Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 343

Chapter 341: Wind Solid Element Particle Magic Plant and Green Manure Magic Plant

Locke took out one hundred emerald iris lichens and five hundred mixed varieties of magic vines from the astral ring, and ordered ten dwarf-shaped golems to plant these magic plants on the forest floor to strengthen the forest again.

“Wood element particles are a type of composite element particle. Essentially, they require seven basic element particles: earth, water, fire, wind, light, darkness, and ether. These seven basic element particles must be mixed in a certain proportion and structure to become wood element particles.”

“Therefore, plants need a large amount of the seven basic particles to grow rapidly. Plants generally do not directly absorb simple elemental particles other than light element particles, so they must absorb some compound elements to grow.”

“Light element particles can be obtained from sunlight, water element particles can be obtained from water, and dark, earth, and fire elements can all be obtained from the earth. Even fire element particles exist within heavy metals. Dark element exists within the earth in the form of some kind of composite element particles. High-grade nutrient soil contains these basic element particles.”

“The only things that forests and plants cannot easily obtain are wind and ether particles.”

All kinds of knowledge about ecology flashed through Locke’s mind.

Therefore, forests need symbiotic plants, large numbers of symbiotic plants, and large populations, because the growth of plants requires obtaining seven basic element particles from objects composed of different composite element particles in order to obtain wood element particles.

Wind element particles generally only exist in the air, which is difficult for tree-like magical plants to obtain on their own.

Therefore, some symbiotic plants that can solidify wind element particles are needed, such as ferns, lichens, legumes and shrubs to help the tree-type magic plants obtain them.

This is why forests need layers of ferns and shrubs.

Locke had already discovered this during his previous inspection – the Emerald Iris Lichen itself is an excellent magical plant that can fix wind element particles. It can obtain wind element particles from the air, enter the roots, and nourish the soil near its roots.

Therefore, a kind of magic plant that solidifies ether is also needed. The ether element is extremely difficult to obtain, but it exists in every living organism.

In other words, a large number of corpses are generally needed to obtain ether elements.

This is also the secret why plants grow lushly where there are many corpses.

In other words, what can contribute a large number of ether element particles are the corpses of animals and plants, or some plants that can be produced in large quantities but also die in large quantities.

Locke originally focused his attention on the iron wire grass, but later found that it was not working. This thing was too tough. The wood element particles formed wood fibers, making its shape extremely difficult to decompose, so it would not release too many ether element particles into the soil.

On the contrary, it will absorb too much nutrients and cause soil degradation, which is not worth the cost.

Therefore, Locke chose his own magic vines. He wanted these magic vines to play the role of green manure plants.

Of course, in fact, you can also put a large amount of nutrient soil mixed with humus into this land, so that the plants can obtain stable ether element particles.

After doing all this, Locke realized that the Forest Sanctuary had become stronger again.

Moreover, it is already the second day.

By then, the whole forest had taken shape, with trees, lichens, and vines, and it began to grow lush and full of spring.

Locke set up some daily parameters here and the daily work processes of the ten dwarf-shaped golems so that after he left, these golems could still maintain the forest.

After everything was done, Locke was extremely satisfied. “According to the information Wizard Levis gave me, wizards can use magic to accelerate the lifespan of the forest.”

“After everything is done, I will wait for a year for these magical plants to fully adapt. This will mark the first stage of the forest’s formation.”

“There’s the Red Holly, the king of magical plants; the Double-Ball Plantain Tree, a magical tree-type plant; plus three types of magical vines, the Green Manure Magic Plant, which contributes etheric elements; and the Emerald Iris Lichen, a wind-fixing magical plant, which contributes wind elemental particles. This forest ecosystem is now self-sustaining.”

As long as the problem of the sources of wind and ether is solved, other elements can actually be obtained from the natural environment.

Locke has already noticed that the current forest sanctuary has undergone some kind of qualitative change. The energy cycle has been initially established and has begun to feed back to himself.

This means that three months later, he can plant a new ring of tree-type magical plants into the forest, and once again increase the external spell library space for the permanent defense field.

Locke thought: “But I still need to enhance my psychic power, otherwise my distributed network psychic power will not be able to accommodate so many magic plants.”

Locke opened the second bottle of Hive Mind Potion in his hand and drank it. His psychic energy pool rose and became larger again.

“Looks like I should try to buy more Hive Mind Potion from the market. But I haven’t even gathered enough money to buy a Druid’s Ring.”

“The Forest Sanctuary magic is great, but it’s also a huge expense.”

“The Druid’s Ring is in short supply. Even if I get it, I guess the price won’t be cheap.”

Locke turned and left the research institute, quickly flying out of the Forbidden Forest. “Looks like I need to think of other ways to obtain the Druid’s Ring. Otherwise, I won’t be able to raise the money to buy it in such a short time.”

“Also, I need to think carefully about which first-ring tree-type magical plant to transplant in the next three months. Furthermore, purchasing a first-ring magical plant would be a huge expense. Money is needed everywhere. If I could use the synthetic magic cube to transform a tree-type magical plant that best suits me, that would be the best.”

After leaving the Forbidden Forest and returning to Lilith’s Hut.

Locke hurried back to his laboratory, calculating future plans in his mind.

He looked at Yuli standing at the door of his laboratory and was stunned for a moment. “Oh, sorry, I forgot. I asked you to come to see me today two weeks ago.”

“Well, it’s almost ten in the morning? I happened to be busy, so I’m sorry to have kept you waiting.”

Yuli immediately bowed humbly to Locke. “No, no, Senior Locke, I’m just a wizard apprentice. No matter how long I wait for you, it’s reasonable.”

“Senior Locke, this is the data from an experiment I did on myself before.”

Locke took the information she handed over, quickly flipped through a few pages, and frowned, because he skipped directly the experimental process written in the information and looked at the raw materials used by Yuli to cast an aging curse on herself.

There is no problem with this part.

But when he looked at the potion that Yuli had used to remove the curse on him, it turned out to be the bear spirit bile potion.

Locke looked at Yuli. “You bought so many Bear Spirit Bile potions?”

Yuli nodded and said, “Yes, Senior Locke. I found that when I take the Bear Spirit Bile Potion to remove the aging curse, I can increase my magic power a little bit.”

“I use this mechanism to constantly curse myself—and uncurse myself.”

Locke nodded. “Using your magic resistance to counter the curse does increase your mana somewhat, but there’s a limit to how much you can gain.”

“Besides, it’s too dangerous. If you’re not careful, you could permanently damage your soul. But that’s not what I’m asking you. I’m asking you, how could you possibly have so much money to buy all the Bear Spirit Bile potions listed in the information and drink them like water?”

Under Locke’s gaze, Yuli swallowed and said, “No…no.”

“I didn’t buy the authentic Bear Spirit Bile Potion. I bought the Bear Spirit Bile Potion from Madam Irina’s shop in the Chimera Market that specializes in selling gray items.”

“Those Bear Bile potions weren’t of the best quality when they were made, or maybe a wizard apprentice tried to improve the recipe by adding some strange, but useless, potion ingredients.” Yuli blushed and said, “To save money, I had no choice but to buy those incomplete Bear Bile potions.”

“But I was lucky and didn’t encounter any problems.”

Locke handed her the information.

Yuli asked doubtfully, “Senior Locke, won’t you take another look?”

Locke shook his head slightly. “No need. I think I’ve already guessed the truth of the matter.”

“Are you aware of the Abyssal Potion Material Paradox? It’s a niche hypothetical theory within Abyssal Alchemy. I now suspect that in one of the batches of inferior Bear Spirit Bile Potion you purchased previously, a wizard apprentice and potion master’s assistant had read about this paradox and added some Abyssal biological material to the potion formula.”

(End of this chapter)