Near the end, a man sitting quietly in a chair in the corner said in a deep voice, "I'm selling a potion formula, 'Corpse Collector,' 230 pounds."
Huh, a Church potion formula? Alice sized the man up, but unfortunately, with his hood and mask in the way, she couldn't make out anything.
But it was normal for a Sequence 9 formula to circulate outside. Alice shook her head and stopped paying attention to him.
The potion formula was quickly sold, followed by several more transactions.
More than ten minutes later, Klein asked, "Who has the complete Spinal Fluid of a Striped Black Panther?"
Complete Silence filled the room. No one spoke, so Klein added, "I'll offer a reward no Beyonder could refuse."
Those words successfully caught Alice's attention. Of course, she understood what reward Klein meant. After realizing how difficult it was for Wild Beyonders to advance, Alice suddenly formed another guess as to why the Churches kept this knowledge secret—one unrelated to the gods, one closer to the struggles of low-ranking Beyonders.
Once all low-ranking Beyonders knew the Acting Method and the Law of Conservation of Extraordinary Traits, Beyonders would become nothing more than walking Potion Ingredients!
Just like her now.
Alice lowered her lashes and silently sighed in her heart.
Perhaps part of the reason the gods concealed these things was selfishness, but wasn't it also a form of protection for low-ranking Beyonders?
Alice understood that there was little pure kindness in this world. Just as she had long understood that every gift Fate offered came with a price, kindness without any benefit would be the strange thing.
—She had never believed there were purely Good People in this world. Even in the past, she had merely believed that those people would be good to her.
Klein's offer