By now, they both knew what the other was capable of, so there was no need for formalities.
Mo She replied after a few seconds. "Isn't the documentation clear enough? This is an object retrieved from beyond the Boundary Curtain, a physical carrier for rule fragments...
"But the rule fragments it carries have varied properties, and it withstood the subsequent processing while retaining its original form. That means it most likely isn't an ordinary material, but something with a very strong capacity to attract and accumulate rule fragments.
"Generally, it's either the wreckage of some advanced artificial creation, or a living fragment of a powerful being with the trait of immortality.
"I lean toward the latter, because this ore-like appearance shows fairly typical signs of alteration by high-energy radiation. You can think of that 'glow' as an unstable state produced by rule fragments competing over and eroding their 'food.'"
When the Wheel of Evolution was willing to serve as a tool, he was certainly a useful one.
Ronan asked what he didn't understand. "Immortality? Immortal Root Marrow... a Great Monarch?"
"Probably. There's a certain chance of finding things like that beyond the Boundary Curtain. If that's what it is, then it really is valuable. Plenty of people would go mad if they got their hands on it only to lose it."
"Can you guess where it came from?"
Ronan had only asked offhand, but to his surprise, Mo She had an answer ready:
"Radiation turning flesh into ore—that has the Danggu System written all over it. I heard Great Monarch Banna was attacked beyond the Boundary Curtain last year and fled back badly wounded. It wouldn't be strange if he lost a few chunks of flesh."
"A Great Monarch, attacked... what about the culprit?"
"They're probably still looking."
"An attack