Bastion of Light
Chapter 806

God's Descent: Tan Yao

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E0 District.

The cleanup outside the city was basically complete. Most of the Source Tower enforcers had already returned... Their hands were stained with plenty of blood. Many who ran too slowly had been caught and cut down with a single slash.

Lord Vermillion Bird had said that anyone unrelated to the Cloud Mirror Mission was to be killed.

Du Hu stood atop the city wall, his hands tucked into his wide sleeves as he respectfully awaited the arrival of the other three Divine Envoys. Amid the torrential rain and rolling thunder, a bolt of lightning tore the night into daylight. The next moment, three figures appeared atop E0 District's high wall.

"Where's Vermillion Bird?"

Yun Hu narrowed his eyes and asked.

"Lord Vermillion Bird left the city to arrest the murderer..." Du Hu replied with a bow.

Yun Hu asked again, "Where is she?"

The person he meant was naturally no longer Vermillion Bird.

It was the girl locked onto by the Cloud Mirror Mission.

"..."

Du Hu looked troubled. The enforcers had searched the entire Northern City Area, killing many rioters, yet they had failed to find any trace of that girl.

"Lost her?" Yun Hu pressed coldly.

If he had to give an answer.

Then Du Hu could only answer honestly, "My lord, I believe we lost her."

Next, he truthfully recounted everything that had happened in E0 District.

The expressions of the three Divine Envoys went from calm at first to increasingly grim and ugly.

"City of Light incited the riot..."

Yun Hu had actually felt rather pleased by the failure of this Cloud Mirror Mission. Vermillion Bird had botched the job, which was good news to him. But City of Light daring to stir up trouble on Central Continent territory was intolerable.

There could be

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