Odys could use the Knowledge Moor to shatter Beyonder Characteristics, allowing him to amass a large stockpile of them.
He had six Sequence 9 Mystery Pryer characteristics, four Savant characteristics, nine Arbiter characteristics, and no fewer than seventeen Sailor characteristics.
Most of the Sailor Pathway characteristics had come from the windfall at the Sea God Temple. He even had two Wind-blessed characteristics.
If he put them all to use, he would have enough to form an entire Mandated Punishers unit.
The Sailor Pathway was especially useful at sea. He could not let those characteristics go to waste.
The Arbiter Pathway characteristics were the result of years of accumulation. They were well suited to administrative work, and leaving them unused would be a waste.
The Mystery Pryer and Savant Pathways, meanwhile, could serve future research and the production of Beyonder components. They were useful to Odys too.
So after opening the school, Odys established an Occult Studies Training Class.
Unlike the regular school, admission to this class required applicants to pass both a written exam and an interview.
They then spent half a month studying occult knowledge, while he continued to observe them.
Only those who passed that final period of observation were offered the chance to drink a potion.
Mandy and her subordinates, along with Wells and his subordinates, were exceptions. They had already proved loyal enough to Odys to skip the observation period and receive potions directly.
After drinking a potion, trainees underwent another half month of instruction to adjust to its effects before being assigned work.
On Krus Island, those assignments counted among the highest-paid jobs. The graduates entered the core staff directly and earned around three pounds a week.
Odys explained to Bernadette, who was looking over the class, "I teach it alongside two crew members with