"Legendary Hunter Xia, are you worried that the city lord test won't be passed?" Jing Ning asked softly. When he saw me nod, he smiled and said, "Don't worry. That thing can't test us. Wasn't the one in my household made city lord thanks to you? So we already tested ourselves back when we were in the great city. For some reason, it couldn't detect us at all. So you can rest easy. We just need to go through the motions now."
Seeing that he was serious, I nodded. "That's fine too. It's better to give the city's people an explanation than to keep proving our innocence everywhere. Since you can't be detected, perhaps that thing is similar to a Roaring Beast. You couldn't do anything about the Roaring Beast, so naturally, you couldn't extract anything from it either."
"Exactly. I actually expected this long ago. It was just that everyone panicked first. They only trusted the Hunter Bureau and not us. In fact, before you came out, we had already exterminated Variant Beasts. With Roaring Beasts around, those vile things aren't that difficult to deal with. However, those Descenders are quite formidable. We don't dare truly make trouble for them, but most of those Descenders are constrained by the Hunter Bureau, so they won't come into conflict with us either," Jing Ning said.
"The world has changed?" I asked.
"It has. I've heard that quite a few Descenders have come down in the past few years. Especially over the last few months—apparently, countless Descenders have appeared above the six great cities. The Hunter Bureau has already gone through a complete internal purge, and the city lords of the various great cities seem to no longer be the old comrades from our era. How many years has it even been?"