Chapter 432: Raising Magic Beasts
With a rough plan brewing in his mind, Rezen did not hesitate and immediately ordered his Spirit Plant army to search for suitable ’livestock’.
Fortunately, although the nearby magic beasts had started fleeing, as long as Rezen was willing to sacrifice a huge number of Spirit Plants, he wouldn’t have any problem finding what he needed.
In just a matter of a few days, and after sacrificing thousands of Spirit Plants, Rezen finally found a few suitable magic beasts.
The first was the same type of bee that his army had massacred on their first day, which he tentatively called Golden Winged Bees. As a colony-type magic beast, even if their reproductive speed was not the best, they shouldn’t disappoint.
Not to mention, as long as he had enough Queen Bees, there should be no problem with the colony giving birth to a large number of bees.
Aside from that, the honey these bees made could also improve cultivation and was a rather good ingredient for alchemy.
Aside from the Golden Winged Bees, Rezen also captured the nest of Ironjaw Ants. Considering their numbers when Rezen discovered them, there should be no problem with their reproduction speed. At the very least, it should not fall short of the bees and might even be faster.
The last type of magic beast he captured was the Golden Carapace Termite. Just like most of the magic beasts in this realm, it had the attribute of the sun.
Among the three types of magic beasts that Rezen captured, the Golden Carapace Termite had the fastest reproductive speed.
After all, even back on Planet Earth, where no magic existed, it was no secret that termites were among the fastest living beings to reproduce.
"Hmm, with these three types of magic beasts, I should start restructuring the surrounding terrain to make it suitable for them to live."
"While I’m at it, I should also turn my territory into an impenetrable fortress. After all, if nothing goes wrong, I would be staying in this place for a long period of time."
Back in the Savage Beast Realm, Rezen had joined human society, and it had its pros and cons.
The pros were that there was less danger. After all, few humans would kill just because they wanted to, while magic beasts could kill you as soon as you entered their sight. Aside from that, he had also gained access to magical knowledge through teachers and books.
The books he currently had were enough for Rezen to barely reach the Great Mage Rank. Unless he reached that rank, there wouldn’t be much reason for Rezen to enter human society.
Of course, this decision was partly because Rezen was still not fully aware of how the universe worked. He didn’t even have the Magic Chip that would let him connect to the universe’s ’internet’.
As for the cons of being in human society, Rezen was restricted, and the farm could not fully showcase its might.
Despite having the capability to raise a plant army, Rezen was forced to rely on Ghost Berries to gain a stable footing in the city.
If he were allowed to use the farm to its fullest, the magic beasts might stand no chance against humanity.
Now that Rezen was disconnected from human society, he could grow as many Spirit Plants as he wanted and could even use them to conquer his own territory.
With a territory secured, Rezen naturally had to make it as safe and strong as possible.
"First, I will have the Ironjaw Ants expand the cave entrance where I met the Nine Sun Bloodwood," Rezen muttered to himself. This was his first agenda.
He had previously abandoned that cave due to its narrow passages, but with the Ironjaw Ants, he could rebuild it.
With no reason to hesitate, Rezen ordered the Queen Ant and the colony, which was now only a few hundred in number due to the casualties they had suffered before being subdued, to march to the cave’s location.
As for the reason why Rezen managed to subdue the ant colony, it was naturally thanks to the farm.
To subdue a colony, most of the time, having the Queen submit was enough to fully control the colony.
As for how to subdue the Queen Ant, Rezen simply used a Hallucinogenic Mushroom that he had grown in the farm. The mushroom made it so that the Queen Ant thought that Rezen was its master and that it should unconditionally obey him.
The Queen Bee and Termite Queen were also both victims of the mushroom, making them loyal to him.
After arriving at the cave entrance, Rezen immediately ordered the worker ants to crush rocks and expand the passage while the Queen Ant remained outside.
As the Ironjaw Ant responsible for the reproduction of the whole colony, the Queen could barely move. It wouldn’t be able to help much even if it were ordered to.
With a wave of Rezen’s hand, he piled up a mountain of Spirit Plants beside the Queen Ant, many of which were rare.
The Spirit Plants that were rare in the outside world were not necessarily rare for Rezen.
Unless it was an extremely special Spirit Plant, the farm could simply grow it in no time.
In fact, the only Spirit Plant that Rezen had encountered that he could not reproduce in the farm was the Nine Sun Bloodwood.
Fortunately, the Nine Sun Bloodwood could grow its own offspring.
Of course, the lack of such special Spirit Plants might be primarily due to the fact that the previous realms he had lived in were simply too low-level.
Only the current realm he was residing in could be considered quite high-level. At the very least, compared to the Earth Realm and Savage Beast Realm, it really was high-level.
"Work hard and lay more eggs," Rezen ordered while the Queen Ant started munching on a spirit fruit.
The fruit’s nutritional essence flowed into the Queen Ant’s abdomen, and in just a few seconds, it started to lay eggs.
At first, the speed of egg production was not that fast. It could only lay one egg every few minutes, but the more Spirit Plants the Queen Ant ate, the faster it became.
In a short period of time, the speed increased to a few eggs per minute. This was already extremely fast.
After all, the Ironjaw Ants were not the tiny, ordinary ants from Earth. Each of these ants was as large as one’s palm, and the stronger ones were even larger.
However, despite this speed, Rezen was still not satisfied. After all, this was only around four thousand eggs per day.
It might sound like a lot, but his farm was a bottomless pit. Not to mention, while the Queen Ant was at the peak of the Senior Rank, it didn’t mean that all of its offspring would be born at the same rank.
It would take months or years before the ants that were born reached the same rank.
To a Senior Mage with hundreds of years of lifespan, even a few years was nothing, but Rezen could not wait that long.
He needed to find a solution for this or find other, more suitable magic beasts.
"Setting aside more suitable magic beasts, is there anything I can do right now to further increase the reproduction speed as well as shorten the growth cycle?" Rezen asked himself.
Since the Ironjaw Ants could not naturally provide the KPI that satisfied him, Rezen could only induce it artificially.
The first thing he had thought of was using Spirit Plants, as they were the most abundant renewable resource he had, but he didn’t have any suitable Spirit Plants.
Since raw Spirit Plants didn’t work, then...
"Alchemy..." Rezen muttered.
Back in the Savage Beast Realm, Rezen had dabbled in the art of alchemy, but he was extremely untalented.
He only managed to look passable because he had more Spirit Plants to use for practice than any other alchemist. He practically never ran out of ingredients at all.
As such, he really didn’t have much accomplishment, but he had still saved some potion recipes.
Not to mention, the resources in the current realm were far more abundant, and his talent had increased exponentially.
Even if the resources he had obtained could not directly increase his alchemy talent, as long as his overall talent increased, it should still have some effect on alchemy.
With this in mind, Rezen could only try to use alchemy, but he soon frowned. He currently did not have suitable equipment at hand.
When he sacrificed the farm’s foundation, he could only save a few things. It was already good that he had saved some seeds and books, but his alchemy equipment was not one of the lucky things he had managed to save.
"Should I, after all, find a human society to buy alchemy equipment? Only with proper alchemy equipment could I properly continue my alchemy study and progress faster."