222 Lucien’s Wish (1/2)

Chapter 222: Lucien’s Wish

Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion

Iristine was wearing a beautiful dress with leaf patterns, however, she looked very cold when she talked to Lucien, ”Mr. Evans, are you making any progresses with analyzing Growing Brambles and Harvest Spring? The other groups now are all ahead of us, and they have all started planting real crops. What are we doing now? Come on, you’re the winner of Holm Crown prize, Elemental Order!”

Tyrel and Urine got alert. They were not sure whether the prince and princess would use this as an excuse to leave this research group.

Lucien slightly pushed his wire-rimmed glasses upwards and answered seriously, ”Princess Iristine, the reason why we’re making slow progress is that the imprints of the divine spells provided by you are incomplete. Maybe the druids in other groups are more gifted in arcana, and thus they could draw the imprints better. Do you think that's the case?”

Lucien was using sarcasm with a serious look.

”...Still, as a winner of Holm Crown prize, you should be better than this!” After being quite speechless for a few seconds, Arcelion insisted.

The last thing Lucien wanted to do now was to completely piss them off, so he put back his piles of paper with the mathematic exercises and answered, ”Of course I’ve made some progresses, and parts of the principles are now clear to me. For Growing Brambles, the spell stimulates the inner structure of a plant and the divine power turns itself into the several elements that are needed by the plant to grow fast. As for Harvest Spring, although it follows the same principles of Growing Brambles, Harvest Spring makes plants extract too much nutrition from the soil too fast. In other words, Growing Brambles requires more power from your Heart of Nature, while Harvest Spring requires less but it damages the soil. However, again, because the imprints are not complete, I cannot know what these extracted elements are.”

”… You’ve learned this much?” Hearing Lucien’s words, Iristine and Arcelion were very surprised. They could not believe that it took this arcanist only three days to make such progress with incomplete imprints.

”I’m the winner of Holm Crown prize.” Lucien smiled.

Of course what Lucien just said was not his own research outcome. As his task was just to waste the prince and the princess’ time, Lucien was provided with all the information figured out by other groups. On the second day after the druids arrived, the three grand arcanists and the senior-rank arcanists had already figured out the principles of most of the elementary divine spells, and now they were working on analyzing the so-called mind of nature to see what it was, what it consisted of, why druids could use it and why it brought them divine spells.

This was a tough job. Thus, Malfurion’s request was completely assigned to other senior-rank and middle-rank sorcerers.

According to the provided information, Lucien was certain that ordinary plants in this world still needed nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium to grow, but the situation with magic plants was for sure more complicated.

”Why you did not tell us earlier, Mr. Evans?” Arcelion did not know how to respond to Lucien’s words, so he hurriedly changed the direction of their conversation.

”I just figured this out last night.” Lucien put on a confused look, ”I did not have the time to inform you two. Soon we’ll be working in the fields to do some more experiments, trying to see what elements those grains need to absorb in order to grow better.”

Lucien took the advantage of the fact that the imprints provided were not complete. Of course, Lucien would not tell them that he actually knew which elements were needed, as conducting real planting experiments was the best way to waste their time.

Now Iristine and Arcelion were less doubtful toward Lucien’s work, so they followed Lucien to the land to the east of the town.

Lucien marked a small piece of land and asked, ”Mr. Tyrel and Urine, please measure the amount of elements contained in the soil here.”

Since both Tyrel and Urine were sorcerers who were better at fighting, they did not have built-in magic structures in their souls for spells for measurement. So they needed to chant the spell and used refined elements as components to assist their casting. Thus, it took them almost two hours to record all the element contained in the soil.

”Because so far we’ve only identified sixty-seven kinds of elements, there might be missing ones that are actually required by grains like oats or wheat.” Lucien clarified the precondition of the experiment to the prince and the princess, and then he asked the farmers to seed oats following their years of practice.

After the farmers’s job was done, in the cold wind, Lucien said to the two elf druids, ”Please cast Harvest Spring to let the oats grow ripe.”