Chapter 8 [Restoration +]
Walking through the long and dark corridor, the vision suddenly became brighter and the light became brighter.
The scent of medicine hit his face, and what came into view was a patch of vibrant green, which made Gothe feel as if the smell of decay in his body had been dissipated a lot.
This herb cultivation area is not particularly large, but it is dotted with several plots of land with different soil quality.
Because herbal medicines are essentially extremely delicate "flowers and plants" that require careful care.
Different herbs have different requirements for the growing environment, and some are even extremely extreme.
Not to mention the external environment such as temperature and water quality, the requirements of different herbs on the soil environment are very complex.
Most herbs will grow in loose, fertile, well-drained soil.
But some medicinal herbs like to grow in forest humus soil rich in humus, the typical example is ginseng medicinal herbs.
There are also herbs that like to grow in acidic or slightly acidic soil or on river beaches.
Hence, it is necessary to choose suitable soil for planting according to the growth habits and characteristics of the herbs themselves and local conditions.
The cultivation of herbal medicines is a profound subject. It requires not only the identification of medicinal materials and a thorough understanding of their habits, but also how to construct an environment suitable for their growth according to the habits of the medicinal materials, thereby ensuring the survival rate of the medicinal materials, increasing the yield and improving the medicinal properties.
These tasks include but are not limited to the allocation of "nutrient soil", thinning, stabilizing seedlings, deep plowing combined with fertilization to improve soil physical properties, cultivating soil and weeding, fertilizing, irrigation and watering, disease and pest control, and plant shape adjustment.
The bulk of Gaode's morning work is cultivating soil, fertilizing and watering, and checking for pests and diseases.
Under normal circumstances, these tasks are simple repetitive tasks after you are proficient.
Because the types of medicinal herbs grown by Master Seda are all fixed.
So even though it was the first time for Gaode to start these tasks, according to the memory left by his predecessor, he still completed the cultivation of medicinal materials quickly and without any mistakes.
After doing this, there was only one last item left for him to do in the morning.
Gaode walked in a hurry and came to a small room.
There are many iron cages placed in the room, each containing five to ten rats with gray-brown fur.
These are small squirrels specially raised and bred by Master Seda for use in live experiments on pharmaceuticals.
Although human medicine testing results are the most accurate, even if human life is not so precious in this world, it is definitely not to the extent that Master Seda can test medicines on living people unscrupulously. In most cases, animals are still used to test medicines.
Squirrels have strong reproductive capacity, low feeding costs, and relatively low aggressiveness. Under these conditions, they are highly similar to humans—referring to genetic similarity, not appearance.
Hence, the squirrel has naturally become the best living test subject.
Gaode poured some feed into the feed basin in each iron cage, filled it with water, and then checked the status of all the little squirrels in the cage. He found that one of the little squirrels looked sick and did not even have the energy to grab food.
After careful observation, Gao De found that the back of this little squirrel looked like "bald area". A small piece of fur fell off completely, revealing the skin underneath, which was slightly red.
"It seems that you have some kind of skin disease," Gothe made a judgment and nodded, "That's you."
He took the sick little gray rat out of the iron cage.
Of course, Gaode is not trying to cure it.
One, no, and two, there is no need.
Because small squirrels are far less valuable than medicinal materials, the apprentices in the medicine garden are not as concerned with raising small squirrels as they are with medicinal materials, so some small squirrels will get sick from time to time.
The only final outcome for these sick gray mice is "early detection and humane execution" to avoid transmitting the disease to other healthy gray mice.
Gothe was not polite. He grabbed the head of the little squirrel and twisted it hard along the neck. With a crisp snap, the little squirrel disappeared without even a struggle.
Throwing the dead little squirrel aside, Gaode focused on his own mind.
In the depths of his mind, an exquisite and ingenious crescent moon gemstone was blooming with spiritual light at this moment.
Some changes have already occurred: inside the gem, two light spots and twelve dotted lines suddenly appeared, forming two Big Dipper-style colanders.
Each set of colander diagrams has seven points and six dotted lines, but at this moment only the starting point is flashing, and the remaining six points are dim.
It is not difficult to infer that it is complete only when all seven points are lit.
The next moment, a familiar information interface appeared in Gaode's "eyes".
Origin:
Level 0 - [Human] (1/7), [Grey-Eyed Rat] (1/7)
Spells:
Level 0 - [Mage's Hand], [Repair]
Compared to before, there is an additional entry on the source information column: [Grey-Eyed Rat].
It is the "scientific name" of the little squirrel.
"It's true." Gothe murmured to himself.
The first time he saw this information interface, Gothe was already sure that the origin could not only be obtained from humans. It should be able to expand to multiple entries like the spell column, but he had only unlocked the human one so far.
When he went to bury Yilan's body in the back mountain, Gothe crushed a few unknown insects to verify his speculation, but no new entries appeared in the origin column.
Either the method of obtaining the source is not "killing".
Or the insects are too weak to provide the source.
After all, there is another level division before the human entry: Ring 0.
And if you want to obtain the 0-level source, it is very likely that you can only get it from a 0-level creature.
Elan is a mage apprentice. According to the level of mage, he is a level 0 mage, who happens to be able to provide the source.
The latter is obviously more likely.
You cannot get the correct answer by guessing, you must experiment.
In the medicine garden, in addition to the mage apprentices, there happens to be a type of 0-level creature.
【Grey-eyed Rat】, the little gray rat among the general population. Although it is weak enough to be slaughtered by others, in terms of level, it is really the same as the mage apprentice, both at level 0.
Because, gray-eyed rats contain extremely thin blood of earth-line creatures.
This meager bloodline of earth-line creatures does not allow them to possess any extraordinary abilities, nor does it allow them to possess the power of earth-line creatures. However, it can make them no longer belong to ordinary animals, but to belong to the 0-level ranks - there is also a gap between 0 levels.
The speculation has been confirmed, and the next thing is logical.
It is difficult to kill seven people, but it is easy to kill seven little gray rats.
Gothe took action immediately.
He once again caught a healthy little squirrel out of the iron cage.
The little gray mouse kicked its calves vigorously in Gothe's hands, making a sharp squeaking sound, but it was all in vain, like a weak girl who was about to be insulted but was unable to resist.
Gothe looked at the little gray mouse carefully for about tens of seconds. After confirming that the panel had not changed in any way, he silently extended his other hand to the little gray mouse, which seemed to have become accustomed to being carried and stopped struggling.
With a crisp snapping sound, the little squirrel suddenly became silent.
The next moment, another light lit up inside the gem.
Origin:
Ring 0 - [Human] (1/7), [Grey-Eyed Rat] (2/7)
"Sure enough, death is a necessary condition, but I don't know if you have to die in my hands to count."
Gothe muttered in his heart.
This can be left to be verified later, so don’t worry for now.
The top priority is to obtain the first complete origin.
He put down the dead little gray mice in his hands and glanced at the little gray mice in the iron cage who were still unaware of what was about to happen
Little gray mice were not valuable, and they were often worn out, so even if seven died in one day, no one would care at all.
Coupled with Gothe's eagerness to know the effect of the "origin", five more little gray mice immediately sacrificed their lives for this.
Soon.
Origin:
Level 0 - [Human] (1/7), [Grey-eyed Rat] (7/7)
At this time, the crescent-shaped gemstone was still hanging steadily in the center of the sea of Gothic magic stars, motionless.
It's just that inside the gem, there are seven more flashing light points at this moment, and the six dotted lines have also turned into bright solid lines. The light points and the solid lines form an inseparable model, like the "Big Dipper", slowly rotating, extremely beautiful.
"Come on, let me see what you are capable of."
Gothe said to himself in his heart, and at the same time, his attention shifted to the two tricks he mastered in the spell column.
Each has a small yellow plus sign flashing.
He hesitated for a moment, but decided to experiment with repair surgery.
[Repair] (Transformation, 0 levels):
This spell can repair a damage or crack on an object you touch, such as repairing a broken chain, a key broken in half, a torn cloak, a leaking wine bag, etc.
As long as the break or break is no larger than 1 foot in any direction, you can repair it without leaving a trace.
This spell physically repairs a spell item or construct, but does not restore the spell on such an object.
Gaode once again tapped the yellow plus sign behind the repair technique with his mind.
Add points.
The change happened instantly.
Among the gems, the perfect set of "Big Dipper" that represents the origin of the "Grey-Eyed Mouse" no longer rotates, but flows, swimming directly out of the crescent moon gem.
They move towards the spell model representing [Repair].
The so-called spell model is the basis for the mage to cast spells.
It is composed of star particles in the sea of magic stars, and its appearance resembles a constellation composed of stars in the vast universe.
It's just that the lines between the constellations that are commonly seen in books are artificially connected in order to observe and understand the composition of the constellations, but the lines between the spell models are real.
The mage follows the guidance of the spell formula, uses mental power to pull the stars in the sea of spell stars, and uses mental power as a scaffold to fix the stars, thereby constructing a spell model composed of stars.
Once the spell model is successfully constructed, it means that the mage has initially mastered the spell, and can then cast the corresponding spell through the spell model.
The structure of each spell model is different, and it can even be said to be extremely different. It has almost strict requirements on the number of stars, the distance and direction between the stars, and there is no deviation.
Therefore, it is extremely difficult and time-consuming to master a spell. Under normal circumstances, it takes hundreds or even thousands of failures to successfully construct a spell model.
Now, the goal of "Big Dipper" is this spell model, which can be called the most important thing for a mage.
"Big Dipper" was very fast, and in a moment, it had already crashed into the spell model of [Repair].
There is no Mars hitting the Earth.
The next moment, the spiritual light flickered, and the seven flickering light points actually merged into the spell model like a baby swallow returning to its nest.
This is.
In Gothe's confusion, the originally complete [Restoration] spell model seemed to have a second spring after the light spots were integrated, and began to regenerate branches and leaves. At certain nodes, it began to extend outwards, and new lines and stars appeared.
The whole process is very stable and natural. Some nodes extend a line and a star, and some nodes extend more, but these changes do not destroy the original basic structure of the spell model.
It was clear that only seven points of light were added, but in the end, the number of stars that extended on the [Repair] spell model was far more than seven, and a full thirteen stars were formed before it stopped.
"Big Dipper" has disappeared, and the [Repair] spell model has returned to calm, with no new changes.
Looking at the spell model that had changed its appearance and was very different from the [Repair Spell] model in theory, some information appeared in Gothe's mind instinctively.
This information tells Gaode that the new spell model in front of him is still a 0-level change spell [Repair], and its effect has not changed. Its function is still to repair minor damage to the target item.
It's just that compared to the original repair technique, it has a little more.
The repair spell under the new spell model will be able to restore the spells originally attached to such objects when repairing spell items.
It seems that there is only a little change, but Gothe's vision is not so short-sighted. He clearly understands that this has already been regarded as a qualitative sublimation.
This process, in the terminology of the world before he traveled, is "skill strengthening."
This kind of enhancement is not just a simple increase in numerical value, but a higher-level mechanism enhancement.
The simple information interface has also undergone some changes
Origin:
0 Ring - [Human] (1/7), [Grey-eyed Rat] (used)
Spells:
Level 0 - [Mage's Hand], [Repair +]
Level 0 spell [Repair], under the influence of its origin, turned into [Repair +]. Correspondingly, the yellow plus sign after its name also disappeared.
【Repair+】(Change system, 0 levels):
This spell can repair a break or crack on an object you touch, such as a broken chain, a key broken in half, a torn cloak, a leaking wineskin, etc.
As long as the break or break is no larger than 1 foot in any direction, you can repair it without leaving a trace.
This spell physically repairs a spell item or construct, but does not restore the spell on such an object.
Additional: When you repair a spell item, you will be able to restore the spell on that spell item.
(End of this chapter)