The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

The bandit headquarters.

"Ah!!! Kill me! It hurts so much!!"

"Boss! Just give me a quick death!"

"Boss, let me self-destruct!!"

Don't step on my intestines!

On the ground lay more than a dozen clones with deep scratches on their bodies.

They were those who were injured by monsters while fighting monsters that had no information displayed on their character panels.

The strange thing is...

Their wounds not only failed to heal completely, but continued to widen.

The monster's claws had cut so deep that even their intestines were spilling out!

Logically speaking, professionals have higher physical attributes, so their injury recovery speed is much faster than that of ordinary people.

However, there was no sign of healing on these dozen or so clones; on the contrary, the condition was getting worse.

"What kind of monster is that? The wounds inflicted by it keep getting worse!"

This is far more powerful than the negative status effects like "damage" or "burn" that professionals can inflict.

This is pure physical torture.

Moreover, no matter how many dispel status effects the healing sequence clones release, it's all ineffective.

These injured clones do not have any negative status effects.

Clearly, that monster doesn't belong to the "Cleric" game system!

Blood Brother couldn't bear to see his dozen or so brothers suffer, so he came to Song Gua's side.

"Old bastard, let them explode and find relief..."

Song Gua collected them all.

Blood Brother frowned.

"That won't work. When we overlap with you, our physical state is in a constant state, which means the pain will continue indefinitely."

"I know I have a way to save them."

Song Gua arrived at an open area in the suburbs.

The surrounding area consists of farmland that is abandoned during the winter.

A group of bandits followed, wondering what the old thief was up to.

The one most severely injured, whose intestines were spilling out, was the first to be summoned by the Song hexagram.

"Go ahead and self-destruct."

The heavily injured clone looked around.

"Here I am? Why don't you just send me to the Zhao family? I might be able to make a contribution then."

"It's no use. The Zhao family is very large. Even if all of you are blown up, it won't make any difference."

"Then let's bomb the Skyrise Guild's mine. Energy crystals are in short supply again, aren't they?"

"Now, when you go to their mining area, there's no need for violence; they just open the door and welcome you."

"Then let me blow up the Special Affairs Bureau's office building!"

"If you keep babbling on, even a god can't save you."

"Alright, I've exploded."

After a loud bang, a mushroom cloud rose into the night sky.

Subsequently, Song Gua activated a card representing the laws of heaven and earth.

"Activate, Dark Archmage: Thorne!"

Thorne's mysterious and enormous figure, holding a magic wand, appeared behind Song Gua.

"Rise from the dead! Be resurrected! My—doppelganger—"

Thorne's skill was used to revive the world boss Walker during a world boss siege battle.

The effect is to revive a unit that died within one minute with full health.

A very rare resurrection skill.

Considering he's a world boss and his character is proficient in dark magic, it's not surprising that he possesses such a skill.

Where the clone self-destructed, starlight converged, and the shattered body reformed.

The self-destructing clone stood perfectly intact, staring blankly around.

"Huh? I'm not dead? My injuries are healed! Was that just a dream? Let me try exploding again..."

Song Gua kicked him away, then retracted into his body.

"Go back and stay there!"

There is a ten-minute cooldown period for resurrecting the dead.

This is also why Song Gua didn't want to use these dozen or so irredeemable clones to self-destruct at the Zhao family or the Special Bureau.

They won't be watching you; they'll just keep exploding one every ten minutes.

Of course, self-destruction combined with Thornka can indeed achieve lossless self-destruction.

These dozen or so clones, wounded by the monster and unable to heal, are the main force of the bandits.

They have excellent professional talent and receive a lot of training resources.

If it were to fail like this, Song Gua would suffer a huge loss.

Therefore, Song Gua did not want to cause any further trouble and focused on saving lives first.

Once the cooldown was over, Song Gua repeated the operation, and according to the severity of the injuries, from the most serious to the least serious, the characters self-destructed and revived one by one.

The time limit for each use of the Dharma Heaven and Earth Card is related to the amount consumed.

It is not a fixed time.

Song Gua only uses the skill of resurrecting the dead, and it can maintain this for a long time.

In the end, only 1 attempt was used.

It was precisely because I had already thought of using the Thorne card in this way.

So when the invisible guy's arm was broken, Song Gua wasn't worried.

Unfortunately, the old man in the trench coat was determined to capture a bandit in order to track down the dark artifact, and the invisible man had no chance to escape.

"That old thief's performance was absolutely phenomenal!"

"Hahaha! From now on, we can fight however we want without worrying about crippling anyone!"

"This card has a limited number of uses. If the old thief wants to save it, the disabled one will only be cannon fodder."

"Our bodies, hair, and skin are gifts from our very being; how can we squander them so carelessly!"

"Your word changes so quickly..."

Back at the bandit headquarters, Song Gua first offered a bowl of wine to the Invisible Brother who had bravely sacrificed himself that night.

Thinking about all the mess he'd made tonight, Song Gua was furious and smashed his wine bowl.

*Smack!*

"revenge!"

The clones were equally indignant.

"If I don't avenge this, I swear I will not be human!"

"Even when beating a dog, you have to consider its owner! When have we bandits ever been tortured and killed?"

"That's right! When have we ever died a slow and swift death! This bastard dared to torture our brothers to death! We must avenge him!"

"Let this old bastard know that Yunshan City belongs to the Ma family!"

"Isn't it Song?"

"Fuck you!"

Song Gua wants to avenge his tortured and killed clone.

This also aims to eliminate the potential threat posed by the elderly man.

According to Wang Miao, the old man did not die.

He was severely injured by a close-range self-destruction and may not reappear for a while, but he will likely come back once he recovers.

Because his target is the Dark Relics.

Judging from his ruthless actions, he definitely won't give up until he gets the Dark Artifact.

It wasn't just this old man.

The monster that suddenly appeared tonight, attacking my vitals with every move, is also full of strangeness.

If the monsters were out hunting, why didn't they eat Yuwen Hao when he was lying on the ground, but only targeted him?

This is clearly a case of them coming to kill me!

Who is behind this?

If I find him, I'll skin him alive!

Da Congming was writing and drawing on a blackboard at headquarters, analyzing what had happened that night.

"Tonight, because of the appearance of that monster, the old thief released the brothers."

The old man had a detector that detected our abnormal life fluctuations, so he came looking for us.

Based on what Wang Miao said, the old man is very likely someone from a special bureau in a certain place, and he possesses a dark artifact.

It was because he possessed the Dark Artifact that he understood its power.

So, through news or other channels, they learned that we had defeated the world boss, and after checking our level, they concluded that we had defeated Thorne using the Dark Artifact.

He wanted to obtain more Dark Artifacts, so he came to Yunshan City.

The Dark Artifacts are things that the Special Bureau has identified as having forbidden power.

Wang Miao only discovered him when he used his ability to rewind, which is why he rushed over to capture him.

This is...

"This is the enemy from the Special Affairs Bureau; they've infiltrated the Bureau!"

Song Gua laughed.

"We must also infiltrate the enemy's ranks!"

"You have a plan?"

"Join the Special Affairs Bureau!"