Goodness gracious, what have they been pushed to? It seems that Taurus Director hasn't been spared from Capricorn Director's verbal torment these days...

Seeing the "Silence Beans" ability list showing silencing (Capricorn), silencing words (Capricorn), and silencing sight (Capricorn) as the three "exclusive" abilities, Leon couldn't help but twitch his lips. He then hurriedly picked up a bean and stuffed it into his ear.

Swoosh! The sky was high and clear, and the day was bright and moonlight clear!

As soon as the Silence Bean, resembling a sheep's dung pellet, successfully settled in place, the entire world suddenly became much more beautiful. The demon sounds that continually assaulted his soul through his ears were instantly eradicated from the world, returning everything to peace.

The more marvelous part was that not only was the brain-penetrating demonic sound excluded, but even the person creating the sound was appropriately "excluded," completely losing their power to disturb others.

In Leon's view now, Capricorn Director was entirely blurred into a mass of mosaic. Apart from the lips still working up and down, not even the outline was clear, and if he strengthened the output, he could make them disappear entirely from view.

No wonder Sagittarius Director could disregard Capricorn Director. It seems he turned the "screening" effect to the max, directly screening out the whole Capricorn Director.

Exchanging a knowing glance with Sagittarius Director, Leon looked at Capricorn's mosaic lips twitching like a bee's, then wisely chose to trust the judgment of the senior, turning his "screening level" to the max to bring the whole world to utter silence.

Wow, couldn't you at least leave a shadow?

Seeing Leon exchange smiles and seemingly reach a tacit understanding with the other directors, Taurus Director, who understood what they did, couldn't help but shake his head with resignation and then took the initiative to speak:

"Now that everyone who could come back is here, let's start."

Following Taurus Director's announcement, the round table the directors were seated at lit up, and in front of each person appeared a small section of dazzling golden star-point patterns. Under the golden sun shadow in the center, it emitted an aurora-like splendid golden halo.

This should be the marker corresponding to each star palace.

After glancing at the golden pattern of the Aquarius card dung ball in front of him, Leon couldn't help but scrutinize the patterns in front of the others, revealing a rather hard to maintain expression.

Pisces chasing dung balls, Lion rolling dung balls, Taurus pushing dung balls, Sagittarius shooting dung balls, Capricorn of sheep head fish body hugging dung balls, and a sacred scarab with two giant crab pincers...

Speaking of which, not seeing these marks, I almost forgot, the bureau's emblem is a dung-pushing sacred scarab.

Though according to the red-haired director's words, it symbolically means that the cleanup bureau, like the sacred scarab, cleans things causing pollution and gains nourishment and power from those things, it sounds reasonable enough, but these star palace patterns with dung balls are just a bit too abstract...

Wait a minute, there are only six people around the table, why are there seven star palace patterns lighting up?

"Hmm?"

As the marks lit up one after another, others seemed to notice something wrong and all looked at the lit Lion Palace pattern, which after a flicker emitted a bold, deep male voice.

"Ahaha! Why the hell are you running? Come back! Fight me!!!"

As the voice ended, the lion mark swiftly dimmed, sporadically emitting a few excited raucous laughs and joyful roars, along with a series of unknown creatures' whimpers and wails.

"..."

"It's nothing, Leos is guarding the Unordered Four-Fold Realm. The rules there were shattered by the third-generation director and don't completely sync with reality; it probably just connected to us while fighting, no need to mind it."

Waving his hand to show it needn't be dealt with, Taurus Director looked around the seats, feeling a bit sentimental:

"It's really rare... It's been a long time since we've gathered more than six directors. The last time we gathered so many people was... hmm..."

Here, she seemed to remember something, reluctantly glanced at Leon, and then proactively switched the topic, asking warmly:

"Leon, since this is your first board meeting, if you have any questions, feel free to ask now, we will try our best to explain."

"Thank you."

Nodding to Taurus Director, who always took great care of him, Leon looked at the thirteen chairs beside the round table and curiously asked:

"Lord Taurus, do these thirteen chairs we are sitting in represent the positions of the twelve directors and the director?"

"Not entirely."

Responding to Leon's question, Taurus Director shook his head, the expression slightly complex:

"There are actually thirteen director positions in the Bureau. The Ophiuchus Director's association with [Solar Shade] is only half of the other directors, and it is concurrently held by the Zodiac Bureau Chief of the Ophiuchus Sub-bureau, so the thirteenth chair isn't for the director but belongs to the Ophiuchus Director.

But later some things happened, Ophiuchus Sub-bureau, along with the entire East Carleighwen Kingdom, was destroyed, and just like the Gemini Sub-bureau, the Ophiuchus Sub-bureau almost entirely disappeared without a replacement yet.

Additionally, the [Abnormal Metamorphosis] secret technique of Ophiuchus Palace is rather peculiar, requiring a special talent to merge with the abnormality to learn it, making candidates extremely hard to find, so the director position was left vacant too."

Ophiuchus Director... Ophiuchus Eroded Nation, Slaughter Blood Hair?

Seeing the somewhat saddened expression of Taurus Director, Leon immediately understood why she hesitated before. It seems that the last gathering of six directors was when the bureau's chief turned [Thirteen Ant Nests] into [Twelve Ant Nests].

Noticing the lowered mood of Taurus Director and the similarly silent other directors, realizing they didn't want to discuss this matter, Leon thought and then proactively changed the subject:

"What about the director? Without a chair for him, does the director not participate in board meetings?"

"No, the director, if present, will also join the meeting."

Hearing Leon's question, Taurus Director couldn't help shaking her head lightly, then raised her hand to point at the solar shadow in the center of the table, answering:

"This table is made according to the Zodiac layout. The director has the authority to mobilize the complete [Solar Shade], so he is regarded as the sun itself, and his position is at the center of the solar shadow."

"..."

The center of the solar shadow...

Leon was slightly taken aback by the words, then glanced at the slowly rotating solar shadow in the center of the round table, his mouth twitching uncontrollably.

Isn't that just sitting on the table!

So when you have meetings, you all sit around the circle, and the chief director just lies in the middle of the table listening to you chat? If the table had some food served and each of you held a pair of chopsticks with a soy sauce dish, this scene would never pass the review!

Just as Leon was feeling helpless to complain, the lion pattern opposite him timely flickered, emitting the Lion Director's generous and grand evaluation.

"Haha, dip it joyfully!"