On the Heaven River Coast, Locke's clone was leafing through a magic book he had brought from Golden Crown Mountain. It contained a spell model that had fallen out of fashion in Cloud Marsh Wetland long ago—Bean Soldier Summoning.
As he read, his left hand traced lines through the air. Emerald magical light shone at the tip of his middle finger, and spell runes appeared in the air. Then every desk and chair in the office began to move. Branches sprouted from the desktops, green leaves budding along them. Roots emerged from the wooden floor, and even the wall covering, made from natural biological materials, produced grass seeds.
"So that's how it works. Bean Soldier Summoning is a typical second-ring spell model supported by spiritual breath studies. It consumes verdant spiritual breath, converts it into life force, and fills magic plants or biological materials with that force, turning them into controllable objects. Its advantage is that it can manipulate not just magic plants, but ordinary objects as well."
"Its disadvantage is that, in this increasingly specialized and subdivided age, its excessive versatility leaves it severely lacking in power. That's why it was phased out."
Locke leafed through the magic book. "I have plenty of experience developing magic plant weapons and magic plant Wizard's Shoes."
"Developing an untouched blue-ocean market can bring enormous profits if it succeeds. Countless wizards want to imitate the Augustus Shop Alliance now, but I doubt they can overcome the key technical barriers on the road to success without thirty to fifty years. The hardest parts are solving the cost of imaginary roots and making magic plants more cost-effective."
"And if I want more income and more resources, I need to develop a new market."
It was not that Locke had never considered continuing to sell traditional