Mist descended.
Gu Qingshan emerged from the layers of fog.
"Where did you send the little one?" Crow asked.
"Void City," Gu Qingshan replied.
"Now we can fight without worrying," Crow said with a grin.
"Right. I don't think the little one has any serious problems, either," Gu Qingshan said.
They had tested the baby several times, even holding it upside down and threatening it with a sword. The baby had remained just a baby.
Even during the battle, Gu Qingshan had held the baby while remaining vulnerable to assassination and ambush, yet the baby still hadn't made a move.
After Xiao Die took the baby, she nodded at him, signaling that everything was fine.
For now, they could relax.
The two of them looked around.
Rubble stretched in every direction.
Blue Mountain City had been completely destroyed.
Although the mission had sent them away, neither of them could quite let it go.
"The royal city of Gloomy Woodland was home to many races. It was powerful, and had plenty of Professionists to support it. I just can't understand how it was breached so quickly," Crow said, racking his brain.
"Why don't we go take a look?" Gu Qingshan suggested.
He, too, was troubled by a host of questions.
Crow thought it over. "If we go, we might—"
"Shh!" Gu Qingshan hurriedly signaled for him to stop.
"What is it?" Crow asked, at a loss.
"With that mouth of yours, things you say tend to go wrong. Better not to say it," Gu Qingshan said.
Crow shook his head. "I actually went to a testing facility to get checked. I don't have any Word Spirit abilities or fate-based spells, so all of this is just coincidence."
"Coincidence?" Gu Qingshan asked skeptically.
"Yeah, coincidence," Crow said with a grin. "For example,