Bastion of Light
Chapter 822

Great Hunt

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"What... do you want me to do?"

After Gu Shen revealed Yuan Shuocheng's greatest weakness, the formerly arrogant and hypocritical Holy City bishop immediately became sincere.

Gu Shen found the change rather amusing.

"What do you think?"

"The Holy City Followers under my command will provide full reinforcements." Yuan Shuocheng gritted his teeth. "Once you set out, I'll follow behind... If you're truly short on manpower, I can also send some followers ahead as a vanguard."

"Do you think I care about that?"

"Then what do you care about?" Yuan Shuocheng said with a headache. "Just state your demands!"

"Your mission in Sang Continent Grotto isn't merely to provide reinforcements, is it?" Gu Shen said blandly. "I want to know Jiadie's... No, more accurately, the Holy City's arrangements in Sang Continent Grotto."

"???"

Yuan Shuocheng's eyes widened as he stared at Gu Shen in disbelief.

Standing atop his flying sword, Gu Shen smiled back at him.

"You might as well kill me outright!" Yuan Shuocheng panicked and hurriedly said, "How could I possibly reveal something like that?!"

He had acted as a broker and accepted benefits from both Central City and the Saints...

If Gu Shen insisted on exposing that information, at worst, he would hand over all his embezzled gains. With the connections he had built through mediating within the Church over the years, along with his past merits, as long as he could compensate the Saints for their losses, he would not be sentenced to death!

But if he disclosed this information...

Then he would truly be stepping onto a path of no return.

"I see..."

Gu Shen smiled. "So it isn't that you don't know, but that you can't say. It seems your status within the Church of Storms really is quite high. It isn't just Jiadie—other

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