Versailles reported the theft and put considerable pressure on the authorities.
However, it was truly of no use. The authorities were not particularly proactive either.
Anyone who dared lay hands on the Old Dean of Radiant Sun Academy had to possess at least Supreme-level combat power, right?
Later on, more and more clues pointed toward Digital Phantom.
Once Jing Yuexin's identity was exposed, Versailles completely locked onto the suspects.
So he passed word to his various military classmates, hoping they could help look into the matter.
However, nearly all of them advised him to just let it go.
Back then, you did not know Jing Yuexin was a member of Digital Phantom. Offending her was one thing; at least you could claim ignorance was no crime.
Now you still wanted to go knocking on their door? That was plainly courting death—were you afraid they might forget that you had once offended them?
You had better understand that plenty of people now wanted to curry favor with Digital Phantom and were worried they could not find an opening.
Versailles took that advice to heart. From then on, he shut himself away and claimed to be in seclusion conducting research.
To the military, this had already become an open secret, especially the existence of the Invisibility Cloak.
The military found answers to both doubts—at the very least, answers that could fool themselves.
They also analyzed many other combat details, but at least there were no longer any glaring doubts.
As for the enormous number of captives and spoils, the military accepted them with beaming smiles.
They even stated that no matter how damaged the Alliance warships were, as long as you could bring them back, they wanted them.
The military directly exchanged the three warships Digital Phantom had brought back for repairs