The Cherry Dragon Tree was far too valuable for Yveta not to put it away as soon as possible.
The Hearthstone Great Witch offered to keep it in her Personal Carriage. It was a carriage she had created with magic, and no one except her could possibly enter it!
Yveta blinked, pretending he hadn't heard her, and slipped the Cherry Dragon Tree into his breast pocket.
As if! If he let the Old Witch have the tree, who knew whether she might secretly sell it one day?
Joking aside, strictly speaking, the Hearthstone Great Witch wasn't one of his people.
She had never truly pledged loyalty to him.
In this world, the Loyalty Ceremony seemed to be a Universal Law.
Not a law limited to one time and place, but a Universal Law that applied across all times and places.
He could only trust those who had undergone the Loyalty Ceremony.
Pan reminded Yveta, "This is only a sapling. It can produce only a limited number of Seeds of Life—probably just one or two over the course of about ten years."
"Of course, you can get Seeds of Life from the Cherry Dragon Tree faster by pouring resources into it. But making it grow bigger requires more than resources. It takes time, too."
"The reason the ancient aristocrats are so powerful is that their ancestors began cultivating Exotic Plants from the Heavens hundreds of years ago."
"Even if you pour resources into them, you can't match centuries or even millennia of accumulated effort."
The Children of the Forest watched the scene, displeased.
They simply couldn't understand why the ancient soul would give an Exotic Plant from the Heavens to humans.
The Children of the Forest couldn't use Exotic Plants from the Heavens, but just possessing one would be nice. It