The Accelerated Flying Pumpkin That Surprised the Envoy

Leo said, "There's no problem as long as I don't cultivate them on a large scale. I'm only growing them for my own use."

"That's still pretty good."

Magical plants were different from potions.

Once the finished product was ready, the research project was only complete if the plant could be cultivated on a large scale.

A finished product that could not be grown on a large scale would soon be discarded.

Of course, Leo could work out how to cultivate Accelerated Flying Pumpkins on a large scale.

But compared with ordinary Flying Pumpkins, their advantages amounted to only a few improvements in Leo's eyes. They were not superior in every respect.

With the Compendium Manual, Leo had too many kinds of projects he could research. There was no need to fixate on the Accelerated Flying Pumpkin.

The improved Flying Pumpkin variety Leo wanted to breed would have more functions and be superior across the board.

To breed such a variety, Leo had recently studied magical plant improvement in greater depth.

Without a Compendium Manual,

the way Wizards normally improved plants was simple and crude.

They forcibly fused two kinds of magical plants together.

The plants' abilities might then blend, repel each other, or coexist.

Simple and crude though it was, this method was an unavoidable step in developing improved varieties.

Fusing magical plants required time for observation.

That was why magical plant projects often took years to produce results.

The process of cultivation and growth itself took time.

But that was without a Compendium Manual.

Leo had one. When he improved a plant, he could skip the cultivation stage.

He only needed to fuse two magical plants, then use the Compendium Manual to determine exactly what sort of improved variety he had created.

While cultivating Accelerated Flying Pumpkins, Leo