After a long period of adjustment and familiarization, Mo Lin assigned Ice Empress and Tian Meng their first mission. It was also the first operation since Grace Hall's founding to involve soul beasts.
Tian Meng and Ice Empress had a very simple task—ensure the deaths of Dai Tianfeng and Dai Mubai, and, if possible, secretly give the Star Crown Clan a good hit as well.
However, precisely because the mission was so simple, Ice Empress's fiery temper nearly made her attack Mo Lin on the spot.
A fearsome beast with hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation, and he was sending her to inspect corpses? Wasn't that using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, a complete waste of her talents?
Faced with this, Mo Lin could only go to great lengths to flatter Ice Empress, explaining the importance of the mission. He said it was enough to determine Grace Hall's future development and was absolutely worthy of Ice Empress's status!
Afterward, he added things about how this was the first operation involving soul beasts, and that anything too complicated could easily expose them.
Ice Empress was rather easy to placate, and with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's "assistance," he actually persuaded her into becoming "highly enthusiastic" about it. She took the matter especially seriously, and when they truly arrived at the mission site, she even started criticizing Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
The reason Mo Lin had issued this mission was, bluntly put, because he did not believe the Star Crown Clan had the ability to guarantee the deaths of Dai Tianfeng and Dai Mubai.
Mo Lin had once reviewed the Star Crown Clan's plan. His evaluation of it was only two words—utterly mediocre.
Knowing to secure a good reputation for themselves afterward was one of their smarter points, but it was