Clang~ As a crisp metallic collision rang out, Lily casually discarded the bloodstained, hiltless blade.
Minister Griffiths, bound in a gray spiderweb, lowered his head. He had completely lost consciousness.
"What a troublemaker..."
Lily muttered in disgust.
Under Lily's interrogation, he had been beaten until his flesh and blood were mangled.
Lily had also obtained extremely detailed intelligence.
Minister Griffiths possessed the power of the Third Level on the Path of Authority. Before becoming a minister, he had graduated from Royal Law University as a Law Mage. Reaching the Third Level before the age of thirty was already an outstanding talent.
At the same time, Lily could sense that he possessed First-Level adaptability to the Path of Love.
But that was the extent of his strength.
After becoming accustomed to fighting at the high end, Lily had used an ambush to eliminate a genuine Third-Level transcendent. She had not even given him a chance to resist.
Throughout the entire process, the Shadow Demon had not even had an opportunity to act. Lily alone had defeated Griffiths.
Relying on a web woven from lies and the control of the Apothecary in the Shadow, Lily had completely subdued Minister Griffiths before he could mount an effective counterattack.
Afterward, Lily alternated between brutally interrogating him with the Eagle Feather Dagger and using the Love Spirit Medicine attached to the Apothecary in the Shadow as a means of control. She quickly wrung all of Minister Griffiths's intelligence from him.
Part of the reason was that Griffiths had been off his guard for too long. Another part was that Lily's equipment was simply too good.
But the most crucial reason was actually his own laziness.
He had stayed in Stibnite for ten whole years, yet his Path of Authority had remained at the level it