Looking at the description on the panel, the corner of Zhou Yao's mouth twitched slightly.
"A Mythic Walker of the Fire-Stealing Rank? Judged by hell for stealing a lollipop—wasn't that death a little too absurd?"
Zhou Yao felt countless complaints welling up inside him, yet he had no idea where to begin.
A dignified Mythic Walker of the Fire-Stealing Rank, a major figure standing at the pinnacle of Yin Mountain City, had actually fallen after being judged by the Eighteen Levels of Hell for stealing a little girl's lollipop.
Although Zhou Yao knew perfectly well that the stolen lollipop was merely the trigger, and that the true cause was the disaster brought by the Mythic Invasion of the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
That manner of death was still absurd to the extreme.
Yet the description of Three-Handed Thief's Hand also confirmed a doubt Zhou Yao had held for some time.
The Yinshan Investigation Branch had Yin Mountain's guardian, along with two deputy directors who were Mythic Walkers of the Fire-Stealing Rank. Its strength was formidable.
Meanwhile, civilian forces such as the Yinshan Black Market and the Four Great Megacorporations had, at most, Scavenger Perfection. They did not possess even a single Fire-Stealing Rank Mythic Walker.
Such an imbalanced distribution of power looked abnormal no matter how one viewed it.
After all, under the Federation's jurisdiction, Mythic Walkers from civilian forces, financial conglomerates, and corporations had always been an immensely powerful force.
It was perfectly normal for the Mythology Investigation Bureau to hold an advantage in strength, but total suppression almost never occurred. Everything sought balance; even the Federation authorities would not allow an Investigation Bureau to dominate alone and become a warlord atop its own mountain.
Thinking about it now, Yin Mountain City's Fire-Stealing Rank Mythic Walkers had originally numbered