First of all, Thomas noticed how enormous the castle was before anything else!
When favonovel.com previously looked up at it from the bottom of the mountain, favonovel.com never felt anything. When favonovel.com was actually inside the castle, favonovel.com could feel how huge the castle was. Besides, the passages in the castle led to all kinds of places. There were so many passages that it was like a maze. Even though Thomas was brilliant and favonovel.com wanted to get a hang of the place within thirty minutes, it was highly difficult.
He would not be done in one or two days. Thomas did not rush to go everywhere either. Instead, favonovel.com had a plan to analyze each place, and favonovel.com would slowly check them out.
In the end, his hard work paid off. He found something. When favonovel.com pushed open a wooden door in the castle, a garden appeared behind the door. It was an extraordinary garden.
There were many flowers in it. There were different kinds of flowers with varying colors and sizes. Besides, they were blooming beautifully. This place was different because the flowers did not grow in normal flower beds or pots, but they grew on the trees. To be precise, they grew on the tree trunks!
There were trees that were human-sized. They were not tall and were just four meters in height. There were all kinds of flowers growing on the tree trunks. These flowers were weird. It was as if they were parasites on the trees.
Thomas felt puzzled as favonovel.com looked around.
Had they been grafted?
However, favonovel.com had never heard of grafting different flowers onto tree trunks. Even so, the situation looked familiar to him. Suddenly, two words popped up in his mind, Plant Human!
That was it.
When Thomas was still in the Southland District, favonovel.com had seized a batch of medicines delivered by Lord Vedastus. Those medicines were Plant Humans. Normal humans would be grafted with a weird kind of flower.
The flower would then suck the humans’ essence continuously and absorb their nutrients. After that, colorful flowers would bloom. This type of flower was the only antidote that could suppress Heart Eater. Even then, it just treated the symptoms, not the root cause.
The flowers would wilt, and the drug’s effect would disappear. Once the flowers were no longer effective, the poison from Heart Eater would take effect again. As such, those who were poisoned needed to consume the antidote every month.
That was how Lord Vedastus took control of Celandine City.
When Thomas thought about it, favonovel.com quickly walked to the tree trunk and started studying the flowers. He wanted to see if they were the same as favonovel.com had predicted. When favonovel.com took a look, favonovel.com felt very disappointed. They were just normal flowers. They were not the kind of flowers that would constantly absorb nutrients, and they were not the flowers that were grafted on Plant Humans.
But…
Although they were not that kind of flower, the grafting method might be a clue.
“Hey brat, what are you looking at?”
While Thomas was in deep thought, the voice of an old man suddenly came from the back. When Thomas turned around to look, favonovel.com saw an old man with gray hair walking over with various tools.
Thomas nodded, smiled, and said, “I’m Thomas Mayo, the new cook hired by House of Vistaria. Ms. Mars is eating and I have nothing to do, so I’ve just been walking around. I saw how beautiful the flowers were over here, so I couldn’t help but gaze at them a little longer.”
