Since they had mentioned those cultists, Shade recalled how, a few nights ago, he had encountered a candidate of the Misfortune Order with Flora and Claire—the ninth-ring woman capable of manipulating the Threads of Fate.
He mentioned her to President Lenormand, and the Seer Association actually knew who she was:
"Katerin Schwartz. We came into contact with her years ago. This Sorceress was originally a student at Serkses Higher Medical Academy. She disappeared after graduating at the seventh ring, then reappeared three years ago as a believer of the God of Misfortune and committed some truly terrible acts.
Serkses Higher Medical Academy confirmed that she had only become a student there through a relative's recommendation. But when they investigated afterward, that recommender had already died an unnatural death. The academy suspects that she may have been a believer of the God of Misfortune from the very beginning, entering the academy under a forged identity."
This actually demonstrated quite well just how widely recognized the educational standards of the Three Great Arcane Academies were in this era.
"You needn't worry about her. Serkses Higher Medical Academy issued a bounty for her long ago. Now that it has been confirmed that she is a Candidate of Fate, the academy will arrange specialists to deal with her. All Three Great Academies cherish their reputations."
Lady Eden explained that the Thirteenth Ring Sorceresses summoned by the Church were currently heading toward Snow Mountain. Though the Three Great Academies were nominally unrelated to any of the candidates of fate in this incident, they had all sent sufficient personnel here to help.
By around next week, the number of Thirteenth Ring Warlocks gathered on this island would exceed ten. This meant that many matters that had once seemed troublesome would become easy to handle, but in