Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 493 The Forest Sanctuary Enters Adulthood
A month later, the three golden apple trees, three blue ginkgo trees, and six winter-summer giant trees that Locke purchased from the Root Crown Court branch of Yunze Wetland had been delivered.

In addition to the twelve first-ring magical plants intended for inscribing the permanent defensive field external runes, Locke also purchased some magical plants to support the growth of the forest.

These consist of fifty ordinary functional one-ring magic plants, the Aquilaria sinensis, used to increase biomass, as well as numerous herbaceous and shrub magic plants.

These herbaceous and shrubby magical plants don't matter; there's no need to use level one magical plants.

Forests are primarily trees; using too many powerful magical plants that overshadow them can actually hinder the forest's development.

So he bought a whole bunch of apprentice-level shrubs, such as walnut branches, desert sea buckthorn, as well as apprentice-level vines and herbaceous plants.

A first-ring wizard from the Rootcrown Court arrived by airship, because this was a rather large deal.

Locke spent 86 magic stones to buy a bunch of magical plants from the Root Crown Court. After all, the Root Crown Court specializes in selling breeding equipment and magical plants, so buying from them guarantees quality.

If we were to acquire them from individual buyers, and if we were to purchase magical plants on a large scale, it would be troublesome if some kind of magical fungal disease or magical insect infestation were hidden among them.

It's not uncommon for breeders to introduce a completely new exotic magical plant into their plantations, only to have it devoured by insects hatched from magical eggs hidden in the plant's roots.

If you were to go into seclusion to conduct an experiment at this time, and the apprentices in your plantation didn't understand what was happening, and chose to handle it independently for fear of being scolded and punished, the situation would be even worse.

The Forest Sanctuary involves his permanent defensive field, which is his most important possession. Therefore, he cannot even invite apprentices into his Druid Ring. Thus, he needs to be even more cautious in selecting the quality of magical plants.

The wizard from the Root Crown Court nodded to Locke and said, "Breeder Augustine, congratulations on winning the Cloud Ze Cup. I watched your match, and you performed exceptionally well."

"It's hard to believe that this is the behavior of a wizard from outside Yunze Wetland."

He opened his astral ring, took out the tree seeds that had undergone special transplantation treatment by the breeder, and provided them to the wizard apprentices of the Plutarch family that Locke had brought, so that they could transplant these trees into the top-level laboratory.

This wizard from the Root Crown Court seemed to have a special fondness for Locke, and after talking to him for quite a while, he turned and left.

Meanwhile, the many apprentices who were moving the magical plants for Locke sensed the powerful magical pressure emanating from the 20-meter-tall magical trees on the carts they were pushing. The bark of those trees seemed to contain some kind of mysterious pattern, and they felt immense pressure just by standing next to them.

There were a total of sixty-two magical plants, as well as a large number of apprentice-level vines and herbaceous magical plants, and shrub magical plants.

These magical plants are merely functional to Locke and don't possess much combat ability. However, for these apprentices, any one of them could greatly enhance their combat power, making them extremely coveted.

It can only be said that the gap between a first-ring wizard and an apprentice is too great. A magical plant that can only be used as a blade of grass in Locke's forest can become a trump card and a deadly weapon for these apprentices.

The apprentices responsible for transporting the magical plants for Locke were whispering among themselves. "Master Augustine, what is he doing? Why is he buying so many powerful magical plants all at once? My god, even just one of these plants would double my combat power if I had it."

Another first-class wizard apprentice, who was pushing the cart with him, whispered, "Keep your voice down... He's a powerful first-ring wizard. We can't understand the experiments he's doing."

“Let’s send these magical plants over first.” The first-class wizard apprentice kept wiping the sweat from his forehead. “My mentor said that Wizard Augustine has a very high status in the White Dragon Magic Gem University. Even my mentor is willing to lend me to him for a week for free to move goods for him.”

“My tutor is so stingy. I rarely see him so eager to send his students to work for other formal wizards.”

The other first-class wizard apprentices were also constantly wiping away sweat. The magical pressure from so many first-level magical plants gathered together was like a huge gravitational center, putting these apprentices under tremendous pressure at all times.

On the surface, moving magical plants seems like a job anyone can do, but that's not actually the case. The sheer magical pressure from so many powerful magical plants gathered together makes it impossible to hire ordinary people to do the work. Moreover, moving magical plants requires certain skills and an understanding of botany.

At this moment, these first-class wizard apprentices were handling these powerful first-ring magical plants with great care, fearing that they might anger them or violate some taboo, causing the first-ring magical plants to automatically defend themselves. If the first-ring magical plants attacked them automatically, they could easily be seriously injured or even killed. After all, these were first-ring magical plants.

The mere twitch of its roots was enough to send an ordinary first-class wizard apprentice with 200 magic power flying.

These are not ordinary plants, but terrifying demonic plant kings, capable of unleashing powerful forces and transforming into terrifying weapons at any moment.

A first-class wizard apprentice responsible for transporting the Winter and Summer Giant Tree had sweat dripping from his forehead. Of all the magical plants, the Winter and Summer Giant Tree was the most dangerous. The other magical plants were basically not combat magical plants, but the Winter and Summer Giant Tree was one of them.

Its wood is incredibly heavy and hard. In winter and summer, the branches of the giant tree sway slightly in the wind and are extremely sensitive. If it is judged to be a potential attacker, it will strike the enemy with its branches in an instant, and the giant tree branches will smash the person into a pulp.

The first-class wizard apprentice's forehead was covered in fine sweat, fearing that the Winter and Summer Giant Trees might suddenly attack him.

What is safe and harmless to first-ring wizards may not be so for these first-class wizard apprentices.

An hour later, they pushed the cart through the floating stairs in the central passage and delivered it to Locke's top-level laboratory, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Next, they went back to the previous location to move the next batch of magical plants into this top-level laboratory.

Meanwhile, Locke was cultivating the soil, applying fertilizer, and transforming the soil within his Druid Ring, preparing for the transplantation of those magical plants.

A week later, Locke transplanted sixty-two magical plants into the forest, along with a large number of shrubs, herbs, and vines.

At this time, within the Ring of Druids, the forest is lush and verdant, with a wide variety of species, and has already reached a considerable size. There are golden apple trees, cloud sea mist pines, blue ginkgo trees, winter and summer giant trees, red earth holly, water green beech, and dozens of other types of vines, shrubs, and herbaceous magical plants.

And the apprentice-level tree that Locke expanded to six hundred trees—the London plane tree.

Currently, there are a total of 671 trees and countless other magical plants, including 71 trees in the first ring of magical plants.

Locke also introduced a large number of fungi and fungal magical plants, which improved the humus content of the forest and strengthened the forest cycle.

The entire forest has reached maturity in terms of its vegetation, becoming a vast and mature forest. Except for the absence of animals, everything else is perfect.

This area has now been transformed into a 100-acre natural forest.

Locke felt that his forest was more powerful than ever before. Standing in the center of the forest, he felt the ecosystem of the forest with himself at its core. "It is indeed a huge forest that I have created by using millions of magic stones."

"Every tree is money."

Locke, holding the golden grafting knife, said, "In the past month or so, I have also quickly learned some botanical defensive magic. I can first inscribe these botanical spells to improve my Forest Sanctuary magic."

"First, there are the Harvest Field and Wither Field, which the teacher emphasized. I have only learned these two spells so far and have completed the fine-tuning of the spell model."

Learning an existing first-level spell is not difficult for a first-level wizard, especially one at the first-level liquefaction stage.

Locke said, "Let's try to see if we can use the triple force field to complete the power of Mist."

　Something came up today, so I'll have to wait a bit to post the other three chapters.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)