Victoria took out six cards and slid them across the desk toward him.
"These are what you asked for."
Each card was matte black, edged in thin gold lettering. At the top, the words Blackwood Cultivation Authority were stamped in clean official script, with the family seal pressed beneath them.
The department handled registration and oversight for unaffiliated cultivators. Every Sacred Family ran its own system to identify and regulate practitioners. Anyone who wanted to operate openly needed one of these licenses.
Alex picked up the first card.
Alexander Hale
Status: Early Enhanced
Then he checked the others.
Except for Viktor, listed as Late Enhanced, and Damien, listed as Middle Enhanced, every one of them was marked Early Enhanced.
Alex had deliberately kept it that way. A sudden cluster of Apex-level cultivators would have drawn attention far too quickly. For now, a low profile was safer.
Alex slipped the six cards into his pocket.
