Three days later.
In the eastern district of Turingen, opposite diagonally from the Church of Knowledge's Temple.
The Pan-Athena Knowledge Hall.
A woman with brown hair, dressed in a plain robe, moved gracefully among the shelves filled with books and leather scrolls, followed by a handsome young man.
The symbol of a half olive branch stitched onto her chest indicated her identity—a preparatory priestess from the Church of Knowledge.
A preparatory priestess is not a formal godhood practitioner, and although there's no difference between them and the official priests in terms of knowledge and training received, the actual difference lay in whether they received a calling from the Goddess or not.
To put it realistically, they were still purely mortal lacking the power of divine arts; to put it idealistically, since their faith hadn't yet earned the Goddess's recognition, they might as well be responsible for running the church's institutions first.
