Chapter 45

Chapter 45

Upon returning home, Lynn entered the Alchemy Laboratory. Observing the Cavern Lifeblood Mushrooms on the experiment table, he realized there was only enough for one last experiment. “Not enough raw materials,” Lynn muttered.

Frowning, Lynn recalled how Borg had extensively purchased Cavern Lifeblood Mushrooms from various pharmacies in Bangor Port, nearly depleting their stock. Some pharmacies even took advantage of the demand to raise the price.

With practiced ease, Lynn spent an hour concocting the potion. As his proficiency increased, what once took two hours now required only half the time.

“Daily task completed: Experiment (1), Completed an experiment of extremely low difficulty.”

“Completion: Excellent (》)”

“Reward: 20 general experience points, 2% progress in mutation studies.”

Excellent? Lynn’s raised an eyebrow.

Lynn looked at the completion evaluation flashing in the corner of his vision, feeling somewhat surprised. This was the first time he had received an excellent evaluation.

What could be the reason? Expanding the details of the “Excellent” rating, Lynn discovered that he had made only two minor errors, one related to a specific ingredient.

Perhaps it was related to the efficiency of the experiment? Lynn speculated inwardly.

Looking at the vial of reagent in his hand, Lynn took out a thorn seed from a nearby box. Tossing the seed into the reagent, tiny bubbles formed on its surface as the thorn seed sank to the bottom, creating a subtle reaction.

Lynn secured the vial of reagent on a stand, knowing it would take at least half a day to complete the mutation.

Plant seeds mutated faster than animals.

After tidying up the experiment table, Lynn left the room. He descended to the adjacent room and walked into the neighboring courtyard.

Lauren emerged from the house just as Lynn approached. “I hope I didn’t disturb you,” Lynn said.

“Not at all. Bowa’s already asleep,” Lauren replied with a silly grin.

Since Lauren personally went to find Bowa last time, Lynn had no idea what transpired between the couple, but Bowa moved in with Lauren, just as she had mentioned. Even with Lauren’s current appearance, she showed no signs of repulsion.

This seed was good—it was much more proficient than the others Lynn had worked on in the past half month. The feedback from the previous seeds felt somewhat raw to Lynn.

However, this particular seed had no such rawness—it felt incredibly smooth to operate.

The magic book of the ‘Whip of Thorns’ mentioned that if it were an ordinary seed, it would be relatively stiff to manipulate with magic.

However, if it were a seed containing extraordinary power, it would be very flexible to manipulate.

Because the essence of this spell was to activate the power contained within the seed.

The power contained in ordinary seeds was insufficient. Forcing activation could easily harm the foundation of the seeds, and the strength of the resulting thorn vines would also be insufficient.

However, there would be no such drawbacks with extraordinary seeds.

So, from the feeling of manipulation, has this seed undergone a successful mutation? It’s just not clear what specific mutation has occurred.

Lynn proceeded to conduct several tests, assessing aspects such as flexibility, healing speed, toughness, hardness of thorns and spikes, and other special abilities.

In terms of flexibility and toughness, it was only at an ordinary level, slightly outperforming regular thorns but still far from meeting the standards of extraordinary seeds.

Apart from that, the thorns growing on the vine were relatively hard, capable of leaving a white mark when dragged across iron.

Lastly, concerning special abilities, Lynn discovered through experiments on mice that the activated thorns from this seed possessed a paralyzing effect.

It seemed to have a somewhat redundant effect.

Lynn pondered the situation. He already possessed the spells Sleeping Curse and the Mental Shock.

The paralyzing effect of this thorn seed somewhat duplicated the effects of his mastered spells.

However, it wasn’t a significant issue. This Whip of Thorns could be considered an “area attack.” Its attack range could be seen as a form of group attack.

The other two spells were both single-target control spells, so it couldn’t be considered a complete duplication.

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