The lesson went smoothly. During the mid-session break at eight thirty that evening, Eve knocked on the door again and brought Shade fresh intelligence she had just received from The Church.
The intelligence was brief. The edges of the thick parchment scroll were decorated with gold thread, and Shade smiled after glancing over its contents.
"The Church has found a way to prevent Sleeping Sickness."
He said to Dorothy:
"Let's suspend tonight's Night Lesson for now. I want to try this method."
Dorothy did not mind.
"No problem. Do you need my help?"
The method The Church had found did not approach the issue from the perspective of Dreams, but from that of Life Energy. Since both the dead and those who had fallen into an endless sleep showed a massive accumulation of Life Energy within their bodies, perhaps victims who already possessed a great deal of Life Energy would experience something different.
The Church had conducted tests based on that idea and subsequently confirmed that individuals with exceptionally strong Life Energy would not be actively or passively chosen by Dreams.
Shade considered himself a special case, so he agreed with The Church's test results. Keeping a target continuously supplied with a great amount of Life Energy was no simple matter, but if they only needed exceptionally strong Life Force during sleep, many Thaumaturgies could accomplish it.
The method Shade thought of was the Thaumaturgy [Heart of Life] from Miss Feliana's Fire Seed Source Secret Technique. It was a Thaumaturgy Miss Feliana had developed to temporarily strengthen an individual's life intensity.
It could not truly make a life form's life intensity extraordinarily strong. It merely made the individual's life intensity register as stronger when certain Thaumaturgies, curses, or relic properties were being judged.
However, although the Thaumaturgy's actual enhancement was