Chapter 2483: Lightning Struck Stump

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Central Region, Central Academic City, Morningstar University District, Morningstar University Campus, Garden of Beginning

The Garden of the Beginning was not the temporal anchor. Though it had a long history, and could be here to witness millennia to come, it was just too obvious. If it were the temporal anchor, I could have sensed it the moment I laid my primordial soul pupils on it—that is, when I arrived here.

However, one thing was sure: whatever the temporal anchor was, it was within the confines of the Garden of the Beginning. The garden was vast, but we had already scoured ‌it once searching for time vestige. We can do it again. Especially now that we know exactly what we’re searching for. The temporal anchor will be in our grasp in time.

’Boss, even if we manage to find the temporal anchor, what next? I don’t have enough mastery over the Time Rule to use it and summon Time Vestige back to the present,’ Henricks mentally reported his doubts and concerns to me.

Clearly, he was trying to confirm if my own mastery of the Time Rule was sufficient to use the temporal anchor and take control of Time Vestige. I don’t know why Henricks had to be so cautious about this when he could be direct about other silly things.

Also, his concerns weren’t unfounded. Without enough mastery of the Time Rule and comprehension in required time rule meanings, it would be impossible to use the temporal anchor to summon things that have traveled to the past using it as an anchor. Even I couldn’t manage that with the various means up my sleeve.

’I know, you don’t have to remind me about your pitiful mastery of the Time Rule. Besides, who said that we have to use the time anchor to take control of the Time Vestige? And stop talking about taking control and whatnot—we are guests here, remember,’ I replied mysteriously with a playful grin, without revealing my plans for after we find the temporal anchor.

’Yes, we are here for sightseeing,’ Henricks played along with his young boss, knowing that the change in the boss’s attitude meant he was confident about turning the situation in their favor. Then, Henricks went on to exclaim aloud, "What a beautiful garden."

With Henricks’s exaggerated reaction, my grin grew wider. This comradeship was satisfying. I couldn’t experience this with my calamity daughter gems excluding the blood kins who could be brutally honest on certain occasions.

After two freaking hours, Henricks and I stood before a gigantic lightning-struck stump. Looking at its half-burnt half-alive body, I declared, "This is it."

"Are you sure, Boss? I feel no temporal signatures from it," Henricks replied with doubt in his eyes. He repeatedly scrutinized the gigantic burned stump repeatedly, but couldn’t sense an iota of temporal energy signature from it. The tree stump clearly was one of the oldest trees in the garden, even though half-burnt with proper care and nourishment, it will live long.

Still... It’s just that Henricks felt it would be irresponsible on Morningstar University’s part to use a half dead tree as a temporal anchor. So, he even tried to probe it with his basic mastery of time rule but he got no response—

"Huh? No, response," Henricks stared at the lightning-struck tree stump in astonishment. Even the SSS-rank seeds and plants have shown signs of augmentation under the probe of his time rule, let alone a half-dead giant garden tree. Unless it was really the temporal anchor as his boss claimed.

"Do you still have any concerns?" I asked, after Henricks was done with his tests.

"No—" Henricks shook his head sideways, but paused mid-sentence sensing a shift in the surrounding space.

"Stop, or I don’t mind destroying it," I declared aloud, knowing that Morningstar University’s faculty was trying to retrieve the lightning-struck stump after seeing our interest in it. Especially after Henricks probed it with his Time Rule power.

With my words, all the spatial disturbance in our surroundings came to an immediate halt. Meanwhile, Henricks broke into loud laughter as he made himself comfortable on a branch of the lightning-struck stump. "Boss, don’t worry, with me here no one will teleport this temporal anchor away."

Henricks made sure that Morningstar University wasn’t under the impression that we didn’t actually know what the lightning-struck stump actually was. This way we can skip a lot of bullshit afterwards without making it awkward.

"Henricks, stop acting like a hooligan. We are guests here, remember," I said that, but I didn’t mean it. I wanted to see how long it would take Morningstar University to ditch the saintly facade and show their true faces. Now, all I had to do was wait for them to come crawling to me.

"Boss, the garden is too big. Let me rest a little bit. This tree stump’s fragrance is relaxing," Henricks replied as he made himself comfortable on the lightning-struck stump.

"Really? Let me see." Feigning exaggerated surprise and curiosity, I too found a branch on the lightning stuck stump made myself comfortable. "It does smell good and relax."

"Wyatt, it smells like coal compared to you," a cute voice broke our shameless pretense. It was Dredre. After hearing me, she curiously sniffed the lightning stuck stump and instantly came to regret it and immediately complained.

"..." Even Henricks couldn’t salvage the situation after Dredre’s blunt but honest remark.

"What do you know about trees and their fragrance, you are a dark pixie," I said, winking at Dredre, but later didn’t get my signal. Instead, asked, "Wyatt, are you sick? Do you have a cold or something?"

"No, I’m not," I hurriedly replied and assured Dredre, fearing she would use her pixie dust on me in an attempt to cure me. If she were to openly use pixie dust in the card world, the card celestial would immediately become aware of her existence. I did warn her not to carelessly use her pixie dust when outside, but knowing her nature, her first instinct would be to cure her friend over recalling his warning.

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