The goddesses attempted to gain my salvation.

At this point, the prostitute tapped her pipe against the wall and emptied the ash.

"But I didn't believe it. I always felt that he was lying to me, so I kept the document hidden on my person, hoping that someone who knew its contents might be familiar with it."

"It's a pity, I may never be destined to make money."

"I searched everywhere, but couldn't find a single person who knew anything about it."

"I'm getting married soon anyway. This thing is useless to me now. Give me some money as a token, and I'll consider it a sale."

Neither Rose nor Ryan had considered this.

The truth they were looking for was actually in the hands of this prostitute!

Rose took a few round silver beans out of her pocket and placed them in the prostitute's hand.

The prostitute was clearly startled.

In her view, this incomprehensible document was worth at most a few coins.

After selling out, it would be good enough if I could buy myself some better quality tobacco to smoke.

I never expected to be able to exchange them for silver beans!

It’s a huge profit!

The prostitute took the silver bean with great satisfaction and swayed her large buttocks back to her room.

Rose and Ryan, meanwhile, took the document and went to a very secluded place.

Ryan even used light magic to block any form of external observation, putting them into a temporary state of secrecy.

Rose took out a pen and notebook from her backpack and wrote down the translated content in the notebook.

Finally, after half an hour, the translation was finished.

Then, Rose read out the three words that appeared most frequently in the document.

"Indigo flower..."

"Dick discovered the Blue Flower in Vita Town?!"

"Moreover, these blue flowers are extremely unique in appearance... Although they look similar to normal blue flowers, the colors of their stems and leaves are subtly different. They not only appear more transparent, but you can also see fluid-like structures inside, similar to magic circuits."

"Moreover, while trying to dig up the blue flower, Dick also discovered a strangely shaped stone egg on the rootstock of the blue flower."

"After a preliminary investigation, Dick discovered that these stone eggs could block magical detection, and that there were still undeveloped life forms inside when the eggs were cracked open."

"The information available at hand is not enough to determine the types of life."

"Dick believed that this discovery had great potential value, which is why he wanted to ask me to come and take a look."

After she finished speaking, Rose remained silent.

Ryan was filled with shock.

Blue flowers, stone eggs... and the life within them...

Ryan felt a chill run down his spine, as if he had been struck by lightning, and goosebumps rose all over his body.

Upon hearing this, he almost instantly thought of the enormous sandworm he had encountered in Vita Town, around the Blue Flower.

That sandworm was clearly a variant of a sandworm.

Not only do they have high resistance to magic, but they are also extremely brutal.

Even Victor, a mage with three circuits, was utterly slaughtered, which gives you an idea of ​​just how powerful that sandworm was.

Could it be that the sandworm was the life inside the stone egg?

But if that's the case, then why would sandworms be associated with something as completely unrelated as the blue flower?

The soil environment in which the blue peanut grows, the stone eggs that shield it from magical perception, and the gigantic sandworms...

The locations where the Mystic Blue Flower was discovered are: Vita Town, Mos Ancient City...

An extremely bold hypothesis came to Ryan's mind.

The blue flower may not have grown in the soil at all; its true place of growth is that stone egg!

Or perhaps, the blue flower actually grows on sandworms.

It just happened to appear in those places.

This conclusion is at least logically consistent, explaining why the blue flower appears in several places with drastically different soil environments.

Because those environments are all illusions, all superficial. The true "soil environment" for the blue flower is actually sandworms.

The blue flower and the sandworm merged into one under the influence of some powerful external force.

As for why they spread so far, there are many possibilities.

Biological migration, leakage during transportation, or perhaps a giant creature inadvertently smuggled some stone eggs and blue flowers along with it while moving.

And they were scattered along the way, allowing them to take root, sprout, and slowly hatch.

For example, that gigantic sandworm.

The routes connecting those discovery sites are the sandworm's movement routes.

However, there is no evidence to support this speculation, and it remains just an assumption.

But what if... his assumption is correct?

Who exactly is it, and for what purpose, that would combine these two things together?

Is it simply because they're too full and have nothing better to do?

Or is there some other purpose?

Chapter Ninety-Seven: Ghosn's Warning

The Lancy family's influence extends almost throughout the entire Anseth City territory.

However, in order to avoid direct conflict with the Rema family, the Lancy family still built their manor in a place far away from the main city.

Moreover, it is located right around the ancient city of Moss.

Due to their abundant funds, the Lanxi family's estate is almost the size of a small town.

It's filled with green plants, and it takes a lot of water to irrigate them every day.

You have to understand that in a hot and dry place like Anseth City, water is the most precious thing in the eyes of ordinary people.

Five copper coins are needed to exchange for a small bucket of clean, drinkable water.

At the Lancy family's estate, hundreds of gold coins are spent every day to fetch water and irrigate these green plants.

This gives us an idea of ​​just how luxurious it is.

After leaving the casino, Bane did not take the women out for a good time, but went straight back to the manor.

Because he had some things to report to his family members.

Coincidentally, his older brother Ghosn was in the lobby.

"What, you're back early today?" Ghosn flipped through a book, glancing at Bane out of the corner of his eye. "At this time of day, you should still be lingering between a woman's legs."

“Women are nothing but entertainment,” Bane said, taking a sip of water before sitting down in front of Ghosn.

"I am someone who can distinguish between what is important and what is urgent."

Ghosn closed the book: "What's wrong? Is something the matter?"

Bane nodded.

"Today at the casino, I met a tough guy. In the card game, he made that idiot Bell go bankrupt in just one game."

"Going bankrupt?"

Ghosn thought that going bankrupt was just a figure of speech.

But when he heard about the glorious achievements of the man named Ryan from Bane's words, he discovered that going bankrupt was indeed a fact.

As the eldest son of the Lancy family, the king of the underground world, he is also the true leader of the entire family.

Ghosn knew the background of the nobles around him.

The Bell family's assets are worth approximately six million gold coins in total.

If what Bane said is true, then Bell lost all his wealth in just one game and even has to shoulder debts he can't repay.

Bell really is a complete idiot.

The fact that such a person came from the family suggests that their ancestors must have done something terrible.

However, Bale's foolishness is one aspect.

But who exactly is that Ryan...?

Ghosn put down his book, picked up his teacup, and took a sip of the black tea.

“I also had an interesting experience today. I met the eldest daughter of the Rema family. It’s Maggie.”

After listening, Bane grinned: "Oh, I know that woman. She has long legs and is quite pretty. It's just that her personality is a bit awful; she always has this inexplicable confidence."

Ghosn sighed.

Bane is still the same as ever, not very capable, and only has women's appearance on his mind.

It's a misfortune for the Lancy family to have such an exceptional individual.

Fortunately, they had him as the leader and their third brother, who possessed exceptional magical talent.

“But what is that woman Magina doing in Mos Ancient City instead of studying at the academy?” Bane suddenly remembered something and sat up straight. “Could it be that the Rema family knows about what we’ve been doing in private?”

Ghosn rolled his eyes at him.

It seems that his younger brother is not entirely stupid.

"A tutor from the academy, named Victor, accompanied them. My retainer also confirmed this. Maggie should indeed be here for travel."

"Besides, even if the Rema family finds out what we've been doing in private, so what? Yaen is just a three-circuit mage, not worth mentioning. Her daughter only has two circuits. When it comes to fighting us, we can crush them in terms of both economy and raw power."

Ghosn put down his teacup and picked up his book again.

"Also, the secret technique Yvette gave us is very effective. My third brother successfully broke through five circuits just yesterday. And at this rate, he will awaken into a Grand Magus with six circuits in another month."