There was certainly some falsehood in what Punk had told Keishanoa, but strictly speaking... that patient explanation had not been entirely deceptive.
For example, when it came to treatment experience, although Whisper of Destruction was undoubtedly attempting to "cure illness and save lives" for the first time and had no experience of his own to speak of, Archmage Wedraxia had performed emergency treatment on three comrades who fought alongside him during Netheril's wars.
Although that Sky Scholar had ultimately failed to save a single person, experience in treating patients to death still counted as experience, didn't it?
Furthermore, the materials Punk had asked Plague Box to collect were all genuine, and that Morningstar-tier potion formula list truly was a detailed component list for something called the Abidono Soul Aggregation Agent.
In theory, the Abidono Soul Aggregation Agent was absolutely the finest Morningstar-tier medicine for treating soul injuries like Thunderstorm's. What the insidious Bright Moon Mage had neglected to tell Keishanoa, however, was that certain Morningstar-tier ingredients in that formula could not be found merely by searching—they had to be personally synthesized by a Morningstar caster using Morningstar-tier Alchemy spells. Thus, even if the poor Plague Box wandered the Multiverse for a billion years, she would never gather every ingredient needed to make the Abidono Soul Aggregation Agent.
Of course, the only reason she could not gather the ingredients was because she was too rigid, as inflexible as a dim-witted Golem construct. When Whisper of Destruction eventually summoned Keishanoa back from her search using a magic crystal card, he would surely earnestly educate that adorably foolish young mage about all sorts of "philosophies of life," such as "ask when you don't understand," "be flexible," and "don't stubbornly search for things you can't find."
But by then, the caster's little experiment would