Wizard: Starting with Dealing with Magical Plants

Chapter 306 Master Evelyn's Inquiry

The lounge was small and simply furnished.

A square table, a few chairs, and a low cabinet in the corner holding a kettle and cups.

The air was filled with a faint scent, like a mixture of old parchment and dried herbs.

Master Evelyn walked directly to the head seat and sat down, with Hawke to her right. Rowling sat opposite her.

Without exchanging pleasantries, Master Evelyn cut straight to the point, taking out a palm-sized, smooth-edged, dark gold metal sheet with extremely complex and precise patterns etched on its surface from a seemingly ordinary but actually quite spacious leather file bag she carried with her, and placed it on the table.

The style of that thin slice was somewhat similar to the dark purple, regular substrate fragment that Rolin obtained in the land of the sinking corpses, but it was thicker and the texture was more—cold and standardized.

"Do you recognize this?" Master Evelyn asked, her gaze fixed on Rolin's eyes.

Rowling examined the thin slice closely.

The direction of the patterns and the residual texture of the energy — "It's like a fragment of a core component used in some kind of advanced autonomous unit, or a large energy node, to store solidified instructions or protocols."

"The craftsmanship is more advanced and the patterns are more standardized than the fragments I found in a ruin outside the sunken town."

"Do you have the fragments you found with you?" Master Evelyn pressed.

After a slight hesitation, Luo Lin took out the small box containing the dark purple flakes from his pocket, opened it, and placed it on the table.

Master Evelyn's gaze was immediately drawn to it.

She picked up the small box, but instead of touching the thin slices directly, she leaned closer to examine them closely, a hint of surprise and intense interest flashing in her eyes.

"The rule substrate—and a secondary core fragment that is biased towards protocol compatibility and logic adjustment."

"The energy activity is almost exhausted, but the internal regular structure is relatively intact."

"This thing—it's not for combat units," she muttered to herself, then looked up at Rolin. "Where did you get it?"

"At the edge of the Sighing Mountains, there's an abandoned ancient energy relay station," Rolin answered truthfully. "There are periodic energy eruptions there. I took a few core energy fragments and this."

"The relay station then collapsed."

Master Evelyn nodded, gently placed the small box down, and tapped her fingers on the table, seemingly organizing her thoughts.

"Then, let's start from the very beginning."

"How did you come into contact with the Observer's Legacy at Shadowraven's Tower? What were the details?"

Rowling organized his thoughts and began by recounting the fragments of the Scorching Hell.

The text mentions the Seventh Forward Base, the aberration of the Throat of the Dead, the conspiracy of the Pale Hand, the arrival of the Purifier device, and how their team used the power of the Moon Silver Flower to risk resonating with the aberration core, accelerating its instability, and ultimately prompting the Purifier to launch a devastating attack ahead of schedule.

He concealed the core secret that the Moon Silver Flower was a successful ancient experiment, only saying that it was a special magical plant he had cultivated that had a miraculous effect on harmonizing the rules.

He also concealed the contents of the notebook given to him by Master Veranica, only saying that he was interested in studying ancient runes and rule structures, and therefore tried resonance.

During the narration, Master Evelyn listened very attentively, hardly interrupting, only occasionally asking one or two brief questions about a particular detail.

For example, the specific manifestations of the Purifier's beam, the perceptual details of the aberrant structure, the frequency of the Moon Silver Flower energy beam, and so on. Hawke remained silent throughout, only his brow furrowing slightly as the narration progressed.

When she spoke of the Purifier's destructive white light that completely obliterated the throat of the dead along with the aberrant, leaving behind a huge crater, Master Evelyn sighed softly and whispered, "The annihilation of rules—the most thorough form of purification."

"It seems that Veranika and her group did indeed tread into areas they shouldn't have, attracting the highest level of cleanup."

A thought struck Luo Lin.

Master Evelyn seems to have some knowledge of the situation inside the Shadow Raven Tower, as well as Master Veranika's research.

He continued to recount the tense atmosphere he felt upon returning to the Holy Tower, the hints and arrangements made by Master Veranika and others, and his eventual decision to leave and return to Blackrock Town, only to encounter a monster tide and a canyon anomaly.

"The dark golden light deep within the canyon fissure, and that cold, imaginary message carrying the message of the recycling program being ready, were you the first person to directly contact the relevant units of the recycling agreement?" Master Evelyn asked.

"Yes." Rowling nodded. "After that, I was marked on my wrist."

"The mark originated from an earlier encounter with a mechanical spider claiming to be a guardian of heritage in the Scorching Hell Fragments."

"Mechanical Spider—a low-level unit of the Maintainer series." Master Evelyn gestured for him to continue.

Rowling then recounted the evacuation from Blackrock Town, the escape through the wilderness, the encounter with the goblin Mog, the battles with the steel-maned boar and the orcs, the fluctuations sensed at the edge of the Graymist Basin, and finally, the pursuit and narrow escape by the seven Lesser Arbiters in the Beast Bone Basin.

In this part of his account, he omitted the specific function of the milky white pebbles, only saying that it was due to a special stabilizing technique he had mastered and a protective item he had obtained by chance.

The description focuses on the appearance, speed, attack methods, defensive capabilities, and logical characteristics of the secondary adjudicators:

Efficient, cold, and purposeful, but in extremely chaotic energy environments and internal logical conflicts, it can lead to delays and confusion in judgment.

Master Evelyn listened intently, occasionally jotting something down in a small notebook she carried with her.

"Secondary Arbitrators — Intermediate Enforcement Units under the Purification Protocol."

"It seems you didn't encounter the complete squad, but rather a damaged, standby squad," Master Evelyn analyzed. "They've identified you as an unauthorized contact and a symbiotic carrier of benign rule imprints, and have initiated a secondary cleanup procedure."

"If a complete Purifier or a higher-level Arbitrator unit descends, you have no chance."

Her tone was calm, but the content sent a chill down Rowling's spine.

"After that, you escaped into the Forgotten Swamp, arrived at the sunken town, and had Bruno create the Interference Amulet." Master Evelyn looked at Rolin's chest. "Could I see the specific structure of that amulet?"

"Of course, I'm not going to take it away, I'm just recording the energy configuration."

Roland took out the dark silver amulet and placed it on the table.

Master Evelyn did not touch it with her hands, but instead took out a short staff with a multifaceted crystal at the top from her sleeve and gently tapped it on the amulet.

The crystal refracted colorful light, sweeping across the surface of the amulet. At the same time, a miniature, ever-changing array of light and shadow runes was projected from the end of the short staff, clearly revealing the complex energy array, rune network, and connection method of the dark purple regular substrate at the core of the amulet.

"A Frosty Star Silver base, highly active energy fragments as generators, and a regular substrate as the modulation core—a very ingenious design, especially utilizing the protocol compatibility of the regular substrate to disguise higher-level command signals." Master Evelyn's eyes revealed admiration. "That old dwarf Bruno hasn't lost his blacksmithing skills, but more importantly, it's this core concept and materials—"

"Rolling, you're not only lucky, you also have a very clear mind."

"Knowing how to exploit loopholes at the rule level."

She retracted her staff, and the light and shadow vanished. "How long will the amulet's effect last?"

"Under passive interference, it is estimated that it can be maintained for several months."

"If we go all out, it might only last a few minutes," Rowling replied.

"That's enough." Master Evelyn nodded. "This will buy you precious time until you obtain a more thorough solution, or until you become powerful enough to be immune to the Mark of Fear."

She leaned back slightly in her chair, her gaze sharpening once more.

"Now, tell me about your magical plant, that Moon Silver Flower."

"You mentioned that it possesses a powerful ability to harmonize rules, and can even resonate with the chaotic core of the aberration."

"As far as I know, although Moon Silver Flower is a rare magical plant, it does not usually possess such a powerful harmonizing force at the level of rules."

"What's so special about yours?"

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Finally, the most crucial question has been asked.