After the conversation ended.
Although he was curious about the bard's identity.
Lynn still hadn't forgotten about some important matters.
The bard stayed behind to observe.
Then Lynn began preparing for internal affairs.
It was nothing more than carefully checking the overall direction and calculating production.
At the same time, he issued orders to his Special Service Department.
They were to monitor those he had classified as barbarians, as well as the Demon Race.
Lynn had the people from the Special Service Department come in.
They weren't a separate department with its own organization.
They were people Lynn had selected on a whim.
They reported directly to Lynn.
Generally speaking.
Nearly half of the people in the Special Service Department were from the former Olesian intelligence network—that is, the Northern Territory Merchant Association.
Some of the others came from the Blades and the Black Knights.
To prevent infiltration from within, in addition to the Debate of Culture and Barbarians.
They also needed to identify the spies' coded exchanges and symbols.
Symbols were, in fact, writing.
These symbols also represented the gods.
Likewise, numbers represented the gods and held energy.
They were another gift from the past, a gift from the God of Love.
It was from the God of Love that Lynn had learned numbers weren't just numbers; they also represented energy, good, and evil.
And what the symbols represented.
The person who entered the Internal Affairs Department was a Blade.
"Grand Commander, we looked into the nobles and priests who performed sacrificial rituals. These are the symbols we found."
"Bring them here." Lynn reached out and took the photographs.
"These people again." Lynn studied the symbols on them, though he had already expected as much.
"Some belong to them, and some are modified versions of ours?"
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