“What do you mean?” Saul broke free from Royer’s hand and sat down on the ground.

He was now so exhausted he just wanted to lie down, but considering his newly earned reputation, he merely sat down rather than being completely undignified.

Seeing this, Royer also stopped putting on airs and sat beside Saul. His expression was listless and his mood low.

“Alfonso is dead?” he asked in return.

“Yes, he attracted most of the black tide monsters and died without leaving a complete corpse…” Saul said, then paused, “You also died? Were you resurrected?”

Saul remembered that the Tribunal didn’t allow wizards below second-rank to conduct resurrection experiments. But third-rank wizards weren’t within this prohibition’s scope.

“Yes.” Royer’s mood remained low, “I encountered an unknown fourth-rank wizard and died in confusion. Fortunately, my soul body was stored in… well, telling you won’t matter—stored in Lord Frim’s Maze Corridor. After physical death, as long as the soul body isn’t polluted and mutated, there’s still a chance for resurrection.”

“Originally, I should have accepted punishment for failing to complete Chief Frim’s instructions this time, but now with the Red Sea Trees lost and destroyed like this, Lord Frim immediately resurrected me to come back and find a solution.”

“Will Alfonso also be resurrected?” Saul asked this, but knew in his heart it was unlikely.

“…No.” Royer looked at the Red Sea before them and, like an ordinary person, dejectedly threw a stone, “He made a mistake. Being able to die in battle was already the Chief showing mercy.”

Having a good friend of over a hundred years become obstinate and ultimately die in battle was actually very painful for Royer too. It was just that after becoming a third-rank wizard, he had grown accustomed to life and death, so his emotions weren’t as outwardly expressed as they appeared.

However, looking at the Red Sea Trees missing nearly half their number, Royer still felt heartache. Newest update provided by novel•fire.net

These were trees he had nurtured for decades!

Who would have thought that while they were hunting atavistic mermaids, the remaining mermaids in the sea would choose collective mutation and death.

Now they hadn’t found the cause of the mermaid mutation, but Chief Frim believed it was inseparable from the escaped atavistic mermaids.

Chief Frim went to investigate the fourth-rank who killed Royer, since no one would feel at ease with such an elusive fourth-rank wizard around.

Frim pursued the unknown fourth-rank wizard, while Royer had to worry about the Red Sea Tree problem.

Now there wasn’t a single mermaid left in the sea, yet the Red Sea Trees continued persistently absorbing the excessive pollution in the seawater.

But what should be done with the stem blocks formed after absorbing pollution?

In Royer’s plan, mermaids were never the most crucial element, but they were an indispensable component.

So no matter how Royer experimented on mermaids, he had never imagined that one day Nephret would lose all its mermaids.

After thinking for a while, Royer said, half consulting with Saul and half organizing his own thoughts, “The most important thing now is to quickly deal with the pollution the Red Sea Trees will produce this time. If there are no mermaids, using other consumable creatures would also work.”

Hearing this, Saul asked him, “What creatures currently have high resistance, large numbers, and are easy to handle?”

Royer thought for a while.

Since the wizard world was sealed and the advancement path to fifth-rank was closed, the entire world’s species diversity had been rapidly declining.

The culprit was naturally wizards.

Too many experiments without consideration for recycling or ecological balance ultimately led to mass species extinction.

Being able to raise a group of pig-like mermaids was partly thanks to mermaids originally living in the deep sea where they weren’t easily caught by wizards.

After thinking more, there really weren’t any suitable creatures in the short term. Finally, Royer said ruthlessly: “If it really doesn’t work, we’ll directly use humans!”

Saul’s eyelid twitched.

Perhaps because Saul had contributed greatly to protecting the Red Sea Trees in battle, Royer now trusted him more and simply laid out his terrible plan completely.

“Actually, this plan wasn’t something I thought of temporarily, but something the Tribunal has always been preparing. If one day the Red Sea Trees are lost or pollution gets out of control and can’t be absorbed, then we’ll activate the continental division plan.”

“It’s just that although continental division can temporarily handle this pollution, we still need to find more suitable pollution treatment methods for the future, otherwise our defensive war of over a hundred years won’t be sustainable.”

“We’ve already persisted for a hundred years. Who knows how many more centuries we can continue.”

The more Royer spoke, the more dejected he became.

Saul didn’t ask for details. He felt he might have heard something incredible and immediately began worrying about his situation.

“They’re telling me such details—could they be planning to keep me here and not let me leave?”

The excuse of treating mermaids obviously no longer held water.

After all, there wasn’t a single mermaid left here now.

Next, would the Tribunal let him return?

They should, right? After all, the Storm Eye in the Borderland still needed Saul to resolve it.

The Tribunal could at most detain him for half a year before having to let him go.

Currently, besides Saul, no other third-rank wizard could establish a foothold in the Borderland, and no one else could seal Storm Eyes as quickly and with minimal cost as Saul.

Saul gazed at the distant Red Sea Trees.

He needed to make himself more valuable.

So it was time to have Sander come over.

“Actually, during these days besides researching mermaids, I’ve also been thinking about the Red Sea Tree problem.”

Hearing Saul finally join the conversation, Royer’s eyes lit up.

His making an exception to tell Saul so much was also with the hope that Saul could give him some help or hints.

“Actually, there’s one species that’s very suitable for absorbing pollution stem blocks from Red Sea Tree sources. You should know it too.”

Saul deliberately spoke slowly.

“What?” Royer asked urgently.

Many terms flashed through his mind, but he couldn’t find a suitable one among them.

Saul glanced at Royer and hesitated to speak.

“Lord Saul, Master Saul, please tell me quickly!” Royer seemed to regain his previous liveliness.

“Black Sea Trees—you’re not unfamiliar with them, right?”

Royer opened his mouth, then suddenly deflated and sat back down.

“If the deadly effect of Black Sea Trees on Red Sea Trees could be solved, we wouldn’t have had to clear all of Nephret’s Black Sea Trees.”

Seeing Royer’s defeated appearance, Saul instead jumped up energetically and said unconvinced, “Just because you can’t find a method doesn’t mean I can’t. Since you know about Black Sea Trees, what about Inverted Trees?”

Royer looked up at Saul, who seemed provoked.

Of course he knew about Inverted Trees—extremely rare demonic creatures. If the Tribunal hadn’t reached an agreement with Bayton Academy’s third-rank wizard Beth years ago, she wouldn’t have been able to take away the Inverted Tree so easily.

Inverted Trees were powerful and domineering.

They could absorb human souls and control numerous soul puppets.

But what did that have to do with Red Sea Trees? Red Sea Trees didn’t have…

Wait, Red Sea Trees did have consciousness.

Compared to plants, they were actually more like animals. It was just that their consciousness was distributed throughout their bodies, so they lacked animals’ subjective initiative.

Royer, worthy of being one of the Tribunal’s most important third-rank wizards, actually began to have inspiration after hearing Saul mention two terms.

“You mean using Inverted Trees to control Red Sea Trees… then, then…”

Saul continued, “Use a combination of Inverted Trees and Black Sea Tree sources to give Black Sea Trees consciousness to actively control Red Sea Trees, then use the Inverted Tree’s ability to control all Red Sea Trees and absorb the pollution within them!”

The biggest difference between Black Sea Trees and Red Sea Trees was—Black Sea Trees had the ability to process pollution!

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