Honesty Above All

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Yin Ming did not hurry to Red Maple Valley to question Klee Gler. He took a leisurely tour of Hell Valley first.

He found that order held firm, and the number of extraordinary beings settled there had more than doubled since he left.

It made sense. Compared with the little-known New Flame-Burners Association, the name of Tree Ancestor Sadi, King of the Green Forest, carried far more weight.

Yin Ming entered the association's main building. Robert Kava, its former president, was nowhere to be seen. A pretty Zero-Ring female warlock looked him up and down but found no identity badge.

She smiled. "I haven't seen you around before, sir. Are you looking to join the Flame-Burners Association? Do you know anyone here who could introduce you?"

Yin Ming shook his head. The Zero-Ring warlock grew even more enthusiastic. "Members enjoy... and have absolutely no obligations. As a First-Ring Tier extraordinary being, you only need to deposit five hundred Element Crystals as a membership fee. It earns ten percent interest each month. Of course, neither the fee nor the interest can be withdrawn, but if you complete your monthly tasks, you can use the fee to redeem additional..."

They'd updated the rules?

It would draw in new members while keeping the old members who had paid in happy.

A quarter of an hour later, Yin Ming received a new identity badge.

From what he had learned, Hell Valley and the New Flame-Burners Association were doing surprisingly well under Tree Ancestor Sadi's evil rule.

The Wizard Laboratory he had founded years ago to develop the First-Ring Attribute-less Bloodline Origin Ancestral Talisman now had seven or eight First-Ring Wizards and even a Second-Ring Wizard. It ranked first among Hell Valley's departments in both strength and headcount.

Red Maple Valley ranked second. Dismantling