On the Golden Dream, Sno followed Adwina into the captain's cabin beneath the murderous stares of a crowd of bootlickers. As the door slowly closed, he said with mild surprise:
"Now this is rare. I never thought you'd come looking for me on your own. I figured you'd be transporting supplies to those rebels in the Sunia Sea around this time!"
"..." Adwina did not answer immediately. Instead, she stared at Sno with eyes flowing with an unusual light. Only after a moment did she take a deep breath and say:
"He issued an Oracle."
"An Oracle?" Sno raised an eyebrow, his expression turning strange. "Which one do you mean by 'He'?"
"The God of Knowledge and Wisdom." Adwina answered bluntly, leaving Sno no room to make a joke. As soon as the divine honorific was spoken, the captain's cabin fell silent.
As the Church of Knowledge and Wisdom's black glove for operating at sea, the captain of the Golden Dream, Vice Admiral Adwina Iceberg could indeed be considered middle-to-upper management within the Church of Knowledge and Wisdom. Her position was equivalent to that of a bishop, and considering that the Sunia Sea was effectively her diocese, her standing was even close to that of an Archbishop.
But that did not mean she was qualified to receive an Oracle.
Or rather, among the Gods, the God of Knowledge and Wisdom was the one who cared least about faith. Just as Adwina had said before, believers of the Church of Knowledge believed only in knowledge itself. The God of Knowledge and Wisdom did not even demand sufficient piety from them.
Yet that also meant the God of Knowledge and Wisdom rarely issued Oracles. In fact, since the Fifth Epoch, the God of Knowledge and Wisdom had publicly issued fewer than ten