The Worm Grass of the second Fluorite Mushroom Bug soon selected a birch tree: another thick birch not far from the Birch Worm's Worm Grass.
Since Wuyou Snake Manor currently had no more woodland available to develop new Fluorite Mushroom Potion fields, the only option was to overlap the influence of the two Worm Grass plants and expand the production speed and scale of Fluorite Mushrooms in the birch forest.
"We need to open up a new birch forest across the river as soon as possible," Russell issued his highest directive.
Charles, Old Hans, and the others followed at his side, nodding repeatedly to indicate that all work was progressing in an orderly fashion.
Indeed.
Russell could see a large group of serfs across the river, led by their serf overseers, carefully planting cut birch branches into the riverbank slope.
Birch trees could be grown from seeds or propagated from cuttings.
These cut branches had all been personally inspected by Eric, the Phantom Beast Knight. They were branches that had developed magic.
After the Birch Worm was nurtured, the Worm Grass's influence remained constantly at work, gradually transforming this birch forest and infecting ordinary trees into magical materials—drawing magic from the earth and nourishing the wood itself.
However, many birch trees had already grown for years, and the infection process would take a long time. It would take ten or even twenty years before they fully matured.
The cut magical branches, on the other hand, would quickly grow into magical-material birch trees once they took root and sprouted, without needing to undergo infection.
By the time Russell inspected the far side of the river,
the serfs all put down their work upon seeing Russell's party approach and bowed ninety degrees toward him.
Russell had changed the custom requiring serfs to