After getting close, Hobart was certain that the gemstone in the middle of the lake was an attempt by the Fallen Mother Goddess to project her power.
Otherwise, it would not have attracted a Fish-Head Crocodile-Body Beast that could serve as the main ingredient for a Potion Professor of the Pharmacist pathway, Sequence 6.
Moreover, the giant beast Hobart had encountered today could make plants grow rapidly, cause living creatures to mutate, and make Beyonders more prone to Loss of Control.
These were clearly relatively high-level abilities of the Cultivator pathway.
The corresponding pathways of the Fallen Mother Goddess were precisely those two pathways.
It was likely that everyone contaminated by Full Moon Lake would begin believing in the Fallen Mother Goddess.
Since the Earth Mother Church had a habit of raising... cough, developing vampires as believers, if he needed the blood of Middle Sequence Beyonders from those two pathways, he could simply ask Bishop Simpson for help.
With that thought in mind, Hobart left the Country of Disorder and returned to the real world, only to discover that his left hand had become six-fingered.
The signs of Loss of Control and mutation in his spirit body could be healed upon entering the Country of Disorder, but the mutation in his physical body remained.
After considering it for a moment, Hobart hardened his heart, drew his knife, and cut off the extra finger. He then used Healing Art on himself. Once the wound rapidly healed, his left hand was completely restored to normal.
When he walked out of the Study, Fors visibly sighed in relief. "Are you all right?"
"I'm fine."
"That's good." After checking that no one was nearby, Fors said, "I need to go back to Backlund this afternoon."
She had to attend the Tarot Club.
After informing