Another Tentacled Monster

A few days passed in the blink of an eye, carrying them from late October into early November.

It was now the bleak late autumn. All across Spring City, where the four seasons were distinct, withered leaves drifted down everywhere. The panic brought by the Immortal Lord's descent had faded somewhat, and the entire city gradually returned to its former order.

In the end, although more than three thousand deaths were many, they were far fewer than the casualties of wartime.

People had been able to restore normal order even amid the chaos of war. Casualties on this scale clearly could not break them.

To prevent something like this from happening again, after the situation stabilized, Spring City's Spirit Management Bureau conducted a more detailed investigation into the incident.

Although Gino of the Golden Banana Federation had already revealed the matter of the Immortal Lord's descent to China's higher-ups and could be said to have clearly explained the entire course of events, with the earlier Heavenly Secrets Sect incident as precedent, China had clearly become more cautious. It did not trust the Golden Banana Federation, instead using its own methods to investigate the cause of the incident.

And so, Spring City gained not only the Spirit Management Bureau, but also a brand-new Special Operations Bureau.

The "Special Operations" in Special Operations Bureau did not mean especially capable or especially powerful. Like the Spirit Management Bureau, its name was somewhat misleading. Its full name was the China Special Operations Bureau for Major Spiritual Energy Revival Incidents.

Whether by coincidence or not, this Special Operations Bureau was located underground, two streets away from System's pet shop.

The Special Operations Bureau had a staff of over twenty, no more than thirty at most. Their numbers were not large, but every one of them