Looking at the only brightly lit castle on Night Mountain, Mr. Sun said softly, "The prophecy our teacher received didn't clearly indicate whether the 'anomaly' was a living thing or a dead object."
"The only thing we can be sure of is that the anomaly is located somewhere around Night Mountain."
Generally speaking, an anomaly referred to some special phenomenon that violated common sense. Such a phenomenon might be a marvel born from nature, or a wondrous sight caused by some living creature.
Its scope was vast, and the kinds of anomalies were therefore countless.
Many marvels were even exceedingly well hidden.
For example, suppose a blade of grass could originally only grow three leaves, but under the influence of some unknown and mysterious force, it grew an extra leaf. If that unknown mystery stemmed from an inexplicable power, then this too could be considered an anomaly.
But most of the time, discovering it was extremely difficult. When natural selection occurred, four-leaf clovers would appear as well, making it hard to determine whether the four-leaf clover before one was the result of an anomaly or natural selection.
As a Legendary Wizard, one could distinguish every four-leaf clover in an entire garden in an instant. But even a Legendary Wizard needed to calculate and discern, bit by bit, the underlying logic behind the formation of four-leaf clovers.
That was why, for the mere matter of an "anomaly," Late-Sleeping Prophet had dispatched a Legendary Wizard like Ms. Moon to investigate.
"Let's start with the living things." Mr. Sun pointed at the castle below. "As the masters of civilization, humans are certainly far more likely to produce anomalies than natural selection is."
Ms. Moon said, "When I came here just now, I took a quick look around. There aren't many people in this