The Tree Spirit did not immediately ponder the meaning of the row of ornate script. Instead, he turned to Rhein. "How much time elapsed between the writing of this bronze plaque and the other plaques?"
"There is no way to determine the exact time, but it should have been around two hundred years."
Rhein's answer was truly rather exaggerated. A year or two would have been one thing, but it had actually spanned nearly two hundred years?
By the inertia of human behavior, this was clearly somewhat abnormal.
"Tizhalo only stayed in these ruins for a little over two hundred years in total. In other words, he left this plaque during the final period he spent in these ruins. That goes even more against behavioral logic. No one would deliberately leave behind a plaque like this just before departing." The Tree Spirit fell silent for a moment. "Abnormal behavior must mean that something abnormal happened."
At this point, the Tree Spirit looked at Rhein. "You said the writing on this bronze plaque had been altered?"
Rhein nodded. "That's right. But we do not know what was written before it was altered."
The Tree Spirit pondered. "Barring accidents, following the usual pattern, the original content must have been like that on the other three bronze plaques, all written on the same day. Looking at it that way, the original content should not have been important."
The Tree Spirit controlled the Mirror World, and with his long lifespan, he had watched Tizhalo grow up. Naturally, he understood Tizhalo's behavioral habits better than Rhein did.
At this moment, Sanders said, "In my view, there are only two possibilities for why Tizhalo chose to alter the words on the bronze plaque before leaving the ruins."
Everyone looked to Sanders, waiting for his explanation.
"First,