Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 533

Chapter 530: Synthesize the Big Yellow Duck Crown Pineapple!

At the foot of Jinmian Mountain, on the crown of the big red banyan tree, Locke walked on the crown of the big red banyan tree and saw a large number of aerial roots in the center of the crown, and there was a lot of soil on the aerial roots.

It’s exactly about one acre of land.

The Big Red Mountain Banyan Tree is a first-ring-level magical plant. The crown diameter of banyan-type magical plants is already very large, and the Big Red Mountain Banyan Tree is like a small hill.

A natural soil field will form in the center of the crown of the Dahongshan banyan tree.

This is a magical plant that likes to grow its own favorite companion plants. On the Golden Crown Mountain where every inch of land is valuable, the one-acre magic field in the center of the redwood banyan tree’s crown will obviously become the property of the breeders on the Golden Crown Mountain.

At this time, Locke walked to the middle of the crown of the big red mountain banyan tree, placed his palm on it, and slightly felt the magical energy in it.

It is worth mentioning that although the surface of this acre of magic field is a bit messy, its basic fertility is still good, which can be seen.

The previous tenant of this magic field had taken proper care of it, so he could use it directly without leaving it fallow.

“The Dahongshan Banyan tree absorbs nutrients from its roots, secretes them through the root canals, and then secretes them from the stomata of its branches to nourish the soil in the center.”

“In other words, it will manage this magic field to a certain extent. At the same time, Golden Crown Mountain collects fire from the sky and the earth, transforming it into life energy with flames and high temperatures, and feeding it back to the nearby magic plant forest, so…”

“Here we’ve achieved something that other areas can’t do: high-density cultivation of the One Ring Magic Plants. We plant them like ordinary plants.”

This is really amazing.

The common sense that Locke established in the land of the six towers was that a one-ring magic plant must occupy a very large area, and can only be surrounded by a bunch of apprentice-level magic plants. Therefore, his previous special laboratory in the White Dragon Tower seemed to occupy a large area, but it could only grow 3-4 one-ring magic plants.

This is because of the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome.

Otherwise, you can only plant more sparsely.

In the Golden Crown Mountain, the concentration gradient of the magic tide is several orders of magnitude higher than that of the entire Yunze Wetland. Therefore, it is possible to plant a ring of magic plants in rows like ordinary crops.

Locke spent 50,000 magic stones to buy some magic plant seeds, and planted them in the soil. Some were apprentice-level magic plants, and some were one-ring magic plants.

The selection of these seeds was based on the observations of the apprentices who had read about them before, and the guesses of some magical plants – those magical plant seeds that had a symbiotic relationship with magical creatures.

Anyway, the Zhenzhi Academy gave him 200,000 magic stones as start-up funds for scientific research, so Locke directly spent 50,000 magic stones to experiment with the ideas he had generated from the information he had read for more than a week.

Locke chanted a spell and used it to plant all the seeds. He then began to use the [Rapid Growth] magic to speed up their growth in the soil.

Without the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome, the One-Ring Magic Plant would grow more slowly. Even for the current Locke, it would take a week to cultivate a One-Ring Magic Plant into adulthood.

But the apprentice-level magic plants grew out quickly.

A week later, on the top of the Dahongshan banyan tree, Locke fused the three big yellow duck pineapples he picked. After the three first-ring-level pineapples were fused, they became a level 8 synthetic item.

Locke glanced at the entry for this magical plant and was suddenly struck by its presence. “Level 8 synthetic item, Mutated Giant Yellow Duck Pineapple. It absorbs free lightning energy from the air, storing it within its vesicles. The moment it touches the enemy’s body, it releases it instantly.”

“Lightning bees and similar magical creatures love to parasitize the giant yellow duck pineapple. This is because the giant yellow duck pineapple’s natural geometric structure and stored lightning energy make lightning bees prefer to build nests in it.”

Locke scanned the entry and said, “Sure enough, the synthetic entry for a cash crop like the Big Yellow Duck Pineapple mentions the magical creature it forms a symbiotic relationship with.”

“Looking at this prompt, I continued to study the symbiotic relationship between these magical plants and magical creatures. My research efficiency can be increased by at least ten times, or even more.”

Locke gazed at the Tillandsia spp., deep in thought. “My apprentice’s report indicates that a forest-dwelling group of thunderbirds is thriving 50% above average. They suspect this is due to their consumption of the local magical plant, the Tillandsia spp., an epiphytic magical plant.”

“But the entry doesn’t mention this, so it’s clear that the apprentice made a wrong judgment.”

“But the lightning bee… if I remember correctly, it’s a tiny bee, only the size of a grain of rice. It’s hard to see with the n*ked eye, and it flies in mid-air like a tiny flash of lightning.”

Locke pondered, “If the lightning bee lives in the Big Rubber Duck air plant, and the Thunderbird likes to eat the Big Rubber Duck air plant, maybe it will eat the lightning bee as well?”

Locke’s heart skipped a beat as an answer flashed through his mind. “So, the Thunderbirds’ fertility wasn’t enhanced by eating the Big Yellow Duck Pineapple, but rather by consuming the Lightning Bees inside the Big Yellow Duck Pineapple?”

“Is this a multi-nested symbiotic relationship?”

Very likely.

This is the magic of nature.

And to prove this point it is very simple. Just rent twelve pairs of ptarmigan and divide them into four groups.

The three pairs of ptarmigan in a group have additional Big Yellow Duck pineapple in their ptarmigan feed; the three pairs of ptarmigan in a group have additional lightning bee food in addition to the special ptarmigan feed; the three pairs of ptarmigan in a group have both lightning bee food and Big Yellow Duck pineapple in addition to the special ptarmigan feed.

Then, I only let the last three pairs of ptarmigan in the last group eat ordinary special ptarmigan feed.

Then observe the fertility of four groups of ptarmigan.

After Locke realized this, he immediately used half an acre of magic field to plant all the seeds of the Big Yellow Duck Air Plant magic plant in his hands.

At the same time, he went to the Dragon Blood Market to buy the magical creature Lightning Bee, and to see if he could rent the Thunderbird that was about to enter the breeding season.

If this experiment were to be carried out in other regions, cooperation from multiple parties would be required. The magic plants would have to wait for them to grow, and the magical creatures would definitely need a longer reproduction cycle than the magic plants.

All in all, it may take a year to complete such a simple experiment.

But the experimental conditions in Mount Golden Crown are simply too perfect. Business is developed, disciplines are complete, and there are a large number of wizards.

There are many wizards in Jinmian Mountain itself, and the number of wizards in the small and medium-sized wizard organizations outside Jinmian Mountain is also large when added together.

A huge market has been formed here.

Therefore, Locke can directly rent thunderbirds that are likely to have entered the breeding period from those shops to complete his experiments.

Compress the experimental time as much as possible.

A month later, Locke jumped off the head of his cloud whale and landed steadily on the crown of the big red mountain banyan tree.

When the cloud whale saw its master leave, it rolled happily in the sky, tumbled in the sea of clouds, and stayed in the cloud, waiting for Locke to summon it again.

As a means of transportation, this Cloud Whale is quite useful.

Locke walked quickly to the center of the canopy of the banyan tree on Dahongshan Mountain.

At this time, there were twelve bird cages next to the magic field, with pairs of thunderbirds living in them.

The feathers of each thunderbird are like sharp barbs, growing straight up, and their yellow feathers are wrapped with terrible lightning.

Mortals would be electrocuted into charcoal just by getting close to the thunderbird, let alone touching it.

In some low-magic colonized planes, thunderbirds are even worshipped as gods by the locals.

Locke took a look at the breeding status of the four groups of Thunderbirds and nodded immediately. “Sure enough, my guess was correct. The Thunderbirds didn’t increase their fertility by eating the Big Yellow Duck pineapple, but by eating the lightning bees inside the Big Yellow Duck pineapple.”

“Among the four control groups, except for the two groups of ptarmigan that ate lightning bees and successfully hatched two ptarmigan eggs, all the other groups of ptarmigan that entered the breeding season stopped mating.”

Locke’s eyes flickered. “So, I can boldly conclude that if Thunderbird wants to hatch offspring, it must continuously consume Lightning Bee.”

“The lightning bee is the key.”

Locke wrote down his conclusions in his own materials. These were preliminary experimental data. The more solid these data were, the easier it would be for the project application written using them to pass the Zhenzhi Academy project fund.

Locke pondered, “If I continue this project, I’ll focus on two things: analyzing why lightning bees prefer to live in and build nests in giant yellow duck pineapples, and how giant yellow duck pineapples increase the number of lightning bees.”

“Secondly, how many lightning bees does the Thunderbird need to eat in order to be able to reproduce in the wild?”

“Because my research focuses on magical plants, I’d also like to know the mechanism by which the lightning bees parasitize the giant yellow duck pineapple.”

If Locke had not synthesized the Rubik’s Cube, it would take him a year and a half just to figure out this step. If he was unlucky, it would even take longer.

Many excellent wizards are stuck on the Zhenzhi Academy Fund Project for these reasons.

Researching something is like walking on a road with countless forks in the road, but among the countless forks in the road, only a few of them are valuable.

Once you make the wrong choice, even if you are a genius, it will be a waste of time.

Therefore, the ability to discover key research points largely determines a wizard’s scientific research efficiency.

Locke didn’t know how his ability to see through key points compared to other wizards, but he had the help and hints of the synthetic Rubik’s Cube, so he knew from the beginning the coexistence relationship between the Big Rubber Duck Pineapple and the Lightning Bee. It was the Big Rubber Duck Pineapple that provided the Lightning Bee with a comfortable nesting environment and lightning energy field.

Then there is no need for me to queue up and wait to use the structural comparison machine to analyze the thousands of natural magic structural components in the Big Yellow Duck pineapple, and then slowly guess which natural magic structural components cause the lightning bees to like to live in the Big Yellow Duck pineapple.

Although Locke has already spent 100,000 magic stones on purchasing magic plant seeds and renting magical creatures, he is very satisfied with the results he achieved in just one month and one week.

“With such excellent pre-experimental data, the chances of my project proposal being approved should be greatly increased.”

“But that’s not enough.”

Locke turned and looked at the pineapple magic plants in the remaining half acre of magic field. What were planted there were not the Big Yellow Duck pineapple, but three other types of pineapples.

They are all one-ring magic plants.

They are Big Black Diamond Pineapple, Blue Swan Pineapple and White Pearl Pineapple.

At the same time, there are some cages of other magical creatures around.

You can use the synthesis cube to continuously synthesize pineapple-type magic plants, and at the same time accumulate a lot of relevant data to help you speed up the development of special synthesis formulas.

In this case, the most efficient way for you is not to study and synthesize the magic plants one by one.

Instead, they directly study a bunch of magical plants of the same type together to discover the symbiotic relationship between these magical plants and other magical creatures, as well as the secret of enhancing the reproductive capacity of specific magical creatures.

This is the fastest efficiency for me who has a synthetic Rubik’s Cube.

I don’t need to be like other wizards, who study one magical plant before moving on to the next.

“I’ll spend another 100,000 magic stones to rent magical creatures that have entered their mating period. I should be able to complete the preliminary experimental reports for the remaining three air pineapple magical plants by the end of this month.”

“And…” Locke took out a large yellow duck pineapple from the synthetic magic cube and saw the entry on it –

[Mutated Big Yellow Duck Pineapple, Level 8 synthetic item, Big Yellow Duck Crown Pineapple. This Big Yellow Duck Pineapple has undergone a mutation through the Magical Co-Frequency Cultivation Method… By actively secreting natural magical structural components on the surface of its leaves, resembling a royal lightning field, lightning bees residing within are accelerated and catalyzed into queen bees, thereby attracting lightning bees to actively build nests within it.]

This is a mutated version of the Big Yellow Duck Air Plant that Locke synthesized using two Big Yellow Duck Air Plants and a portion of royal jelly.

Locke looked at the ordinary-looking Big Yellow Duck Pineapple, except for the slightly more complex pattern, and thought to himself, “My guess was right. As long as I keep synthesizing it every day, sooner or later I will be able to synthesize a special formula.”

“Some special formulas are likely to contain special natural magical components that were not originally present.”

Locke looked strange.

He needed to investigate some information to see if there was any natural magical structure component similar to the natural royal lightning field.

If not, then the situation would be very interesting.

I have synthesized a brand new mutant version of the Big Yellow Duck Pineapple, and this Big Yellow Duck Pineapple will secrete a substance that has not been discovered so far (not necessarily does not exist in nature).

Then you can directly use the special big yellow duck pineapple that you have cultivated to discover a new natural magic structure component.

Locke frowned. “It’s not impossible to cultivate new magical plants yourself and discover new types of natural magical structure components.”

“I’m also going to check the Royal Lightning Field to see if there’s any such magic… If not, I can give this ingredient to the wizards specializing in lightning magic at the School of Evocation. I’ll have them study this substance and create a completely new lightning magic.”

Locke stood atop the Dahongshan Banyan Tree and smiled, “Basic research is indeed very interesting. I draw inferences from one instance to another and discover even more.”

“It’s even possible that we’ve discovered a completely new spell model for lightning magic from the Shaping School, and its naturally occurring magical structural components. This is something I hadn’t thought of.”

Locke had some understanding of the significance of basic research.

Jinmian Mountain pursues virtual things, probably because people usually don’t know what is real.

If you are doing something that is relatively common in society, then just go with the flow and follow the public perception, that’s fine.

But if they stand at the forefront of exploration and search for the truth, they will not know what is practical and what is a waste of time.

Therefore, Jinmianshan believes that we should not judge anything as empty or practical, and classify it, but explore what we are interested in based on our interests and hobbies.

Therefore, Jinmian Mountain is a virtual place as a whole.

Locke pondered, “But honestly, only a wizarding organization like Golden Crown Mountain, which needs to stand for the future, needs to be so idealistic. If it were any other wizarding organization, they wouldn’t even be able to solve the immediate survival problem. If they were still so idealistic, they would probably disband in the next moment.”

“So, you should do what’s appropriate for your position,” Locke said, reacting. “Some ideas aren’t right or wrong, they’re just about what’s right for you.”

“A third-ring wizard can have a long-term vision, but I’m just a small first-ring wizard now. I should try my best to improve my resume and obtain better resources.”

Locke shook his head. “Don’t let the Golden Crown Mountain’s thinking patterns carry you along. Golden Crown Mountain, along with Luxu Bridge, is one of the seven top wizard organizations in the Yunze Wetlands, and is well-known throughout the Eastern Boundary. And I’m just an ordinary first-ring liquefaction wizard, not even a crystallization wizard.”

“I need to have a reasonable understanding of my situation.”

“Just because you’re in the True Knowledge Academy of Golden Crown Mountain, you can’t think of yourself as a Golden Crown Mountain wizard or a three-ring wizard!”

Locke checked his savings.

A month later, he had added another 160,000 magic stones, in addition to his previous deposit of 360,000 magic stones.

But because I spent 100,000 magic stones on experiments this month, and some miscellaneous living expenses, which cost me 1,000 magic stones, I currently have 410,900 magic stones left.

That is, forty-one magic crystal cards and nine thousand magic stones.

Seeing that it was already night, Locke went to the classroom of Zhenzhi Academy.

After a month, the three major classroom courses are almost finished, and today is the last course on improving teacher skills.

After finishing the three major courses, I should start teaching.

(End of this chapter)