<h4>Chapter 165</h4>


    Joshua had no intention to start residing in the Fari’s Mansion. After all, Madam Schroder was only temporarily handing the Fari’s Mansion to Joshua.


    That said, Joshua did feel that the Fari’s Mansion’s indoor garden was useful.


    Once the frost elf’s World Tree starts growing, Joshua could consider having it temporarily reside in the indoor garden.


    It was alreadyte into the night when Joshua’s carriage returned to the Hearthstone Tavern. Mrs. Melina had already prepared dinner for him.


    Ciri had apanied Joshua to Fari’s Mansion but didn’t receive the dinner she was promised. Because of that, she immediately sat down on the counter and began to replenish all the energy she spent today.


    “There’s no need for you to rush like so. No one’s fighting over the food with you.”


    Seeing Ciri’s puffed cheeks filled with food, Joshua handed a cup of fruit juice to her.


    “It’s a habit I obtained from surviving in the wilderness,” replied Ciri after swallowing the food in her mouth.


    The gift Joshua received from Gallolei during their farewell was absolutely not something he expected.


    Ciri was standing right beside them and witnessed the entire scene. Yet, a rare asion, she did not show any reaction at all. She even had a mysterious sense of calmness to her.


    “Miss Tylene! Is the story about the magicalmp in the Great Analok Desert you spoke of real? May I know which ancient text you read that story from?”


    “No... the magicalmp is merely a fictional story.”


    The conversation that sounded from behind caught Joshua’s attention.


    Being in the Tavern for so long, Tylene was already someone the customers had be well acquainted.


    After the Voice of Nond opened, Tylene rarely sang in the Hearthstone Tavern. The musical originium crystals had reced her singing and was resounding throughout the entire Hearthstone Tavern.


    Because of that, Tylene had more time to practice broadcasting. But, during the time when she does not have to do any broadcast, she would go down to the tavern’s first floor to help out. While it was said to be ‘helping out,’ it was more like ‘messing with’ and ‘assaulting’ Ynor.


    “Fictional? That’s truly unfortunate then. I’ve heard that the Adventurers Association were even nning to check out the Great Analok Desert,” sighed the man asking the initial question.


    “Those little guys from the Adventurers Association will likely all be eaten up by the Death Sandworms a few days after stepping foot into the Great Analok Desert,” said an old dwarf with a loud voice.


    Then, Joshua could hear theughter from the dwarves in the tavern...


    Many people had asked the same question – ‘Is the magicmp real?’ – in the Mage Forum’s Voice of Nond sub-forum.


    A lot of text researchers even appeared. They made posts stating that they’ve consulted with countless ancient records in the Central Library of Nond and really managed to find records of a powerful ghost goblin hidden in the depths of the Great Analok Desert.


    It would appear that in a world with magic, the fairy tales and fantasies from earth were not at all fantastical to the mages...


    This also happened in the Hearthstone sub-forum. A poster unflinchingly proimed that they had seen Ragnaros the Firelord in the undergroundva-covered central region.


    When Joshua was skimming over the posts in the Voice of Nond sub-forum, a post caught his attention.


    ‘Frost Elf Tylene, do you know exactly how many World Trees there are in this world?’ Poster: Skotan Nun


    The posts on the Voice of Nond sub-forum were all discussing the magicmp and ddin. Because of that, that post that asked Tylene a question directly appeared extremely eye-catching to Joshua.


    Joshua tapped into the post and skimmed through the content. The content of the initial post was only a duplication of the title. But, the replies to that post were much more interesting.


    Many of the repliers knew of this Skotan Nun. They were also replying with astonishing consistency.


    ‘Miss Nun, you didn’t write your diary today.’


    ‘Does the elven race’s World Trees have something to do with your writing?’


    ‘I’m meditating and waiting for Miss Nun’s diary entry today.’


    ‘Miss Nun, please upload a new entry. I would have to rely on it to get through my magic medicine course tonight.’


    Diary? Joshua remembered! Skotan Nun was the Heresy Tribunal’s inquisitor Cheryl who returned to the Nation of the Holy Church from Nond.


    She wrote a book by the name of ‘Diary of an Inquisitor’ on the Mage Forum’s Motionless Library sub-forum. It was simr to an early concept for webnovels of web-biographies.


    ‘Diary of an Inquisitor’ was unexpectedly well-received in the Mage Forum. A portion of the users would wait for thetest release every day.


    The replies to the post she made with the ount Skotan Nun were a bunch of people asking for her to update them with a new release.


    Even though Cheryl had be a somewhat well-known writer in the Mage Forum, she was still an inquisitor of the Heresy Tribunal.


    The dark elf had once warned Joshua that the reason why her race’s World Tree withered was solely because of the Heresy Tribunal.


    “Mister Joshua, should I... answer her?”


    Tylene had also noticed the post that Cheryl made in the Voice of Nond’s sub-forum. She sat down on the other seat beside JOshua and asked him for his opinion.


    “Do you know how many World Trees there are in this world?”


    Faced with Joshua’s question, Tylene shook her head.


    “The only full-grown World Tree I knew of is the one of the forest elves in the ckwood Forest. In other words, it’s the elven race Miss Gallolei’s bodyguard belonged to,” said Tylene.


    ckwood Elves. Joshua had a bad feeling.


    ording to what the dark elf told him, the destruction of her race’s World Tree was very likely because of the Heresy Tribunal. The ck mist that was affecting Tylene the entire time seemed to be the power of the inquisitors too.


    Could it be that those deranged bastards had, apart from arresting ‘heretics,’ they were also chopping down World Trees over the decades?


    Currently, Joshua had no idea why the Heresy Tribunal would do such a thing. He could only hope to obtain some useful information from the inquisitordy who had prated into enemy lines.


    ‘Miss Cheryl, I am very curious as to why you asked about the amount of elven World Trees.’


    Joshua used the Mage Forum’s private message function to send a message that only Cheryl could see. For the time being, Joshua had yet to open the private message function to the public.


    Before the Mage Forum’s development wasplete, Joshua was not nning to open up an instantaneous message function.


    Joshua soon received a reply from Cheryl. But, the content of the reply was a series of ellipses.


    ‘Who are you?’


    Soon, he received another private message. The inquisitordy still had no idea Joshua’s nickname on the Mage Forum was ‘Firebringer.’


    ‘Someone who could help you.’


    Joshua was only asking her as a test. It seemed like Cheryl was extremely cautious. After Joshua sent her that private message, she stopped responding.