What's wrong with me, a mage, loving to farm?

Chapter 144. The Wise Tower Spirit, the Troubled Ashes

Kroya had no idea that the Baron's men were rushing towards Han Reef Island through a blizzard.

For him, time was passing steadily, day by day.

On this day, Kroya was observing the shark souls in the tower spirit cultivation pool as usual.

Tarling is now his primary focus of observation.

The little shark was drawing water from the River of the Dead and the soul solution. Although it was still wrapped in the crystal threads of the Soul-Soothing Crystal, it was gradually beginning to move away from the center of the vortex.

Its originally gray-black body now had a touch of orange light.

That was the spiritual power from Kroa.

The spiritual power cultivated through the Orange Hymn is absolutely the most suitable for such a tiny soul that has just been born with consciousness.

It cautiously swam in the whirlpool, as if curious about its surroundings but not daring to wander around recklessly.

Kroa could sense a very nascent consciousness within it, immature, but because of its excellent foundation, it was much stronger than ordinary people.

According to the description in that method, it is essential to promptly instill some thoughts into such a tiny soul that has just been born with consciousness.

For example...

Kroya picked up a thick book from the side; the book was called "The Art of Manipulating Magic".

It's much more advanced than the book I showed Elena before.

It details various methods of controlling and managing magical power, and is considered essential reading for apprentices given by advanced mages.

For tower spirits, controlling magic power is the most basic skill, and these are things they must learn.

"The basic components of magic are..."

He opened the book and began reading from the first page.

The words, accompanied by his voice, gradually formed a melody that echoed around him.

The shark, which had been swimming, froze upon hearing this, tilting its head back to look at Kroa, its eyes flashing with an uncertain light.

After muttering to himself for a while, Chloe suddenly felt something was wrong, so he looked away.

The Taling Shark was staring at him, conveying a somewhat immature consciousness—

"magic!"

"I want to control magic!"

"Help me~~~"

Upon hearing its message, Kroya narrowed his eyes. Could this be considered a magical beast? It didn't seem wrong.

If I could imprint magic on it, wouldn't things be much easier for me, and it could also quickly absorb knowledge and grow?

"Try this first."

He began to imprint the first spell on the shark tower spirit—the most basic magic manipulation, although everyone's methods and approaches to manipulating magic are different.

The "magic manipulation" he is currently imprinting is a combination of his understanding of the Seven Luminaries Imprint Technique and the Rainbow Poem, and can be considered his unique magic.

[Imprint complete, Tower Spirit (Kroya's magical manipulation)]

The Tower Spirit can control all the magic power extending from its soul through magic conduits.

[Its thirst for control over magic drives it to constantly refine its methods of controlling magic, with a certain probability of improving this spell.]

After the engraving was completed, pure golden sunflower magic suddenly began to flow from the magic pipes connecting the tower spirit cultivation pool.

The magic in the original magic pool converged towards the Tower Spirit Shark almost instantly, eventually swirling around the Tower Spirit in the nurturing pool.

They looked just like obedient children, and even formed a golden halo.

It freely manipulates these magical powers, kneading and shaping them, having a great time.

Kroa: "..."

The effect of this imprint is much better than he imagined. How can he control magic power so directly?

"That's not right. Logically, it should only be the area covered by your soul power." Kroya looked closely and discovered that what made up this shark was not only a soul, but also magic.

That's his magic.

To be precise, the shark is using the spiritual power that Kroa left in its body to control the magic in the magic pool.

You should know that the magic in the magic pool is all produced by the sunflowers through hard work. They originally have Kroya's imprint and have a natural affinity and obedience to Kroya's spiritual power.

So, with just a little control from the shark tower spirit, they would come running over eagerly.

After figuring out why, Kroya could only chuckle to himself.

"You're quite clever."

To be honest, he quite admired the way the shark spirit was manipulated. It's all about adaptability. If you're too rigid, what's the point of cultivating spirits?

This is also a good situation. While it's controlling the magic, it's also getting used to Kroa's aura, so it will definitely be easier to control in the future.

The shark spirit sensed his praise and continued to transmit its consciousness—

"I don't want to be stuck here anymore."

"I want to leave."

"I want to see what's outside."

This request is a bit more complicated. The water and soul solution of the River of the Dead are mainly used to nurture its soul, enabling it to adapt to the environment of the Prime Material Plane.

If it absorbs all the river water and solution before successfully incorporating the Soul-Soothing Crystal into its body, then it can be considered a true tower spirit, able to freely travel through all the facilities of the mage tower.

It's still a bit too early.

But since it wants to, it's good to let it see what's going on outside.

Kroya glanced at the Woody Vine King: "According to my original design, you should attach yourself to it."

The Woody Vine King immediately extended a vine and inserted it directly into a crystal socket on the side.

As an entity imprinted with a monitoring magic eye, each of its vines is equivalent to a magic eye that can extend at any time, and of course, it can also display what the magic eye sees.

Once its vines were inserted into the crystal socket, the image generated through mental energy was immediately displayed on the giant crystal screen.

The crystal screen, five meters wide and two meters high, is divided into countless independent images, showing all the areas that the Woody Curved Vine King's vines have extended to.

There are deep underwater volcanoes, an endless coral reef base, fields covered with grapevines, people busy at Jianzilou, and scenes of Hanjiao Town...

The population on Han Reef Island has long since exceeded 1,500. And for some reason, Baron Andy has sent over 400 more boys and girls.

They are currently living in Jianzilou to adjust and adapt to each other.

With so many people, Hanjiao Island was naturally very lively, with people busy in almost every corner of the island.

Shark Tower's eyes widened instantly.

It no longer cared about playing with magic, and stayed obediently above the vortex and crystal, quietly staring at the scene without making a move.

For some reason, Chloe felt a strong sense of déjà vu about this scene, as if a naughty child would suddenly calm down after seeing the TV, no matter how much they made a fuss.

Seeing this, Kroya did not stop it.

It's important to balance work and rest; even if you can imprint magic, there's no rush.

It's good to let it rest. The only thing to be careful about is not letting it watch for too long. Daily exercise and study are still necessary.

"Let me take a look too."

He walked to the side and lay down on the bed.

Leaning to one side, I glanced at the crystal screen and saw thirty mushroom people sent by the Pit Lord over at the underwater ranch. They were now happily hopping around in the ranch.

For these guys, this environment, which is full of ancient pasture fungi, is simply paradise!

Perhaps because they are fungus people, the ancient pasture fungi are quite obedient to them, and even their daily feeding of chickens, ducks and sheep has become much more regular.

This is much better than just eating whatever you want. The chickens, ducks, and sheep are growing much faster, almost changing every day.

"It seems these mushroom people really do have a talent for farming."

After observing for a while, Kroya glanced at the equally lush Bloodgrass Fungus.

People don't recognize these fungi and even show some aversion to them, usually keeping their distance.

But he couldn't just leave all those Bloodgrass Fungi unused, so he decided to see if he could find some carnivorous magical beasts to raise.

"Ask him."

After thinking for a moment, he decided to take out the Holy Spring Crystal Card and ask the Gray Sand Lord—the Flame Mountain Lord was too busy raising his own dragons to take care of himself, and the Pit Lord probably didn't have many magical beasts either.

Only this Gray Sand Lord could ask him a few questions.

However, before he could ask, he heard the voice of the Holy Spring Merchant Guild: "The Gray Sand Lord has provided a gift for every lord in the Mage Lord Alliance."

Do you wish to receive this now?

Kroya was stunned. Ah, someone is giving out gifts for no reason?

Did they strike it rich?

……

Earlier, on the other side.

Gray desert.

The Sand Mage was sitting inside his mage tower, which he had built with sand walls, and was troubled by something.

He looked at his subordinate, a middle-aged man about the same age as Robert, but he was short and chubby, with a smiling face that made him very likable.

This is a halfling.

"My lord." The halfling bowed respectfully.

"Just say what's wrong, sir. Have those big-mouthed demon flowers and wind-eroding sand worms caused trouble again?" Gray Sand Mage sighed.

"Your Excellency has such discerning eyes." Even as the halfling spoke of these matters, his face remained amiable.

"The man-eating plant and the wind-eroding sandworm are fighting! They've been fighting over a water source for five days straight, and the people nearby are too afraid to go there to draw water."

Upon hearing this, Master Gray Sand's face darkened.

You have to understand that water sources are scarce in the desert. A single water source has to supply all the people in the surrounding area. If there is any problem with the water source, then large numbers of people will die.

He took a deep breath and stood up.

"I'll go see if I can kill them all, or send some away."

"But who would want that thing?" the halfling uncle couldn't help but say. "The Big Mouth Demon Flower eats meat every day. Although it can spit out a little magic power, it's too little."

Sand worms are even more disgusting; they eat rocks and then spit them out as sand, serving no purpose other than expanding the desert.

The gray sand mage's face darkened even more.

He said helplessly, "Uncle Moore, I have to think of something too. How about this, I'll go catch a batch and put them in the Alliance to see if anyone wants them."

"They're useless to us, but maybe they'd be useful to someone else?"

After saying that, he immediately grabbed his staff and ran away.

I was afraid of hearing the halfling uncle continue nagging. This uncle had watched me grow up and was one of the first to stand up for me. He was a really good person, but his mouth was a bit sharp.

He quickly arrived at the scene and saw a group of purple flowers with huge mouths and layers of teeth fighting with yellowish-brown insects.

The scene was utterly chaotic.

Immediately, he no longer cared about concealing his power, and an extremely complex pattern appeared behind him, flowing with a massive amount of magic power.

With the help of this magic rune, he quickly knocked out and subdued all the thousands of wind-eroded sandworms and giant mouth demon flowers here.

Next, they were packaged and sent to the mage lords in the alliance.

Hopefully, someone can think of a solution.

Exhausted, he fell into a deep sleep after completing the task, leaving only the shadowy figure with a dog's head behind him, shimmering with a faint purple light.

(End of this chapter)