"With the Heavenly River Cult stirring up trouble first and the River Demon wreaking havoc afterward, raising it to Grade B on account of those two threats together would hardly be excessive." At this point, the official suddenly stopped writing and offered another bit of gossip. "Besides... I heard the reason things in Riverside Town got so bad that even the Demon-Quelling Army had to mobilize was that an Outerworld Fiend nearly descended upon our Great Yao Kingdom through the Heavenly River Cult's ritual!"
"An Outerworld Fiend! Hiss..."
The clerk sucked in a breath of cold air.
Whenever an Outerworld Fiend descended, it was inevitably a catastrophe that left a thousand miles of scorched earth and rivers of blood!
A small kingdom near the Great Yao Kingdom had been utterly wiped out because an Outerworld Fiend descended there.
That place was said to...
Have long since become a land of death. No one dared enter, and no one could come out alive!
"If Riverside Town hadn't happened to be selected as a training ground for newcomers this time, we really might have had a disaster on our hands." The official pointed to a middle shelf on the Grade B rack, roughly the fifth shelf from the bottom—in any case, somewhere within easy reach—and said, "Fortunately, the Station Chief leading the group to Riverside Town was an old hand. That was how they managed to shove the Outerworld Fiend's ambitions back down its throat. Otherwise, all of us would probably be dealing with Riverside Town's troubles right now."
"But that doesn't sound right." Hearing this, the clerk shook his head. "I heard that Station Chief already died in service to the kingdom. Apparently, it was a group of newcomers who drove the Outerworld Fiend back this time!"
"Impossible! How could newcomers