To avoid causing panic, Herad shipped the Fern Treants to the various nations' ports aboard cargo ships, just like ordinary trade goods.
The kingdoms then sent people to transport them wherever they were needed and plant them.
Apart from a handful of people who knew the inside story, no one knew where these strange things had come from.
The official explanation was that these were magical trees used to improve the environment.
The novelty of magical trees aroused people's curiosity.
Whenever they had nothing to do, they would gather to look at these seemingly magical trees with their dark leaves.
The Fern Treants on undercover assignments played the part of trees perfectly.
But while they looked quiet on the outside, they were very active within.
These plant lifeforms had a special communication network.
They were like kindergarten children with a strong enthusiasm for research.
Even if kindergarten children worked together, they could not create new inventions like scientists.
But plant lifeforms were different from ordinary intelligent beings.
They could do something quite incredible.
These plant lifeforms, whose thoughts were highly coordinated, were not much different from computers in certain respects.
Computers linked together could form a supercomputer.
The plant lifeforms, meanwhile, formed a super plant thought network with tremendous computing power.
By observing the reactions of the people around them, they could roughly deduce whether those people were suspicious.
Although they could not reach a definitive conclusion outright, they would then focus their surveillance on those people.
This group of peeping Toms constantly studying suspicious targets achieved astonishing results!
Before long, they found a highly suspicious cult.
The Church of Eternal Life, which claimed it could grant its followers eternal life.
From the plant lifeforms' observations, the Church of Eternal Life was a tightly structured criminal organization.
The Church of