Odys currently had a deep partnership with the Church of Knowledge. For one thing, the Gal Runes had become internal reading material for the church.
With that knowledge as a foundation, Mysticism Mentors of the Reader Pathway at Sequence 5 had grown noticeably stronger. The number of mystic arts they knew, and the number of Beyonder Abilities they could mimic, had multiplied.
It was because Odys had given the Gal Runes to the Church of Knowledge that he had won its full support. He could pursue his ambitions in Vota Province and develop his own forces without worry.
Odys had also begun selling Spirit-Storage Crystals in Isara. It was the only official sales channel, and the Church of Knowledge would provide protection.
In return, Odys had to give the Church of Knowledge ten percent of the profit from every Spirit-Storage Crystal sold.
Their interests were now deeply intertwined, and they had more or less settled into an arrangement both sides could accept.
In a deal like this one, Odys would approach the Church of Knowledge as soon as he obtained something it needed.
And as long as Odys's requests were reasonable, the Church of Knowledge would do its best to meet them.
In theory, trading a Sequence 4 Beyonder Characteristic for a Level 1 Sealed Artifact of comparable power, as in this deal, was an equal exchange.
But the Church of Knowledge had a particular need for the Prophet Beyonder Characteristic. Its members would have loved to buy up every characteristic of that Pathway that had fallen into outside hands.
The Sealed Artifact the church offered certainly would not come from the Reader Pathway, or even from a characteristic of an Adjacent Pathway.
Trading part of their accumulated Beyonder resources for a characteristic of their own Pathway was an excellent