Lucien gathered more evidence.
The Shadow Spies supplied the locations and hidden routes they had uncovered, while Kael's people reconstructed the financial trails connecting the suspicious transactions. Elias traced personnel movements, transport schedules, and changes in command assignments that had never appeared in official records.
Clara handled the more delicate parts of the investigation.
Her Divine Sense was especially useful.
Even then, Lucien refused to treat Divine Sense's judgment as an effortless division between good and evil.
They still relied on evidence.
The investigation had to distinguish between the people who had actively maintained the slave networks and those who had merely existed inside the same factions.
Some had knowingly profited from the system or enforced it for years. Others had opposed it internally, been coerced into cooperation, or genuinely known nothing about what their leaders were hiding.
