Hophord could freely enter and leave Halse Palace, so he had not gone with Xu Nan.
According to yesterday's plan, he would head to Twilight Hall alone and try to steal the Book of Reconciliation. After all, Twilight Hall would be bustling today, with many alchemists coming to observe the debate. Even if the Book of Reconciliation really went missing, they probably would not immediately suspect the head of the divine artifacts was the mole.
Xu Nan wandered aimlessly along the corridor beside Shamrock Hall.
Halse Palace was simply too large.
After the seal was lifted, Stephenson did not have enough manpower to inspect and monitor every corner, giving the Soul-Stealing Monsters plenty of room to operate.
After all, the palace's owner was gone. Not even Ansu Li could control the entire place through the fixed magic arrays within Halse Palace itself. On the contrary, they would lose their home-field advantage because of Halse Palace's unique spell designs.
Given the Soul-Stealing Monsters' infiltration abilities, they would have been very difficult to identify if they had not run into Xu Nan.
So, just in case, the Law Enforcement Team had prepared a large batch of live rabbits.
They planned to release those rabbits when necessary, catching the Soul-Stealing Monsters off guard.
Of course, all of that depended on A Kai's intelligence being correct.
"I heard Senior Jiang led the team that captured the Soul-Stealing Monsters on Black Nest Island."
"So the business she mentioned handling outside the city was actually capturing Soul-Stealing Monsters."
Xu Nan had only read the portions of the case files A Kai had provided concerning the Law Enforcement Team's operations outside the city. Judging from the descriptions, it had been quite perilous. Someone had nearly been dragged off by a Soul-Stealing Monster and turned into nourishment.
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