After returning to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Nana began the task Dai Youheng had assigned her without a moment's hesitation.
First, she used her student card as usual to enter the heavily guarded Library, which hummed with precision soul tools.
With a clear goal in mind, she headed straight for the section housing books on the theory and application of Level 6 and Level 7 soul tools. Her expression remained calm as she selected several hefty tomes, their covers marked with intricate runes and security classifications, and checked them out for the standard seven-day loan period.
Yet this was merely the opening act. Over the following days, Nana slipped through different corners of the campus like a ghost.
Her eighth soul skill, Soul Threads, became an invisible, intangible instrument of control. She chose her targets carefully, turning students with higher soul engineer ranks, borrowing privileges, and regular borrowing habits into her puppets.
The process was silent. A fleeting daze passed through the controlled students' eyes before they returned to normal. They remembered nothing of going to the Library, checking out valuable materials with their identification cards, then leaving to hand the books containing the Sun Moon Empire's core technologies to Nana in a prearranged, secluded corner.
Nana moved swiftly, with astonishing efficiency. She promptly stowed the books, which would have driven soul engineers outside the academy wild, inside her storage soul tool. By the fifth day, its once-spacious interior was packed to the brim with over a hundred thick volumes of Level 6 and Level 7 soul tool materials.
She had no intention of lingering to chase greater accomplishments. Dai Youheng's warning still rang in her ears, and she knew full well how efficient the academy's management system was.
Such a large quantity of high-level materials being