Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 154 Multifunctional Magic Plant Platform

A month later.

Locke cultivated a ten-acre magical field for planting Emerald Iris lichen in his second small-to-medium-sized plantation.

The ten acres of magical fields before Locke were lush and green. Emerald lichen was a very beautiful magical plant, and each tiny leaf-like part of the lichen was as beautiful as a gemstone.

The iris lichen cultivated by Locke has a thin, rainbow-like film covering the surface of its leaf-like parts.

This makes this magical field of emerald iris lichen look like a gemstone, with a rainbow of light reflecting above it.

Beside the ten acres of magical fields, five minotaur noble slaves, under Locke's command, were watering the emerald iris lichens with nutrient solution.

Locke observed the scene and said, "The first batch of Emerald Iris lichen is about to be produced. The planting cost of Emerald Iris lichen is actually lower than that of Crystal Palm Fire Lotus."

Besides the fixed 200 magic stones for the Advanced Breeder's three-piece set, the remaining materials for Emerald Iris Lichen only require 100 magic stones for five tons of Shadow Agent and 50 magic stones for one pound of Beast Bones.

Because Emerald Iris Lichen is actually a type of fungal magical plant, it needs to transform rotten animal bones to produce special nutrients.

Lilith Hut Academy has a Bloodhowl Colosseum, which is where wizards specializing in beast taming magic gather to study. Every day, there are a large number of magical creature corpses there, so they are cheap and not hard to buy.

Shadow potion is a very simple potion-making product, so simple that even a third-class wizard apprentice can produce it in large quantities after a certain amount of training.

Apart from specific pharmaceutical labs dedicated to this low-end industry, other pharmaceutical labs, including Locke's, are too lazy to do this.

Because the price is very cheap, there are no technological or cost barriers. The only barrier is that no one is willing to waste the effort to produce this thing themselves.

During the planting process, a small amount of shadow agent needs to be mixed into the soil for the Emerald Iris Lichen to grow vigorously.

Because it doesn't require a weather controller like the Crystal Palm Fire Lotus, and there are no special requirements for planting temperature, and the accompanying animal bones and shadow agents are all inexpensive, low-grade products, the planting cost is indeed relatively low.

It only cost 400 magic stones to cultivate these ten acres of magic fields.

After a month, thanks to the income from the treatment center and the plantation, plus the magic stones stored from the previous bulk purchase contract, his magic stone reserves, and the second bulk purchase contract, had reached an astonishing 28300!
However, due to the total cost of meditation over the past two months of his life, amounting to 16800, plus the expenses for developing magic fields and other miscellaneous expenditures, Locke's current savings amount to only 10700.

But for an ordinary first-class wizard apprentice working as a laborer, this is still a huge sum of money.

Locke also planned to use this huge sum of money to go to the Chimera Market and buy a large amount of magical resources to forcibly boost his mental power.

After all, compared to this huge sum of money, he had only gained 5 points of mana in the past month.

Like a snail's pace.

However, compared to the stage without advanced meditation techniques, the growth rate is already many times faster. After all, when I had more than 200 mana points, it took me two months to increase my mana by 1 point (the quality of my mana was not as good as it is now).

My current rate of increase in actual mental strength is about 24 times that of when I don't use advanced meditation techniques or additional resources, and 4 times that of when I only use advanced meditation techniques without using additional resources.

Locke looked at the Emerald Iris lichen in front of him. In the past month, he had not only cultivated ten acres of Emerald Iris lichen here, but also continuously used the Emerald Iris lichen to improve his Magical Frequency Cultivation Method in preparation for the breeder exam in a month.

Meanwhile, Locke made a bold attempt. Locke came to the five Emerald Iris Lichens that had been set aside as separate magical fields, and with a small knife, he gently cut off the upper half of one of the Emerald Iris Lichens. Then, he transplanted a section of the malignantly deteriorated Tiffrogen vine that he had obtained from treating Luckin Coffee onto the Emerald Iris Lichen.

Locke used bamboo skewers to secure the two together, chanted an incantation, and used a [Secondary Grafting Healing Spell]. He then sprinkled high-grade fast-growing gel into them with his left hand.

Under Locke's magic and the effects of the advanced fast-growing gel, the two different types of magical plants that had been grafted together healed rapidly.

There was a subtle conflict of magical energy between the two, which caused their wounds to heal, fester, heal again, and fester again.

In fact, over the past month, I have been constantly fine-tuning the spell model of [Secondary Grafting Healing] and trying to cultivate offspring of the Emerald Iris Lichen variety that can adapt to the negative energy on the degraded vines.

The grafting and cultivation experiment has been repeated for more than half a month, ruining more than ten Emerald Iris lichen plants.

Locke's gaze was fixed on the wound on the Emerald Iris Lichen. His pupils suddenly contracted because, under the effect of his secondary grafting healing spell, the wound on this Emerald Iris Lichen had finally grown together with the degraded vine.

"It's a success." Locke felt a slight surge of excitement. "My idea is feasible. This is a variant of the Emerald Iris Lichen that I came up with myself, based on the materials I had after synthesizing a high-level magical plant using the Rubik's Cube!"

He observed that, under the influence of the advanced growth hormone gel, the Emerald Iris lichen underwent certain changes to adapt to the deteriorating vines, while the deteriorating vines were rapidly undergoing some kind of optimization.

The dark red color on the surface of the vines transformed into green, and the barbs gradually receded. The Tiffany root vines were slowly returning to their original state.

Although it is impossible to completely restore it to its original state, the vines that had already shown signs of severe deterioration have indeed undergone variety improvement again.

At the same time, the emerald iris lichen on my plant underwent a change in shape. Its color and luster remained the same, but the leaves of the original small leaf-shaped fungal lichen began to merge and form a hard shell, which is to say, it became a shell-shaped fungal lichen.

This hard shell is about the size of a small round shield.

It's like a huge jade shield that can refract rainbow-colored light.

Locke dipped a bamboo skewer into the fungal sap on the surface of this special variety of Emerald Iris lichen he had cultivated, and then applied it to a section of the degraded magical plant vine he had obtained from Luckin Coffee. The surface of the vine immediately began to dehydrate rapidly, as if it had been scorched, and some parts of the degraded magical plant vine also showed positive changes.

“It’s a success.” Locke pondered, “I had previously guessed that lichens are inherently a type of magical plant prone to mutation.”

"My Emerald Iris Lichen possesses a highly adaptable ability to resist magic changes. So, by using the grafting cultivation method, I can graft the mutated magic vine from Luckin Coffee onto the Emerald Iris Lichen, allowing the Emerald Iris Lichen to continuously adapt to this plant curse."

"Generates corresponding magic resistance."

“In this way, a magical plant that can resist specific curses can be created.” Locke quickly calmed down. “Emerald lichen was originally just a consumable magical plant used for preparing potions, not a combat magical plant.”

"Its foundation is weak."

"And now, the special variety of emerald iris lichen I created is only adapted to a single curse and is not stable yet. So it can only be considered as a beginning and cannot be considered as a completed work."

"I need to use this mutated Emerald Iris Lichen as the mother plant, and use the cutting propagation method to continuously reproduce it. Then, using its offspring, I will use the grafting propagation method to transplant more cursed plants onto it, so that it can adapt to different curses."

(End of this chapter)