In fact, magical-energy fertilizer was not the only project being choked by magical energy.
Aside from magical metals, which were indispensable to the entire magical industry, other magical-energy materials projects, magical plant cultivation projects, large-scale potion projects, and so on had all had their magical energy rations restricted.
There was too little magical energy—too few Philosopher's Stones.
The magic-detection satellites had already dug up the most conspicuous primordial substances across the globe, but so far, only a dozen or so could reach the volume of Nicolas Flamel's Philosopher's Stone. Most of the rest could only be made into small or micro Philosopher's Stones. Their magical output efficiency was enough to support small things like satellites, but as magical-energy power plants, they were far from sufficient.
Next, Murphy went to look at the Weather Magic Research Institute.
The research subjects here were weather magic, and certain magical phenomena or creatures capable of causing changes in the weather—such as Murphy's familiar old friend, the Thunderbird.
"The principles behind weather magic are still baffling, but applying it is not actually that difficult," said Molchanov Rosbe, director of the Weather Magic Research Institute.
"The spells already exist. After converting them into runes through the universal conversion formula, enchanting them onto weather radars or satellites, then enhancing the magical fluctuations and guiding the spells to reach the cloud layer, we can basically complete artificial alteration of the weather."
"Guiding rain and clear skies is the simplest. We have also tried guiding extreme weather such as thunderstorms and hail, though the success rate is lower."
"In addition, we discovered that weather magic can also be used to guide ocean currents! Although its magical energy consumption is much greater than influencing the weather, we can indeed guide the direction of ocean currents to a certain extent... Of