# Chapter 57: These Are Mooks?!
The sky was overcast, dark clouds forming a vortex that slowly rotated, as if the apocalypse was imminent.
Eisenra City had lost its former prosperity. All buildings were black and gray, matching the tone of Heru City.
Heru was known as the City of Wizards. Ironically, the number of wizards living in Heru was less than one percent of those in Eisenra.
Or rather, Heru had once been as prosperous as Eisenra. The descent of the Bronze Gate caused Heru to lose everything. That Heru could still house living people was the result of the former Old Gods sacrificing their lives.
Those were the Old Gods before Dawn and Laurent — the Mad Sage, the Dragon Scale Elder, the Elemental Empress, and other Old Gods. They were the darlings of the era before last, but now, people had long forgotten them.
On a street that wasn't particularly wide, a large group of Eisenra residents — the Dark Watchers — rushed past. Their skin was withered, their clothes tattered, and their ribcages were clearly visible through their chests. Though emaciated, they were utterly insane.
Mr. J, Xia, Kaisa, Baha, and Amu were all hiding inside a stone building. This street was the path they had to take.
As a surprise attack team, they naturally wouldn't expose themselves voluntarily. So they had to avoid the Dark Watchers charging wildly down the street. Or rather, once surrounded by this many Dark Watchers, they wouldn't be able to advance any further.
Boom!
A loud crash came from the neighboring block. Slashing light crisscrossed as a pale blue sword beam suddenly appeared, diagonally cutting through a rooftop before shooting into the sky, eventually disappearing from everyone's sight.
Seeing this slash, Xia's heart itched. She almost felt like training in blade techniques herself. She had seen melee contractors using swords or blades at the same rank before, but compared to what she was seeing now, they were completely different.
Xia tried checking the attributes of a Dark Watcher, just to see.
[Prompt: Due to the enemy's rank being too high, you only obtain partial information.]
The information was as follows:
Name: Dark Watcher
Health: 98.6% (Erosion recovering...)
Dark Energy: ???
Strength: ???
Agility: ???
Stamina: ???
Intelligence: ???
Charm: 3
Skill 1: ???
Skill 2: ???
Skill 3: ???
Skill 4: ???
...
"Do mooks really need to be this strong?"
Xia sighed. Her heart was wounded — after all, she was scanning a 'trash mob' and got nothing but question marks.
"Mr. J, are the mooks you sixth-rank contractors encounter all at this level?"
Hearing Xia's question, Mr. J looked at her with some confusion.
"Although I'm not entirely a sixth-rank anymore, who told you these are mooks?"
"Aren't they? I saw Bai Ye slaughter a large group of them."
Xia was a bit surprised.
"Then just treat them as mooks."
Mr. J smiled without further explanation. He didn't mention that Su Xiao was once the strongest fifth-rank, the strongest fifth-rank across all paradises, who had beaten the Sea God Ancient Saint Yi of the Arena into the ground.
"We can move out now. Xia, don't stray too far from Amu. The two of us have your back. Mr. J, there are some things... I don't need to spell them out. We're all clear-headed people. My boss isn't here, but Amu and I are."
Baha squinted at Mr. J. It had been assigned to the surprise attack team — first, as combat power, and second, to keep an eye on Mr. J.
Being watched by a spatial assassin like Baha was far from a pleasant experience. If it came to assassination ability, Baha was even stronger than Su Xiao.
Amu, holding his ice warhammer, stared down at Mr. J. There was no emotional fluctuation in those eyes. He had no feelings — aside from Su Xiao, Bubu Wang, Baha, and Beini, anyone who dared block Amu would get smashed into pulp with one hammer blow.
Baha stood on Amu's shoulder, its aura turning dark blue. Blood light flickered in its eyes. Don't be fooled by Baha's usual chatter — at times like this, if Mr. J showed the slightest abnormality, Baha would instantly appear behind him, rip out his entire spine, and pierce through his skull with its claws.
"Sorry, I got a bit carried away."
Mr. J's face was full of fake smiles. His arm slightly raised, and a mass of bloody fluid peeled away from Xia's clothing.
Seeing this, Xia quickly retreated behind Amu.
"With us here, he wouldn't dare touch you. Right, Mr. J?"
Although Baha looked like it was about to devour someone, its aura completely leaning toward evil, Xia was surprised to find that even if teammates were evil, as long as they were on your side, teaming up with villains was actually safer.
The smile on Mr. J's face gradually faded. He stared at Baha expressionlessly for a while, then a smile returned to his face.
"My abilities lean toward 'Flame' and 'Explosion'."
Hearing Mr. J's words, Baha also smiled.
"Baha, assassination type. He's Amu, tank."
"Pleasure working together."
Only now did Mr. J truly choose to cooperate with Baha. Or rather, if Mr. J didn't think highly of someone, he wouldn't bother cooperating with them at all.
Just then, a sharp sound of something breaking through the air came.
Boom!
A hole was smashed through the stone building's wall. A Dark Watcher's head crashed to the ground, embedding itself directly into the floor.
"My boss is urging us. Let's move."
"Wait a bit longer. Another large group of Dark Watchers is coming."
Xia hid below the window. At most, in about ten seconds, several hundred Dark Watchers would rush past on the street.
Meanwhile, on the neighboring block.
Clang! Clang! Clang...
Slashing light crisscrossed, flying out from within a large group of Dark Watchers. These Dark Watchers surged together in a mass, overwhelming and surrounding a single person.
Thud!
The ground shook. A shockwave spread from within the Dark Watchers, sending hundreds of them flying like scattered flowers.
The ground beneath Su Xiao's feet cracked, fissures spreading over a hundred-meter radius, with him as the epicenter.
Dark Watchers filled his vision everywhere, but the Broken Moonlight in Su Xiao's hand was a sharp weapon for killing them.
Broken Moonlight returned to its sheath. Su Xiao slightly lowered his body. The Dark Watchers he had just blasted back all surged forward again.
The Dark Watchers bared their rotten teeth, yellow saliva dripping from the corners of their mouths. Being surrounded by these monsters — if one's mental fortitude wasn't strong enough, they wouldn't even be able to stand, let alone fight.
'Blade Path Sword: Super Ring Break.'
Broken Moonlight left its sheath. A pale blue ring-shaped slash spread outward, cutting every Dark Watcher it passed through into two halves.
In an instant, all Dark Watchers within a hundred meters of Su Xiao fell, the sounds of bodies hitting the ground coming one after another.
"Quite a lot of them."
Su Xiao stepped over the corpses of Dark Watchers and continued forward. This was Eisenra's main street, nearly ten meters wide. Su Xiao planned to clear his way from here toward Eisenra's center.
"Woof."
Bubu Wang, blending into the environment, barked.
"No need to bother with them for now. If you notice anything abnormal, throw a Magnetic Storm Hunter at them directly."
Su Xiao glanced at the increasingly overcast sky and continued forward.
About a kilometer behind Su Xiao, several figures were hiding behind a building. They were all female — a team from Holy Light Paradise.
"That guy plans to just fight his way through?!"
"Looks like it."
"Keep following. This is a rare opportunity."
Luluxi, as the team leader, was feeling extremely conflicted. She could confirm that at least five [Seal Boxes] were in the hands of the Reincarnation Paradise hunters, but there was nothing she could do about it.
Go demand them? That would be suicide. Trade? Even more impossible. She couldn't think of anything she could use to trade for a [Seal Box].