Chapter 749: Black Sea Tree and Red Sea Tree

Bethstana had originally wanted to keep people in suspense, but under the influence of the Dead Wizard’s Diary, she involuntarily revealed the answer first before saying her roundabout words.

Making it seem like she was mentally confused.

Saul naturally knew what Bethstana was frustrated about.

The black pages’ function of answering any question was definitely unbearable for a proud third-rank wizard.

This was also why Bethstana was eager to break free.

Even though within the black pages, she didn’t need to worry about her soul suffering pollution at all.

Saul didn’t expose her embarrassment and instead asked, “I don’t know much about the Black Sea Tree. I’ve only heard that the Tribunal has been investigating it. What’s its relationship with the Red Sea Tree planted in Nephret?”

At this point, Bethstana had already reorganized her emotions.

[Actually, both the Black Sea Tree and Red Sea Tree are new products obtained after modifying the Inverted Tree.]

They were both related to the Inverted Tree?

[Because the Inverted Tree’s autonomous consciousness is too strong, only one can survive within a certain range. So when the Tribunal learned this back then, they didn’t seize the Inverted Tree. However, to preserve the Inverted Tree, I voluntarily gave them cuttings to research new species.]

[At that time, the Evernight Empire’s royal family in Nephret first developed the Black Sea Tree, while the Tribunal developed the Red Sea Tree.]

[The Black Sea Tree is more like the Inverted Tree, with strong independent consciousness, but it won’t resist its master. Moreover, it has very strong abilities to absorb and process pollution.]

[The Red Sea Tree better meets the Tribunal’s requirements. It has almost no autonomous consciousness and can be planted and cultivated at will. Although it can also absorb pollution, its efficiency is lower than the Black Sea Tree, and it can’t process pollution autonomously. After absorbing to a certain extent, it will concentrate and expel the pollution.]

“These two types of trees clearly have different focuses, but they should be applicable in different scenarios.” Saul touched his chin. “Then why was the owner of the Black Sea Tree hunted by the Tribunal?”

Justin, who had entrusted the Black Sea Tree to Saul’s care, was already dead.

Saul was concerned the Black Sea Tree had other problems. Although he had planted it, he hadn’t carefully cultivated it.

He had even semi-sealed it here.

However, thinking that this tree hadn’t shown any mutations even after the Black Tide erupted, it was indeed worthy of being the Evernight Empire’s pride.

[Because wherever there’s a Black Sea Tree, Red Sea Trees can’t grow, and will even involuntarily become nourishment for the Black Sea Tree. The Tribunal needs large quantities of tree that can absorb pollution from seawater, but Black Sea Tree can’t be mass-reproduced, so they can’t meet their needs.]

“I see. They can’t meet the needs and would destroy the Red Sea Trees they had worked so hard to cultivate. No wonder the Tribunal wanted to clear out the Black Sea Tree. And the royal family that had worked hard to breed Black Sea Tree naturally wasn’t willing, so the two sides started fighting?”

[Evernight once tried to resist, but when Chief Frim took action, he wiped out the entire royal family. Only one or two people outside managed to survive. Later, it seems other forces interceded and guaranteed that Black Sea Tree wouldn’t appear in Nephret, which stopped the pursuit.]

“No wonder Justin could barely live in the Borderland in the end. But later he still seemed to be killed in passing.”

Saul opened the defenses around the Black Sea Tree and took out this Black Sea Tree for the first time.

“Since I’ve already planted the tree seed, before I leave, I’ll just transplant the Black Sea Tree in and remove the tree seed.”

Hearing this, Little Algae’s tentacle tips twitched and it completely collapsed.

Leaving the second basement level, Saul prepared to check on Keli.

The Borderland was full of dangers everywhere, with omnipresent Black Tide pollution.

For Keli to adapt here would probably take some time.

However, when Saul went to find Keli, he discovered she was no longer in her room.

“Where is she?” Saul walked out of Keli’s room.

“Miss Keli is currently on the third floor discussing matters with Lord Byron,” Hope appeared timely at the fifth-floor stairway. “Tower Master, do you need me to invite Miss Keli over?”

“No need, I’ll go myself.” Saul waved his hand.

The magic notes Keli had been reading recently were recorded jointly by Saul and Byron.

Since Saul wasn’t there just now, Keli must have gone to find Byron for discussion.

He walked down the stairs. Although teleportation was more convenient, he usually preferred to move using his own limbs.

Hope silently followed behind Saul. When they reached the turn, he suddenly asked quietly, “Tower Master, how should we address Miss Keli?”

Saul stopped and turned back in confusion. “Addressing her like this is fine.”

He didn’t understand why Hope was asking this. After thinking, he said, “Of course, you can also ask her how she prefers to be addressed.”

Hope smiled with pursed lips and nodded. “I understand, sir.”

He felt the steward’s smile contained deeper meaning, but Saul was currently thinking about what else needed to be arranged before going to Sky City again and didn’t think deeply about the steward’s words.

Reaching the third floor, Saul turned left while the steward bowed to his back before continuing downstairs.

Knocking on the door, no one inside responded.

Saul pushed the door open and saw Keli completely focused on staring at a container undergoing a reaction.

Byron was on the other side of the room processing some materials.

“What are you looking at?” Saul approached.

“I looked at your Inertization Formula and asked Senior Byron to demonstrate the entire process for me.”

On the metal instrument, densely packed silver needles were inserted, with a magic crystal floating above each needle.

Beneath the metal disk, a bit of black tissue was sealed.

As time passed, the magic crystals on the silver needles gradually turned black, while the black tissue below gradually became gray and semi-transparent.

Byron now approached and used tweezers to remove the blackened magic crystals.

“This method can relatively thoroughly remove pollution from the body. However, Saul and I discussed that if faced with Black Tide eruptions like seawater, our method is too slow. We probably wouldn’t have time to clear the pollution before being overwhelmed.”

Keli nodded. “I understand. The drainage speed can’t match the water injection speed—the people in the pool will eventually drown.”

Having watched just once, she had memorized the entire process and even proposed her own ideas.

“I noticed that during this experiment, the silver needles don’t completely eliminate the pollutants. What does this energy transfer rely on?”

“It’s a type of radiation very similar to how pollution spreads, or you could say it’s a type of wave.” Saul leaned against the experiment table and told Keli his hypothesis.

“Radiation?” Keli bit her lip. “I’ve also researched radiation.”

Byron put away the instrument and directly threw the tissue that had become gray and semi-transparent to Saul.

Saul caught it with his hand, and the tissue melted into his palm and disappeared.

“What was that?” Keli screamed and grabbed Saul’s palm. “Are you doing human experiments?”

“Hahahaha!!” Saul burst into laughter.

Byron shrugged. “Keli, if you need to, you can have Saul lie on the experiment table anytime.”

(End of Chapter)

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