The Black Crow's Substitute

Tama Hill still remembered the first artificer he killed.

Back then, he had not yet become an Adjudication Martial Warrior. Although he could already subdue the young martial warriors in the sect without injury within five minutes, the sect still refused to let an ordinary person become a Death Knell Black Crow who hunted sin. They would much rather Tama Hill become Miss Ye Lu's assistant and take charge of logistics within the sect. After all, Tama Hill was quite good at cooking.

So before the other martial warriors went out on a mission, he stole a look at the mission intelligence, then walked sixty kilometers in half a day and butchered the artificer spy sent by the Robbery Fire Church who was lingering in a town.

Black Crow had already forgotten what it felt like to kill for the first time. After all, if you had eaten that many slices of bread, you would not remember what the first slice had tasted like. But he did remember that, because his technique had been unpracticed, he had splashed blood all over himself. Add to that the long road he had traveled, dusty and drenched in sweat, and worse yet, it had rained. He was covered in blood and mud, even some piss and shit, because he had to carry the corpse back on his back, and after he snapped that Robbery Fire artificer's neck, the excrement in the corpse had simply dropped down with gravity.

Killing really was a filthy business. This was also one of the reasons Black Crow later had a decent impression of Harvey. He even felt that Necromancers who dealt with corpses for free were a group of people doing charity work.

He carried the corpse back, and someone found him halfway.

It was Tano Mu.