius Tournament last year, have already become this strong.

How about it — any interest in joining our Magic Capital Security Bureau? I can offer you the position of Deputy Director.

The annual salary is as high as 1 billion Daxia coins, and the rewards from completing missions can be increased by an additional 10%.

Moreover, this position does not conflict with your identity at Lei Ting Wu Guan."

Zhou Yu's appreciation in her tone was undisguised.

Although the Magic Capital Security Bureau had many people, it simply lacked high-end combat power.

Among the Security Bureau's eighth-rank Grandmasters, there were only her and one other Deputy Director.

But the entire Magic Capital covered an area of over six thousand square kilometers, with a permanent population exceeding thirty million!

And unlike ordinary cities, Magic Capital possessed two seaports leading abroad.

As a result, quite a few Ability-user criminals would come to Magic Capital, seemingly to flee from there to other countries.

After all, compared to the strictly vetted aerial fighters, the boarding inspection of warships was not nearly as strict.

This also led to an extremely heavy workload for the Security Bureau.

She, as Director, as well as the other Deputy Director, both had no choice but to run missions outside.

If there could be one more eighth-rank combatant, today it wouldn't have come to posting the mission to kill Lu Wenliang on the Sword-Bearer Forum.

"Thank you for the kind offer, Director. I don't have that intention for now." Xu Jingming shook his head.

Zhou Yu was not too surprised by this: "This is my contact info. If you ever have thoughts of joining our Security Bureau, just contact me directly. I'll head back first."

The decisive and swift Zhou Yu left Xu Jingming her contact information, and after saying a few words about how they would meet again,

she activated her wind-type Ability, took off once more, and her graceful figure swiftly vanished into the night sky.