Chapter 412: Chapter 412: Her Conjecture

Wayne Warner’s match was an easy win.

After all, Strength Element Superpower Users don’t need any fancy moves—just land your punches and defeat the opponent.

This time, the referee was quick to announce the match’s result.

He didn’t dare wait for Wayne Warner to kill Everett Young.

Otherwise, he worried he’d be the next one used as a punching bag...

As Wayne Warner walked out of the arena, a crowd of people surrounded him.

They were all from Team 1.

"I can’t believe today’s our lucky day! We’ve really struck it rich,"

a man in a tank top exclaimed with immense joy.

Their Crystal Core bets from Nina Jacobs’s match this morning had multiplied over and over.

And now with Wayne Warner’s match this afternoon, their winnings multiplied by several dozen times again.

They had never felt this good in their lives.

"Come on, Wayne. It’s on us today."

The man clapped Wayne Warner on the shoulder, but a sharp pain instantly shot through his hand, chilling him to the bone.

"That’s a Strength Element Superpower User’s Superpower. It can reflect attack damage,"

Nina Jacobs explained as she walked over from the side.

"Sorry, but I wasn’t even attacking him,"

the man said with a pained expression, thinking he’d nearly broken his hand.

’No wonder the more Everett Young attacked, the worse off he seemed.’

Nina Jacobs returned to the Team 1 area with the others.

Along the way, Zachary Sterling offered to treat them, but Nina Jacobs declined. She wanted to check on Naomi Summers as soon as possible.

She didn’t trust Harlan.

"No way. We have to treat you at least once.

How about tonight? We’ll all go together to our warehouse superstore. Pick out whatever you want,"

Zachary Sterling said generously.

"Yeah, we won so many Crystal Cores that they didn’t have enough to pay us out. They converted the rest into some kind of points card for us.

What if they try to deny it later? We should spend as much as we can now."

The woman’s name was Sophia Spencer. Thanks to Nina Jacobs’s victory, the members of Team 1 had nearly won all the Crystal Cores in the entire correction facility.

This had also drawn the envy of many others.

That was why they had agreed to the conversion to points cards.

After all, both could only be spent inside the facility anyway.

Only then did Nina Jacobs agree.

She had only bet 500 Crystal Cores, so her winnings weren’t that substantial. The settlement center had honestly exchanged them for actual Crystal Cores.

’The correction facility’s superstore?

To be honest, I’m curious about what kind of place it is.’

Soon, there was a knock on the door of Harlan’s workshop.

Seeing the two people outside, Harlan remarked, not at all surprised,

"Looks like that Everett Young fellow lost badly."

Wayne Warner appeared completely unharmed, which was how he’d reached that conclusion.

"Where’s Naomi Summers?"

Nina Jacobs scanned the room but didn’t see her.

"Don’t be so tense. I’m a renowned doctor, you know."

Harlan stepped aside, pointing to a storage room on the side as he spoke.

Nina Jacobs saw Naomi Summers lying on a fixed bed frame.

Naomi Summers’s entire body was wrapped in white gauze. Only upon seeing Nina did she finally break down and cry.

Seeing Nina Jacobs staring at him distrustfully, Harlan said with a sigh of resignation,

"I didn’t mistreat her. She was just too heavily injured.

Several of her ribs were broken. Luckily, the bones didn’t pierce any internal organs.

It completely wore me out."

Harlan plopped down onto a nearby chair, rubbing his sore wrists.

Nina Jacobs remained silent. Naomi Summers’s bandages had clearly been applied with great care; it was obviously the work of a professional.

"What kind of illness would make someone unable to touch water?"

Nina Jacobs suddenly asked.

She was thinking about Naomi Summers’s ordeal again.

’Just falling into the water caused such a violent reaction. Could Mrs. White have some kind of disease?

Harlan’s a doctor; maybe he’d know something.’

"It’s hard to say. Rabies, or certain patients with aquaphobia, but the latter is a psychological illness.

Arcadia White might have a psychological condition."

Harlan rubbed the bridge of his nose, looking genuinely exhausted.

"That’s not it..."

Naomi Summers spoke weakly from the bed. Harlan had said there was no anesthetic for her, and she was so drained from the pain she had no strength left.

"Why do you say that?"

Nina Jacobs took out a straw and a bottle of water, helping Naomi Summers take a few sips.

There was "Healing Potion" in the water, which should alleviate her pain.

"Mrs. White... she was probably afraid of her handicrafts getting wet.

Last time Evelina came to play at the swimming pool, some water accidentally splashed onto a Wood Carving, and Mrs. White slapped her for it."

Naomi Summers stared at the ceiling, reminiscing.

It seemed Mrs. White had always disliked water.

Evelina had been terrified that time, and she’d cried her eyes out.

"Arcadia White’s family specializes in traditional wood carving. It’s normal for Wood Carvings to get moldy or discolor if they get wet. But I remember her doting on that daughter of hers,"

Harlan commented from nearby.

’Slapping her own daughter just for getting some water on it?

It seems this Arcadia White doesn’t love her daughter as much as people say.’

"You’re right,"

Nina Jacobs said, slowly standing up.

She looked as if she had just realized something, her expression a mix of disbelief.

"If she truly had a psychological aversion to water, she wouldn’t go to a place like a swimming pool.

So it’s not a psychological aversion...

She *can’t* touch water."

’Can’t touch water.’

Arcadia White’s words from that night suddenly exploded in her mind like fireworks.

"You just mentioned Arcadia White’s family?"

She walked toward Harlan, her tone growing urgent.

Harlan was confused but answered anyway. "That’s what Anselm Hughes said at a party once when he was drunk. He..."

Before he could finish, Nina Jacobs left the room as if she had remembered something.

Nina Jacobs was now desperate to confirm her suspicions.

The White clan.

Before his death in Veridia, Zachary Ziegler had told her about several clans.

At the time, she had used her last "Truth-telling Talisman" on Zachary Ziegler, forcing him to reveal information about the Ancient Martial Clans.

She closed the door and took out the book *Drakonia Ancient Martial Family Biography* from her storage compartment.

"The Whites of the Snowlands, the White family... Found it!"

Nina Jacobs had a habit of reading before bed. She had gotten this book from Icarus Golding and often used it as bedtime reading.

That’s why the name "White" sounded familiar.

Zachary Ziegler had once said before he died that every clan had its own life-preserving techniques.

For the Ziegler Family, it was prophecy.

So for the Whites of the Snowlands, it was...

"The Suppression Technique."

Nina Jacobs flipped to the page and read every single word carefully.

The Whites of the Snowlands had been masters of Ancient Wood Carving since time immemorial. Later, an ancestor used *The Craftsman’s Grimoire* to study even more intricate mechanisms, using mediums and Magic to control Wood Carvings, achieving a sympathetic connection where the object mirrored the subject.

A century later, a descendant of the White family created the Auspicious Suppression Skill to offer blessings to the imperial court. By using a medium to manipulate a Wood Carving and a wild beast simultaneously, they could control the carving to make the beast submit to the Emperor, earning a commendation from the Royal Family.

However, in the centuries that followed, some members of the White family conspired with a faction of Royalty vying for the throne. They developed this Magic into a subjugating suppression method, using Wood Carvings to control the actions and even the thoughts of others...

The book also mentioned that for their part in the failed succession plot, the Whites of the Snowlands suffered the extermination of six branches of their clan. The remaining White Clansmen swore to live in seclusion in the deep mountains and never emerge again, thus preserving their lineage.

And there was one more crucial piece of information—

The counter to the White family’s Suppression Technique is water.

"Water again..."

Nina Jacobs closed the book after she finished reading.

’Could this be why Keldorn exercises such control over water?

To be more precise, control over all Water Element Superpower Users.

So the one controlling and managing Lornwood Base is...

Arcadia White?’

But this was just her speculation.

Basing such a conclusion on the single clue of "fear of water" seemed a bit of a stretch.

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