While most people took a short shut-eye, some people couldn’t quite afford it yet.
For example, the guards, who were looking for a few outlaws who had yet to register hours after the declaration.
Since the announcements, they had gathered and recorded most of the people past level 25 within the territory. There were definitely some people who were suspicious about them, but without them doing anything yet, they could only monitor them for now.
For convenience’s sake, they asked them to stay in specific motels, so they were easier to monitor. There was a debate on who’d pay, but the guards reassured them it would be reimbursed after the war, provided that they weren’t one of the enemies.
However, there were those who had not checked in.
Some were just arrogant and didn’t want to follow the instructions of townsfolk, but they were monitored regardless. A lot of threatening from both sides had to happen, and only calmed when Gregor appeared.
Ah, Gregor. By this time, they made no effort to hide who was here anymore. Too many eyes were on Alterra, so any misdirection wouldn’t work as well anymore.
Valov was against them already, and they were obviously well-researched. Bleulle probably already knew how many talents they had stolen from there by now.
Anyway, they had captured a few people who refused to take the temporary oath. Temporary oaths could be very strict because their duration was very short, and they had to make sure none of these powerhouses would harm Alterra in any way or form, directly or indirectly, during the war, and their oaths reflected that.
Mathilda worded them herself, so there was no way they could get out of it. The bright side for them was that the oath would only last two to three days, so if they weren’t planning on doing anything bad to Alterra, then the guests really had nothing to worry about.
Through the process of elimination, they also figured out who could be who. For example, there were two high-level fire users unaccounted for. There was also an earth user and another high-level non-elemental. One of them was probably the mind manipulator who messed with Harold’s head.
Skills were not indicated in the Lord Panel, after all, so there were still a lot of gaps in information, but since they knew that the mind manipulator had to be high-level to get someone of a stable mind to kill themselves, they had a pretty clear idea of who it would be.
Vlan Isip, a Level 39 powerhouse. Wherever he was right now.
As for the fire users, they were even more urgent. Although one had been imprisoned after hurting the Ministers, there were still some at large, and they were a great risk since they didn’t know where the other bombs had been planted.
There could be misdirections here, but they ought to find all of them anyway!
"Sweep through all places, increase the contribution point rewards for confirmed information about the missing persons!"
"Yes, sir!"
...

"Damn!" Xon cursed, throwing a random ball of dirt he lifted up to hit a random tree, creating a dent there.

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