Backlund, Queens, 29 Sivellas Street.
Lafite waited anxiously until he finally received the Creator's response: "Atone by doing something for me! Sacrifice all your gains to me, and prepare the Bestowal Ritual tomorrow morning."
He let out a long breath and hurriedly said, "Praise the Creator! Your mercy is clearer than the Crimson Moon!"
Lafite understood that his punishment might include sacrificing all his gains, but he could not understand why he had to prepare a Bestowal Ritual for tomorrow. Just then, an image suddenly appeared in his mind. It was the altar he had set up, and every Extraordinary Characteristic was wrapped in a ring of black threads! Lafite glanced at the altar in surprise and unconsciously took two steps back, yet he could not see anything wrong with the Extraordinary Characteristics.
Then he understood: the Creator had discovered that there was something wrong with these Extraordinary Characteristics. Asking me to sacrifice them was meant to remove those black threads. As for making me prepare the Bestowal Ritual, it was to give me those two Extraordinary Characteristics! At that thought, Lafite was first overjoyed, then praised the Creator once more before hastily conducting the sacrificial ritual and offering everything he had gained tonight to the Creator.
Within the Country of Disorder, Hobart looked at the dazzling array of spoils before him and felt somewhat emotional. So fraud really could make people rich quickly. Just look at today's haul—it was even greater than what he had earned by desperately working for the Tamara Family after returning to Backlund some time ago! And the spoils were of a higher grade as well.
Hobart first used the Power of Order to "cleanse" all the Extraordinary Characteristics. The curses soon vanished without a trace.
He eagerly began examining these most delightful Extraordinary