Chapter 160

Chapter 160 Rigorous Examination

Chapter 160 Rigorous Examination

Half an hour later, Locke finished the industry standard manual assessment and theoretical examination answer sheets, and submitted the answer sheets with the other four candidates.

When Locke was answering the theoretical exam paper, he unexpectedly discovered that the difficulty of this theoretical exam was indeed much greater than that of the Potion Master’s Assistant exam.

There are many very small but important knowledge points in it. If I don’t use memory ointment and study for a long time, I am afraid I will probably not pass the first round of breeder theory examination.

Madam Morgana frowned and criticized Locke’s previous candidate, Martin, who was also a first-class wizard apprentice at Lilith’s cottage. “Your foundation is too weak.”

“You still have a lot of room for improvement. You don’t even understand the main function of cutting cultivation.”

Madam Morgana looked at the first-class wizard apprentice in front of her with some confusion.

Martin blushed, lowered his head, and didn’t dare to answer.

Locke’s eyes revealed a kind of understanding. The main function of the cutting cultivation method is to cultivate the offspring of the magic plant mother on a large scale, but this function needs to be established in an independent plantation and requires large-scale improvement experiments.

Most first-class wizard apprentices are not yet at the stage where they can establish their own plantations, so they are naturally unfamiliar with this area.

The most commonly used cultivation methods are probably grafting and hybridization.

After all, breeder’s profession is a more practical one.

Many first-class wizard apprentices do not have their own plantations. They do not have much practical experience, so it is naturally difficult for them to pass the breeder exam.

Madam Morgana gave him a cold look. “Your understanding of the professional standards of the Breeder profession is riddled with errors and omissions. Martin, I suggest you strengthen your skills in this area. Registering for the Breeder exam costs 500 magic stones. Don’t waste your money next time.”

Madam Morgana then checked three students from the small wizard organization outside, frowned, and together with the other two official wizards, gave the three candidates a theoretical score.

In fact, looking at it all together, the theoretical scores of these candidates are not as good as Martin’s, but Lady Morgana said nothing.

She didn’t have any good expectations for the outside candidates from the Little Wizards Organization.

The students of the Little Wizards Organization have even more theoretical knowledge systems that are full of errors and omissions, and their ways of acquiring knowledge are also limited.

They often know something but not why it is so, and their knowledge is pieced together, just as long as it can be used.

Lady Morgana and two other examiners came to Locke. She picked up Locke’s answer sheet and glanced over it.

Then, Lady Morgana frowned. She didn’t expect that Locke could answer all the questions about the industry standards of breeders word for word, which made her unable to find any mistakes.

Locke’s theoretical system is also relatively solid, with only some minor errors.

Because of the memory ointment, his theoretical exam results this time were much better than his last Alchemist’s Assistant exam.

Lady Morgana stayed with Locke for a significantly longer time.

Lady Morgana frowned, glanced at Locke, and then said, “The theoretical basis is okay.”

“Much better than the previous ones. And they were a little smart, knowing to memorize the breeder industry standard manual in advance.”

“Did Sophia ask you to memorize it?”

Locke saluted Lady Morgana, then said politely, “Yes, Lady Morgana, my teacher asked me to memorize it.”

“My teacher said that only by learning to respect power can I master it.”

Lady Morgana’s lips curled slightly. “I said that to your teacher.”

Madam Morgana was about to smile, but as if remembering something, her expression turned serious. “Alright, the second round of exams will test your mastery of the Magical Frequency Cultivation Method, which is the foundation of a breeder.”

“What is about to be placed before you are five pots of dying demonic plants. I want you to use your abilities as breeders and use the magic frequency cultivation method to revive these five demonic plants.”

“The time limit is one and a half hours.”

In the examination room, the second-class wizard apprentice helpers brought in five pots of primary magic plants, nine-snake flowers.

This is a basic magical plant with no special abilities. One plant usually has nine flower buds that bloom at the same time. The flowering period is extremely long and its shape resembles nine snake heads, so it is called the Nine Snake Flower.

The flowers of the Nine Snake Flower can be used to prepare simple potions that are calming and refreshing.

At this moment, Locke looked at the pot of nine snake flowers in front of him and the nine snake flowers in front of other people, and immediately understood what this exam was about.

The Nine Snake Flower is a very fragile magical plant. It is easy to die due to lack of water, wither easily due to high temperature, and will become sick due to lack of key nutrients. In addition, there are a large number of pests and fungi that are harmful to it.

The pot of Nine Snake Flower in front of him was obviously in a state of long-term water shortage, so it was wilted. At the same time, the edges of the leaves of the Nine Snake Flower were curled up and had a charred black color, which showed that the roots of the Nine Snake Flower had been damaged, otherwise this phenomenon would not occur.

At the same time, the surface of the leaves of the Nine Snake Flower is covered with densely packed tiny pink insect eggs, which are pests called [aphids].

As a breeder, Locke immediately came up with a solution to the problem of the Nine Snake Flower. The first thing was to mix clean water and basic nutrient solution in a ratio of 10:1, and water the Nine Snake Flower. At the same time, water it with rooting powder to nourish the roots of the Nine Snake Flower. If necessary, the rotten roots can be partially removed.

You can even let its roots leave the soil temporarily and use hydroponics to clean up the root damage.

At the same time, use the eggs of aphids and a targeted insect repellent potion. This simple potion can be easily made by myself as an assistant to the potion master.

However, under normal circumstances, there is no need to go to so much trouble for a mere Nine Snake Flower.

The Nine Snake Flower is too cheap. Instead of saving it myself, I might as well buy another one, which will cost less resources.

“But if I can only use the magic co-frequency cultivation method…” Locke thought: “Then let me use the method of directional radiation to solve this problem.”

“It can be done by using the universal optimal resonance frequency of the invigorating magic plant, which is commonly used by breeders.”

“At the same time, use the resonant frequency of the insect repellent to destroy the insect eggs.”

In other words, this stage is testing the breeders’ understanding, familiarity, and operational capabilities of the magic resonance breeding method.

After all, this cultivation method is different from magic flame. It does not require any switching speed. Judgment, experience, and control are more important than switching speed.

“The general enhancement frequency that can stimulate the magic plant is 822HZ, and the insect repellent frequency is 200HZ…” Locke thought hesitantly.

On the other side, the other candidates were also thinking hard, especially the three breeder assistant candidates from the Little Wizard Organization. They had not expected that the breeder examination in Lilith’s Cottage would be so strict, so they were all thinking hard, and some even had sweat on their foreheads.

Just to come up with a solution.

Martin, who was standing beside Locke, was so much more confident. “Great! My teacher guessed the question correctly before. I’ve practiced this before. I once used the universal resonance frequency to revive a dying centipede grass.”

As soon as Martin said this, Locke’s pupils suddenly shrank. He turned his head to look at the examiner, Lady Morgana, who was the main person who set the questions this time.

At this moment, Lady Morgana was looking at Martin with a slight curve at the corner of her mouth.

Oh right, no wonder I felt strange, this turned out to be a trap.

Locke then remembered another small piece of knowledge: centipede grass and nine-snake flower are different. Nine-snake flower has nine heads…centipede grass only has one head.

If the universal enhancement frequency of the magic power co-frequency cultivation method is used on the nine-headed magic plant, then…

“Mrs. Morgana, you’ve examined this in such detail.”

“That’s right. As a full-time breeder, no longer an assistant breeder, how could you make such a small mistake?”

Lady Morgana felt Locke looking at her and turned to look at Locke.

(End of this chapter)