As the days passed, Abel returned to his old routine: refining potions, entering the Dark World to cultivate and fight, and nurturing his own divine followers in God's Country.
From time to time, he also used believers to have Izual descend into God's Country and kill divine followers. These assassinations, which left no trace, succeeded easily every time.
Of course, the main reason they succeeded so easily was that God's Country had extremely weak internal defenses. With the Guardian Skywing, they had practically never had enemies inside God's Country for thousands of years.
Moreover, every time Abel used "divine descent," it looked like an accident.
Although the upper echelons of God's Country were suspicious, they could never find any clues. Instead, they mostly suspected that some deity was influencing God's Country, so they added even more defensive forces outside the Guardian Skywing.
A month of Central Continent time after Abel had picked every fruit from the Wisdom Tree, new Wisdom Fruits ripened. This was the effect of the spring water synthesized by the Three Goddess Statue.
Wisdom Fruits that originally took eighteen months to mature had grown and ripened in just one month.
He could not help pitying Rule Wizard Russ of Snow Spirit Mountain. Comparing the times, he realized that even in the Central Continent, the previous batch of Wisdom Fruits would have ripened soon without being accelerated by the spring water synthesized by the Three Goddess Statue.
If Abel had gone looking for trouble with Rule Wizard Russ a few months later, he might not have discovered the Wisdom Tree's wonder through the abnormality of the Wisdom Fruits.
And Rule Wizard Russ had not fled immediately at the time, but had kept begging him. He was probably unwilling to give up the Wisdom Fruits that were about to