Alice's repeated "urging" finally gave her a rare sense of urgency. Although she ignored the Eye of the Prophet, she did seriously begin considering her advancement.
Before she found an answer to that question, Alice successfully fell asleep.
When the morning sunlight woke her, Alice felt dazed. It took her quite a while to realize that it was the morning of the next day.
After breakfast, Alice resumed thinking about the question she had not finished considering the previous night.
Archbishop Anthony had told her that Sequence 4 of the Sun pathway, Unshadowed, could extract low-sequence Beyonder Characteristics from high-sequence ones. Alice believed this represented the authority of purification, and they could most likely purify corruption as well.
This was one way she had planned to obtain the Chaos Walker Beyonder Characteristic, though in truth, she had no plan at all.
Last night, Alice remembered that she might have another option—such a large School of Life could not possibly lack even a single Chaos Walker, could it?
As for whether those people might be innocent... well, that was something Klein would care about. Alice only knew they were Will Onsetin's subordinates.
"Still, I should put the matter of the auxiliary ingredients on the agenda too. My Acting Progress..." Alice's muttering paused for a moment.
The Eye of the Prophet made Alice realize that the Soothsayer Sealed Artifacts sent to her most likely served more than merely providing Beyonder Characteristics. In fact, if handled properly, they seemed capable of helping her digest the potion.
When she had been with Bernadette, she had not realized this. Although there had been Acting Feedback, it had not been obvious enough. If the next Soothsayer Sealed Artifact was delivered in this harmful way too...
Alice silently committed the matter to memory.
Still, come to think