This time, Lu PingAn had come for a special visit with genuine sincerity.
As a High-Tier Gardener in the truest sense, his attainments in his own field were far inferior even to the adjacent Beast Tamer system that he theoretically could not access.
What he lacked was not merely high-tier Gardener abilities, but the entire high-tier Botanical Researcher system.
Knowledge, research methods, connections, high-tier abilities, sources of materials, resource secret realms, relevant intelligence and personnel—he had none of it.
Amid the incredulous looks of the others, he stated the truth.
"Perhaps you won't believe me, but I got this far on the Gardener main path mostly through self-study."
Lu PingAn did not add, "I'm a Pactbearer. I don't lie," because he had witnessed the negative effects of those words far too many times. Heaven knew what those predecessors had done to make that profession so hated by gods and ghosts alike.
".You've never used your Pactbearer identity and abilities to scam anyone?"
Big Cat's single question left him speechless. The moment he had become a Pactbearer, he had tricked Fang Wen once, hadn't he? Not using the "cannot lie" trait to deceive people would have been such a waste.
".Fine. I'd better stop telling people I'm a Pactbearer."
But right now, what mattered most was sincerity. Since he was here to make up for his shortcomings, he naturally had to admit which subject he had failed.
"I can tell."
Old Deer stroked his goatee and nodded.
The garden was quite good, and so were the tools within it. In particular, the obvious Rule Buildings could not only create the environment magical plants needed most, but might even cause "instant magical plant growth." Yet all of it was standard fare—knowledge and systems that could easily be purchased on the market. There