In the end, they couldn't prise open the mouth of Louis Shadow, the King of Shadows, who, tortured and battered, never revealed any information about the Kushan Imperial or the Shadow Incarnation.
This was the strongest-willed person Liszt had ever seen, so he could only let the prison staff torture Louis Shadow half to death before trying to invite Lerald·Truth to see if he could search the other's memories through soul magic.
Unfortunately, no such magic existed, even for an Archmage who had lived for many years.
In the end, Louis Shadow's soul collapsed, and his physical body disintegrated, returning to the fundamental material elements between heaven and earth; simultaneously, the Smoke Mission was finally completed.
"Mission completed, reward: Cloaked Bear-wearer Cultivator's Manual."
