Chapter 1145: Tree of Wisdom
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Abel didn’t have the time to think about the Wizard Union’s reaction. Given his connections to the legendary wizards and his ident.i.ty as the potion master, the Wizard Union would only care to look for what was wrong with the Snow Spirit Mountain and magnify that. His actions would be put under the radar as much as possible.
As soon as Abel returned to the golden castle, the first thing he did was to head to the training room and switch on his defensive circle and the seclusion circle. Then, he opened the Town Teleportation Scroll and pa.s.sed into the teleportation portal. As soon as he was in, he teleported himself over to the Blood Moor. While he was inside, he found an empty spot to take out his ancient building. Although plants could survive within the portal bag, he wanted to make sure that he wasn’t doing anything to hurt his special fruit tree.
So, he took the ancient building out. Abel went to the center and saw that the fruit tree was in the middle of the seclusion circle. The tree was still like back on top of the Snow Spirit Mountain. There wasn’t really much of a change. Abel switched on the soulspeaker’s ability. He placed his hand on the tree bark and began to feel everything. He realized that although there was no freezing element here, the fire element that was gathered from the ancient building alone, was enough for the fruit tree to absorb energy. Because of this, instead of immediately looking for a way to repair the ancient building, Abel first sought to know just what exactly the fruit tree was and what the requirements were for it to grow. Having thought about that, he ordered the high elves to take care of the fruit tree for him. He was going back to the golden castle first.
Abel first spoke to the research spirit, “Search for any tree that has a bark like marble, leaves like jade, and fruits that harness power of the Rule.”
There was a complete freezing element heritage within the research spirit search database. Abel would always turn to it if he needed to look up something.
The research spirit replied after ten minutes, “Nothing on that, Master.”
Abel was a bit confused. He didn’t want to go to the Wizard Union headquarters just to ask about this. He had already decimated Snow Spirit Mountain, so it wouldn’t be the wisest idea if he was to show up to the Wizard Union very quickly. Yes, unless he was sure of what he was getting, he was not going to let anyone else know about the fruit tree. Now, there was only one place left for research. That’s the library of the elven royal palace. No one would spy on him over there. As for the Wizard Union, they had plenty of ways to figure out what happened on their own.
Abel had Frankenstein bring him to the teleportation room underground. He pa.s.sed through the large-sized teleportation circle and activated a route to head over to the Bay Law City Palace. While he was standing amidst the teleportation circle, he immediately felt Druid Lando’s presence. The guardian druid that was protecting the elven royal family was pa.s.sing straight towards the teleportation room as soon as he knew that Abel was here.
Druid Lendo smiled and bowed, “Welcome, Master Bennett, Wizard Frankenstein.”
Abel smiled as well, “So much for you to come over here, Druid Lando.”
Frankenstein didn’t do anything, but Druid Lendo understood. Apart from Master Bennett, Frankenstein wouldn’t reply to anyone unless to eliminate Master Bennett’s enemies.
Druid Lendo thought that something was up, “So what brings you here today, Master Bennett?”
Abel wouldn’t come here often, not even when he was invited.
Abel smiled, “I’ve come here to borrow some information from the library.”
“No problem, Master Bennett. As a dragon druid, you have access to all the knowledge inside the library,” Druid Lendo said, “Follow me.”
Abel followed him to the back of the royal palace. The moment they arrived, they could see that all the elves within the royal palace were backing away in a very polite manner. After pa.s.sing through a garden, Abel began to see a tower that had three levels made entirely of wood. Regular libraries wouldn’t be built of wood because of concerns in case there was arson, but this was a special building made of special material. The timber was supposed to be good against pests, and since there were spell runes drawn over it, it wasn’t even possible to light it on fire if someone was to put a torch over it.
Druid Lendo announced to the library, “The library will be closed for the entire day. No elves are supposed to stay now.”
As soft as his voice here, it echoed throughout the whole s.p.a.ce. All the elves that were reading were walking out. Abel even saw some royal elves that were leaving. None of them hesitated to follow the order. They went very quickly to Druid Lando, bowed, threw a surprised look at Abel, and hurried up to leave. In just two minutes, the entire library was empty.
Druid Lendo pa.s.sed a card to Abel, “This is the ident.i.ty card of the library. Master Bennett, if you use this, you can flick through any book!”
He didn’t bother entering the library with Abel out of respect for privacy.
Abel nodded and smiled, “Thank you, Druid Lando!”
Frankenstein was walking inside the library as well. On the first floor of the library, there were about several hundred large bookshelves with all sorts of books stored from low to high. They were mostly parchment books. Abel frowned as he realized how difficult it would be to look for the one he was after. He began by focusing his power of the Will onto his sign card. He could see that the card contained a map of where different genres were stored. There was an order of series that he would need.
Very quickly, Abel followed the information and found something related to the fruit tree. Here, some books related to cultivating fruit trees and even some cross-breeding methods were here. He didn’t find the specific things he was after, though. Still, he managed to realize it as well very quickly. He didn’t need to open the books himself. He just needed to do a quick scan with his power of the Will. With just one minute, he could finish an entire book and understand the content.
After being disappointed with the second floor, Abel placed his attention on the third floor. He sensed a strange barrier as soon as he stepped onto the third floor. The layer had no resistance. It just pushed him to be on the third floor. While on the third floor, Abel could see a special leaf that belonged to the elves. This was something he remembered seeing when he was inside the Holy Continent Alchemist Union library. He had thought that the books there were only for the Holy Continent, but he realized how special this was.
From what it looked like, the elves on the central continent had been much more affected by the humans than the elves on the subcontinent. Most elves had already accepted the method in which the humans record down parchment paper. As for the special leaf he saw now, that seemed to be something that was only used for some of the older books.
The third floor was the oldest thing in the central continent. The record was among the oldest on the central continent. Abel was watching all the records that were made for the high elves. He was felt kind of confused. Could the high elves really be the earliest lifeforms in the history of this world?
He thought back to the high elves that were inside the dark world. They were now the first living beings inside the dark world. Many years later, the dark world would just have the same level of diversity and cultural richness as this world. That didn’t matter at this moment. As long as Abel could be inside the dark world, he would be the only one who could decide what the history of that world would be.
There weren’t a lot of leaf books on the third floor. The total was roughly 300. Abel was very quickly captivated by the amount of knowledge stored here. Before, he used to only have his followers come here to look up information for him. However, coming here on his own had been much more enjoyable than what he thought it’d be. What he didn’t know was that the knowledge stored up here contained much more than what’s said in the common myths regarding the tree of life and the connection between the Moon G.o.ddess and the elven race.
Abel felt like he was reading a legend, mostly about wars between divine spirits or between divine spirits and wizards. He was distracted sifting through the stories, and just when he was about to forget the reason that he came here, he saw a record that spoke of a tree called the wisdom tree.
The wisdom tree was a jade white tree that could generate the sound of a bell when knocked on. It would produce fruits every 30 years with 15 wisdom fruits produced every time. The fruits of wisdom, or wisdom fruits, would allow the people to gain the power of the origin. As for what the power of origin was, that would depend on what the fruits absorbed to grow during maturation.
Inside the book, there was a story about how one hero invited the others to eat the wisdom fruit with him. It was a story about honor and glory. Everyone who could partic.i.p.ate was invited to spar with each other to decide who got to have the 15 wisdom fruits shared with them. It was actually the most popular event of that era, as the wisdom fruit would always boost the progress of everyone who might or might not be stuck at their training.
Abel was certain now that the tree he saw was the wisdom tree, the one that was grown from a seed featured in the story. In the story, the original wisdom tree was destroyed after so many had fought for it. When the founder of the Snow Spirit Mountain came, he found a remaining seed that was found on the abandoned battlefield. That founder decided to establish a small organization on his own, thinking that he could enjoy all the wisdom fruits by himself if he could grow the wisdom fruit. To achieve that goal, he even got a building that could absorb fire elements and had that building set on top of the Snow Spirit Mountain. He wanted the tree to harness both fire and the freezing element.
If only it was that easy. The founder never saw the tree sprout while he was still alive. His wishes were pa.s.sed onto his successors under secret, and generation after generation, the Snow Spirit Mountain would watch over the wisdom tree as it slowly grew. There were many times where the leaders would die of natural causes, and they’d be very disappointed in not seeing the fruit of their labor come into fruition.
That was until Wizard Luce’s generation. The wisdom tree was finally growing fruits, and he became the first law-defying wizard of the Snow Spirit Mountain because of it. Unfortunately, because of how rash he was, Abel ended everything before the Snow Spirit Mountain managed to amount to anything. Abel ended up having his own wisdom tree.
Abel let out a long sigh. He was glad that he was careful enough not to let anyone else know about this. He wouldn’t want to have more people target him for another one of his treasures. As powerful as he was, he didn’t possess the same strength as the founder featured in this book. He couldn’t just keep everyone away from attacking, and if he had to guess, the founder also had to eventually compromise to share the fruits, even if he was much more powerful than anyone else who was interested.
Whatever. Abel was not the type to share this unless it was with his family. He dropped the book leaf that was within his hands. He wasn’t interested in continuing, so he only thought about hurrying up to return to the side of the wisdom tree. He quickly went to the first floor and went out of the library door. He could see that along with Frankenstein, Druid Lendo was waiting at the door for him.
Druid Lendo quickly inquired, “Are you alright, Master Bennett?”
Abel smiled and bowed, “Thank you so much for you and the royal palace’s help, Druid Lando. Please, say thanks to Queen Luisa for me. I won’t be able to visit this time since I’m busy.”
Having said that, he brought Frankenstein to come to the teleportation circle of the royal palace. He activated the teleportation circle and headed back to the golden castle.