A Super-Giant Public Botanical Garden

Inside the enormous botanical garden, mountains rose and fell in layers. An artificial sun hung high overhead, continuously emitting a specific magical radiation. Locke was certain it was a higher-grade magical frequency resonance cultivation device than a Radiation Cauldron.

Within this space that resembled a miniature alternate-dimensional world, even the breeze blowing toward him was filled with magical fluctuations.

Many high-ranking slaves worked in the botanical garden. First-Class Wizard Apprentices moved among them, directing the Second-Class Wizard Apprentices in maintaining Magic Plants or personally tending to the Magic Plants that were prone to dying.

A Second-Class Wizard Apprentice contracted to the Public Botanical Garden bowed to Locke. "Lord Augustine, welcome to the Public Botanical Garden, the most important area of Lilith's Cottage."

"Please follow me. This area is for private cultivation. The five hundred mu of Magic Plant fields you need to maintain are public Magic Fields, assigned by the Academy to First-Class Wizard Apprentices and Breeders like you, who take turns managing a portion of them."

Locke understood. It was somewhat like a co-management system.

Most of the Magic Fields in the Public Botanical Garden were probably communal, but at least one-third were distributed to others for use as private Magic Fields.

The Second-Class Wizard Apprentice secretly glanced at Locke. Locke's young age caught his attention.

Most of those currently working in the Public Botanical Garden came from the seventy-two local wizard families. Only those with connections could find such a good job.

But when he thought of how he, with his favorable conditions and distinguished background, had been stuck as a Second-Class Wizard Apprentice for nearly five years, while this Wizard Seedling from an overseas mortal world had already become a First-Class Wizard Apprentice, he felt even more depressed.

Moreover, he did not dare show that frustration before