Chapter 161: Chapter 161

Inside the examination hall, Locke felt he still needed to defend his teacher, even though this person was his great-great-grandmother master.

Locke calmly explained, "Lady Morgana, it's because I advanced too quickly. I only just advanced to first-class wizard apprentice this year and have only just begun to access the library's article system."

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Lady Morgana slightly furrowed her brow.

According to her method of cultivating geniuses, wizard seedlings should be arranged to publish some D-level articles, or even C-level articles, during the third-class wizard apprentice stage.

This way, when the genius advances to first-class wizard apprentice, they would already have considerable experience in publishing articles and have accumulated a certain number of publications.

This would allow them to quickly earn various titles and obtain various benefits.

It could also enhance her reputation and strengthen her network of connections.

Of course, this was the academic faction's method of cultivating the geniuses in their hands, and Witch Sophia was different from her, having no connections to speak of.

Her original arrangement for Locke was that advancing to second-class wizard apprentice within five years would be considered successful!

Lady Morgana snorted, "You certainly have good feelings toward your teacher."

"Sophia is still a bit too willful."

The other two official wizards exchanged glances and made no comments.

This was a grudge between master and disciple, and they'd best pretend they hadn't heard anything, lest they end up being criticized by both sides.

Lady Morgana looked toward all the examinees and announced, "Locke Augustine, you have passed the breeder examination."

"You have obtained official breeder certification qualification."

She handed a golden seedling-shaped badge to Locke and said, "Becoming a breeder is just a beginning. I hope to see more outstanding performances from you in the breeding field in the future."

"A breeder's duty is not just to cultivate combat-type magical plants, or to provide material magical plants for potion masters to brew potions. A breeder's duty is to explore the mysteries of nature, maintain the balance of natural ecology, and use the magical plants they cultivate to better serve wizard society."

Lady Morgana continued, "Some breeders' research fields focus only on potion material magical plants, or alchemical material magical plants, while some breeders' research fields focus only on energy magical plants."

"Breeders should better improve wizard society's resource utilization rate and improve wizard society's magical plant ecological environment. All behaviors beyond this deviate from the correct path. Only this way can breeders exert their maximum power. Researching combat magical plants is merely a waste of time. Developing a magical plant that can cause an energy revolution would be more meaningful and could increase the academy's overall combat power."

Lady Morgana smiled at Locke and said, "I hope the next time I see you, you can cultivate an excellent functional magical plant work, rather than yet another combat-type magical plant."

Lady Morgana's last two paragraphs clearly contained her personal agenda, attempting to convey her philosophy to Locke and even make him fully agree with it.

Locke's gaze fell upon the badges on Lady Morgana's white wizard robe, among which was Lady Morgana's masterpiece, the Mana Sunflower.

That was a high-level magical plant.

The Mana Sunflower could efficiently convert sunlight into mana for wizards to use.

On wizard ships, and in some places requiring large amounts of mana to maintain barriers, alchemical equipment, or wizard secret realm territories, it had very many applications.

It was said that the academy's secret weapon in the deepest part of Lilith’s Cottage had its energy portion provided by a Mana Sunflower garden.

Locke finally understood why Witch Sophia had fallen out with Lady Morgana.

'Teacher Sophia's advice to me regarding the breeding field was that I should research and cultivate whichever type of magical plant I liked.'

'She didn't suggest I research combat magical plants or any specific type of functional magical plant.'

'But Lady Morgana is different. She seems to advocate more for functional magical plants, especially energy-type magical plants among functional magical plants.'

'And because of her preferences, she wants her students to also type of magical plant.'

'She has a stronger desire to control her students.'

Locke understood, 'I'm afraid Lady Morgana is actually more willful. So of course she would fall out with my teacher. My teacher only appears easy to talk to.'

However, Locke didn't dare voice these thoughts.

Locke received the badge from Lady Morgana's hands, "Thank you, Lady Morgana. I will continue to work hard."

"Recently, I am developing a new variety of potion material magical plant."

Although he had also spent a month using it to modify a defensive-type combat magical plant variant.

After hearing this, Lady Morgana showed a smile on her face and nodded, "Very good."

Lady Morgana seemed very happy because of Locke's statement that he was developing a new potion material type magical plant, "Directly developing combat magical plants has too low efficiency in improving the academy's overall strength. A genius like you should do more once-and-for-all things."

Locke maintained his smile, then let it go in one ear and out the other...

"Madam, you are absolutely right."

Lady Morgana said, "After becoming a breeder, you have gained some privileges that breeder assistants don't have. The others are all scattered and unimportant things, but there are three that are relatively important."

"First, you have the authority to use the academy's seed bank."

"Second, you have the right to conduct more dangerous breeding experiments. The White Wizard Association's audit requirements for you will be greatly reduced. The list of items originally prohibited for breeder assistants to plant will have some restrictions lifted for you."

"Third, you have priority rights to apply for medium-sized botanical gardens."

Lady Morgana continued, "However, these are actually all secondary. The breeder certificate badge represents that your ability at the current stage has reached the standard of an official breeder."

"It is an affirmation of your abilities by outsiders and by yourself."

After she finished speaking, Locke immediately bowed to Lady Morgana and said, "Lady Morgana, I understand."

Actually, each of these three major privileges was extremely useful.

The seed bank was Lilith’s Cottage Academy's seed repository, which preserved seeds of various magical plants and varieties. Some seeds were even mutated seeds, kept only for preservation and research purposes, and couldn't be bought in the outside world.

If he could purchase seeds from the seed bank, he could buy many magical plant seeds that were originally unavailable in Chimera Market.

Of course, the prices of seeds from the seed bank were generally quite high, several times that of outside prices.

The second privilege undoubtedly provided him great convenience but the most crucial was still the third privilege, the priority right to apply for medium-sized botanical gardens.

Locke pursed his lips. When he had applied for a medium-sized botanical garden before, he was immediately squeezed out by someone with connections but now, that he was an official breeder, if he used this privilege to apply for a medium-sized botanical garden, he wondered how the academy's upper echelon would handle it.

But this was his right, and he would definitely use it immediately.

How others would think about it had nothing to do with him.

In the examination hall.

The other four examinees looked enviously at Locke as he received the badge representing an official breeder.

This examination had a total of five examinees, and only Locke had passed.