Job Hunting

Night City.

The sleepless city.

Even though it was already deep into the night, the entire street was still bustling. People streamed noisily along the road, and no one noticed the streak of white mixed in among the crowd.

Duanmu Huai walked through the crowd, heading forward while discussing the plan of action with Rumiere.

"Our goal is to destroy this world, but how we destroy it doesn't really matter."

"I don't quite understand what you mean, Inquisitor Lord."

"You should already know that someone truly does desire humanity's destruction from behind all this. That's why he keeps jumping back and forth between the past and future. But at the same time, this proves one thing: he's an extremely cautious and very weak enemy."

"Uh... weak?"

"Exactly. If the Inquisition wanted to destroy this planet, we could just issue an Extermination Order and be done with it. We wouldn't need any of this nonsense about going back to alter history or going to the future to lock in a direction. It's like an adult walking into a bar—you just walk in. Only children who get refused entry would go to such lengths to find loopholes, right?"

"So you mean the opponent isn't very strong?"

"At the very least, he doesn't possess the power to destroy humanity. That's why he resorts to this kind of pointless scheme. And criminals like that hate it most when things fall outside their control. If we can make things happen beyond his control in this world, he'll inevitably take action. When that happens, we can kill the idiot directly, and the matter will be settled."

At this, Duanmu Huai let out a cold laugh.

"He chose this future because it restricts magicians' power to the greatest extent. Indeed, for magicians, an era where magic can't