The Tale of Hero Alice's Social Death (Pantsu Hero Alice) Chapter 215 - The Mouth Lies, But the Body is Honest

Lalu's supper plans eventually fell through because Luna only returned the next morning. As a former intelligence agent and the present Hero's maid, Luna wielded significant authority in the Gryffin Kingdom's government system. Hence, aside from national secrets, she could help Alice access almost any information in the Gryffin Kingdom's intelligence department's archieves.

Of course, even if Alice wanted to learn about a national secret, she could simply learn it directly through Hatter. However, Alice wasn't interested in the internal affairs of the various human kingdoms. It was both troublesome and unnecessary for her to meddle in these matters. Even though the various human countries would often butt heads due to national interests, they maintained a relatively peaceful relationship with each other in general. It had already been a long time since any human kingdom had taken military action against another kingdom.

The information Alice had tasked Luna to gather for her this time was naturally related to the beastkin totems' effects. Compared to learning about them through word of mouth, it was much more reliable to learn this information through the intelligence collected by the kingdom's intelligence department.

Learning more accurate and specific information about the beastkins' totems would also prevent any mistakes when she used them. The beastkins' chief totems would permanently lose some of their accumulated energy when used. So, Alice preferred to avoid wasting this energy as much as possible.

In addition to the beastkins' totems, Luna also helped Alice bring back a few taboo books. Among them included the book for Dragon's Shadow, which Alice had been drooling over for a long time, and a few other combat-type taboos. Most of the taboos the intelligence department kept in its collection were special taboos. For example, there was a taboo called Eye of Bansso that granted the user super-wide surveillance and perception abilities.

Although most people couldn't learn these taboos, the intelligence departm

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