"Leaving already?" The ponytailed young man had lost too much blood. He slumped weakly to the ground, barely able to prop himself up with his blade.
"The Director has come too." The bespectacled man walked over and began sprinkling medicinal powder over his bleeding shoulder.
"You should call her Master. Everyone who came out of the Demon Extermination Altar is a proper True Martial Successor!"
The ponytailed young man leaned against the wall with a bitter smile and quickly pulled out a handful of pills, stuffing them into his mouth.
"Why have you always believed the things the Director said?" The bespectacled man crouched down and began stitching up the young man's wounds with needle and thread.
"You think all that was true?"
"Of course." The ponytailed young man flashed a brilliant smile. "I believe Master. She said that we humans are not some inferior species! We are not food meant to be hunted and devoured by demons!"
"You..." The bespectacled man shook his head slightly, weariness clouding his eyes.
Such talk had always existed within the Demon Extermination Squad.
Because every newcomer who entered the Demon Extermination Squad and showed even a little talent had to undergo intensive special training under Director Liu Xinyan.
Those who passed that training would gain certain special abilities.
And at every graduation ceremony, the Director would tirelessly repeat the stories of her past.
She spoke of that glorious and powerful era she had once experienced, of those thrilling, bizarre, and mysterious encounters.
She spoke of how she had once searched endlessly for her own path because of her origins and aptitude.
"Just watch. The Director said that in such an era, with True Martial Practitioners that powerful, even if a natural disaster descended, there would surely be one or two who could preserve