Wizarding Age: I can analyze everything

Chapter 12 The Learned Junior

After introducing themselves, Yin Xue led Pei Ze into the small building.

To Pei Ze's surprise, the small building, which appeared to be no more than 150 square meters in size from the outside, had a surprisingly spacious interior.

Whether it's the corridor that was over a hundred meters long that we just walked through, or the garden that's about five acres in front of us, it all shows that the small building incorporates some kind of spatial magic.

"This is the area you are responsible for."

Yin Xue led Pei Ze around the herb garden, finally returning to the starting point, and then turned to look at Pei Ze.

"There are 36 kinds of plants in this garden. Because of their different habits, each one needs to be cared for and watered in different ways. Therefore, the caretaker must be familiar with the growth habits and maintenance methods of each plant."

"Junior Pei Ze, as the agent who issues this mission, I need to assess you first before deciding whether you are capable of accepting it."

Pei Ze had been told during the registration process that he would have to pass an assessment before he could accept the task, so he was not surprised when he heard this and readily agreed.

"Then please describe the growth habits and care methods of these plants," Yin Xue said, pointing to the plants in the garden.

Pei Ze nodded calmly, stepped forward to a vine covered in barbs and topped with dark red fruit, observed it for a moment and slowly said, "This is the Red Sweet Fruit. It likes sunlight and needs to be watered with boiling water every three days. It takes three months to mature. When picking it, the branches of the fruit must be burned off with flames, and then the fruit is stored in a silver box. This kind of fruit is usually used to make the Boiling Blood Potion."

After saying that, Pei Ze took a few steps forward and stopped in front of another plant that was covered with a black cloth.

This plant looks a bit like a sunflower, but it is grayish-white all over, and the dense patterns in the center of the flower stamens faintly outline a human face, as if it is opening its mouth to wail at you.

"This is the Human-Faced White Sunflower. It prefers a warm environment, but the place where it grows must be blocked from sunlight by a black cloth. Every seven days, it should be watered with 500 ml of 30% concentration of Spirit-Nourishing Grass extract until it matures in 100 days. Because the sap of the Human-Faced White Sunflower has a strong hallucinogenic effect, you need to take a sobering potion or wear an anti-hallucinogenic magical item before picking it. By the way, this thing is often used to make shrieking potions."

"This is sand snake poison ivy."

"This is dovetail grass."

Pei Ze stopped in front of a dovetail grass and squinted to examine it carefully.

This dovetail grass looked exactly like the one next to it, but after observing it for a while, he still noticed the differences.

"This is a mandrake. It likes to bury itself in the soil and make its leaves look like the surrounding plants to avoid being hunted. Once caught, it will hypnotize all the creatures around it with a shrill cry and then take the opportunity to escape. So it's best to plug your ears or take an anti-sleep drug before catching it. Of course, there is another simpler way."

Seemingly realizing it had been discovered, the 'Dovetail Grass' suddenly trembled violently, and then a creature resembling a radish but with a small face and short limbs burst out of the soil and rushed away into the distance.

Unfortunately, before he could run very far, Pei Ze, who was prepared, grabbed him by the grass on his head and lifted him up.

As soon as its legs left the ground, Mandrake immediately opened its mouth wide, about to cry out.

But before that, Pei Ze had already hit Mandrake with a stun spell, silencing the cry that the latter hadn't even had a chance to utter.

Mandrake's little face scrunched up, and her body instantly went limp.

Pei Ze stuffed it back into the hole, stomped on it a few times to tamp it down, and then continued explaining the other plants.

Under the warm sun, the boy strolled among the many exotic plants, calmly explaining the characteristics of each plant. He could easily recall various kinds of knowledge, and his whole person exuded an intellectual radiance.

Yin Xue's eyes flashed with a strange light.

These days she has also examined quite a few students who want to take on missions, including even a second-level wizard apprentice.

But none of them knew all the rare plants as well as Pei Ze.

Originally, she expected Pei Ze to only know about twenty kinds of plants, and then he could learn the rest while taking care of the herb garden.

After all, it's not easy to find a junior student who knows a lot about rare plants; we simply can't recruit anyone without lowering our standards.

But now it seems that she underestimated Pei Ze.

For a first-grader, knowing this much about rare plants is already quite knowledgeable!

I never expected there would be such an amazing person among this year's freshmen!

Yin Xue immediately developed a great admiration for this erudite junior.

After Pei Ze finished describing the last plant, Yin Xue clapped lightly and said with a smile, "Junior, you are even more outstanding than I imagined."

With a gentle flick of her wrist, an oval-shaped seed instantly appeared in her fair palm. Then, as she turned her palm over, the seed slowly fell to the ground under the influence of gravity.

"Next, you just need to use your plant aura to make the seed germinate, and you'll have passed the test."

Amazed by Pei Ze's profound knowledge of rare plants, Yin Xue secretly decided that even if Pei Ze failed several times, as long as he could successfully unleash the plant's spiritual light, he would pass the test.

But what happened next made her eyes widen slightly.

Pei Ze stretched out his index finger and aimed it at the seed on the ground. As he uttered a strange syllable, a white light radiating a soft, warm glow condensed from his fingertip and slowly fell onto the seed like a raindrop.

Hiss!

The moment the light entered, the seed suddenly split open, and green shoots emerged from it, intertwining and winding upwards, growing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming taller and larger.

In the blink of an eye, a sapling with intertwined vines appeared before my eyes, with pure white buds slowly blooming at the ends of its branches.

"Completely mastered!"

Yin Xue was taken aback, never expecting that this junior was not only knowledgeable but also so skilled in magic.

It's rare to see someone who has mastered magic by the time they're in first grade.

Yin Xue became increasingly curious about who this junior student was.

"Great spell." Yin Xue smiled. "Junior, I'll be leaving the look after this place for the next while."

"Yes, senior." Pei Ze smiled slightly.

With the 50 contribution points from the mission reward, he wouldn't need to worry about Spirit Grass leaves and spell models for a while.

"This is the key to enter and exit the herb garden."

Yin Xue handed over a vibrant green leaf that resembled a gemstone.

"The courtyard outside the herb garden is equipped with magical traps. Only those with a key or someone to guide them can safely enter and exit."

"In addition, there are also magical traps set up in other parts of the herb garden. Even I cannot freely enter and exit many places. You'd better stay here and not wander around. If you need anything, just tell me."

Pei Ze nodded, took the key, and carefully put it in his pocket. He then asked, "Senior, when do I start the mission?"

Yin Xue smiled and said, "If you don't have anything else to do, we can start today."

"I'm free right now," Pei Ze said without hesitation.

He's currently short of money to buy spell models, so the sooner he starts the mission, the better, so he can get his reward as quickly as possible.

Yin Xue nodded and led Pei Ze toward the wooden house not far away.

"This is a warehouse for storing maintenance tools and medicines. You can take anything you need to water the plants from here."

With Yin Xue's explanation, Pei Ze quickly became familiar with the process of taking care of the garden and personally watered the plants in the garden.

It's worth mentioning that although there are quite a few plants in the garden, they don't actually need to be watered every day.

Many plants only need to be watered every three to five days, so if you stagger the watering schedule, the task isn't actually that heavy.

Compared to physical strength, this task requires more knowledge.

You should know that any plant in this garden is worth more than a thousand contribution points. If it is damaged due to the caretaker's ignorance, the loss will be huge.

It is precisely for this reason that the owner of the herb garden offers high salaries to recruit wizard apprentices with sufficient knowledge.

"Knowledge is indeed money."

Pei Ze watered the plants while thinking to himself.

(End of this chapter)