Ball of Nothing

Chapter 526 - World Flower Guardian

Zoe waited anxiously for updates. Xvyal and Yxaan were still not waking up. Misana was getting taken care off by Zero’s clones so the patients would be waking up soon. However, the flower was starting to give problems.

New Moon Village was spooked when the newly planted flower refused to stay in its plot of land. At first, everyone thought that the child was seeing things and had a nightmare. However, it didn’t take long for people to realise that what the child said was true.

Zero’s special flower was uprooting itself and walking around. It ran around finding good places to sit in and changed its location so often that Rohan sent an emergency message back to Half Moon Village. Cleo went down immediately to sort the situation out and the flower was temporarily in their care, soaking in the tub with Zero.

The unusual phenomenon caught Gaia’s attention and without a better option, she sent a clone down to investigate the strange flower that Zero created in his first soul transplant experiment.

"Great Goddess Gaia!" Cleo welcomed Mother Nature and was extremely relieved that they were getting some professional help. Zero was too busy and couldn’t be contacted. Truen didn’t know what was happening. Zoe couldn’t get anyone over and this domineering flower couldn’t be stopped. While it was violent, it was good at escaping.

When Gaia was five steps away from the flower soaking in the tub with Zero, the flower turned around to face her. They stared at each other, one with eyes and one without. It was a silent battle as they probed at each other using mana auras. Gaia was startled when the flower’s mana made contact with her mana aura. It felt very similar to world trees but slightly less powerful. In fact, if she ignored the silly vessel it was in, this soul was a rather powerful one in the past before it was weakened.

"Can you understand us?" Gaia asked and the flower bent down slightly as if bowing or nodding.

"Can you write?" she asked again and this time, the flower uprooted itself from the tub to lean over the edge. It found a twig lying around and grabbed it using long roots before making weak scratches on the ground.

It took a while before the flower stopped writing and while it was difficult to understand it, Gaia recognised the language. It was from the old world.

"Do you have memories of your previous life?" she asked and the flower nodded.

While Gaia wasn’t a language expert, she did recognise the alphabets used. It was similar to something Steve Jobs recorded in his diary. Thankfully, the i-communicator had a translator. The flower looked at the i-communicator and reached out its roots hesitatingly. Gaia paused.

"You know how to use this?"

The flower nodded faster this time and wriggled its roots eagerly. Gaia handed the i-communicator over with the translator app open and the flower started tapping quickly before showing what it wrote to Gaia.

[I was a teacher.]

Fascinated, Gaia sat down and talked to the flower who would text its replies. The soul was reincarnated several times with memories of its past and constantly tried to spread its knowledge to this new world but failed because they would always be caught up in some war or conflict. Eventually, they became so depressed that they just decided to sleep in the Natural Plane for a long time until they were picked up by Tanya and handed over to Zero for that insane experiment.

[I didn’t remember anything at first but after going through the tampering treatment that I felt like I was going to die, I started to recall everything. In my many lives, I had always been a teacher.]

Gaia peered into the soul and nodded. Indeed, it was aligned with the soul’s purpose. How this soul became so damaged in the first place wasn’t too important for now. Instead, she had to figure out why there would be a world flower. There was never such a record before and the closest to such a thing were mythical flowers that could save lives if they were used as medicine. However, none of those mythical flowers had consciousness or was able to display intelligence like that. All world trees had to have a guardian and Gaia wasn’t taking chances with the world flower. If the word got out that there was a world flower in New Moon Village, a new war will begin. This flower needed a guardian before they even tried to figure out what this world flower’s domain was.

Zero finally picked up his communicator when he saw Gaia’s name.

The Great Goddess sighed in relief when the call connected. Zoe and Cleo were waiting by the side for the latest news and tried not to appear as if they were trying to listen in to the conversation.

Gaia explained quickly what they discovered about the flower Zero sent back to New Moon Village and the doctor was surprised.

"In that case, could you help me find out what kind of world flower that is? I’m in the middle of researching how to reforge souls and this should be the perfect opportunity to create a world flower guardian. Tanya said that reforged souls are very compatible with immortal-like vessels."

Mother Nature couldn’ deny that it was good timing. If Zero was able to create a spriggan for his new experiment, she need not worry about the safety of this world flower. The only issue was getting this world flower to stop traumatising everyone else.

"Understood. How long would you require to test the reforge soul and make a flower spriggan?"

Zero estimated that it would take him about another day and if it worked, he was going to start purifying Baku’s soul to fuse the corrupted bits with Sylvia’s soul for reforging.

"I have a feeling that this world flower is the World Flower of Improvement or Potential. I did some light testing and observations while it was still in my care. Anyone that is near its influence will automatically improve physically and mentally. It also has the ability to increase mana or cultivation limitations. It causes evolution over a long period of time but most importantly, it unlocks hidden potentials. Lily was the first to receive an upgrade. She grew another petal on her flower skirt. Wii also finds it easier to stabilise the Parallel Mind controls now."

Indeed, it was fascinating. "Understood, I will talk to it more to find out what is happening. Do let me know if you have any more questions about souls."