Erald Sparrow lifted the dagger in silence, and the man shrank back his head, "I get it! I'll talk! Don't do it!"
Seeing Erald Sparrow lower her hand, he sighed with relief and continued to explain, "The three ranks are arranged from lowest to highest. The lowest level is the Ash Army, followed by Ash Guards, and the upper echelons are the Ash Envoys."
"The Ash Soldiers in front of the courtyard are just ordinary mbers without their own codenas, only numbers. For example, among my subordinates, the combat-specialized Ash Soldiers are prefixed with 'Soldier Spider,' followed by a number, like Soldier Spider One, Soldier Spider Two..."
"While the Ash Guards in front of the hall get their own codenas and, as middle-level personnel, have authority over so Ash Soldiers."
"The Ash Envoys before the king are people closest to the core of power and synonyms for formidable strength, often controlling an entire area."
"An entire area?"
His words made Erald Sparrow realize sothing, and she continued to press, "Does the Southeast Donghua Region count as one area?"
"Yes, it certainly does," the man codenad Spider chuckled, "But how many areas there are exactly, I don't know; that's not sothing for us Ash Guards to know."
"So who is the leader of Black Ash Dawn in this area?" Erald Sparrow stared into his eyes.
"I don't know," Spider said, smiling.
A flash of cold light, and another wound appeared in his abdon.
"Ah!"
He cried out in pain again, but this ti, unlike before, he didn't confess truthfully but said with a face full of cold sweat, "I... can't say."
"Can't say?"
Erald Sparrow frowned slightly, "Maybe my next cut should be in a more painful spot, to help you rember?"
"It's not... mory, it's that I... can't say it, it's impossible," Spider said in fits and starts, his face turning red. "I can't tell the Magical Girl his na; it's his command, and I can't disobey."
"Disobey an order from your superiors and you die; refuse to answer my questions here and you also die; which do you think is a little better?"
Erald Sparrow asked calmly, "Perhaps you can describe the price of defying orders for , and I'll try to make it a bit more excessive than your superiors would."
"I've told you... we can't defy superiors," Spider continued gasping, "Just like low-tier beasts can't defy high-tier beasts; it's a hierarchy of life, a ladder that cannot be overstepped."
"What you an is that the commands of your superiors are absolute, irrespective of your will?"
Erald Sparrow raised an eyebrow, "Similar to Remnant Beasts? Have you really co to think of yourselves as Remnant Beasts?"
"Think of? The power of beasts has always been our ladder of progression; what's wrong with climbing a path of strength belonging to humans?"
After the pain, Spider's voice gradually cald down, "You Magical Girls will never understand."
"I have no intention of understanding the thoughts of monsters; I just want to know what you've done."
Unmoved, Erald Sparrow continued, "Keep going, make your purpose clear. What exactly is 'gathering life-force'?"
"It's, feeding the beasts."
Spider's gaze drifted upward, watching the struggle against the lantern lights where the Spider Remnant Beast was clearly at a disadvantage, and a shadow crossed his eyes. "Beasts can devour all life that possesses Magic Power, even the dullest commoners with their faint Magic Power. Although it's nearly nothing, it adds up over ti."
"And if you want to increase efficiency, then you should seek out more powerful food, like other beasts, like a Fairy's magical source, like..."
As he spoke, his gaze shifted to Erald Sparrow's neckline, looking at her Heart's Gem that appeared and disappeared at her throat, swallowing saliva, "Your source of Magic Power."
Erald Sparrow was silent for a long ti.
She stared at Spider for a long while before speaking again, "You truly are a bunch of animals."
What Spider said wasn't hard to understand. In other words, their "nourishnt" was essentially all life that possessed Magic Power. Whether it be humans, Fairies, Magical Girls, or even other Remnant Beasts eating their own kind, it was an existing fact.
"This is the truth of this world."
Spider said casually, "Without the power to protect oneself, one will eventually be consud."
"Were all the Magical Girl disappearance cases in the Donghua Region these past two years your doing?"
Erald Sparrow clutched the dagger firmly, "What about the investigation team that ca to Bai'an City before? Where are they now?"
"All us? Who knows, but for Bai'an City, it should all be my work, I guess," Spider said, still looking up at the sky with a smirk on his lips. "It's just a pity I couldn't capture the few new Magical Girls here. I had just trapped that nuisance of a Lei-grade when you arrived; otherwise, once I killed her, all the Heart's Gems in this city would have belonged to ."
"You won't have that chance anymore."
Erald Sparrow spoke coldly, "Tell where the investigation team is, and I will grant you a swift end."
"Investigation team? Ah, you're still talking about the few foolish Magical Girls who ca to interrogate the other day. Their whereabouts?"
Spider's eyes shifted and gradually focused on Erald Sparrow's face, "You've been asking about them from the start, why? Do colleagues from the Investigation Bureau really matter that much to you, Cornflower?"
Erald Sparrow's breathing faltered.
Although his words were a question, he wasn't actually inquiring from Erald Sparrow; when he said the codena "Cornflower," it was with an unequivocal certainty.
The Lantern had called out to Erald Sparrow before, so he had reason to know the codena "Erald Sparrow." But the codena "Cornflower" had never been ntioned in front of this man.
It was possible that the Cat Tail Squad had ntioned this codena before, but why; for what reason would they bring up their own in front of this man?
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