Quite a few Sun Moon Empire engineers and Holy Spirit Cult Evil Soul Masters were busy amid the ruins.
One side was cleaning up the battlefield and clearing away debris.
The other was collecting corpses and devouring souls.
The main hall of the City Lord's Mansion had not yet collapsed.
Seated in the seat of honor within the hall was a stern-faced middle-aged man with an aged appearance.
Nearly half of the Soul Tool armor on the middle-aged man had shattered, and wounds of all sizes covered his body.
Several Soul Engineers aimed the Soul Tools in their hands at him, able to end his life at any moment.
"Are you the city lord?" an officer asked.
The middle-aged man raised his eyes and glanced at him, his gaze filled with mockery, before turning his head aside.
Ju Zi simply waved her hand.
The Soul Engineers beside her immediately understood and dragged the middle-aged man away.
Before long, a freshly harvested soul was taken away by an Evil Soul Master nearby.
They had seen this situation far too often. It happened in nearly every city they reached.
The soldiers defending the city might surrender, but the city lord would not.
They either died directly in battle or remained silent after being captured, leaving no choice but to execute them and hand them over to the Evil Soul Masters.
At that moment, a soldier hurried inside in short steps. "Report, Marshal! All the officials in the city have vanished, and the city's grain stores have been emptied as well."
Though Ju Zi had anticipated this, she could not help clenching her fists, a stifled frustration rising within her.
Whenever they reached a city, more than half of its leadership would vanish without a trace, leaving only the city lord and a