The Crystal Flower Potion could wipe out all the gains those Mages had acquired through seemingly reasonable yet accidental means.
That was what Hill most wanted to do.
As a Mage, Hill understood Mages better than anyone.
At the beginning, there might truly have been accidents. But after such a long time, if such things were still happening, then they definitely were not accidents.
Keeping seemingly uncontrollable circumstances as much under one's own control as possible had always been a Mage's specialty.
They could not resolve the growing conditions of the Fruit of Wisdom, but they could deal with the people who might create such circumstances.
Moreover, doing so would even allow things that were originally meant to proceed in an orderly queue to be reasonably delivered into the hands of whoever they wanted... while also keeping those people away from the deliberately created misfortunes.
The Archmages of the Defense Tower could each make use of their strengths and arrange all sorts of escape routes. Could the Despair Tower not do the same?
The Despair Tower understood even more clearly than anyone how families like Hainalson had obtained hope for survival.
Even the Sia Tower knew not to go too far. So if a major reshuffling truly occurred later, those within the Despair Tower most likely to have a slim chance of survival would naturally be the strong ones who genuinely knew nothing.
With the Fruit of Wisdom, it was truly far too easy for the Despair Tower to make such arrangements.
It was precisely because they could offer their own people what appeared to be a bright and legitimate highway that the Despair Tower dared to demand such high talent from the apprentices they accepted.
Although abandoning someone as exceptionally gifted as Gilbert had involved special reasons, the fact