Chapter 64

Chapter 64 Nine Months, Mental Strength 195

Chapter 64 Nine Months, Mental Power 195

Nine months later, in a small wooden house next to the wooden house group of Witch Sophia, which is also in Locke’s small botanical garden.

With the permission of Lilith’s cottage, Locke opened a small botanical garden, and this small botanical garden was located in a wooden house similar to the botanical garden of Witch Sophia.

There are five acres of land in total, plus the public area, it is about six acres in size.

These wooden houses in the academy are essentially alchemical products. Building plantations here can effectively prevent experiments from getting out of control. Once a problem occurs, everyone can just run out and close the door and everything will be fine.

Inside the plantation.

Locke watched as the six minotaurs watered sixty pots of Super Mandrake vines. The five acres of basic magic field were filled with the energy of earth and water elemental particles, and each Super Mandrake vine was lush and green.

In recent days, the botanical garden has been built and can steadily earn Locke more than a thousand magic stones every month.

With the help of this batch of magic stones, Locke was able to safely use the mixture of dragon blood leaf powder and badam wood sawdust to meditate all day long and maintain a high-efficiency mental improvement speed.

There are also patches of weeds between the five acres of land.

A minotaur is using professional lawn tools to pull out the weeds one by one.

Because of the nutrient soil, nutrient solution and fast-growing agent gel, these weeds are always full of vitality and need to be cleaned regularly every month or so.

This is also the mystery of life. In order to survive, these weeds will entangle their roots with the roots of the Super Mandra vine, looking for every area of nutrient-rich soil and struggling to survive.

Locke ordered a minotaur to bring a weed to him and carefully examine its roots. “It’s just a wild magical plant, goosegrass, a weed.”

“But because I didn’t clean out the weed seeds hidden in the soil in the early days, it became a lot of work in my plantation. Every month, a batch of goosegrass grows out of my plantation.”

But this wasn’t a mistake, since it was his first time establishing a botanical garden. Furthermore, unless he completely burned the soil, he wouldn’t be able to eliminate the weed seeds lurking within.

Bermuda grass is the result of an experiment that went out of control by a breeder in the southeast corner of the region. Many such examples can be found in the wild.

But Goosegrass is definitely one of the tougher ones.

This wild, degenerate, semi-magical plant is not much different from ordinary plants, except for its remarkable reproductive capacity. It is one of the challenges faced by novice breeders in the southeastern region.

Locke thought, “I’ll go to the potion store someday and buy some simple potions to get rid of these weeds.”

Locke carefully observed the rhizomes of the goosegrass and found that in order to compete for nutrients, the roots of the goosegrass had undergone many changes, and every month, a new batch of goosegrass had some new changes.

During these eight months, Locke gained a deeper understanding of botany through his battle of wits and courage with these weeds.

It just so happened that he learned some new spell models within eight months.

First is the last spell in the Hand of Vine series, Whip of Thorns, which is the spell that Captain Bruno used against the wizard apprentices of the Blood Curse Court.

Secondly, there is the first trick model of Vine Frenzy, 0.5-ring multi-manipulation. This spell allows Locke to control three level 6 invisible Mandrake vines at the same time.

This greatly increased Locke’s combat effectiveness.

The remaining spell was a 0.5-level botanical trick model [Weed Entanglement] that Locke had bought at the Chimera Market.

He had purchased this for seventy magic stones. He had just bought it when he was troubled by the goosegrass weeds, so he bought it to study it.

Locke stretched out his palm, chanted a spell, and sprinkled some nutrient solution into the air.

The bullgrass in the hands of the minotaur kneeling in front of him grew rapidly, and the grass seeds hidden in it also took root and sprouted quickly. In a moment, the bullgrass completely bound the minotaur slave.

Under Locke’s command, the minotaur wanted to use his knight-level physique to break free from the weeds.

But these weeds grew too fast. Even if he broke a few, more weeds would soon grow out.

The minotaur seemed to have difficulty breathing and made heavy breathing sounds. Locke snapped his fingers, and the tendon grass weeds entangled with the minotaur slave all withered in an instant.

Locke observed this scene, lost in thought. “The companion spell to the Weed Entanglement spell originally uses any weeds found in the natural environment, magically enhanced to become more flexible, and then entangle the enemy’s legs and feet. However, there are usually only a few strands, and the binding effect is very limited.”

“In combat, it’s generally only used for auxiliary purposes. Its advantage is that it can be unleashed almost instantly, so quite a few wizard apprentices still learn it.”

“But what if I use goosegrass to cast this spell? The properties of this spell will change. Goosegrass itself is fragile, but its reproduction rate is extremely fast. With just a little bit of nutrition, it can continue to grow wildly. It can completely trap the opponent with its sheer number, or even kill them.”

“It will bring about a qualitative change in this spell.”

Locke thought: “Of course, this is not enough now, the effect is still relatively average.”

“It will take years of research to succeed, but… I have a synthetic magic cube. I just used ordinary goosegrass. If I synthesize the goosegrass to level 6 and strengthen it, it will be different.”

Locke put three sedge weeds into the synthetic cube, and at the same time he ordered the minotaurs to harvest the sedge weeds in their plantations with their roots intact.

Perhaps, these goosegrass weeds will no longer be weeds, and can be sold as magical plants in the Lijin Secret Language!

Locke said: “It’s been nine months, and it’s normal for me to release the next synthetic plant. This can maintain my image as a genius in the breeding field.”

“Also, the idea of using a special magical plant for the weeds—Super Goosegrass—seems reasonable.”

Locke began to think. Actually, this time, the Rubik’s Cube only accelerated the time it took him to produce results.

I never thought that I would discover an idea to improve a commonly used magic trick model while fighting weeds in the plantation.

In essence, as long as I give myself five or six years, I will be confident that I can complete this idea by myself.

But if I really have to spend so much time on this matter, I won’t be able to do anything else.

Therefore, we still need to use the synthetic Rubik’s Cube to speed up this process.

During this period of time, Locke’s mental power has increased to 195, which is very close to the standard of a first-class wizard apprentice.

This was thanks to the abundant magic stones provided by the plantation. He would spend roughly 350 magic stones every month on luxurious purchases of damson wood sawdust and dragon’s blood leaf powder. He would also spend an additional 200 magic stones each month on potions that increased meditation efficiency and mental strength, such as the [White Ye Tree Potion].

With the support of these resources, Locke’s learning speed is almost comparable to that of a wizard seedling with level 7 qualifications.

During these eight months, Locke even saved 3,600 magic stones. It can only be said that this plantation of super mandrake vines is indeed profitable for a second-class wizard apprentice.

Locke opened the Scarlet Echo Potion prepared for him by Witch Sophia and drank the red mist-like potion in one gulp.

His current mental strength is very close to that of a first-class wizard apprentice, and it is a good time to drink this bottle of scarlet potion.

The moment he drank it, Locke found that his eyes turned scarlet, as if he was wearing tinted sunglasses and seeing things.

Locke licked his tongue. His sense of taste and smell would gradually change, and within a month, he would begin to experience the side effects of vampire syndrome. At the same time, he would digest the potion within a few days.

Although the difficulty of increasing from 195 to 200 is much more difficult than increasing 30 points of mental power at the 100 stage.

But with the powerful medicinal effect of Scarlet Echo, he would almost certainly be able to take this last step and become a first-class wizard apprentice in the near future.

By using the Deep Purple Gem, one can completely eliminate the side effects of the Scarlet Echo Potion that pollute one’s mental power.

There is no need to worry, as doing so will increase the difficulty of your advancement from a first-class wizard apprentice to a formal wizard.

Locke gave a few instructions to his minotaur slaves and decided to go for a walk. “The position the academy gave me as a second-class wizard apprentice is a magical plant investigator. It’s a very leisurely job, but I do have a mission recently.”

“I am required to travel to a mortal city in the territory behind Lilith Academy within seven days.”

“It’s said that some kind of plague has occurred in that city. The academy highly suspects that it’s caused by magical plants in nature, and they want us, the assistant breeders, to investigate.”

“While taking the medicine, I was basically unable to meditate, nor could I serve as Sophia’s assistant in potions and breeding, because my mental energy fluctuated violently and I couldn’t do anything too delicate.”

“I’ll ask the teacher for a leave so I can go out for a walk,” Locke said. “It’s a good opportunity to digest the Crimson Echo Potion.”

Locke thought for a moment and began to prepare for his first long journey in this wizarding world.

At the same time, apart from preparing to inform Witch Sophia, he will keep a low profile and try not to tell others about his whereabouts.

This is also what Witch Sophia asked of him.

The Blood Curse Court has never stopped its infiltration of Lilith’s Hut. Keeping a low profile is also to better protect itself.

(End of this chapter)