Chapter 20 Botanical Garden

Botanical Garden.

Richard was enjoying a leisurely afternoon tea time, and taking the opportunity to look at a few books he had sorted out from his memory palace.

"Magic Plant Cultivation", "Magic Plant Origin", "Bloodline Origin", "Detailed Analysis of Tentacle Binding Spell" and "Pink Book". Although he has read these books many times, it is good to review them.

Richard planned to cultivate some high-level magic plants to heal his injuries. After his strength was restored to that of a high-level wizard, he planned to build an element pool and upgrade the manor to a wizard tower.

With the elemental pool, with the help of high-concentration elemental water and the concoction of the fountain of life potion, most of his injuries can be cured.

Cultivating magical plants on a large scale is not an easy task, and it requires a large number of people to take care of them. In the arcane master's ecological garden, there will always be a large number of mage apprentices living there. In addition to learning spells, these mage apprentices also need to take care of the magical plants there.

Richard has now established a botanical garden and needs someone to take care of it. Of course, the plants planted in his botanical garden are not high-level magical plants, so it is not difficult to take care of them.

When Richard was traveling in the Wizard King's plane, he had seen a black wizard who trained his apprentices by raising poisonous insects, and the success rate of his apprentices was as low as 1%. The wizards trained in this way were indeed very powerful, but the gains did not outweigh the losses, which was worse than killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

In Richard's opinion, these wizard apprentices are all productive forces. They are an important part of producing various magical materials and creating wealth. They cannot be wasted like this. They should be allowed to work for themselves and create wealth. This is the best way.

Now there is no mage apprentice to help him take care of the botanical garden, he himself does not want to spend time taking care of it, and the tower spirit has not been made. Richard finally decided to use other alternative methods - golem puppets.

Using golem puppets to replace a large amount of work is an important revolution in the history of arcane development.

Originally golem puppets were used for fighting, but with the advancement of golem technology, golem puppets began to enter various jobs, and some simple and repetitive jobs have been replaced by golem puppets.

But after making calculations, Richard suddenly discovered that the cost of the golem puppet was a bit high, and it needed to be charged when used. Most of the energy of the elemental land had to be supplied to the botanical garden. If a few more golems were added, the elemental energy would not be enough.

After some consideration, Richard had no choice but to give up using the golem puppet and instead look for another alternative - the undead.

If we were to ask what the cheapest and most cost-effective production tool is in the Arcane Alliance, there is no doubt that it is the Undead.

Compared to the high cost of golem puppets, which need to be charged, the undead are too cheap. They do not need food, compensation, or even sleep. They can work 24 hours a day without rest and have almost no consumption.

Even if it was damaged, a skeleton could be simply replaced. If these low-level undead were not incapable of performing more complicated tasks, the mage apprentice might have been replaced.

Of course, mage apprentices are also very good production tools. Richard advanced from a mage apprentice step by step and finally became a great archmage.

After deciding to use the undead to manage the botanical garden, Richard began to look for suitable undead. Not all undead are suitable for managing the botanical garden. Skeletons are only low-level undead after all. They are not very intelligent and most of them can only act on instinct or follow orders. So when selecting undead, it is best to choose them based on their occupations in their lifetime. For example, the undead that Richard is going to use in the botanical garden should preferably be those who were gardeners or farmers in their lifetime.

According to the research of arcanists, the soul will lose some memory after death, and the amount of memory lost depends on the strength of the undead. The stronger the undead, the less memory they will lose. The weaker the undead will lose most of their memory, and only retain their unforgettable memories or the most familiar memories.

It is said that liches can preserve complete memories. Liches are natural masters of the dead and soul scholars. Their research on the soul far exceeds that of arcane masters, and only demons can compare with them.

They can split the memories in the soul at will, copy and seal these memories, and then make a life box to preserve the soul and memories. As long as the life box is not damaged, the lich will recover soon no matter how many times it dies.

This makes the lich extremely difficult to kill, and the lich's near immortal lifespan makes them very powerful. Normally, no one is willing to provoke a lich. After all, if the lich's life box is not destroyed, the lich is immortal.

Only a god who controls the realm of death can completely kill a lich.

Richard planned to look for dead gardeners and farmers to summon the undead. This was a very cumbersome task, but for the wealthy people it was just a piece of cake.

Through his connections in Brighton he was able to track down gardeners and farmers who had recently died.

After obtaining the life-prolonging potion, Brighton was very respectful to Richard and immediately sent people to look for him. It didn't take much time for him to obtain a large amount of information on dead bodies from hospitals all over the place.

Through the information of these hospitals, Richard quickly selected the people he needed.

New York is a big city with a population of tens of millions, and many people die every day, including people from all walks of life. Richard's request is not difficult.

Even if he was willing to spend some time, Brighton could help him find some deceased students or professors of agricultural universities. He also had to thank the Lighthouse Country for not forcing cremation, otherwise it would be difficult for him to find suitable materials for casting spells.

Using spells to summon undead from the lower planes directly is completely random. If he wants to find a suitable undead tool, it will take a lot of time and energy. So it is better to have spellcasting materials to summon.

Richard selected ten experienced gardeners from the materials provided by Brighton. These gardeners had been engaged in gardening work for more than 40 years. Even though they had been dead for some time and most of their soul memories had dissipated, the ability to plant and care for plants had been imprinted deep in their souls and was difficult to forget even in death.

After selecting the people, Richard quietly went to the cemetery where these people were buried under the cover of night. These people were not buried in one cemetery, so Richard needed to rush to various cemeteries in New York to look for them.

Fortunately, these gardeners were not wealthy and did not build any luxurious cemeteries. Richard quickly found one of his targets.

The temperature in the cemetery is very low, and a large amount of negative energy gathers in the entire cemetery, which is very beneficial for Richard to cast spells.

(End of this chapter)