Vanguard for the Lord

Within the dim cavern, the blazing flames gradually died out.

Watching the corpse on the ground slowly turn to ash, Wang Chen let out a long breath.

He felt a little stifled.

What he had just killed was a demon spirit that had been lurking deep within the mine.

This demon spirit had devoured dozens of miners. Not only was it bloodthirsty and vicious, it was also exceedingly cunning. Earlier, Constabulary officers from the Demon Suppression Department had been injured by its claws and fangs.

Then Wang Chen had been dispatched to hunt the creature.

And this was already the seventeenth mission Wang Chen had received since being transferred to the Constabulary Office!

When he had first taken up the post, he had enjoyed a fairly leisurely spell. But after completing his first mission and being summoned for a talk by Guan Shengping—the Steward Guan of the Demon Suppression Department—his work had suddenly become busy.

Mission after mission was assigned to Wang Chen. Either Evil Spirits were causing trouble in some village, or a demon spirit had appeared in some mine. In short, over the past month, he had raced about everywhere, busier than even a firefighting squad.

Wang Chen even suspected that in the entire Demon Suppression Department of the vast Constabulary Office, he was the only officer actually working!

Most intriguingly, he had acted alone from beginning to end.

He had not been assigned to any team at all!

That was clearly abnormal.

Wang Chen had already realized that someone was targeting him again!

First it had been True Person Ye, and now Steward Guan. Clearly, this world had no shortage of clever people and people with ulterior motives. Even though Wang Chen had deliberately kept a low profile, he had still exposed some of his secrets.

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