Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 529 Freshmen
When Windtalker and Lava met Harvey again, it was almost a week after they arrived in Spark City.

The experimental research on the Stone of Life is still scheduled to be carried out in the magic potion garden managed by Egno. This time, the pure-blooded elves are no longer curious about the wide variety of unknown magic plants in the garden. In comparison, the mixed-blood elves' solemn promise makes them more eager to seek answers.

Can the Stone of Life be manipulated artificially to become a truly powerful instrument for amplifying natural elements?

As everyone gradually arrived, Harvey clapped his hands, coughed lightly, and said, "Everyone, we've gathered here today to verify whether the modified Stone of Life can accurately control the process of promoting plant growth..."

He signaled to Egno with his eyes, and the latter immediately took the box containing the life stone and walked to a plant nursery surrounded by a crowd. He opened the box with a steady movement and took out a round hemisphere with a white light flowing on its surface.

"This... this is the Life Stone we created?" Windtalker's eyes narrowed in disbelief. "This is impossible! Once the Life Stone solidifies, it will never change. How did he make it change its form?"

Lava frowned slightly and asked doubtfully, "I can't sense the rich natural power contained in the Life Stone anymore. Could it be that their frequent experiments recently have caused the elemental magic stored within it to be completely depleted?"

Strictly speaking, every time the Life Stone releases its catalytic and growth-promoting ability at a high intensity, it needs to enter a long dormant period. In essence, it needs to accumulate elemental magic power again and absorb and transform the pure magic in the magic network space again.

But Harvey has a planetary energy-gathering array that can connect two spatial planes and continuously extract pure magic energy from the magic network. As long as he wants, he can even keep the Life Stone in an energy overflow state for 24 hours without interruption.

Egno did not respond to their questions immediately, but walked to the nursery. The entire Magic Potion Botanical Garden was built with a tarpaulin made of rubber fruit and a steel frame structure. The roof was sprayed with a large amount of magical optical camouflage, making it appear to be extremely transparent... ensuring that the botanical garden can receive sufficient light while also achieving the effect of greenhouse cultivation.

On the crisscrossing steel frames of the greenhouse ceiling, many small multi-legged alchemical beasts are climbing back and forth. They have always been good helpers to researchers, responsible for performing many tedious cultivation and planting tasks instead of manpower.

Egno gave work instructions to several alchemists, asking them to drag a grappling hook with a slide rail from the ceiling, suspend the semicircular white life stone firmly on it, and then connect several thin energy pipelines... the other end of which extended directly to the underground energy pipeline - there was a dedicated energy gathering array under the botanical garden, which was responsible for providing heating and lighting to the interior of the greenhouse, and could also meet the "wireless charging" needs of a large number of alchemists on a normal basis.

"You intend to let the Life Stone work on its own? How is that possible? If you don't hold it in your hand and activate it with the same natural magic, it won't react at all..."

Before the Windtalker could finish his question, Egno decisively pulled the joystick to charge the pipeline. The infusion of magic power was silent, but the dazzling light that burst out from the Stone of Life in an instant was something that no one present could ignore.

The extremely rich energy of natural elements instantly swept through the entire greenhouse. Although it was the middle of winter with heavy snow outside, the botanical garden was filled with spring-like warmth and humidity, as well as an indescribable vitality.

A pure-blooded elf who was accompanying him suddenly lost his composure. It turned out that he was holding a natural magic weapon made of a tree root. At this moment, under the invasion of the energy of the Life Stone, a cluster of tender green branches suddenly sprouted from the end of the staff - the magic weapon was affected by the Life Stone, and an uncontrolled growth-promoting resonance occurred, which also meant that the next step of the tree root would instantly go through the process of sprouting, growing, blooming and bearing fruit, and finally wither and decay into a pile of powder and return to the earth.

This was a characteristic of the Life Stone, but the carelessness that destroyed his beloved magical instrument had caused the elf to lose control of his emotions. At the same time, an elderly dwarf suddenly clutched his head and cried out in pain. Dwarves in the Underdark who had been widowed and had not remarried usually wore a crown of thorns to express their remembrance of their deceased partners. However, the withered crown of thorns on this elderly dwarf's head suddenly began to revive and grow after being irradiated by the Life Stone's energy. The sharp thorns pierced his scalp, causing him to jump in pain.

Seeing that the situation was a little out of control, Egno decisively pulled the joystick again, and the charging of the slender pipe was immediately interrupted. The light of the Stone of Life gradually went out and returned to its initial warm and white state.

"Huh?" The elf raised his staff high in the air and walked forward with a somewhat agitated expression. "Its... its catalytic process has been interrupted! It's been... solidified in its embryonic state!"

Everyone's eyes were fixed on the tree root in his hand, and the cluster of tender green buds that had just sprouted at the end of the root system...

The dwarf took off the crown of thorns on his head with a grin, and found that the originally dry crown had not only grown many new buds, but also several small white flower buds. From a distance, it looked more like a white crown of flowers... The older dwarf seemed to be suddenly reminded of his memories. Holding the crown of thorns, his eyes turned slightly red. Then he silently touched his chest and saluted Egno who was standing in the center of the crowd.

Upon seeing this, the dwarf leader, Lava, stepped forward and said sincerely, "Your Majesty... Master Egno, we never expected you to completely decipher the secrets of the Stone of Life in such a short time. You can truly control its catalytic growth-promoting process. This is truly eye-opening and astonishing..."

The dwarves have always lived and multiplied on the warm and humid southern coast. Essentially, there is no crisis of food shortage or scarcity, so they do not have much desire for Lifestone. After all, in a place like Breath of Hill with fertile land to a certain extent, just sowing a handful of seeds in early spring can also get a rich harvest in late summer.

The burrowing dwarves have only suffered from a lack of education, but they have never suffered from hunger.

Compared to the dwarves who merely watched the fun, the elves had a much more complicated attitude – the hybrids they looked down upon actually surpassed the purebloods in the ways of nature, and even successfully cracked the ancient secrets of the Stone of Life…

If the catalytic growth-promoting process of the Life Stone can really be controlled, doesn't it mean... that this growth-promoting property can be applied to catalyze the growth of the golden tree!

As soon as this thought popped into his mind, Windtalker suddenly found that his breathing became uncontrollably rapid.

Compared to the golden tree that catalyzed their survival, the humiliation suffered by the purebloods in front of the hybrids was nothing... What's more, the other party was indeed extremely capable. Now that he had fulfilled his promise, he did not choose to take the initiative to humiliate them, a group of pureblood elves.

He took a deep breath and slowly walked to Egno, who had a complicated expression on his face. He bowed slightly and touched his chest in a graceful gesture. "My past prejudices have blinded me. Please forgive me... You truly have the potential to be a sage, and you have surpassed us in the practice of the Way of Nature..."

(End of this chapter)