"Tifa and I encountered nuns from the Order of Spiritual Cultivation in the Darkness Domain, and I know a few things about them."
Shade nodded.
"The Order of Spiritual Cultivation has a good relationship with the Council not only because the Speaker has many connections, but also because of Grandma Cassandra. She really is a local of Middlesburg. When she was young, the Order helped her, and she helped them in return. Of course, it is also because although the Order has both men and women, women make up the majority. Especially those nuns qualified to wear Silver Crowns as blindfolds—their eyes are extraordinarily powerful. Those women can be even more mystical and cryptic than the diviners of the Seer Association sometimes, but they are very capable. If you need it, I can write you a letter as well and have them offer you some help, but it can only be a letter of recommendation. Our relationship cannot be exposed."
But if it was merely a letter of introduction rather than help from the local Great Witch, Lady Cassandra, then the assistance and conveniences the Order of Spiritual Cultivation could provide Shade would obviously be quite limited.
Shade thought for a moment.
"Anyway, I'll contact the Order of Spiritual Cultivation first. As for Lady Cassandra, I'd like to think about it a little more."
"Very well. Tifa, give Shade the letter I wrote. Remember to stamp it. The Order of Spiritual Cultivation is mainly active in the eastern part of the continent. They had already existed in Middlesburg during the previous Epoch. They know more than I do about the boundary between life and death. The Order's current leader is Sister Devlin, an Eleventh Ring Arcanist. Though disabled, she is a very beautiful and elegant lady, with a figure—"
"Cough,