Chapter 548: Department Heads and Uncovering the Infiltrator.

Chapter 548: Department Heads and Uncovering the Infiltrator.

Ghana was working on a few documents with frown brows when Yasenia opened the door to her working area.

Ghana's office room was orderly and lightly decorated, with shelves full of folders, jade slips, and other methods to hold information.

Even if it looked like there was a lot, Ghana used her previous experiences when she created a mess big enough to have a hard time searching for specific information to place everything in an orderly manner and with enough labels to be able to search through the mountains of data efficiently.

On top of that, she had developed a routine of ordering all files of the day in the last thirty minutes of her shift, allowing her to work much more efficiently during the rest of the work hours.

The room was not only occupied by her. There were four extra desks. Each was occupied by one harpy.

When Yasenia entered, they were all moving around quite quickly.

These four were direct workers under Ghana's command. Two came from the City Lord's office and had years of experience working with Ghana. The other two were new but had great potential.

'Or so I've heard from Mom.' Yasenia muttered in her mind.

When she entered, Ghana looked up, somewhat annoyed that the person hadn't knocked. However, her face completely changed when she spotted that said person was Yasenia.

Ghana stood up and smiled. "Yasenia, do you need anything? You could've called me, and I would've gone to your side."

Yasenia lifted an eyebrow. "What, I can't come if it is just to visit you?"

Ghana placed her hand over her mouth and giggled. "You certainly can. I'm sure these girls are also happy."

Yasenia looked at the four and nodded. "Keep up the good work."

"Yes, Matriarch!"

Yasenia sat down at a chair on Ghana's table's side.

Her long legs crossed as her tail went through an opening on the back of this chair. Cheêck out latest novels at novelhall.com

This design of a chair was standard throughout the Astral Sky Clan because of Yasenia and other beast humans with tails.

It didn't bother those who had no tail, and it certainly helped those who had it.

"I saw that you were frowning. Is there anything wrong?"

Ghana sighed, feeling a bit helpless. "Yes. I don't know how these people became recruiters. After your scolding that day, we've cleaned the clan and made people retake the entry exams, including the fifteen examiners we have. Examiners of the third batch and beyond did not pass the test. Those of the second batch supervised by me, and with your help, passed it without problems. Moreover, we've estimated that from the nine-hundred members we have now, we'll reduce that number to around five hundred once the retest takes place."

Yasenia nodded. Those tests were supposed to be extremely difficult to overcome, so this outcome was more than predictable.

However, there was something that made Yasenia curious. "Why are those from the third batch forward so suspicious? Who is the one that allowed those people into the clan?"

Ghana frowned. "That's what I'm confused about."

Yasenia tilted her head. "Why not use the formation's recording function?"

Ghana blinked twice. "Eh?"

Yasenia was stumped. "Didn't Tatyana speak about these functions?"

Ghana smiled bitterly. "In her words: I will not tell you anything about the formation. Try to use it as you think is appropriate. If you know nothing about using formations, learn it. The functions are extensive, and I'm adding new ones daily. Here are a few books about basic formation usage mastery. Read all of them and memorize them in two months."

Ghana waved her arm-wing and summoned a pile that reached nearly thirty books. All thick enough for a person to not be able to grab them by the spine.

Yasenia didn't know whether to laugh or cry. 'Well, I had to learn all of these before I was fifteen, together with similar piles for the main professions and politics...'

Since birth, Yasenia had been fed, bathed, and pampered with precious herbs and medicines. Tatyana increased Yasenia's overall body as much as she could without affecting her Fate.

Even before starting the cultivation path, her strength was enough to beat some low-level cultivators.

Naturally, being a dragon, her mind was also nothing but ordinary. Hence learning all of this was achievable.

Therefore, she understood why Tatyana did something like this. She probably wanted to feed their creative thinking and ability to cope with unknown things while creating a foundation for them to build their future knowledge.

In short, she was slowly preparing them to become someone extraordinary.

Yasenia sighed. 'Mom is probably using the clan as a testing experiment for the harpies and those from the first and second batches to have broader minds and eventually be able to have leadership strong enough to push the Astral Sky Clan without us around.'

'But... Did she consider that people of this continent have subpar education compared to us? There aren't learning institutions about general topics like management, economics, and all the knowledge comes from the hundreds of years of experience they have.'

'Of course, underestimating that experience is foolish, but specific concepts are impossible to grasp even with millennia of "experience" in a non-advanced environment.'

Yasenia decided not to explain things too deeply. "The formation built around the mansion has functions for almost everything. For example..." Yasenia moved her energy in a complex pattern and activated one function. "[Core Fortress Formation Activation: Show Ghana yesterday at five o'clock]."

Energy gathered in front of Yasenia and created an illusory screen where Ghana appeared seated on her desk doing work.

The five harpies let out an exclamation.

Yasenia commented. "Unless they do something explicit, like intercourse or going to the toilet, the formation records everything in the core. Moreover, we changed the core not long ago, and it has increased the capacity of our formation almost a hundredfold. Even if they are during an explicit moment, you can check it with my or Tatyana's permission."

"I think that saying publicly that these functions exist is prohibited is redundant, but just in case. It is not permitted."

Ghana and the other four were stunned, but hearing Yasenia's stern tone, they nodded firmly. One of them asked. "Everyone can do this?"

Yasenia shook her head. "Only the heads of department, those that I assigned. The assigned people do not have the authority to spread the authority unless they have either my or Tatyana's permission. Currently, the ones assigned are the following: Andrea (Head of the Spiritual Blacksmiths Department), Angel (Head of the Formation Masters Department), Cecile (Head of the Military Department), Evelyn (Head of the Spiritual Tailoring Department), Kali (Head of the Alchemy, Medicine, and Poison Department), Tatyana (Head of the Management and Punishment Department), Ghana (Clan's sub-leader and head of Harpy group), Marta and Garta (Sisters, and Heads of the Jewelry and Gem Embedding Department), Gala (Head of the Sexual District), Leila (Head of the non-erotic entertainment Sector), Florrie (Heads of the assassins and information gathering squad), Hanna (Head of the Treasury), Drasha (Head of the Lamia group), Fascia (Head of the Tattoo masters Department), Esther (Head of Human Slaves), and me who has the entire authority (The Matriarch)."

They became excited, and when they went out, they secretly informed their sisters.

By the time Yasenia left, all harpies knew about it.

Yasenia informed Ghana, and she told her that she didn't mind if she said it to the other harpies. So, there were zero problems with this.

Their efforts in finding the person hiding between them tripled, and it was soon discovered that it was a high-level cultivator using extremely high degree concealing measures.

A few harpies that didn't know how to use the formation properly failed to see through the concealment.

They sent this person to the torture rooms, and after Tatyana's 'gentle' questioning at a later date, they learned that he came from the [Five Shadow Fang] group.

This person was a peak Ethereal Soul Body Cultivator, just a step away from Epoch Core Body Realm strength. He alone would be able to fight two elders of similar power to Elder Song and the others alone.

However, since he was caught inside the formation, not to mention resisting, he was as helpless as a chicken trapped in a metal jail.

His life of becoming a live testing subject began without delay after confessing.

His thoughts then were: 'I prefer this fox's methods than that hellish creature that conceals itself as a human!'

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Author: Quite a long chapter~.

Tatyana: Hmm, diving this chapter would not be good.

Author: Yup.

Angel: What did you do to that person, Mommy Tatyana?

Tatyana: Well, I don't know. This happens a few days later, but to keep it out of the way, the author just explained it.

Andrea: I see. The important thing is [Five Shadow Fang] group is the one that dirtied my dearest clan with their filthy schemes.

Author: U-Um.

Evelyn: (Andrea's face is a little scary when she is angry... and handsome. Kya! Spank me with those big hands while I lay in your muscular thighs, Mommy!)

Author: Cough. Evelyn, behave.

Evelyn: ... You know. You could allow me to be as unhinged as I want inside my head, right?

Author: ... Well, you have a point.

Kali: What did she think about?

Yasenia: Probably, she wanted to be spanked by Andrea.

Andrea: Huh?

Evelyn: How!?

Yasenia: *Looks sideways, embarrassed.* Cough, because I thought similarly.

The rest: ...

Author: A-Anyway, I summon you!

Lost_Universe: Here I'm. One. More. Time!

Kali: fufu, you quite like to use this theater.

Lost_Universe: Of course! It's quite fun speaking with all of you~.

Author: Well, go ahead and shoot the question.

Lost_Universe: Tatyana, my curiosity is piqued! It seems you've mingled with a merry bunch of "otherworlders" in your time. Now, spill the cosmic beans: did these outlandish characters all pop out of the same realm, or did they stumble in from various dimensions? If you've got the scoop, do share! But hey, if you'd rather keep this interdimensional gossip hush-hush from Yasenia and the girls, don't sweat it—I won't say a word. Let the cosmic secrets remain locked away!

Tatyana: Well, it's not that big of a secret. Moreover, we are really not the girls. We can speak about it without problems. Naturally, I won't say big spoilers.

Lost_Universe: Oh, that's very nice.

Tatyana: They don't come from a single dimension, planet, or place. The "otherworlders" are souls that are lost from the mortal realms, worlds with super low cultivation, and similar things.

Tatyana: However, it is the truth that once a single soul is selected from a world, it opens a path, and it is easier for the heavens to pick more souls from there. Hence, the reason why there are quite a lot of Earthlings of your era between those "otherworlders."

Lost_Universe: Interesting.

Tatyana: That's the explanation.

Lost_Universe: Thanks!

Author: And there you have it. To add a little extra, the less a soul knows about cultivation, the better, as shaping it is easier.

Tatyana: Well, with this, it is the end. Bye-bye!

Author: Have a nice day.

The rest: Goodbye!