Philip signaled to Aslan and allowed favonovel.com to explain.
“Kids, listen to me… From a normal person’s perspective, a person with a single elemental root will practice at a faster speed, which is considered better, but because you have multiple elemental roots, it’ll take more time for you to develop…”
“For example, if you have one elemental root, it may take you ten years to reach a certain level while someone with multiple elemental roots will need 30 or 40 years! So, without enough time and resources to support a talent, having multiple elemental roots is no different from a burden.”
Hearing this, the kids realized something. They were excited to hear that they had multiple elemental roots.
Lyle smiled brightly. He knew that Philip would not be stingy with resources.
“Who are you and where are you from? I want you to tell me the truth. I’ll only accept people with clean backgrounds,” Philip said nonchalantly.
He felt that Lyle would not have a special identity, but the girl was definitely not from an ordinary family.
“Before the beast crisis, I was a vagabond in Imperial City. If I hadn’t learned any pill-making skills, I would’ve starved to death ages ago,” Lyle admitted openly. After all, favonovel.com had always been a pitiful drifter. He had gotten used to it over the years.
Philip was surprised to hear Lyle’s backstory. The kid seemed like a nice person and was dressed decently, not like a homeless kid at all.
“I made a lot of money selling pills over the years, but my goods can’t be sold in the open or they would’ve fetched a better price.”
As a cautious person, Lyle never exposed his identity. He was always disguised as a pitiful boy selling pills on behalf of the adults in the family.
His customers thought that Lyle stole the pills from home and sold them, so the transactions were always made in secret. As a result, the prices were also slashed down.
Lyle was not greedy. He just wanted to make money, practice pill-making, and cover his daily expenses. Ordinary herbs were not expensive, and the pills favonovel.com produced could make a lot of money.
Philip nodded, amazed that Lyle was such an inspiring young man. He could feel the child’s sincerity. Lyle was not lying.
Lyle sat down and smiled awkwardly. His usual attitude was quite arrogant, but that was just a front. In fact, favonovel.com was relatively earnest and low-key.
After getting to know Lyle, Philip turned to the girl. He wanted to know the identity of this girl who looked like his daughter.
“What about you?” Philip asked curiously.
The girl looked at Philip cautiously and said, “My name is Poppy Wisteria. I’m from Imperial City. My family is quite powerful in Imperial City, which is why they can groom an alchemist like me…”
“My teacher went missing some time ago for no reason, so I want to see if I can find any traces of him.”
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