Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 342

Chapter 340: First Strengthening of the Forest Sanctuary

Locke used the archaeological spell model, ancient pointer, and the characteristics of rust particles to once again find the research institute hidden by the magic maze of the illusion school, and entered it by opening the magic lock.

Locke entered the research institute and used [Summon Grave Spirit] first, regardless of whether there was someone there or not, to scan the negative energy particle field inside the entire institute to ensure that no one entered the institute or approached the institute during this period.

After everything was confirmed, Locke came to the constant temperature planting room in the core area of the research institute. At this time, the six red holly plants, sensing the return of their forest lord, suddenly swayed their branches and leaves, like gentle dancers, greeting Locke.

Locke checked and found that the major circulation systems in the constant temperature planting room were still running well, so there was no need to worry that the prototype of the forest would be damaged because the circulation system was not fully established.

Locke touched the bark of one of the red holly trees and had a unique feeling, as if he was being looked at from a third-party perspective.

Because of the permanent defense force field, this forest is oneself, but the problem is that at this moment, one is touching oneself. The permanent defense force field serves as a connection point, connecting this forest with one’s soul.

In a sense, my soul at this moment is the soul of this forest.

So when Locke closed his eyes, he could actually look down at the entire forest.

Therefore, Locke felt as if he were inside his own body, touching himself. “According to Dean Levis, the forest is also a living organism, another type of complex organism. Therefore, if I want to further strengthen my permanent defense field, I can do so by increasing the total number of organisms in this forest.”

“Whether a forest thrives depends on its biomass.”

“The higher the biomass, the stronger the forest.”

Locke has learned a lot of first-level botany knowledge during this period. He can use his contribution points to exchange for a lot of knowledge related to first-level botany in the library, so his knowledge is growing rapidly.

In the first stage of botany, there is a very important term – [total biomass].

In an ecosystem, the larger the total amount of organisms, the greater its strength and integrity.

Similarly, the upper limit of the power of the botanical spell model is also largely limited by the total number of this creature.

Take the sea sand for example. As the king of magical plants, the total number of organisms in the sea sand is comparable to countless acres of ordinary forest.

The spore gold powder it secretes every moment ensures the lower limit of the power of its botanical spells.

The increase in the total amount of biological life in a forest is usually related to the age of the forest. Therefore, Dean Levis boldly uses the life cycle of dragons to divide the life cycle of forests.

In essence, Dean Levis has elevated the forest to the level of a dragon.

Locke took out a hundred double-ball sycamore trees from the star ring. The roots of these double-ball sycamore trees all had soil balls, and they had been treated with root cutting a month in advance, and had been fully adjusted to a state suitable for transplantation.

The plants themselves are not easy to move, even if the magic plant has stronger vitality, so the transplantation of the double-ball sycamore tree needs to be prepared one month in advance.

Locke relied on Harlan Vera’s network of relationships and the huge manpower he brought with him to arrange these matters a month in advance.

Locke ordered the ten dwarf-type golems that were still running in the constant temperature room to use shovels to dig a hundred pits in the ground. Locke had already calculated the diameter of these pits.

The size of the soil pit and soil ball will affect the survival rate after transplantation.

“Six trees are definitely not enough to form a forest. If a woodland is to become a community, there must be at least thirty trees, and the species cannot be a single one. A single tree species will attract disease.” Locke recalled the ecology-related knowledge he had learned during this period.

“So, I’m going to increase the number of trees to 106. This will make this Magic Forest truly worthy of its name. It’s a shame I haven’t gotten the Druid’s Ring yet, otherwise I could seriously plan and enhance this forest and conduct ecological experiments.”

Locke ordered the golems to plant the sycamore trees one by one. At the same time, he felt that the roots of the trees under the red holly had begun to connect with the roots of the one hundred sycamore trees.

The roots of the red holly are parasitic on many fungi, one of which is called [Ilex arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi]. This is a magical fungus that can extend outward from the roots of the red holly to form magical mycorrhizae.

That is, it is the associated mycorrhiza of the roots of red holly.

These mycorrhizae connect with the roots of other plants in the ground within a radius of several kilometers.

In this way, a [bacteria network] can be formed.

This is a special ecology that all plants have. It is a kind of distributed intelligent evolution and belongs to the same direction of intelligent evolution as the swarm of insects that he saw in the illusion.

However, the companion fungi of Ilex crenata [Ilex arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi] will strengthen this [fungal network] to the extreme.

Ilex cristata can share its nutrition, magic power, some natural magic power components, and even some information with other plants connected to the [Bacteria Network], and can also obtain magic power, nutrition, and natural magic power components from other plants in the [Bacteria Network].

Locke saw that the one hundred double-ball sycamore trees were now covered with a layer of green light. This was the red holly sharing its magic power, giving these sycamore trees vitality, helping them to quickly overcome the weak period during the transplantation and immediately join this forest family.

The [bacteria network] is the real brain of the forest. The real brain of the forest is located in the underground soil layer under the tree roots.

Within the [Bacteria Network], all plants can communicate with each other in a simple, instinctive way.

As Red Holly used the [Fungus Network] to incorporate one hundred sycamore trees, the neural virtual tentacles of the distributed psychic network also appeared behind Locke. These tentacles connected to those sycamore trees one by one, completely incorporating them into his own forest.

Our own forest is currently maintained by three things. The first is the natural [bacteria network] that every forest has.

The second is to form a magical grafting relationship between these magic plants and yourself.

The third is to incorporate them into his own distributed psychic network.

That is to say, using the three methods of forest, insect swarm and botanical wizards, the entire forest is united together to form the possibility of a forest sanctuary.

Five hundred years ago, the wizard Levis was stuck at this step because of the lack of a distributed psychic network. He was unable to establish a closer connection between the wizard and the magic plant, and naturally it was impossible for him to complete the forest sanctuary magic.

As the forest turned into 106 tree-like magical plants, the magic of the forest sanctuary increased by three points, making Locke realize that his permanent defensive force field was strengthened a little.

Although one hundred sycamore trees were nothing and insignificant compared to a ring of magic plants, their existence just filled the gaps in the forest’s defects, turning the forest into a true forest.

Therefore, the magic of the forest sanctuary was strengthened out of thin air.

The six red holly trees, as the king of the magic plants, can suppress these double-ball sycamore trees.

Locke suddenly thought, if the situation continued to intensify like this, two situations would occur.

First, can I use two permanent defensive force fields at the same time during battle?

Second, his own permanent defense force field will become an external source of magic pressure because the magic pressure of the forest exceeds his own magic pressure.

In other words, by relying on the Forest Sanctuary, he could, like the energy of the Abyss, gain a magical pressure far exceeding his own?
Locke quickly calculated and discovered that this was the intended development of the Forest Sanctuary.

This can be done as long as you make some fine-tuning to the spell model of the Forest Sanctuary.

You don’t even need to make fine adjustments within your own soul, you can make fine adjustments on the six red hollies.

To achieve this, we just need to strengthen the forest ecology itself again.

Locke looked thoughtful. “The Forest Sanctuary isn’t just some ordinary permanent defensive field. It’s the product of Wizard Levis’s attempt to break through to the Second Ring. In other words, the key to breaking through to the Second Ring is hidden within the Forest Sanctuary, I just haven’t realized it yet.”

“Let’s continue strengthening the forest sanctuary. After increasing the total number of creatures, this will become a true forest.”

“Then, we will enter the real forest cultivation stage and plant the forest’s symbiotic magic plants!”

Trees are indeed the core of the forest, but there are other types of magical plants inside the forest, and those are all symbiotic magical plants with trees.

The existence of symbiotic magic plants is to make the forest thrive and form a stable cycle.

There is no need to plant a bunch of messy plants in a newly born forest. For example, if you want to plant the humus konjac king, which you can already mass-produce, inside the forest.

If you plant the King of Morassic Amorphophallus in it, you can definitely strengthen your own forest.

But this thing is a luxury in the ecosystem. Its existence consumes the resources of the ecosystem, and the symbiotic magic plant is to maintain the resource circulation within the ecosystem.

Therefore, Locke only planned to plant emerald iris lichen and three kinds of magic vines he cultivated himself.

(End of this chapter)