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There was no record of Rother Dwin ever leaving the Magic Department or the capital, but it had become almost a foregone conclusion that he had escaped using the warp gate inside the research facility of the Magic Department.
However, since that conclusion was not a hundred percent certain, security around the imperial palace and the Magic Department had not been relaxed.
Vertus, Harriet, and I exited the Magic Department building and walked quietly towards the imperial palace, the attendants following a distance behind.
Harriet was still in a daze, troubled by the fact that she had unknowingly assisted a criminal’s escape.
“They’re searching Rother Dwin’s residence in the capital, but at this point, he wouldn’t have left anything incriminating behind... And even if we don’t know his true level as a mage, he could easily use teleportation. If he’s escaped, capturing him is practically impossible,” Vertus said.
If Rother Dwin had indeed left the imperial palace the night before, then tracking him was impossible. Vertus looked quite displeased, and understandably so. This terrible incident had occurred within the imperial palace, and yet they couldn’t even apprehend the culprit.
“Even if we aren’t able to catch him, we still managed to find out a few things,” Vertus declared.
He drew his conclusions through the events that had occurred and those that hadn’t.
“If we go by what Saint-Ouen has said, he wasn’t after the tomes themselves, but rather, the location from which they had come from,” he said.
“… Yeah.”
Rother Dwin had been more curious about the source of the tomes than the tomes themselves.
“However, the mages he tortured didn’t know the source of the tomes. In other words, he failed to find the people who actually knew where they had...
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