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The simplest and most straightforward method was a direct and head-on approach of manually interrogating the townsfolks, asking them about the men he was pursuing.

Of course, he immediately scratched that course of action out of his mind. It had a low probability of succeeding and a high probability of alerting Faraday Lowminer of his presence. If he realized that someone was in town looking for him, then he would simply vanish like the wind, in all likelihood.

Thus, Rui had to take a more indirect approach to capture.

('First, what would lead me to him in the first place?') He asked himself.

He could either obtain the information directly by extracting the information from someone who did know his exact location or indirectly by following a trail that would lead him to Faraday. No matter how well he hid, as long as he was running an operation of any kind that made him money of any kind, he was inevitably connected to arrows that pointed in his direction.

Even if he distanced himself from everything, he would need people managing his operations on his behalf. These people would most certainly be required to be physically at the site of the base of operations, overseeing inventory, schedule, supplies, processing, and shipments. The base of operations could be tracked via the influx and outflux of funds, and the influx and outflux of goods.

However, this was the avenue of intelligence gathering that the intelligence department of the Martial Union was responsible for.

job with the intelligence that they

state even before he escaped the Kandrian Empire, according to the intelligence that the Martial

had not hurriedly set up a new base of operation but simply went

more specific, of course. The man had set up a drug trafficking and selling business. The esoteric kind, the kind

the legitimate one. He had no choice but to delve into the underworld once

Kandrian Empire had an extradition treaty with almost all states in the geographic surroundings of the country. Meaning he couldn't just travel to another state and set up shop and continue with a legitimate business. He would either need to travel extremely far to do that, in

a good job trying to narrow his location down soon after his escape, meaning his plan had come close to failing. The intelligence department could easily narrow down his location by tracking exchanges in funds and tracking down the movement of the illegal esoteric drugs that he was receiving and

location of his base of operations. It took

While analyzing the flow of money and drugs was certainly useful, he wouldn't be able to add much value as dedicated experts and specialists

was it really his most effective and efficient way to

do what they do best, I

weren't the only

Apprentices was another opening through which Rui could trace his location. Rui could easily detect whether a person was a Martial Apprentice or not. Furthermore, the Kingdom of Violis most certainly did not have anywhere near as many Martial