"Why are there petals here... and they aren't completely contaminated?"
Colin's heart filled with doubt, followed by a faint unease suddenly rising to his chest, "Could it be... there are others who have also entered this space?!"
At the same time, he inexplicably thought of something the priest of particularly high rank had said upon seeing the little elf Nasi—
"Is it the little elf the bishop is looking for...?"
Colin felt a sinking feeling in his heart as a whirlwind of thoughts flew through his mind.
"Those who entered... could they be the Divine Believers?"
"No, not necessarily, it could be other Wizards, or perhaps Elves returning to their ancestral lands..."
But either way, they are most likely foe rather than friend!"
These thoughts were numerous, but in reality, only a moment had passed.
To the outside world, Colin merely looked slightly solemn, paused briefly, and then stepped toward the petals.
"It's a flower!!"
But next to him, Nasi seemed even more excited than he was; she whooshed out from the hood on her back and dashed straight toward the petals.
Just as Colin thought to remind her to be careful, to his surprise, the little elf seemed to have thought of something and stopped in mid-air.
Then she turned around, looking at him with big eyes, and asked,
"Kind giant, may Nasi look at that little flower? There won't be any danger, will there?"
"I don't know," Colin said, shaking his head somewhat unexpectedly, "Let me check it first."
Flowers hold a very special place for Tree Elves; they are symbols of nobility and beauty... No Tree Elf would dislike flowers.
Nasi's reaction was normal... After all, there are no flowers in the Dark Red Forest.
Moreover... Nasi's behavior, coupled with earlier discoveries, made him even more certain that Nasi was indeed a plant elf and of course, a Tree Elf.
He thought this while crossing past little Nasi and moving beside the petal.
To the naked eye, this petal looked ordinary, a common spindle shape with five petals, its center dyed dark red.
It seemed somewhat withered and spotted with dark red... it must have been here for at least a day or two.
Vision alone inevitably provides limited information.
Colin activated his Supersensitive Vision and, at the same time, used the Detecting Three Abilities.
Whoosh!
The brilliance of witchcraft flashed by.
Under Supersensitive Vision, the white part of the flower that wasn't dyed dark red appeared normal, just an ordinary petal.
The parts that were tinged with dark red, on the other hand, were like the Dark Red Forest they had encountered before—numerous soft dark red tendrils gently waving on its surface, closely packed together, enough to make one's skin crawl.
For a Wizard with weaker resistance, just one glance could provoke horrific abnormalities.
But fortunately, thanks to a thorough understanding of knowledge, Colin had always possessed a strong resistance against this; as long as it wasn't the vast contamination like that in the previous forest added to prolonged observation, it usually wouldn't affect him much.
But just to be cautious, he glanced at the white flower and then averted his gaze.
He then bent down to check his condition.
Since realizing the presence of strange contamination in this Different Space, Colin remained ever vigilant about himself being contaminated. Although his Steel Temperature Resistance Field might not necessarily be useful, he had never once deactivated it.
Perhaps due to the brilliance of human nature and knowledge, as he observed, this strange contamination didn't seem to be contagious... At least under the protection of human nature and Spiritual Light, simply touching them caused no abnormalities.
"Everything is right... Huh?"
Just as Colin felt everything was normal and was about to exit his supersensitive state, he suddenly paused and lifted his right foot.
A faint but glaring red spot on the bottom of his grey boot caught his eye.
Colin's heart surged with panic, and he hurriedly took off the boot!
The next second, after seeing the bottom of his foot clearly, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Upon inspecting the bottom of his foot more carefully, Colin didn't see anything abnormal... It seemed that the boots were the first to not withstand the pervasive contamination of this Different Space.
After dealing with all this, he finally had time to process the results of the Detecting Three Abilities.
A moment later, Colin's eyebrows raised slightly.
Detecting Three Abilities showed faint traces of Magic Power residues on this white flower!
"Could this flower be... an ingredient for a spell?" he deduced to himself:
Ordinary flowers wouldn't radiate Magic Power, and Magic Plants' magical fluctuations are usually more regular and more subtly concealed.
However, since there was a Magic Power fluctuation... it was very likely not the work of a Divine Believer.
Colin felt slightly relieved.
In his earlier conjectures, the presence of Divine Believers would decidedly be the least favorable to him.
"Kind giant, how is the small flower? Is it a bad flower?"
Next to him, Nasi couldn't help but ask again, her eyes fixed on the white flower as she licked her lips.
"Yes," Colin said emphatically, dispelling Nasi's idea.
He could tell from her appearance that she wanted to eat the white flower.
According to what she said, the only food required by this little elf was the fresh flowers that bloom annually in the outer Red Soil Forest.
And now it was winter outside. Although the island remained warm, fresh flowers were quite rare.
But no matter what, this white flower was contaminated and would naturally be unfit for consumption.
"Alright," Nasi sighed softly, pulling out the Ancient Tree Heart, licking it while watching Colin carefully take the dark red flower.
"The unknown owner of the white flower is both danger... and hope." Colin stood up and looked far and wide around him.