Chapter 119: Experiments
That left one final plant to deal with. Tulland sat for a few minutes examining one of his Silver Star trees. There was a way to make them more point-efficient, a way not entirely unlike what he had done with most of his other trees. He started with that, trimming down one of the trees to the instructions of his skill, reducing the shade canopy until it allowed for more plants to be grown under it and a healthier, more energy-loaded plant overall.
The cutting away of things made the plant make more sense too. With every snip, he learned a little bit more about the structure of the plant, the way that it grew, and what the potential of it was. Having spent very little time intentionally injuring his trees, Tulland had never really thought about how they kept themselves fed. His time with Kelsa had fleshed some of that knowledge out. Not all plants had what he’d call sap, but all had some kind of liquid moving through them, pushing nutrients here and there.
As he clipped away at the first tree, he watched as each small cut dripped a small amount of shining, almost metallic sap before some combination of that sap and the magic of the skill sealed them. All those nutrients were now concentrated in a smaller area, feeding fewer things.
The other inspiration circling around Tulland’s psych as he worked on the Silver Star tree was what he had done to the Achewood trees. That had been a better result than he had expected.
| Achewood Tree (Pruned, Synergist) By trimming branches slightly deeper than the level at which they join the bark, you laid bare the structures that fed those branches as they grew. Affixing Acheflowers at these points grants them increased access to nutrients, increasing their potential quality as they grow. Due to the advanced level of your pruning skill and the relatively low level of the Acheflowers, there is a large chance of mutations and variance within the blooms as they grow.
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