"Oh Goddess of Wisdom, please bestow your blessings upon my people. I offer you fine wine and delicacies as tribute. If there is anything else you desire, reveal it to me, and I shall do my utmost to fulfill it."
Standing before the statue of the Goddess of Wisdom, Romon gazed up at her figure and spoke these words quietly to himself.
Before long, Talia returned, floating ritual offerings through the air with her magic. Romon took some from her and carefully arranged them in a row.
Then, he called up the simulator values in his mind.
His Culture value, which had hovered just above a hundred, suddenly jumped—up to 135!
An increase of more than thirty points! It really worked!
So, performing a ritual to the Goddess of Wisdom was effective. Other people couldn't see numbers and saw this merely as an act of faith, but Romon could see the data—and to him, it was a transaction.
