Given Hudson's current status, it wasn't difficult for him to ask for a favor from everyone, the challenge was to do so without arousing suspicion from the outside world.
Human nature often makes people more curious the more they are hindered. Blocking maritime routes can only obstruct passing merchant ships, but it can't stop the major nobles from sending their own people to explore.
There were two paths laid out before Hudson:
One was to divide the two divine artifacts with the Dalton Family and face the crisis together.
However, based on Hudson's understanding of Earl Piers, Piers was not the kind of man with such resolve. Besides, the divine artifacts had no substantial significance for the Dalton Family.
The political significance inherent to the divine artifacts was mainly to divide the legal authority of the Clergy, a task too great for a single major noble to wield alone.
