Chapter 62

Chapter 62 Application for Botanical Garden

Locke weighed the remaining 320 magic stones in his hand, entered a breeder’s tool shop, spent 100 magic stones, and bought a complete set of basic three-piece breeder tools.

The three-piece set includes basic magic nutrient soil, magic nutrient solution and fast-growing agent gel.

Nutrient soil and nutrient solution are both primary products of alchemy, specially used to cultivate magical plants. They can make magical plants grow better and reduce the distortion, degeneration and poor development of magical plants caused by the loss of magical power.

Similarly, fast-growing agent gel is also a necessary item for breeders.

Because breeders need all three of these things, it is also called the breeding trio.

Because breeders need to purchase large quantities, there are special stores that combine the quantities into packages for breeders to purchase at one time.

But such shops generally don’t make much money. After all, nutrient soil and nutrient solution are the simplest products of alchemy, and only fast-growing agent gel is slightly more complicated.

But even without a Potion Master’s Assistant Certificate, Locke can now make high-quality growth hormone gel by himself.

Therefore, these three things are purely for volume and do not make any money at all.

A basic three-piece set weighs an astonishing 1.5 tons.

Most of these are nutrient soils that are almost given for free, and then there are bottles of dark green nutrient solution in glass bottles. This nutrient solution can be mixed with white water and then used to irrigate the land daily to create land that makes it easier for magical plants to grow.

There is only a little less fast-growing hormone gel, and a basic set only weighs 100 kilograms.

But these are enough to be used for more than half a year in the five-acre magic field.

A shop that runs a breeder’s farm implement store can only make small profits but quick turnover.

After all, these things don’t require much technical content. If they are sold at a high price, no breeder will buy them in their store.

Fortunately, those big breeders use more advanced breeder kits, and the acres of their fields are often not comparable to the meager 5 acres that I have now.

Locke ordered the gray dwarves and minotaurs to transport the supplies they had purchased to several carts, and then asked them to push the carts out of the store.

Before leaving, the store manager, a second-class human wizard apprentice, greeted him and welcomed him to come often.

Locke returned to his residence at 431 Upside Down Lane.

Then, he conducted a simple test on the six minotaur slaves, and unexpectedly discovered that each minotaur had the physique of a formal knight as described by Laun.

Locke looked at the two cat maids, drew a tube of blood from each of them, and then gave them orders to be responsible for cleaning their own houses in the future.

These two maids were actually just kept for convenience. The main purpose was to extract the pure bloodline of the ancient creature [Three-Eyed Tiger-Eyed Cat] through their blood when he was able to do so.

The two cat-girl maids obeyed Locke and said, “Yes, Master.”

They gently lifted up the princess dress and performed an elegant salute to Locke, as if they had always been Locke’s servants.

Then, the two of them began to clean the entire house for Locke.

Seeing this, Locke prepared to meditate. “To establish my own botanical garden, I should pay a certain amount of magic stones to Lilith’s cottage and record it in the register. I’ll ask Teacher Sophia about it tomorrow.”

…

The next day, in Witch Sophia’s office, Sophia heard that Locke was going to build his own botanical garden, so she raised her head from her desk and glanced at Locke.

Witch Sophia nodded in agreement and said, “With your talent in breeding, you are indeed capable of establishing your own botanical garden.”

“Five acres of land is a small botanical garden, and the application fee is two hundred magic stones. I happen to be reporting to the higher-ups today. Give me the magic stones, and I’ll apply for your qualification certificate and transfer notice from the patrol team.”

Witch Sophia explained, “If I hadn’t applied for you, you would have been stuck at this step for at least three months.”

Locke was a little surprised, “Teacher, why does it take so long?”

Witch Sophia closed the book in her hand, glanced at Locke, and said, “Of course it will take a long time. Your establishment of the botanical garden is, to a certain extent, like you independently establishing a specialized botanical laboratory.”

“The academy needs to conduct multiple reviews on you, as well as qualification certification. You need to pass the ethical review mechanism and various other project confirmations. At the very least, the academy must ensure that the experiments you conduct comply with the regulations of the White Wizard Association, and that the staff, assistants, and experimental materials you use are all in compliance with the regulations.”

“Wizards’ experiments are always fraught with danger.”

Locke nodded. Fortunately, he did not buy human slaves, otherwise the ethical review would probably fail and get stuck.

Witch Sophia frowned slightly and looked at Locke. She crossed her arms and leaned back in her chair. “Locke, you have already entered the field of breeders, so there are some things you must understand.”

“Besides, you are very talented. Unlike those mediocre people, that’s why…”

“If you cause great damage in the future because you don’t understand certain common sense, it will be my responsibility as the mentor who led you into the breeding field.”

Witch Sophia took out a book from her desk and handed it to Locke, saying seriously, “Read this book when you get back. It contains all the tragic stories of talented breeders who acted recklessly.”

“There was once a First-Ring Breeder with an extremely crazy idea. He used his advanced breeding techniques, combined with the dark magic forbidden by the White Wizard Association, to create a dark magic plant called the Abyss Rafflesia. This plant transplanted the self-consciousness of a wizard apprentice into the plant, allowing it to quickly assimilate other plants.”

“As a result, his experiments went out of control, and the magic fields of his botanical wizard organization, the Blue Ring Society, were almost completely destroyed. A large number of wizard apprentices, even full-fledged wizards of the Blue Ring Society, were wiped out by the Abyss Rafflesia.”

“Furthermore, that wizard committed the largest breeding experiment in the Southeastern Corner region that went out of control in nearly a hundred years.”

“That wizard also died in the experiment that went out of control. The Green Ring Society declined from then on. Ten years ago, with the death of their last First Ring wizard, the Green Ring Society was completely disbanded.”

“But the disaster he created hasn’t subsided to this day. Those Abyssal Rafflesias are still causing trouble in the southeastern region, and they are a natural nemesis for breeders like us.”

“We breeders were horrified by this and called it the ‘Abyssal Plant Catastrophe’.”

“Those special magical plants that combine the wizard apprentice’s consciousness and the abyss plants are no longer something that can be easily resolved.”

Witch Sophia said seriously, “Back then, my teacher told me about this matter to my face when I had just passed the exam to become a breeder’s assistant.”

“Now, I’ll tell you the same thing.”

Witch Sophia said, “For us talented wizards, we must always remember that we pursue the truth and master the truth, but we should also revere the truth.”

“That First Ring Breeder lost his reverence for power and forgot his original intention. He became overly arrogant, and thus he caused such a tragedy.”

Witch Sophia took a sip of tea and continued, “But you just want to grow Super Mandrake vines. This is easy to pass the review. I will help you pass the review within a week and help you leave the patrol team.”

“Don’t go to such a dangerous place in the future.”

Locke saluted Sophia, a typical white wizard who spent her days researching and rarely traveled to dangerous places, plundering, and fighting like the black wizards.

Locke pondered Sophia’s warning. “Teacher, I will remember your teachings.”

Witch Sophia said, “Well, you can go down then. By the way, starting tomorrow, I will teach you the last spell in the Hand of Vine series, the Whip of Thorns.”

“Then there’s the advanced series of the Hand of Vine series. Every cantrip is at least a 0.5-level spell from the Vine Frenzy series.”

“The Vine Frenzy series of spells can even be used by first-class wizard apprentices, and there are corresponding first-level advanced spells.”

(End of this chapter)