Once power was in hand, the order was yours to give.
As soon as his credentials were entered, Xu Yi replaced the statue in the Main Hall with one of himself. The long-missed stream of incense offerings washed over him, leaving him utterly intoxicated. He couldn't help sighing: When would he ever be able to toss aside this official's skin?
Then he ordered two clerks in the yamen to bring out the command tokens and summon the eighteen battalion captains of the Catching Thieves Division at once.
As a newly appointed official, he had to make the proper show of authority.
Of course, that was secondary. The main reason was that he needed to consolidate the forces at his disposal.
After all, his appointment as Commander of the Catching Thieves Division came with conditions. To truly secure the post, he had to kill two demons listed on the Demon Ranking.
That condition was harsh, but not impossibly so. Old Demon Kongxu alone could fill one slot, and if all else failed, he could "kill" himself to make up the other.
But it was harsh all the same. The demons on the Demon Ranking were difficult opponents, to be sure, but more importantly, their whereabouts were elusive. They weren't the sort you could find just by deciding to look.
So Xu Yi had to draw on the strength of the system.
But whether that strength would readily serve him was another matter. The Catching Thieves Division had been in disarray for nearly a year without even settling on a commander. The outlook was clearly bleak.
Xu Yi's order sparked an uproar at once.
In a single day, the gates of nearly every powerful figure's residence in Fengdu City—those still in office and those who had left it—were almost trampled flat.
"Lord