Chapter 718: Alchemist Mage: Help, We Don’t Want to Measure Manure!
"Transmutation mage?"
Elder Wood looked at Garrett with suspicion.
When it came to farming, he was happy to discuss it with a follower of the God of Nature: after all, if they hadn’t grown grains, they would have at least grown herbs, and if not herbs, then magical plants.
How to water, fertilize, and control pests were topics he was somewhat knowledgeable about.
However, he wasn’t as comfortable discussing this with Garrett. Although Garrett was known as a priest of the God of Nature, he had never actually worked the land. He hadn’t grown a single grain or herb.
His ability to communicate with plants was practically zero, and identifying plants by talking directly to seeds was out of the question...
The only thing that slightly proved his "planting" talent was perhaps, maybe, the discovery of penicillin due to growing a lot of bacteria?
But what did this have to do with transmutation mages? He acknowledged that these mages liked to fiddle with strange things. Sometimes, it was pleasant to collaborate with them on farm tools—
But they never actually farmed!
To make them mess with manure, biogas, or compost was like asking them to die!"Finding the transmutation mages? Are they really willing to come?"
If not, he could ask that old guy Tolga! That old man owed him a favor, so bringing his disciples to help would definitely be doable!
"Of course! I’ll find someone!"
Garrett puffed out his chest. It wasn’t difficult for Garrett Nordmark to borrow people from the Alchemy Guild—
If they didn’t want to send people, did they still want to continue the rubber research?
Did they still want orders for the production of streptomycin or other unknown -mycin?
And who knew what else Garrett might come up with in the future? Did the alchemy workshop still want to cooperate?
If they wanted to collaborate, they had to send people!
He confidently rushed over to solve the problem quickly to gather as many people as possible from the God of Nature’s church!
This was called resource exchange! Using his knowledge, skills, and connections to solve problems quickly in exchange for the human resources he needed to push forward another direction of research~~~
The Alchemy Guild did not make things difficult. The vice president, a short and fat old man who had always been in contact with Garrett, knew immediately that this was the most urgent project upon hearing that Garrett was working on soil fertility.
After hearing Garrett’s experimental design, he was particularly pleased with the "all things are elements, and all things can be measured" approach and decisively approved:
"How many people do you need? What level? What direction?"
"About ten people." Garrett asked for a lot. Ten people, plus Mage Norwood and his team, should be enough:
"The level doesn’t need to be too high. They just need to measure soil element content. Hmm, have they read my recent paper on metal content determination?" 𝘳âＮóʙÊṣ
"No problem! Since we’re not at war, I’ll lend you the people from the smelting group!"
Instead of measuring the iron and copper content in ore or sulfur in coal every day, it would be better to measure soil with Garrett!
"By the way, you’re not making them measure manure, are you?"
Garrett: "..."
In theory, no... but if Elder Wood had just fertilized the field, that might be a different story...
Regardless, he led the group of mages to the field. By the edge of the field, Elder Wood was busy with his students. Seeing Garrett, he waved cheerfully:
"Come over later! After we’ve finished this round of fertilization!"
Garrett clearly saw the mages’ faces turn black.
Garrett himself also wanted to turn black. Beside Elder Wood, the priests of the God of Nature had two wooden buckets and several ladles.
The color around the edges of the wooden buckets was very suspicious, and the water splashing from the ladles definitely wasn’t clear, transparent creek water...
However, he quickly cast a Bubble spell on himself.
Isolating the outside air, isolating splashes, and especially isolating all odors! In fields, emergency rooms, disposal rooms, and operating rooms, it was invincible!
Of course, before using the Bubble spell, he had to smell the odors for diagnosis. But in the field, there was no need to worry about this; just use the spell...
The transmutation mages’ reactions were the same as Garrett’s. No one cared about saving spells; they quickly raised their hands and cast Bubble spells on themselves.
Their uniform movements made Elder Wood want to laugh bitterly:
Mages were mages, afraid of dirt and stink. This behavior might be fine in a laboratory with magical arrays, but studying soil fertility? Could they really handle it?
Only because he had to consider Garrett’s face. After all, Garrett was a priest of the God of Nature, here to help them. He couldn’t undermine him now.
Elder Wood not only kept smiling but also suppressed his students with a glance, preventing them from showing their negative emotions. While fertilizing, he asked loudly:
"What do you want to do?"
"Sampling first!" Garrett raised his voice. Unfortunately, a side effect of the Bubble spell was that it blocked sound transmission, so he had to speak louder:
"Elder, point out a piece of land that hasn’t been enhanced with divine spells yet. We’ll randomly take soil samples, dry them, and analyze them."
He glanced back at the mages he brought:
"After the divine spells, we’ll take more samples for elemental analysis comparison. Where should we sample from? Any particular rules?"
In his past life, he vaguely remembered that soil sampling had specific rules for point distribution and soil depth.
Was it from the ridge or the furrow? How far from the plant roots? How deep?
Elder Wood: "…If I say dig two meters down, will you do it?"
"Yes! The roots of plants go deep! Wheat, I heard, can go as deep as two meters! We’ll definitely dig!"
Hmm, although cooperative, this statement clearly showed a lack of farming experience... Wheat roots mostly stay within half a meter; only pasture grass goes two meters deep!
Elder Wood silently mocked but quickly went over to guide the mages in taking samples from various points on and between the ridges. Then the mages rolled up their sleeves and got to work!
Numbering!
Reserving samples!
Sieving to remove large impurities like roots and stones!
Drying!
Weighing!
Dissolving!
Then, each mage cast Mage Hand to hold flasks and started shaking. During the boring shaking, Mage Norwood, representing the transmutation mages, came over to ask about the task:
"Which elements are we mainly measuring?"
Different targets required different methods! Say it beforehand!
"Don’t know!"
Garrett shrugged. He was confident:
If I knew, why would I need you?
I don’t know, that’s why you’re here!
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