Nine Months, Mental Power 195

Nine months later, in a small wooden cottage beside Witch Sophia's cluster of cabins—Locke's small plantation.

With Lilith's Cottage's permission, Locke had established a small plantation inside a cabin similar to Witch Sophia's plantation cabin.

It covered five mu in total, or roughly six mu including the common areas.

These Academy cabins were essentially Alchemy products. Building a Plantation inside them could effectively prevent experiments from getting out of control. If anything went wrong, the people inside only needed to run out and shut the door behind them.

Inside the plantation.

Locke watched six Minotaurs water sixty pots of Super Mandrake Vines. The five mu of basic Magic Fields were saturated with Earth Element Particle and Water Element Particle energy, and every Super Mandrake Vine was lush and thriving.

The plantation had been completed during this time and could now steadily earn Locke over a thousand Magic Stones every month.

With those Magic Stones, Locke could safely use a mixture of Dragonblood Leaf Powder and Badanxi Wood shavings for round-the-clock meditation, maintaining a highly efficient rate of Mental Power growth.

There were also patches of weeds between the five mu of fields.

A Minotaur was using a specialized weeding tool to pull them out one by one.

Because of the nutrient soil, nutrient solution, and Rapid-Growth Gel, these weeds were always bursting with vitality and needed to be cleared out regularly, roughly once every month.

This was also part of life's mystery. In order to survive, these weeds would actually entangle their roots with those of the Super Mandrake Vines, seeking out every patch of nutrient-rich soil and struggling to stay alive.

Locke ordered a Minotaur to bring one such weed before him and carefully examined its roots. "It's only a wild magical plant—Goosegrass. Nothing more than a weed."

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