18: Chapter 18 Magical Microorganisms

Looking at the note left by Old Pulang, Ross was slightly stunned.

It turned out that the assessment for the Magical Botany class did not necessarily have to be cultivating an apprentice-level magical plant.

If one could verify their own discovery, it could also serve as a course report.

But thinking carefully about it, if just claiming to have discovered mana microorganisms could earn credits,

Old Pulang would probably have given the credits to him directly when hearing the details recounted by Ross.

There would be no need to give another set of research instruments and notes.

That meant there still needed to be specific research results to prove that these mana microorganisms could truly increase the yield of magical plants or accelerate their growth.

"What an old urchin."

Calculated this way, it was actually still necessary to find and study these mana microorganisms that symbioted with magical plants.

Originally, Ross was still unsure whether he had misjudged the situation of the abnormally growing Water Lily Magic Plant.

But looking at Old Pulang's performance,

the probability increased by another thirty percent.

In fact, Old Pulang could basically judge from Ross's description that the mystery of promoting the growth of magical plants lay in the environment where it grew, meaning the probability was highest in the soil where it took root.

But as an Official Wizard and a mentor teaching Magical Botany, he must have a rigorous research report before he could give the credits to Ross.

Rigorous wizards like Old Pulang were the mainstream of the Wizard World.

Casually giving credits to a Wizard Apprentice would be irresponsible to the apprentice and an insult to the academy's faculty position.

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"A single lens still cannot observe tiny life forms; it seems I still have to try combining multiple lenses to see these little guys," Ross muttered to himself.

While muttering, his hands kept moving, trying to adjust the distance between the lenses and their thickness.

"Finally adjusted."

The lens tube used by Ross was similar to a microscope effect left by Old Pulang.

Compared with ordinary instruments, the lenses of this type of instrument were made by grinding and smoothing by-product ores from magic stone mines.

Compared with ordinary glass, this type of lens had a unique mana recognition effect.

It could observe the existence of weak mana fluctuations, which was also the premise for studying mana microorganisms.

If mortals attempted to observe using ordinary tools, they would be interfered with by the existence of mana, resulting in messy mana rays within the field of vision.

This was also a truth in the supernatural world, referred to by the sages as the "Mana Instability Law".

When studying the existence of mana, wizards could feel the uniqueness of "mana" from a subtle perspective at all times.

This was also why the supernatural field could only try to provide stable knowledge to cultivate wizard reserves, without a fixed and invariable way to replicate and cultivate Official Wizards.

And this was why even for the so-called most stable "Hand of Magic", apprentices still needed to adjust it based on a simple Spell Model into a structural model suitable for themselves.

"Mana microscope, the microscope of the Wizard World, interesting." Ross's spirit appeared very excited.

The feeling this Wizard World gave Ross was not that gloomy world mixed with chaotic sorcery.

During his days at the Elius Wizard Academy, Ross felt like he had returned to an orderly world after a long time.

The existence of mana and witchcraft had always brought persistent pressure to Ross's mind, and his spirit had actually been in a tense state all along.

Unexpectedly, there were still such friendly research props in Magical Botany.

Although influenced by the addition of "mana" materials, this at least returned to Ross's cognitive range.

It also represented that Ross's knowledge and cognition had merits even in the Wizard World.

In the magic field plate where the Water Lily Magic Plant was planted, in the original deep pit, the original dead branches and fallen leaves as well as the nutrients put in by Ross had been transformed into a pool of turbid bacterial liquid.

Some remaining mycelium grew and spread on the surface of the pit's cliff wall.

The decomposition speed of the supernatural world was indeed much faster than that of the non-mana world.

Normally it would take at least half a month, but in just two or three days, not only was a pool of "mana microorganisms" stock solution cultivated, but the auxiliary materials were also completely digested.

"Such high efficiency, truly deserving of being a magical life form."

However, during the decomposition process of these "mana microorganisms", some strange odors would inevitably be produced.

It wasn't to say how pungent it was, but it had somewhat of a fermented smell.

"If these things are useful, I still have to figure out a way to remove the odor."

[Purification Spell]...

After casting the [Purification Spell], it was indeed much better. That strange smell could hardly be smelled anymore.

Without the [Purification Spell], Ross could only effectively remove it by filtering and trying some graphite materials with ultra-micro pores.

Not to mention whether the Wizard World had this kind of material, just finding the material was a troublesome matter.

The Wizard World would not use the exact same material names.

Fortunately, there was the [Purification Spell].

Ross used the cooling-effect storage container left by Old Pulang to collect the turbid mucus in the pool.

To avoid omission, Ross also stored the mycelium including that on the pool wall separately.

Afterwards, Ross looked towards the magic field and marked the magical plants with consistent growth in the field.

The "mana microorganisms" mucus collected in the pool was repeatedly applied to the roots of the magical plants according to different ratios.

This process required Ross to control it.

Under the flexible operation of the [Hand of Magic], 9 liquid masses of various sizes were separated.

Ross distributed them according to a concentration ratio of every three liquid masses, ranging from low concentration to medium concentration, and then to high concentration.

Then he cast the Hand of Magic to apply these solvents into the soil at the roots of the marked magical plants respectively.

Ross used the image-recording stone to record the current growth form of the magical plants.

If everything went smoothly, when harvesting the Water Lily Magic Plant, the experiment of these "mana microorganisms" could also produce results.

By then, Ross would have two Magical Botany course completion reports.

Although there might only be one credit in the end.

But if the "mana microorganisms" were really effective and could increase the yield by even a few percent, it would still be a good thing for Ross.

Just before that, Ross needed to do quite a bit of research.

The purification and cultivation of "mana microorganisms" required picking cells of a single "microbial life form" and cultivating them on the surface containing "mana culture medium".

And the preparation of the "mana culture medium" was also a craft. There were various types of formulas for "mana culture medium" on Old Pulang's apprentice notes.

Some used humus from "magical plant leftover leaves" as basic materials, and some used the flesh and blood of carnivorous magical beasts as basic materials.

These "mana microorganisms" might also have different reproduction speeds on "culture media" of different formulas.

"Tsk tsk, wizards really need a lot of knowledge, experiments, and time."