After they parted ways with their commander, Bai Xiaoxiao took command. All of them were now at least level six of the sixth rank, so with proper teamwork, facing a seventh rank opponent posed no real problem.
Lan Ruyu possessed Legendary Rank Equipment, and the skills she unleashed could seriously injure seventh rank demons. She was already a level-seven Grand Archmage, a formidable figure even within the Mage Temple.
With the level-six stealth specialist Hanyu working alongside Lan Ruyu, they were more than capable of assassinating seventh rank demons.
Bai Xiaoxiao, their acting commander, was their final trump card. She could summon eighth-order demon beasts. Even if they could not win, she could summon a level-nine demon beast to carry them away.
Her beloved lifebound summoned beast, the Seven-Colored Phoenix-Winged Butterfly, had already reached the peak of level seven. It needed an opportunity to break through to level eight, a level that already placed it among the strongest.
They slipped into the demons' encampment and split up. Hanyu paired with Lan Ruyu, while Bai Xiaoxiao went with Lin Qingqing and Li Ang.
Their targets were the Gold-Patterned Twin-Blade Demons and Flame Demon Puppets.
Once they completed those two missions, they could take a breather or continue assassinating other high-level demons, then turn in some additional missions for merit points.
The Demon Hunt Tower allowed this to keep Demon Hunt Squads motivated. Otherwise, if everyone only cared about earning mission merit points, would they bother killing demons they happened to encounter?
That alone did not earn many merit points.
Even a seventh rank Bloodthirsty Beta only yielded one or two thousand merit points, whereas a single mission paid at least five thousand.
Of course, they had to turn in the demon corpses. If they handed over the magic crystals as well,