E0 District.
"Lord He Chan, this is everyone for today."
He Chan frowned at the ragtag bunch before him. These children who had grown up in the muck of Sang Continent Grotto were all skinny as sticks and unpleasant to look at... and their awakened talents were mediocre as well.
"One B-Rank. The rest are all C-Rank..."
Expressionless, he walked past the children and said coldly, "Even if we sent this lot to the Envoy, they wouldn't catch his eye..."
Other than the first day, when they had found some fairly promising extraordinary talents.
There had been fewer and fewer afterward.
Lord Vermillion Bird Envoy had ordered that only the "Extremists" who had pledged allegiance to the South Continent Church were to be killed.
As for the "residents" of the main city districts, it was best not to slaughter them indiscriminately.
It was not that they could not be killed, nor that their lives were precious.
It was simply that, during this southern mission, the four Envoys were to choose a "Fire Seed Master." Mister Sky Water's task had to be given top priority... Source Tower did not actually lack people, but no one knew what Mister Sky Water was thinking. He insisted on picking out a few "tall ones" from this slum, and so the task had been passed down layer by layer.
There were five districts. Though that was not many, Vermillion Bird Envoy could not possibly investigate them personally.
Even if this door-to-door screening work was delegated, He Chan would not carry it out himself... so those four subordinates would have to work a little harder for a few days and hand in a satisfactory answer to their superiors.
"I'll speak to the Envoy and have this mission's deadline extended by three days."
He Chan lowered his