#199 - Tribal Spirit Tree

As Mu'en pointed to the fifth child, Lang, who was standing beside him, finally couldn't help but speak up.

"High Priest, I know your combat ability is very strong, but selecting talented children and dueling are completely different!"

In fact, it wasn't just Lang; all the tribal wizards standing next to Mu'en were startled by Mu'en's selection process.

They had all undergone tribal talent detection and knew that it was a very complicated and cumbersome process.

It was necessary to perform a sacrifice on the night of the full moon, and before the sacrifice, all the children had to sincerely pray to the spirit tree.

Only in this way could they enter the selection range of the spirit tree, and then the great wizards would use spirit tree leaves to test these selected children.

Mu'en's actions, to say nothing of sincerity, even omitted the sacrificial link.

In the eyes of the tribal wizards, this was completely like picking beans.

No, it was even simpler than picking beans.

Because Mu'en didn't even need to pick out beans of different colors; he simply pointed and decided a child's future.

"Of course, I know that this is different from dueling, but don't worry, I haven't missed a single talented child."

Mu'en simply responded to Lang and then continued to move through the crowd.

Whenever he pointed out a new child, the child would be led by the tribal wizards to stand in front of the crowd.

After finally selecting nine young wizards, Mu'en also returned to the great wizards.

Originally, the great wizards were very excited when they saw the young wizards being selected.

However, as the number increased, the great wizards' expressions gradually became unsightly.

The eligible children in front of them were all between the ages of 7 and 17, which was also the best time for young wizards to discover their talents and learn magic.

If they were over seventeen years old, then this talent might be buried, and they might not even be able to discover it in the future.

Seeing a 16-year-old child standing out, the great wizards knew that they might have really missed many talented children over the years.

These were all the future of the tribal wizards.

As the guardians of the tribe, they had failed to discover the talents of these children, which was a serious mistake.

And Mu'en had discovered ten young wizards among these eligible children alone.

They dared not imagine how many talented children they had missed before.

"High... High Priest, are you sure these children all have wizarding talent?"

Granny Spirit Tree Great Wizard stood up tremblingly, looking at Mu'en with some disbelief.

"That's right."

Mu'en simply nodded.

Seeing Mu'en's affirmative expression, the three great wizards exchanged glances and sighed helplessly.

"Alas, we should be held responsible for what happened before."

"Yes, we have harmed many children!"

"The past should indeed be taken responsibility for, but shouldn't we first test these children now?"

Great Wizard Hai Lan's view of the problem was as sharp as ever.

In his opinion, what was missed was missed.

The most important thing now was what to do in the future.

Now Mu'en had re-selected ten young wizards, all of whom were children they had not discovered during the talent sacrifice.

If it could be proven that they all had wizarding talent, then no child in the tribe would be missed in the future.

This was related to the future development of the tribal wizards.

After being reminded by Great Wizard Hai Lan, Granny Spirit Tree Great Wizard did not hesitate.

After taking a wooden box from Lu's hand, she slowly walked to the front of the ten children.

Mu'en was very curious about the tribal wizards' method of testing magical talent, so he kept a close eye on the actions of the Spirit Tree Great Wizard.

After receiving the cyan wooden box, the Spirit Tree Great Wizard first pulled out a wooden hairpin from her hair.

With a gentle slide, the box opened.

"Alohomora? No."

Looking at the Spirit Tree Great Wizard's actions, Mu'en subconsciously thought of the Alohomora he had learned at Hogwarts.

However, the Spirit Tree Great Wizard seemed to be casting a combined wizardry that combined the [Unlocking Charm] and the anti-theft charm.

After the box was opened, the Spirit Tree Great Wizard re-inserted the wooden hairpin into her hair and then casually picked out a long leaf from the box.

Willow leaf.

Mu'en was very familiar with willow trees and knew the species of the leaf at a glance.

However, this leaf was somewhat different from ordinary willow leaves; its color was darker, even a little black.

In order to be able to observe more clearly, Mu'en immediately took out his monocle from his pocket and placed it on his right eye socket.

It was at this time that Granny Spirit Tree Great Wizard came to the first child with the willow leaf.

While chanting the spell, she pressed the willow leaf to the child's brow.

As the spell was completed, a familiar rune first appeared on the willow leaf, and then instantly disappeared without a trace.

The leaf itself also completely dissipated, but a faint green mark appeared on the child's forehead.

This mark was the same as the one Mu'en had seen on Ya's body.

"Really! It's actually true, Tuozhen really has wizarding talent!"

The first child in the line was named Tuo, and he came from the Hai Lan tribe.

After discovering that the willow leaf had dissipated and a mark had appeared on the child's forehead, Lang shouted in disbelief.

The three great wizards behind him were also full of surprise.

Although they had already learned about Mu'en's abilities from Ya, seeing this magical selection method with their own eyes was still unbelievable.

"So it turns out that picking young wizards is really simpler than picking beans."

Lang's words made the faces of the three great wizards very unsightly.

After Great Wizard Hai Lan taught his son a lesson, he came back to watch Granny Spirit Tree Great Wizard test the next child.

Mu'en didn't care about these results; he was very sure that the people he had selected would not be wrong.

It was the tribal great wizards' testing methods that allowed him to see a clue.

Mu'en had been watching the Spirit Tree Great Wizard's actions and the magical leaf.

When the Spirit Tree Great Wizard was holding a new leaf, Mu'en could clearly see through the monocle that the leaf had a very rich green life energy.

And in this full green, there was also a lot of black energy mixed in.

As the Spirit Tree Great Wizard chanted the spell, the green energy suddenly became stronger and then formed a rune.

Mu'en had once disassembled this rune from another alchemical item.

Mu'en had never given up his research on alchemy, and he had now mastered three basic runes.

One was the [Enhancement Rune] for making Lu Wei's collar, and the other two were from the magical talent detector of the Bailey family.

[Sensing Rune] and [Connecting Rune]

And the rune that flashed on the willow leaf just now was very similar to the [Sensing Rune].

"No wonder it can be used to detect talent."

Mu'en discovered that the rune on the willow leaf was more complete than the one on the magical talent detector, and the entire stroke was very smooth, without any trace of deliberate modification.

"Logically speaking, its accuracy should not be so low."

Seeing the second willow leaf disappear, Mu'en guessed that it should be the black energy on the willow leaf that was causing trouble.

This was why the tribal wizards had missed so many talented children.