Dispater gives a smile. "Unfortunately, I'd rather not reveal my source. This one has proven impressively competent, and I would not enjoy the process of training another. Though I will admit that my source narrowly avoided its prize being located by your constructs, by a matter of seconds, if that appeases you." He pulls out a small scroll, which contains a copy of the contract to acquire the shard, though the name of the recipient has been removed, replaced with an X. The payment is... substantial. in fact, it's likely enough to have outright purchased half of Union, and would have been enough to hire almost every single Shadow Stalker unit Draiss has made available. "I will also add that scouring the Astral was your problem. It had, in fact, managed to slip free of the Astral, and embedded itself in a Material plane, which is likely why it survived the onslaught of power that annihilated everything else."