For the next thirty minutes, the mansion was filled with nothing but discussion.
Every possibility they could think of was raised, examined, and ultimately challenged from a different angle as they searched desperately for a solution before noon arrived.
Ethan had already explained the dangers of extracting the Beelstones from those already infected, as doing so would inevitably damage their mana pathways, which would in turn kill them.
Someone else came up with a new proposal which was to gather every infected person into a single location so that even if the demons were released and allowed to possess their victims, having those victims already gathered in one place would at least prevent them from immediately spreading throughout the city on a killing spree.
That idea, however, quickly collapsed under the realization that there simply wasn't enough time to travel across the city, locate every victim, and bring them all back before Lord Krygon's deadline expired.
