Grey Eternal is teaching you "Advanced Divine Arts (11/11)." Pay 644 public experience to master this mystical art?
--Confirm payment.
Iver thought inwardly.
As soon as that voice faded, Iver's experience dropped back into the pitiful double digits.
That was close. Luckily, he had enough.
Iver was practically breaking out in a cold sweat.
If he hadn't happened to kill Cardinal Loki, he really wouldn't have had enough experience--the Pure White Saintess's mastery of the eleven volumes of Advanced Divine Arts was rather uneven. The least expensive volume had only cost a little over a hundred experience, while the most expensive had actually cost twelve hundred.
Considering that the volume was titled "Advanced Divine Arts: An Interpretation of the Path of Love--Love, Friendship, Desire, and All Evil Thoughts," Iver felt that it was understandable.
--Considering Master Agnes's problem, the Pure White Saintess probably hadn't studied this volume properly back then. Maybe she simply couldn't calm herself down enough to read it; perhaps she had been distracted, or embarrassed to explain such overly suggestive knowledge to Iver. After all, conservatives still made up the majority among the elves.
The eleven volumes of Advanced Divine Arts covered history and principles in the first volume, and methods and techniques in the second. The remaining nine volumes were all about communicating with the Pillar Gods, Heaven Holders, apostles, and phantom demons of the Nine Great Paths, as well as understanding each Path and controlling oneself. Therefore, strictly speaking, it was actually possible to learn Advanced Divine Arts after reading only three volumes.
Advanced Divine Arts required one to delve into one's heart and make oneself a vessel capable of bearing the descent of a great will. To do that, one had to suppress one's true self and "make room."
It was like asking an