44: Chapter 44 Crisis! Upgraded to Rank B!

The guild headquarters in Modu.

Martial Artists were coming and going in an endless stream, moving through the interior to find teams or accept missions.

Within the borders of Daxia, there are many guilds.

These guilds are organizations spontaneously formed by Martial Artists, with the primary purpose of resisting the incursions of exotic beasts and foreign races.

Unlike official military units, they are relatively free; they can form teams, accept missions, and obtain rewards as they please.

Through many years of development, the guilds have become the primary groups within Daxia for resisting exotic beasts and foreign races.

To manage these guilds, the Daxia authorities established a guild headquarters to issue missions and distribute rewards to them.

These missions from the guild headquarters are sometimes also accepted by various universities as student assessments.

On the seventh floor of the headquarters building, a man rushed hurriedly into an office.

"Little Liu, come over quickly and change the rank of this mission!"

The man beckoned to a female staff member.

"Manager Hao, what happened?"

The female staff member, Little Liu, hurried over and asked.

"The haunting incident in the Water Town, after the latest assessment, is not E-Rank, but B-Rank!"

Manager Hao said anxiously, "Hurry up and change it, otherwise it will be trouble if someone accepts it!"

"Okay!"

Little Liu immediately grabbed the note and went to the computer to operate it.

After just a few steps of operation, her expression suddenly changed, and she said, "Manager Hao, someone has already accepted this mission!"

"What?"

Manager Hao was immediately shocked, "Who accepted it?"

"It was accepted by Magic Capital University; it must be students from Magic Capital University!" said Little Liu.

"Students from Magic Capital University?"

"Terrible!"

Manager Hao's expression changed drastically.

"With the students' strength, they definitely won't be able to resolve this incident. Hurry and call Magic Capital University!"

"Okay!"

Little Liu immediately started making the call.

Magic Capital University. The phone in the office responsible for student missions rang.

"Hello? Who is this?" A student answered the phone.

"This is the Modu guild headquarters..."

After listening for a while, the student's expression immediately changed drastically, and he hurriedly ran out to find a teacher.

"Teacher, it's bad! The guild headquarters said that an E-Rank mission was just changed to a B-Rank!"

"And several students from our school have already accepted this mission!"

...

"What?" "An E-Rank mission upgraded to B-Rank?"

"How could they be so careless? People will die from this!"

"Quick!" "Contact the school's action team teachers and head to the mission location immediately!"

...

Water Town. On the stone bridge.

The woman suddenly giggled, turned around abruptly, revealing a hideous and terrifying face, "Not bad, I want your heart!"

She reached out, and her arm suddenly expanded by more than ten meters, instantly reaching in front of Jiang Ling, clawing toward his left chest.

Jiang Ling was well prepared; he executed the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Steps, taking a light step to dodge to the side.

The next moment, Jiang Ling drew his horizontal saber and slashed at the woman.

Pfft! The woman's arm was immediately severed.

"Ah!" The woman let out a miserable scream. The next moment, she was extremely enraged, flicking her hair, which transformed into thousands of long strands, coiling toward Jiang Ling.

"Hehe... playing A Chinese Ghost Story with me, huh!"

"Let's see if you're qualified!"

Jiang Ling let out a low shout, and his horizontal saber slashed again, severing the female ghost's hair.

The woman let out another shrill scream, then lunged at Jiang Ling, trying to tear and bite him.

Jiang Ling executed a few stylish slashes of the Nine Slashes of the Blade Emperor. Pfft, pfft, pfft, the woman's body was split into seven or eight pieces, lying on the ground.

The woman's head, however, was still emitting shrill screams, flying over to try and bite Jiang Ling.

"Quite persistent!"

Jiang Ling slashed again, splitting the woman's head in two, and only then was the woman truly dead.

"Hoo!" Jiang Ling exhaled gently and walked over to the woman's corpse to examine it carefully. He discovered that the fluid flowing from her body was a thick yellow liquid, with absolutely no bright red blood.

"What is she supposed to be?" "A ghost, or a zombie?" Jiang Ling frowned.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter; as long as I can kill it, that's fine!" Jiang Ling stood up, looked around, and quickly moved forward.

Since something happened here, it should be similar for the others.

Jiang Ling had only run a few steps when he found the road ahead blocked by over a dozen people.

These people were staring straight at Jiang Ling, their eyeballs dark yellow, flickering with an eerie light, their faces wearing a look of numbness and bloodthirst, with not a shred of Life Qi on them.

They looked like the very normal, ordinary residents of the town during the day, but unexpectedly, at night, they had all turned into these inhuman, ghost-like forms.

"It seems the entire town has fallen!" Jiang Ling took a deep breath.

No wonder he felt that the town was not right during the day.

"What kind of monster could turn the entire town into this?"

While Jiang Ling was thinking, these residents were already baring their fangs and brandishing their claws, lunging toward Jiang Ling.

Their speed was extremely fast, not inferior to those level-ten-plus exotic beasts.

Jiang Ling took a step back, then brandished his horizontal saber, swinging it up and down, and with one slash, he cut a resident in front into two pieces.

However, after being cut in two, this resident did not die; the upper body continued to crawl toward Jiang Ling, mouth wide open, trying to tear Jiang Ling to shreds.

"It seems I must blow their heads apart to make them die completely."

Thus, every subsequent slash from Jiang Ling was aimed at their heads.

Pfft, pfft, pfft... The heads of several residents were blown apart by Jiang Ling, and they fell to the ground, motionless.

These residents were even more troublesome than exotic beasts.

Although exotic beasts are fast and have thick skin, they are living creatures and fear death; they will subconsciously dodge Jiang Ling's attacks.

But these residents were completely different; they were Living Dead, completely unafraid of death or pain, using purely suicidal tactics that left Jiang Ling somewhat disheveled.

Fortunately, Jiang Ling had learned the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Steps, and his footwork was unpredictable, so he was not caught by these residents.

Otherwise, he definitely would have been injured.

After a few minutes of bitter fighting, Jiang Ling finally finished off all dozen or so Living Dead.

He had just breathed a sigh of relief and was preparing to go and rendezvous with Zhao Jinyu and the others, when he discovered that dozens more residents had silently surrounded him from the front and back.

Their eyes were all staring straight at him, as if they were looking at a feast.

"The entire town has turned into Living Dead!"

"And each one has the strength of a level-ten-plus, and they are completely unafraid of death; this is indeed somewhat difficult to handle!"

"Is this really an E-Rank mission?" Jiang Ling curled his lips.

"Forget it, it's useless to think about that now!"

"I must fight my way out!"

On Jiang Ling's body, a crackling sound emerged, and blue lightning began to appear.

Jiang Ling was about to begin a slaughter.