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

The surrounding darkness quietly receded.

The Dark Compass slowly landed and was hidden in Luo Tong's backpack.

Luo Tong's demeanor and eyes returned to normal.

He wasn't surprised at all to see the corpses around him; clearly, he knew what had happened and was prepared to face the consequences.

"Thump!!"

A sonic boom was heard.

Subsequently, the nine third-tier professionals who were riding flying mounts came to a stop in mid-air.

They saw hundreds of corpses below, and the black blood.

"What's happening here? Weren't the mutant beasts slaughtering the test takers? Are there some on the shore too?!"

The first to arrive at the shore of Xinhu Lake were the captains of the nine law enforcement teams of the Jiangnan City Professionals Association.

They were all third-tier professionals with flying mounts, so they traveled very quickly.

Moreover, they flew back from outside the city.

The fake Beast King created by the Zhao family had a significant impact on the delay in official support.

The Beast King's matter is of great importance. Upon receiving the news, the authorities either dispatched experts to track him outside the city or to guard and patrol the buffer zone.

When the incident at Xinhu occurred, their return to provide support naturally delayed them.

"Look! That's Mayor Luo Tong!"

"He seems fine, go check on him!"

"Then the four of you go find the mayor, and the five of us will go to the island to rescue the people!"

Luo Tong's voice came from below.

"Don't go, they're all dead."

Hearing these words, the nine company commanders were greatly shocked.

If all 10,000-plus test takers were to die in Jiangnan City, the city's reputation would be ruined, and it would become a disgrace to the entire administrative district and even the entire federation!

The sixth squad leader took out his phone and glanced at it.

"Wait a minute, the bandits are still live streaming. You can see the examinees dancing with the bandits on the screen. The situation doesn't seem too serious."

The second company commander glanced at the corpses in the square and gripped his weapon tightly.

"Wait, Mayor, everyone in the exam center is dead, and you don't have a single drop of blood on you. Shouldn't you explain to us what happened here?"

Luo Tong sneered repeatedly.

"What's there to explain? Can't you see? I killed them all!"

The squadron leader angrily rebuked him.

"Are you crazy?!"

A faint black mist emerged from Luo Tong's body.

"It's not madness, it's a necessary measure."

The moment they saw the black mist, all nine company commanders realized what it was.

"The Dark Artifact! Roton! You became the host of the Dark Artifact?! You traitor!"

Luo Tong laughed loudly, looking up at the sky.

"Hahaha!! I'm a traitor? I'm clearly the most loyal warrior to Earth! The Allied Forces kicked me out of the army because I failed my third advancement! I want to be a general, not a mayor who deals with trivial matters in the city all day!"

The third squad leader cursed.

"Luo Tong! You're the mayor now, and you're still not satisfied with living a life of luxury in your office! Have you ever thought about how we in the law enforcement team feel, fighting life-or-death battles with these ruthless professionals every day! You son of a bitch!"

Luo Tong scoffed.

"I came from humble beginnings and endured countless hardships, all for the sake of going to the battlefield to kill the enemy! I will slaughter all the heavenly beings! I said I could give up being a general, a military officer, and just be a soldier! The Allied Forces wouldn't allow it!"

The second squad leader snorted coldly, "Stop wasting time talking to this idiot. Being possessed by a dark artifact makes him a traitor to humanity, and it's our duty as the enforcement team to take him down!"

"hehe……"

Before the nine people could even make a move...

Luo Tong's cold laugh sent a chill down the spines of the nine people.

"You really think I'm going to confide in you here? Attack!"

A series of shouts, like chanting or cursing, with few syllables but an extremely rich rhythm and frequency, suddenly appeared in an indiscernible location.

"Zen—meditation—!"

One after another, huge golden swastikas appeared out of thin air in the wisps of black mist, spinning and sticking towards the nine company commanders.

As these swastikas approached, the nine people felt difficulty moving and their skill releases were sluggish, like when the graphics card ran out of memory while playing a game.

"There are other Dark Artifacts!"

"This should be the Dark Golden Seal!"

"Don't let it trap us, break free!"

Before the nine people could unleash their skills, another voice rang out.

"Back—Time—!"

The nine people were dumbfounded once again.

"Why is my skill on cooldown??"

"It's the Dark Pocket Watch! He's here too!"

"What?!"

"Have we infiltrated the Dark Artifact's lair?"

The golden swastika was already quite menacing. After the nine people were caught off guard by the dark pocket watch, they were all covered by the swastika, like flies caught in a spider web, unable to move.

Talents, skills, equipment skills, secret treasures, pets, mounts, consumables...

Under the absolute control of the Dark Golden Seal, all their actions were sealed, and they could do nothing.

A monk holding a scepter emerged from the woods on the bank, cursing under his breath.

"That damn cross! You fucking idiot, hurry up! Nine triple spins at once, I can only last ten seconds!"

In his other hand, he held a large golden seal, which was constantly trembling and continuously projecting "卍" symbols, flying towards the nine people in the air.

The monk hadn't finished speaking.

The host of the Dark Cross, covered in tentacles and shrouded in black mist, burst out of the lake, sending water columns soaring into the sky and splashing everywhere.

All the tentacles on his body suddenly swelled and extended, making him look like a giant spider with an unusually large number of legs when viewed from a distance.

"Sacrifice!"

The same tone.

Dark light shot out from the dark cross, and nine black tentacles flew out and burrowed into the bodies of the nine law enforcement team captains.

"ah!!!"

The screams continued.

"Coo...coo...coo..."

The tentacles extending from the cross surged, as if drawing something from the nine people.

Within seconds, the nine people slumped their heads and fell unconscious.

The Dark Compass followed suit.

"Transform!"

Black mist bearing lightning and strange symbols appeared beneath the feet of the nine people, and after a thunderclap, all nine disappeared.

An old man in a trench coat with a dark pocket watch around his neck hopped out of the bushes on one leg.

"Oh, Dark Emperor! I swear, our plan today went so smoothly. These nine big fish are even fuller than Madonna's breasts."

As the old man in the trench coat spoke in a strange accent, black liquid seeped from the wounds on his severed arms and one leg, solidifying in the air to temporarily serve as his limbs.

"Don't let your guard down, there are even bigger fish on their way."

The dark pocket watch chuckled, "My dear compass, do you still wish to continue fishing?"

The Dark Golden Seal cursed, "Catch my ass! That last attack used up most of my soul power! Now I have to accompany this host to do good deeds and trick him into using me!"

The Dark Cross scoffed, "Compass, you'd better succeed in your future plans. Don't change your plans like you did today! Otherwise, all three of us who lost so much trying to help you will just look like clowns, and we'll be laughed at to death by the two who didn't come!"

Dark Compass smirked. "Don't worry, as long as there aren't any troublemakers like bandits next time, I'll definitely protect the passage between our home planet and Earth from being discovered!"