Standard Kill Procedure

Mallory.

A Level 6 Mana Web Walker.

He was also a "spy" who had been hidden within the Azure Hand Guild for many years.

That was right. Mallory had betrayed the guild long ago, secretly joining Azure Light and becoming a user of the Xiao Zhi System.

He had used the "Xiao Zhi System" for as long as three years and had long since become one of its loyal users.

However, the upper ranks of Azure Hand had recently found a way to identify which of their own people were traitors to Azure Hand.

This method involved cutting the Soul String. Senior elders qualified as Assisted Connectors would attempt to cut the Soul String of every Mana Web Walker. Of course, they would not sever it completely, only cut through one-third of it. Because the cross-section was small, the Soul String would heal on its own. They would see whether it could be cut.

If it could be cut, that proved there was no problem, and the member was trustworthy.

If it was incredibly tough and could not be cut, then that person was undoubtedly a guild traitor!

Once a traitor was identified, cruel punishment awaited him before he was ultimately killed.

In just two days after the screening operation began, Azure Hand identified two hundred thousand traitors within its ranks... roughly forty percent of its five hundred thousand members.

At that ratio, among the remaining five million Mana Web Walkers at Azure Hand headquarters, around two million were likely traitors.

A shocking number!

Even after killing those two hundred thousand identified traitors, the upper ranks of Azure Hand fiercely debated whether they should continue the screenings.

If they continued, their force of five million would be reduced to only three million, cutting their own numbers by forty percent.

"Screen