The next day, Locke went to the Dune Plane and the interior of the Group 2 Research Institute, where he sought out Mason Witch and the others to ask about the current progress on analyzing the Ancient Flower Root.
The four of them found an empty, quiet meditation room and held a meeting.
Mason Witch handed Locke the materials they had completed and organized so far. They included the Ancient Flower Root's precise three-dimensional structure obtained with a large metal telescope, its magical properties, and the functions of several key natural magical structural components within it.
The Ancient Flower Root temporarily stored energy in plants through two methods: a special glandular organelle and a special metabolic pathway.
To analyze it completely, they needed to conduct a series of complicated experiments, from structural analysis and component analysis to functional verification, simulations of energy-release dynamics, and cross-species comparisons.
These tasks were trivial yet complicated, while also being extremely difficult. Without teamwork, even if Locke hired several students in addition to the two assigned to him, they probably could not finish everything in three to five years.
After all, the greatest difficulty with these non-decisive but highly challenging tasks lay in the time, effort, manpower, and money they consumed.
That was the meaning of teamwork.
In the distant past, magical research had been an individual matter. In those days, one person's intelligence might have been enough to meet all research needs.
But now, in an era that emphasized heavy funding and massive investment in equipment, magical research required a great many people.
Relying on one person was too slow. Only with a large number of Wizards helping that Wizard conduct research could efficiency be improved.
Having a large number of students and collaborators under one's command was itself a kind of "talent"—a "talent"