Chapter 151: Chapter 151

Seeing Zack's statement and his presentation of a 10,000 magic stone academy order as compensation, the coldness in Locke's eyes finally dissipated.

After all, he had no reason to have trouble with money.

Moreover, he mostly guessed that it was the administrative leaders behind Zack testing his bottom line. If he could agree, it would naturally save the academy money while allowing Lilith's Cottage to retain large-scale Crystal Palm Fire Lotus production capacity.

It would just require him to bear this cost.

Although even doing so would still be profitable for him, it would undoubtedly compress his profit margins and affect his development of subsequent magical plants, even affecting the speed of his magical power improvement, so Locke decisively refused.

Locke softened his tone, "If the academy has demand, as long as you give me orders, restoring a hundred acres of magical fields would only take a little over a month."

Zack smiled, "That's exactly right."

"Come, let's toast to our Locke."

Next, in the private room of the Witch Kitchen, Locke and Zack completed the second academy procurement contract.

"The academy and Blood Curse Court haven't entered a large-scale war phase yet, so purchasing this batch of magical plants is just for storage."

"By the way, junior." Zack became serious and handed Locke a document. "This is a customized magical plant competition recently announced by the academy's combat department."

"It's a competition held for the war, requiring development of a magical plant needed by the combat department wizards according to competition requirements, and participating in the contest."

"The first place winner can immediately obtain an academy procurement contract, and the top three all receive substantial magic stone rewards with opportunities to get academy procurement contracts."

Zack said, "This is an internal breeder competition within Lilith's Cottage."

"If you're interested, you can participate, I'm very optimistic about you."

Locke picked up the materials and saw it read [Lilith's Cottage Customized Magical Plant Competition (Apprentice Level)]. The competition format had only one round: create a product according to the requirements of Lilith's Cottage combat department wizards, then submit it for testing.

As long as the combat department wizards were satisfied, it could be immediately adopted.

This was essentially a military weapon design competition, fundamentally different from breeder competitions hosted by the White Wizard Association.

Whether evaluation standards or competition format, everything was different.

This type of competition wanted a specific magical plant that could better meet Lilith's Cottage's war requirements, without needing to disclose technical details, just being able to produce the product was sufficient.

"Besides individual breeders, there should also be workshops formed by multiple breeders participating in this competition?" Locke noticed that registration requirements basically had no other restrictions besides formal wizards being unable to participate, and didn't require individual participation.

This meant it was different from breeder competitions hosted by the White Wizard Association, which were used to select outstanding individual breeders but this competition allowed anyone to come, as long as they could produce works.

Within Lilith's Cottage, besides individual botanical gardens, there were also breeders who had grown larger by employing breeder assistants or partnering with other breeders to form breeder workshops.

Breeder workshops could obtain greater negotiating space with shops in Chimera Trading Market and in competitions like those held by the academy, possessing greater production capacity and research capabilities than individual botanical gardens.

So if he participated in this competition, his opponents wouldn't be individual competitors, but established breeder workshops.

"The magical plant requirement is combat use, in battle, it should improve defensive capabilities, protecting plant-type wizards from being approached and speed-killed by high-speed, high-agility, high-attack vampires. That is, developing a close-combat defensive battle magical plant that can resist enemies who suddenly approach for melee attacks." After thinking, Locke smiled at Zack, "Senior, I'll consider it."

"However, my fourth magical plant isn't a combat-type magical plant, so I won't focus on this for now."

A flash of disappointment crossed Zack's eyes, then he said to Locke, "No problem, I'm just informing Junior Locke."

After parting with Zack at the Witch Kitchen, Locke immediately returned to his two medium-small botanical gardens.

He first made a round of inspection at the botanical garden growing Crystal Palm Fire Lotus, confirming no problems here and that the True Sight Orbs was patrolling normally inside.

After directing and adjusting the minotaur slaves' farm work, he went to the other botanical garden.

In the second medium-small botanical garden, ten acres of magical fields had been developed and planted with Wiregrass Bull Sinew.

Looking at the remaining ninety acres of empty wasteland, Locke took out from his Synthesis Cube the level 7 synthesis item he had been testing with emerald lichen synthesis during this recent period.

For the past month and a half, Locke had been using different plants for emerald lichen synthesis, hoping to find special synthesis formulas.

Today, he had finally found the special synthesis formula for emerald lichen: two level 6 emerald lichens + one level 6 iris licorice could synthesize a level 7 emerald lichen-type plant,

Level 7 synthesis item, Jade Iris Lichen. Using Mana Co-frequency Cultivation Method at 600 frequency to directionally mutate licorice, and using Mana Co-frequency Cultivation Method at 721 frequency to directionally mutate emerald lichen, then using grafting cultivation method to graft licorice and emerald lichen, combining iris licorice characteristics with emerald lichen.

Then using cutting cultivation method for segmented propagation to cultivate this magical plant.

Jade Iris Lichen possessed emerald lichen's characteristic of increasing human surface magic resistance, while also having iris licorice's ability to enhance human vitality, and after combination formed an [Adaptive Magic Resistance] phenomenon.

After elemental magic or curse magic damaged Jade Iris Lichen, the plant would undergo corresponding magical component structural adjustments to better resist the same type of attacks.

Locke's eyelids twitched, this meant the complex magical plant cultivated using three cultivation methods possessed immunity capabilities in terms of magic resistance.

"If I use this thing to replace the emerald lichen main material in Bear Spirit Bile Detoxification Potion to brew the potion, what would happen?" ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ novèlfire.net

Locke couldn't help but think.

"Moreover, with this magical plant, I can practice Mana Co-frequency Cultivation Method again."

"Before the breeder exam, I can improve my Mana Co-frequency Cultivation Method proficiency once more."

"And I can try large-scale cultivation of this magical plant. Although it's not in the combat direction, there's definitely no shortage of market demand."

"Especially among potion masters."