Before entering the Light and Dark World, Su Xiao already knew that a friendly contractor would be entering this world alongside him. She had only recently advanced to the seventh rank. Now, she was dead.
Su Xiao had no idea how the short-haired woman had died, how she had found him, or how she had appeared here. He knew nothing about any of it.
What he did know was that the woman had reached a dangerous place, and her death was definitely connected to a contractor from Death Paradise.
As for why she had sought him out, Su Xiao guessed that she had been certain to die and refused to go down quietly. That was why she had come to him, intending to pay with information or equipment so that her enemy would suffer as well.
Unfortunately, the short-haired woman had been too badly injured. She could not hold on after reaching the residence of the Holy Realm Councilor and could only leave behind one sentence.
"Amu, dispose of the body. Baja, keep an eye on the spatial fluctuations nearby."
The moment Su Xiao finished speaking, he sensed an abnormal fluctuation. It came from the short-haired woman's corpse.
White motes of light drifted from the short-haired woman's corpse. Her body slowly vanished, as if it had never existed.
A few seconds later, the short-haired woman's corpse had completely disappeared. A small pile of black ashes appeared on the floor. Seeing the ashes, Su Xiao exchanged a glance with Asaz.
"It's very similar, but there's more of it this time."
Asaz took a small cylindrical glass bottle from his robes. A small amount of black ash was inside.
This black ash had been left behind after the death of Iron Tooth Muro, an official of the Council Hall. Iron Tooth Muro