Kroya actually had an idea about how to extract the dark clouds from the Holy Light Clover-given its ability to grant requests, couldn't he simply ask?
The thought had only occurred to him after what had just happened. If it could respond to magic plants, surely it could respond to him too?
Through the Astral Body Inscription Technique and the Rainbow Poem, his mental power could convey his intentions to the Holy Light Clover with perfect clarity.
Could he use that to obtain precisely the amount of dark cloud he needed?
That was his thinking, so he put it to the test himself. He brought the Phantom-Feather Cloud Snake to the castle and entered the laboratory.
The Holy Light Clover was still half-dead. The Earth Mother Goddess's divine power, which had influenced the Thicksoil Potato's evolution earlier, had clearly drained its strength severely.
So Kroya did not make a "wish" to that faltering clover. Instead, he chose the one that was still in fairly good condition-
"Give me dark clouds, give me dark clouds..."
"Give me a three-meter-long dark cloud, a three-meter-long dark cloud..."
"Dark clouds, dark clouds, dark clouds..."
As though praying for rain, he used his mental power to send his intentions directly into the Holy Light Clover's Astral Spirit Body.
This went beyond muttering in someone's ear. It was the equivalent of incessantly nagging them in the deepest recesses of their soul.
Presumably, no conscious being could ignore a voice like that.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
The previously motionless Holy Light Clover suddenly trembled. Wisps of dark cloud began seeping from its surface, like strands of black chocolate being drawn out.
The process was neither particularly slow nor particularly fast. Before long, the dark clouds drifted out of the laboratory through the window and into