When black tides arrived, large numbers of polluted and mutated monsters would erge from the seabed, slaughtering and destroying everything they encountered.
Although Evernight's Red Sea Trees could absorb black tide pollution, they had no resistance against monsters.
So the wizards' defensive line against black tides was actually set up around the periter of the Red Sea Tree forests.
They had to kill monsters before they approached, to prevent massive damage to Red Sea Trees that would affect pollution absorption from black tides.
If Wizard Stuart was staying until the black tide arrived, he would probably also participate in battle.
Currently, among Evernight's third-rank wizards, probably only Saul hadn't been assigned battlefield combat tasks.
Seeing Saul, Stuart imdiately recalled his secret conversation with Emperor Elo a few days ago.
eting Saul again now, many complex emotions flashed through his heart. However, he had always been emotionally reserved and didn't show it.
But Saul didn't rely entirely on his eyes to read people.
"Brother Saul," Penny carefully told Saul from within the diary, "This person's emotions change greatly when looking at you!"
"Oh?" Saul imdiately realized Stuart might know sothing or was planning to do sothing to him, which explained his different emotional expression compared to when they discussed problems together a few days ago.
Saul and Stuart hadn't interacted much—they had only discussed Red Sea Tree issues together.
What could the other party know that would cause such emotional fluctuations when facing him, even alerting Penny?
With so many people present, Saul temporarily set aside his desire to verify. Thinking of the deliberately preserved mark on his body, he decided to secretly follow Stuart after the experint to see.
As long as he didn't follow the other party to the Black Fla Emperor, he wouldn't be discovered.
Seeing Royer and Alfonso's whispered conversation wasn't finished yet, Saul approached Stuart to chat. "Regarding the issue we discussed last ti about Red Sea Trees being completely suppressed by Black Sea Trees, have you thought of any solutions?"
Stuart was just looking for a topic and quickly followed up. "Red Sea Trees and Black Sea Trees are essentially more like animals. So the natural bloodline suppression between them is hard to change through artificial dostication. My idea is to imitate the thod used on rmaids—destroy part of Red Sea Trees' instincts. Could this make Red Sea Trees lose their instinctive fear of Black Sea Trees?"
"Destroy Red Sea Trees' instincts?" Saul considered Stuart's proposal.
Although the other party lived on Nephret Continent, his research on Red Sea Trees wasn't extensive.
Though Red Sea Trees' characteristics were more animal-like, they lacked consciousness or souls as complete entities. Wanting to destroy the specific instinct of fearing Black Sea Trees was extrely difficult.
If there was a mistake and the scattered consciousness of Red Sea Trees was damaged, they might even lose their initiative to absorb pollution.
The Tribunal would definitely imdiately conduct humanitarian destruction to prevent affecting the survival capabilities of Red Sea Tree groups.
However, Stuart's suggestion made Saul more confident about his original idea.
Saul also wanted to utilize Red Sea Trees' instinctive fear of Black Sea Trees.
Stuart thought this instinct could be destroyed; Saul believed this instinct could be exploited!
The two discussed so details about instincts, then Alfonso and Royer returned together.
Alfonso's expression showed no change.
Royer still had a smile on his face, but wasn't as happy as before.
"Good, let's start now." Alfonso didn't care about Royer's mood and began explaining the experint's operational procedures to the three.
"...Currently we haven't found thods to prevent diseased rmaids from falling ill. No, we can't say we haven't found any."
The three were imdiately intrigued.
"You found a thod?" Saul was the most concerned.
Alfonso coughed lightly. "Actually, you all know this thod—separate rmaids from black tides."
"Pfft!" Royer laughed exaggeratedly. "If rmaids are separated from black tides, how will we clear pollution from Red Sea Tree root stems? If rmaids can't do this, what's the point of raising them?"
Alfonso imdiately explained, "Currently, only atavistic rmaids develop pollution diseases—other rmaids aren't affected. So I want to use Pearl's ability to summon all atavistic rmaids in the Red Sea, then isolate them. This way, during the upcoming black tide pollution, we won't worry about mass rmaid infections."
"Is this the last experint?" Saul was sowhat disappointed.
This shouldn't even count as an experint, but rather a cleanup of the rmaid population.
In that case, he had no need to participate. Better to return and race against ti continuing his own experints.
"Not just that. I also want to use this opportunity to experint on different bloodline concentration atavistic rmaids' resistance to black tide pollution."
Alfonso looked around at the three. "So I'm asking you all to record data on multiple subjects together."
Saul was about to agree when his peripheral vision suddenly caught what seed like a small head erging from the deep water pool.
He turned to look and discovered Pearl, the rmaid rarely brought out of the palace by Alfonso, was watching their group of four with keen interest.
"Can I be responsible for recording Pearl's data?"
"Pearl?" Alfonso imdiately said, "I brought her to attract atavistic rmaids from the sea. As the rmaid with the richest royal bloodline, Pearl naturally has appeal to other atavistic rmaids. Though she can't do other things, she can still lure rmaids out. So Pearl won't participate in..."
However, before Alfonso finished speaking, Royer suddenly slapped Alfonso's shoulder, directly interrupting him.
"Hey! We're not going to slaughter this white-haired rmaid—just conduct one black tide pollution experint. Besides, having Saul in charge is perfect, right? He's best at treating black tide pollution, so having him record data is safest."
Stuart stood nearby looking up at everyone, taking in all their performances with his small eyes.
Alfonso was originally worried, but couldn't resist Royer's jokingly forceful suggestion. Finally, he could only look at Pearl with concern and reluctantly agree.
Pearl had been staring at the four people and happened to make eye contact with Alfonso, imdiately showing a sweet smile.
Then everyone began executing their respective responsibilities according to Alfonso's experintal procedures.
Alfonso first walked to the deep water pool and lifted the rmaid princess by placing his hands under her armpits.
The rmaid princess showed no resistance, obediently erging from the water.
She looked at Alfonso close by and approached with a face full of smiles.
Alfonso also leaned forward, but he used his forehead to press against Pearl's forehead.
With their foreheads touching, Pearl's approaching movent was halted. She rolled her eyes forcefully to look at Alfonso so close by, seemingly still wanting to get closer, but her body was restrained by so force and couldn't move nearer.
Saul stared intently at the two. He sensed ntal power emanating from Alfonso being transmitted through the contact point of their foreheads.
It seed he was using a special thod to convey information to Pearl.
Pearl's soul body was incomplete. According to Water God Floco's analysis, soone had deliberately damaged Pearl's soul body.
This made it very difficult for her to understand others' thoughts and commands.
Therefore, getting her to obediently lure out atavistic rmaids from the Red Sea wasn't easy.
Alfonso had cared for Pearl for many years and seed to have figured out how to communicate with Pearl, transmitting his commands more accurately to her mind.
This should have been a very proper, serious matter. But Saul watched Pearl lifting her small eyes, excitedly and eagerly glancing at Alfonso, making him feel sothing was strange.
The atmosphere between this person and rmaid... why did it seem sowhat ambiguous?
Suddenly sensing intense emotional changes nearby, Saul kept his head still but glanced sideways at Royer, discovering to his astonishnt that his expression had been... extrely sinister for an instant.
(End of Chapter)
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