Chapter 95

Chapter 95 Super Giant Public Botanical Garden

Chapter 95 Super Giant Public Botanical Garden

Inside the huge botanical garden, there are mountains one after another and an artificial sun hanging high. A specific magical radiation is continuously emitted from the artificial sun. Locke is sure that it is a magical frequency resonance cultivation device that is more advanced than the radiation kettle.

In this space that seems like a small other-dimensional world, even the breeze blowing in your face is full of magical fluctuations.

In the botanical garden, there are many high-level slaves working. First-class wizard apprentices are walking among them, instructing the second-class wizard apprentices to maintain the magic plants, or taking action themselves to protect those magic plants that are easy to die.

The second-class wizard apprentice, who had signed a contract with the Public Botanical Garden, saluted Locke. “Master Augustine, welcome to the Public Botanical Garden, the most important area of Lilith’s Cottage.”

“Please follow me. This area is a private planting area. The 500 acres of magic plant fields you need to maintain are public magic fields. They are assigned by the academy to first-class wizard apprentices and breeders like you, who are responsible for managing a portion of them in turns.”

Locke understood that this was a bit like the well-field system.

Most of the magic fields in the public botanical garden should be for public use, but at least one-third of the magic fields will be distributed to other people for use as private magic fields.

The second-class wizard apprentice glanced at Locke secretly, and Locke’s young age caught his attention.

Currently, most of those who can work in the public botanical garden are from the seventy-two local wizard families. Only with connections can they find such a good job.

But when he thought about how he, with his good conditions and outstanding family background, had remained a second-class wizard apprentice for almost five years, while this wizard seedling from the overseas mortal world was already a first-class wizard apprentice, he felt a little depressed.

And he didn’t dare show his depression in front of Locke.

This second-class wizard apprentice could only perform his job honestly and introduce to Locke the work areas that Locke needed to be responsible for.

This second-class wizard apprentice took Locke for a walk of about 7 kilometers, and wherever they went, they saw magic fields with various magical plants.

Many slaves were harvesting mature magic plants in the fields. Most of these magic plants were not combat magic plants, but magic plants used as raw materials for alchemy.

“Master Augustine, we’ve arrived. You will be responsible for the entire five hundred acres of magical fields for one month, and the academy will entrust the management to someone else for the next month.” The second-class wizard apprentice saluted Locke and said with a hint of flattery. “The public botanical garden has a full set of nutrient solution and nutrient soil, as well as various farming tools for magical plants, special magical insecticides, and magical herbicides for specific weeds.”

“Master Augustine, if you need anything, you can always come to me for help in the future.”

“Beyond that, you can outsource work.”

The second-class wizard apprentice smiled and said, “You can entrust a few second-class wizard apprentices to help you with the work. You just need to provide guidance from the side.”

“Some of the magical plants are too dangerous. A second-class wizard apprentice may not be able to handle them. Moreover, according to the academy’s regulations, you must at least be here to watch over them.”

“Master Augustine, I am Thomas Beren. If you need anything, you can always come to me.”

Locke looked at the second-class wizard apprentice in surprise, Beren… This should be a member of the seventy-two local wizard families, the Beren family. That family seemed to have several first-class wizard apprentices.

Just like the Reeves family, those first-class wizard apprentices have no possibility of advancement and their lifespans are almost at their limit.

The seventy-two native wizarding families have been facing the problem of a lack of successors.

Locke said indifferently: “Well, I understand.”

After Thomas left, Locke turned his attention to his surroundings. He saw that besides himself, there were many first-class wizard apprentices around, working in the public fields of the management academy.

There is about one person per 500 acres.

At first glance, there are at least twenty first-class wizard apprentices working here.

“First-class wizard apprentices have a long lifespan, but second- and third-class wizard apprentices often fail to advance within ten years and lose their academy subsidies, or even be forced to drop out and become wandering wizards.” Locke pondered, “Or they may be forced to enter a second-class academy.”

“But first-class wizard apprentices are inherently extremely valuable, and the academy can continue to subsidize them. They also have a lifespan of at least two hundred years, so there should be a large number of them within the academy.”

‘These are all accumulated over time.’

It usually takes more than ten years for a first-class wizard apprentice to be promoted to a formal wizard. Those who have little hope of promotion, even those who have remained first-class wizard apprentices for fifty or sixty years, are still ready to give it a try and become formal wizards.

If you don’t become a formal wizard before the age of forty, your chances of success will be greatly reduced, but it cannot be said that there is no chance at all.

These first-class wizard apprentices are often accompanied by some servants, and there are also many second-class wizard apprentice students surrounding them.

When Locke came in, several first-class wizard apprentices looked at him a few more times, a few nodded to him, and then they no longer paid attention to him.

After all, Locke had just become a first-class wizard apprentice, but some of them were only a few steps away from becoming formal wizards, while others, although hopeless of becoming formal wizards, had already been first-class wizard apprentices for fifty or sixty years and were very experienced.

Moreover, they basically all wear breeder badge certificates.

When these people saw the breeder assistant badge and certificate worn by Locke, they couldn’t help but look down on him, and naturally had no intention of taking the initiative to make friends with Locke.

Wizards are all realistic.

Since they saw no benefit in making friends with me, these senior first-class wizard apprentices naturally had no interest in me.

Some senior first-class wizard apprentices gathered in twos and threes, chatting with each other or exchanging experiences, and handed over the work to the second-class wizard apprentices they hired.

Locke heard several first-class wizard apprentices complimenting a female first-class wizard apprentice named Mary.

“Mary, you should be the first-class wizard apprentice who is closest to being a formal wizard in the academy… I’m so envious.”

Mary said in a distant tone, “Yes. Next year I will participate in the Breeder Competition and start accumulating resources. A first-class wizard apprentice needs to accumulate a lot of resources to become a formal wizard.”

“You guys should also prepare early.”

Several first-class wizard apprentices surrounding her started laughing.

“It’s still early for us. We might have to wait another ten years or so before we can reach your level, Senior Mary.”

“I recently took on a mission from the academy and cultivated a batch of verbena magic plants, earning a lot of magic stones.”

“That’s probably because of the Blood Curse Court that they issued this emergency mission. Verbena doesn’t have much other use.” Mary said, “I heard that in retaliation against the Blood Curse Court, the academy dumped verbena, which causes vampires to become allergic to magic, upstream of the Blood Curse Court’s water source. I heard that many of their wizard apprentices died as a result.”

As they were talking, Mary suddenly looked up at a young first-class wizard apprentice standing nearby. She nodded slightly and took the initiative to greet him, “Angron, you’re here.”

“I heard you passed the breeder’s assistant certification exam. I didn’t expect it to be true.”

Angron largely ignored the others and greeted Mary. “My recent project on the mind-strengthening potion hasn’t been very successful. To gain additional insights, I decided to apply to Harlan Vera for a Breeder’s Assistant Certificate and come work at the public plantation.”

“Mary, I didn’t expect you to be here. That’s great. We can talk to each other. It won’t be so boring to be alone.”

Mary smiled and nodded. This was exactly what she meant. After all, she couldn’t communicate anything with the wizard apprentices surrounding her.

Angron glanced at Locke who was not far away. Because Locke was a new face, he slightly caught his attention.

But Angron soon turned his attention to Mary, who was also a formal wizard seed, and chatted and laughed with her.

Locke withdrew his gaze from observing the people around him.

He didn’t mean to take the initiative to say hello. When you are weak, it is best not to think about how to socialize, but to improve yourself, then friends will naturally come to you.

Otherwise, forcing yourself into those circles will only backfire.

But Locke didn’t expect that he would meet the first-class wizard apprentice Angron here.

The other party looked strong, with muscles all over his body, which was different from the image of an ordinary wizard apprentice. He had a buzz cut, clean and neat, but his eyes were gloomy, and he really looked like the kind of person who would do anything to get what he wanted.

Locke turned to look at the five hundred acres of magical farmland he was responsible for. “The academy probably took into consideration that I only have a Breeder’s Assistant Certificate, so they didn’t assign me any complex magical plant care tasks. They only assigned me the simplest ones.”

“That’s fine.”

“It will be much easier for me to follow the rules.”

“The first step is to get rid of specific harmful fungi on the phoenix feather flower, which requires a special fungus-killing gel.”

Locke spent the next day working in the public botanical gardens.

However, he worked all day without any other first-class wizard apprentices coming to talk to him, and the lower-level wizard apprentices did not dare to disturb him.

Therefore, Locke was able to have some peace and quiet.

In the evening, when Locke returned to his cabin complex, he entered the small-scale botanical garden given to him by the Reeves family. At this time, the botanical garden had been tidied up by the minotaur slaves, and a large amount of nutrient soil had been sprinkled into it.

Locke checked it over. “In about a week, we’ll be able to open up twenty acres of new magical fields.”

Locke looked at his Horadric Cube which was spinning in the void. At this moment, the Horadric Cube was synthesizing three ordinary [Palm Fire Lotus].

In a week, my third magic plant should be ready.

(End of this chapter)