In the eyes of the magic apprentices, using wood spirit magic to cultivate crops is as ridiculous as using wine to raise pigs.
This is a waste of natural resources and an insult to magic!
"Who has any opinions?"
Yu Shengan swept his eyes over the magic apprentices who were discussing.
The magic apprentices looked at each other, and in the end no one dared to question it. I don't know if it was the Greenman effect or a wise man who knows the times.
"Very good!"
Yu Shengan nodded with satisfaction, snapped his fingers, and a huge illusory scroll emerged with a series of digital numbers written on it.
"I have created a group. This is the group number. Add it yourself. If you have any ideas or suggestions, send them to me directly. If you write well, you will get extra points and rewards."
After that, Yu Shengan arranged some trivial things and then announced the adjournment of the meeting.
To be honest, he didn't know much about crop cultivation.
However, after all, he was a person who had received nine years of compulsory education, and he still knew the concepts of "dominant genes", "recessive genes", "directional cultivation", "mutation", "mutagenesis" and so on.
Don't underestimate these concepts. With these concepts, to some extent, it is enough to lead the biology of this world by hundreds or even thousands of years.
The biology of this world is too dependent on magic.
Basically, magic is used to change and distort the growth of plants.
Yu Shengan just doesn't believe it. He has mastered these concepts, has the conditions to implement them, and has nearly one percent of the wood spirit magicians in the Kwell Empire. With the blessing of magic, he can't come up with anything?
By then, even if the crop yield is increased by 10%, it will be a huge number if it is magnified to the entire empire.
This will fill the stomachs of more people, multiply more people, and liberate more labor!
All of this will be directly converted into his power!
In fact, in the half month when the empire popularized the interconnected magic, he has been looking up relevant information and exploring the soil in various parts of the empire on the spot. He basically has a preliminary idea in his mind.
However, before deciding on the experiment, he decided to listen to the opinions of professionals. Hearing both sides will make you wise!
After the meeting, Yu Shengan walked slowly to the back of the hall.
Few people know that in the underground of this "Magic Forest" hall, Shengsheng has used earth magic to expand an underground space the size of a football field in the past half month.
This is not an easy task in the capital of the empire.
The difficulty is not in expanding the basement, but in the fact that the underground space of the empire is monitored by the magic tower. If you dig without approval and activate the magic tower's defense counterattack, you will be squeezed into a pulp, and you can't blame others.
Walking along the spiral staircase to the basement, you can see that the huge underground space is not decorated at all, and it is neatly developed into a square space.
The surrounding walls, ceilings, and floors are all condensed into crystals with earth magic, which looks very clean and beautiful.
On the ceiling, solidified inch-light magic is arranged in a staggered manner, illuminating the entire space.
At a glance, the basement is densely packed with countless glass boxes of different sizes.
The inside of the box is engraved with redundant magic patterns. These are gravity magic patterns. Once activated, they can simulate a microgravity space.
This will be the main battlefield for Yu Shengan to simulate the microgravity environment, induce crop mutations, and screen suitable crops.
"It's easier to get things done with power!"
Yu Sheng'an looked at this high-standard laboratory, feeling very ambitious!
Choosing to start in the Kwell Empire is so damn wise!
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"Is Lord Dundaner going crazy? Recruiting all the wood spirit magic apprentices just to cultivate crops? This... This is ridiculous!!!"
Magister Machi, a member of the [Willis Magic Plantation Federation], slammed the table with an angry face.
Almost all the magical plants planted in their plantations require a large amount of wood spirit magic to maintain.
Although they have hired some mages who are good at wood spirit magic, these people are simply unable to maintain their huge estates.
In the past, magic apprentices were temporary workers or even free labor.
Now that these people have been withdrawn, it is equivalent to destroying at least one-fifth of their plantations. How can they not be angry?
"It's more than ridiculous. It's simply stupid! Not to mention whether they can succeed, even if they can, can those illiterate farmers plant it?"
"Haha, do you really think that if the Internet magic spreads throughout the empire, everyone in the empire can become a magician?"
Several big owners of the botanical gardens were full of anger and sarcasm.
"Who is that Ajef? How could Lord Dundaner pay so much attention to him?"
"I don't know, it seems that he appeared suddenly. I have observed him, and the magic fluctuations in his body are very weak. I think he is either a mage or a magic apprentice. I prefer the former. Maybe he is a magician recruited by Lord Dundaner from another country!"
"No matter who he is! We can't swallow all the wood spirit magic apprentices. Everyone, why don't we join forces to meet Lord Dundaner?"
"That's what I mean!"
"This is the responsibility of us who established the [Willis Magic Plantation Federation]!"
After a brief discussion, a group of plantation owners decided to join forces to put pressure on the god of law Dundaner.
At the same time, the name of Ajef also shocked Felix because of this unprecedented large-scale collaborative magic experiment!
"Is it necessary to make such a big fuss to cultivate crops? Just a few magic apprentices will be enough, right?"
"Use magic to cultivate crops? He can think of it!"
"Why not study anything else? Study crops? How much money can you make from this?"
"Who is this Ajef? I haven't heard of him?"
"I haven't heard of him either. I checked the magicians registered on the official website of the empire and found no such person."
"I heard from the grapevine that he is a magician recruited from a foreign country by Lord Dundaner!"
"No wonder he is paid so highly. This is for show!"
"Nonsense, I heard that he is Lord Dundaner's...illegitimate son?"
"Ah? Is it true?"
Under the cover and spread of the Internet, a storm of public opinion swept Felix!
From magic instructors to magic apprentices, the fire of gossip burned fiercely!
Looking at everyone's views and attitudes, almost all of them were contemptuous and ridiculed.
Not to mention whether magic research on crops will lose value? Even if you consider it purely from the perspective of profit, it's not worth it!
There are basically two types of magical plants cultivated with wood spirit magic.
The first type is to use wood spirit magic to forcibly interfere, distort and amplify a certain feature of the plant to achieve the goal.
This method requires human intervention. Even if it is only to interfere with the seeds and no further intervention is needed, the price is not affordable for farmers.
The second type is to directly cultivate new varieties.
This is equivalent to involving the realm of God. Who can research it?
Even if it is researched, it is equivalent to a brand new plant. Farmers can only buy it once at most, and they can keep the seeds for themselves in the future without having to buy them again. Compared with the research cost, is it worth it?
Not worth it at all!
What? Selling at a high price?
Do those untouchables have that money?
To be honest, this is something that almost everyone with a little knowledge of magic should know. Would Lord Dengdaner not know it?
Since he knew it, why did he approve this experimental project?
Even all of Felix's wood magic apprentices were transferred to participate in the experiment?
Everyone couldn't figure it out, but it didn't stop everyone from imagining.
For a time, countless versions of Ajef's identity and origin were spread.
From a mysterious foreign magician, to the illegitimate son of the god of magic, to a member of the royal family, everyone's imagination and rumor-mongering ability were completely activated by the Internet.
As rumors were spreading, Dorothy knocked on the door of the magic forest with trepidation.