The averting of the Bethla clash naturally involved shops opening up more of their stock, including this crazily powerful rod! It certainly tempted me to switch someone over to Oracle-ing. Too bad every character is more or less set on achieving their final forms now. I redistributed Orlandu's gear, but the Excalibur remained a frustratingly hard item to utilize, as it could only be equipped by Knights, and the sword equipping passive did not permit equipping it! I didn't want to switch anybody to that class, it was an exceptionally unattractive class, being completely superseded by the Lancer and the Samurai, and being tied down with a rather uninteresting command, at least, with its weapons of choice. In the end I decided to forego using it and just keep it in reserve, pulling it out only if need for it arose. Revier's team passed by a dilapidated trading city, where a woman resembling Aeris sold him a flower, and sighed at her miserable life, hoping to escape it someday....