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Chapter 273. The Construction of the Magic Academy (Part 273)

The following evening.

After a long day of "work," the apprentices, their faces flushed, went to wash up one by one, and then hurriedly entered the meeting room where discussions were already in full swing to begin studying the blueprints.

The meeting was not chaired by that irresponsible guy, Kroya, but by Tarin.

Even before Kroya made the announcement, he already had plans to build a magic academy.

This work has naturally been coordinated and planned by Taling, and its preliminary plan has already passed review.

What's needed now is to accept the apprentices' ideas and plans for building the magic academy, discuss and integrate them, and then begin construction.

Inside the meeting room, the apprentices brought out the blueprints they had worked on for two days straight, each one passionate and eager to have their design selected.

To have the designer's name engraved on the academy's base would be an immense honor, something to boast about for a lifetime!

So for the entire day, the conference room was noisy and chaotic—Taling watched from the sidelines, neither speaking nor expressing his opinion.

It is compiling the apprentices' plans and refining them—because only it knows all the magical plants and beasts that Kroa has modified.

Time passed slowly.

Finally, the tower spirit delivered the final blow, saying:

"Everyone's ideas are quite outstanding, so it's meaningless to force a ranking. Healthy competition is a good thing."

However, if you care too much about this honor, it will become a losing proposition.

Therefore, I announce that each different region will select the most suitable option and sign it on the landmark of each region.

I have prepared the plan. Anyone who is willing to learn water magic and is willing to carry out the construction can pick up the materials from me.

Lina, you'll be leading the team.

Lina, who was suddenly called out, stood up excitedly—she had indeed studied water elemental magic more, and had also studied potion-making and plant cultivation.

"Thank you for your recognition. I will definitely complete the task!"

She bowed to the tower spirit, and then, together with some apprentices who were willing to build a water elemental magic academy, received the necessary materials and blueprints.

He left amidst the envious and jealous gazes of the other apprentices.

As the gates closed, the tower spirit announced, "Next, we will discuss the construction plan for the Fire Elemental Magic Academy. Please feel free to speak your minds!"

After saying that, it stopped talking and silently watched as the older brother, who was planning to learn fire elemental magic and had a rather irritable temper, began a heated discussion.

……

the other side.

The Water Elemental Magic Academy construction team has arrived at the seabed.

According to the characteristics of the "Magic is the Breath of Nature" meditation method, meditating and training in areas rich in water elemental magic can result in exponential growth.

Therefore, the location for building the Water Elemental Magic Academy was naturally chosen to be on the seabed, as there is nowhere more abundant in water elemental magic than the seabed.

However, it is important to note that the magical fluctuations and attributes of water elemental magic are not entirely the same. For example, Exploding Water Ball, Water Spirit Healing, Water Arrow, etc., some of these spells require violent magical energy, while others require gentle magical energy.

If one is only in the somewhat chaotic and magical environment of the ocean floor, it is very likely that one will not be able to develop fully.

This deviates from Kroya's original intention in building the magic academy.

Therefore, in order to meet this requirement, Kroya specially created some very special magical plants for such occasions.

When the construction team arrived at the seabed aboard the sea dolphins, they were surprised to find the sea dolphins busily carrying some almost transparent light blue material in their mouths.

They darted freely through the seawater, yet coordinated remarkably well, and a small, faintly visible tower on the seabed was gradually taking shape.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the sea dolphins are now the dominant species in the Atlantis Sea, after all, Kroya favors them so much that the mermaids also take good care of these small creatures that are actually alien species.

So much so that creatures like killer whales and sharks, which are theoretically the natural enemies of dolphins, will be immediately beaten up by the mermaids if they dare to attack them.

Over time, they naturally became unrestrained, but they did not run rampant.

On the contrary, this sea dolphin plays an extremely beneficial role in purifying the sea and helping crops and fish grow in the sea.

They prey on sick and weak fish, controlling fish populations and protecting them from diseases; their excrement is perfect food for marine plants and plankton, promoting their growth and maintaining the integrity of the food chain.

So it's quite normal to receive such preferential treatment.

And right now, they are helping the Water Elemental Magic Academy with the initial foundation construction—

After the tower, which looked to be no more than a person tall, was completed, a clear stream of water, completely different from the sea, suddenly flowed from its center.

"Is that some kind of algae?"

"I couldn't get my hands on the construction drawings," an apprentice asked curiously.

Lina, who was holding the construction drawings, glanced at the markings on the drawings and replied, "This is blue algae."

"Its magic attribute is marked as level two."

"Blue algae grow in deep trenches, 500 meters underwater. After they mature, they release a liquid that mixes together."

"The fused liquid has a hardness almost like steel, which can prevent magical beasts from getting close and can also provide a place for some magical plants to take root and grow."

Upon hearing this, another female apprentice asked, "Given the hardness of steel, can the magical plant still take root?"

Lina smiled slightly and explained, "That's what makes it so special, because these liquids are actually alive; they're a type of planktonic organism called blue sea worms."

"The design drawings provided by Lord Tower Spirit show that using these blue sea worms as the foundation will allow us to monitor the magical plants and changes in magical power within the academy."

"We can also plant some magical plants. This is the plan you proposed, Fiona, so the task of monitoring magic power is now in your hands."

She handed a drawing to the girl who had just asked the question. After receiving the drawing, the girl immediately took out a small button from her pocket and pressed it gently.

The water flow centered on her was pushed outwards, forming a circle about ten meters wide.

Fiona stood inside the circle and took out a bunch of magical plants with tentacles that looked like sea anemones, and then unceremoniously pulled out the tentacles near their mouths.

Every time a tentacle is removed, the anemone's basal plate will regrow tentacles, seemingly endlessly.

Fiona, having acquired the tentacles, began trimming them with scissors. Once they shrank to a maximum thickness of one centimeter, she then pieced them back together using a material called Magic Energy Nutrient Gum.

Finally, the assembled small tentacle bouquets were installed onto the tree-shaped biological sensing magic device on the side, and the magic device, which originally looked quite pretty, was instantly transformed into a tentacle tree.

Although it may not look very appealing, biological instruments have a more precise detection capability compared to instruments.

Perhaps at a higher level, the gap in sophistication between instruments and Magic Plants will narrow further, but for now, Magic Plants are definitely more cost-effective.

Moreover, given the passage of time and the growth of magically imprinted plants, it's truly hard to say which one is more refined.

Seeing that Fiona had already started working on the magical plant equipment, the others also began to build things on the already laid-out blue foundation—the first thing to build, of course, was the ecological equipment to isolate water.

Initially, they considered using the bubbles from the air coral as the academy, but Kroya immediately rejected the idea.

While the bubbles from air corals can indeed create an absolutely pristine environment in the water, they are being used far too often. We can't possibly use air corals everywhere in the future, can we?

Demand drives development; relying solely on coral reefs will stifle development in other areas, which is clearly unacceptable.

The apprentices are now building something special, inspired by a monster called the Pre-Jellyfish.

Those strange jellyfish are extremely large; each one could even hold dozens of acres of farmland inside its body. What's even more amazing is that there is no water inside its body.

Merfolk often use them as mobile potion fields to grow potions that don't require much water.

Now that the magic runes inside them have been deciphered by Kroya, and then added to the magic field generator, they have formed a special material that can support the sky.

In just a few seconds, the installed pillar-like magic generator began to ripple.

The seawater was gently pushed aside by the force of the ripples, not by force, but in a very gentle way that followed the flow of water.

But the results were excellent.

Ripples gradually coalesced in the seawater, forming a circular, bowl-shaped force field barrier over the blue ground. Inside the barrier, all the air was clean and fresh.

The bowl-shaped force field itself has fine magical patterns on its surface, which filter and maintain the temperature and humidity inside the barrier—this is the special talent of the former jellyfish.

What humans would spend a long time researching to develop life support systems is simply an innate ability, or even something they are born with, in some magical beasts and plants.

After the force field barrier was built, the apprentices began to take out a kind of artificially created water-filled amber liquid and start pouring it on the ground.

Although Blue Sea Worms can survive in the air, they are definitely more comfortable in the water, especially since this place is meant to be planted with a sufficient number of water-attribute magical plants.

Therefore, it is necessary to artificially create another layer of "soil," and water-filled amber liquid is the best choice. After the water-filled amber liquid is evenly spread, it immediately begins to crystallize under the influence of magic, and the prepared magic nutrient solution gathers inside.

At first glance, it looks like a layer of frosted glass laid on a blue pool, and you can clearly see the water flowing under the "glass".

After laying the ground, they immediately began to take out the houses that had been treated by Kroa and made of insect shells and special alloys.

These buildings will include teaching buildings, indoor training grounds, magic laboratories, libraries, and more...

The construction of the house was handled by some of the stronger male apprentices, while the remaining work of planting the magical plants was naturally taken care of by some more meticulous male and female apprentices.

The cultivation of magical plants is of paramount importance at the Water Element Magic Academy, so the magical plants are carefully selected. For example, the grass is planted with a type of seaweed.

This type of seaweed, called deep-sea algae, looks much like grass on land, except for its color, which is a deep blue-black.

Their colors may not be appealing, but their purpose is to transfer the water magic they have painstakingly purified to something else when they sense that it is drawing magic power at a certain frequency.

This frequency varies from plant to plant in each deep-sea algae, and it would require a great deal of effort for outsiders to observe it.

However, Kroa certainly had ways to cheat, and even imprinted them in batches, so that the water element magic emitted would continuously modify the surrounding environment, acting as a magic source.

With their presence, even an ordinary piece of land can be transformed into a magical source land brimming with water elemental magic.

However, their color... well, a dark blue-black, giving the entire ground an ominous feel—perhaps suitable for a gloomy, evil mage, but clearly unsuitable for the academy.

To prevent their academy from becoming some kind of gloomy and evil institution, the male apprentice who suggested filling the academy with various magical plants, along with his companion, had already pulled out a large pile of magical plants from their pockets.

Among these magical plants are water mist flowers that spray like a stream of water, magical torrent grass that flows rapidly through the branches, and water mirror grass that is as stable as a mirror...

In short, basically every form that water elements can take is used as a carrier, and gardens are being built on this blue land.

As time passed, various water elemental magical plants gradually appeared on the dark blue grass. They were all securely placed inside the fence, separated by a magical field to prevent their magic from interfering with each other.

In the final design, the magical power between the magical plants here can coexist harmoniously without affecting each other.

Of course, that's something the apprentices need to work hard on.

……

The Water Elemental Magic Academy was under construction for most of the day.

The construction team from the Fire Element Academy finally set off with the design drawings they had painstakingly negotiated.

The one leading them was actually Samir.

This apprentice, resurrected by Kroya's Rock Note, possesses an exceptional talent and affinity for fire elemental magic, making him the natural choice for squad leader.

Choosing a location for the Fire Elemental Magic Academy was actually a little difficult, since the entire Northern Territory and the Atlantis Sea have a maritime climate.

Setting up a fire elemental magic academy is much more difficult than setting up a water elemental magic academy, but fortunately, the sea spirit dolphins are constantly exploring the map day and night.

About 300 kilometers away from Han Reef Island, there is a small underwater volcano. The volcano's magical energy is calm, making it a suitable place for construction.

So they rushed over with the blueprints and materials.

This time, of course, they weren't building it underwater. Their goal was to transfer the volcano directly to the sea surface using a spatial magic array, and then build the magic academy on the crater.

Undoubtedly, this is a very bold idea, but if it succeeds, the endless fire elemental magic of the underwater volcano will become the energy source for the Fire Element Academy.

Fortunately, luck seemed to be on their side. After Samir and several bold and meticulous apprentices built a sophisticated spatial transfer magic array around the small underwater volcano, which was about two kilometers in size, they were able to succeed.

Accompanied by the violent fluctuations of the magic power of the Void, the platinum light erased the upper half of the volcano like an eraser, and the upper half of the volcano appeared directly on the sea surface!

"It worked?"

"Master Chloe's magic circle is truly amazing!"

The apprentices, who had been waiting on the sea, put on thick protective suits, picked up the materials in their hands, and rushed up to build platforms and magic pipes around the volcano using the third-generation Floating Moon Alloy, which has excellent magic-guiding properties.

From a distance, it looks like they're inserting tubes into a volcano, and they're densely packed tubes at that—those magical conduits draw in and continuously maintain the flow of the celestial energy, keeping the volcano permanently fixed on the sea surface.

After the platform was completed, they began to build more magic storage rooms, magic conversion valves and other necessary equipment inside the platform.

The other apprentices began building the foundation for the Fire Elemental Magic Academy around the platform, also using amber, or more accurately, resin.

It is the resin of the Flame Tree stump.

These fragrant resins, accumulated over time in the forest, are filled with the magic of fire element. They are not only building materials but also soil in which magical plants can survive.

The reddish-brown resin floated on the sea surface, gradually forming solid ground. Beneath it, a resin that isolates magic was applied to prevent the water element magic from corroding it.

Various buildings and magical plants will be constructed on top of it. Fire element may not seem to have the same variability as water element, but in reality, its properties will vary depending on the source of the fire.

The simplest example is that the magic of sunlight filtered through sunflowers is different from the magic of exploding fire from a volcano.

To give apprentices more options and prevent their development from being limited by flames, Kroya specially created a magnificent firework tree.

He had engraved different magical runes on each branch of the fireworks tree, runes that could contain flames.

These runes originated from nature and from the red dragon, which is, after all, one of the dragon species most skilled in using fire.

—It stands quietly at the center of the entire academy's foundation, its leaves and fruits all composed of different flames.

From afar in the pitch-black night, it truly resembles a blooming firework, incredibly beautiful.

This firework tree is the academy's most central facility. Around it, a series of magical plants that can attract and contain flames will be planted. These magical plants do not produce flames themselves, but they can preserve them.

When the magical mechanisms around it detect that the flames in a certain place are dim, it will drop flame fruits or flame leaves.

The colorful fruits and leaves explode as they fall from the tree, then fall precisely into the areas of different flame-infused magical plants under the influence of the magical restraint device.

Like shooting stars flying in reverse, sparks of dazzling fireworks ignited different areas.

Various kinds of fire magic shone on the magical plants, and colorful flames swirled around, forming a beautiful and mysterious fire academy on the blue sea.

With Samir leading the way, the apprentices progressed quickly.

In contrast to their relatively fortunate situation, the apprentices on the other side who were building the Earth Elemental Magic Academy were suffering considerably.

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