Hobart returned to his room, and his emotions took a long time to settle.
Only today did he realize how seriously he had underestimated Christine's strength and resources.
In Backlund, Christine indeed seemed constrained at every turn, but he appeared to have accumulated considerable resources while in the Southern Continent. Through Rex, he had also made quite a few friends in the Beyonder world, giving him far broader channels than Hobart had imagined.
When Christine gave Hobart the potion formula for Storm Blessed, he had done so as casually as he used to give Hobart and Tyrone marbles to play with as children.
Christine had even let Hobart copy down the potion formula for Folk of Rage without intending to charge him a single penny.
Of course, one reason was that Christine regarded Hobart as his own son. Another was that Christine truly did not care about such things.
Hobart had just discovered that Christine's safe was actually a Mystical Item. Entering different passwords opened different spaces.
While searching for the formulas, Christine opened the safe several times, and each time revealed a different space. Some stored all manner of Extraordinary Materials, some contained various Extraordinary Characteristics, some held Sealed Artifacts or Mystical Items, some were filled with gold, and some contained documents.
Hobart guessed that some of these resources had come from the Tudor Family inheritance, while others were Christine's spoils of war.
In short, although Christine was merely Sequence 5, his resources were probably enough to establish one—no, three Extraordinary Organizations like the Judgment Group.
Hobart could not help but marvel that Christine was a patron he had overlooked.
At the same time, he was curious whether the inheritance Rex had left him was equally abundant. What conditions would he have to fulfill to obtain it? Then Hobart