Chapter 481 : Growth Origin
Chapter 481: Growth Origin
"Swoosh swoosh一"
Just like the 【Earth Origin】, the moment the 【Growth Origin】 came into contact with the ground, it slipped into the earth like a lively loach, vanishing in an instant.
"Kak-mi——kak—"
As the 【Growth Origin】 sank into the soil, the previously motionless tree seeds began to take root and sprout. Within moments, tender shoots half a meter tall emerged from the dark brown earth.
"At least there’s finally some progress."
Seeing the flourishing green of life sprouting in the purified land, Janna’s once-tense expression finally relaxed.
Over the past two months, aside from her classes and meditation training, Janna had been focusing on condensing the 【Growth Origin】.
By now, she had successfully condensed ten 【Growth Origins】—which was about one percent of the volume of a single 【Earth Origin】 obtained through exchange at the White Tower’s resource center.
Although the energy contained within these ten 【Growth Origins】 was far less than that of the 【Earth Origin】, they were still sufficient to make thousands of seeds sprout and grow into saplings.
As for how to make these saplings mature into towering trees, Janna needed not only to continue infusing them with the power of the Laws but also to gather more 【Growth Origins】.
The growth of trees required not just suitable soil and nutrients, but also an abundant water supply and warm sunlight.
However, aside from the first factor—the soil created by the 【Earth Origin】—the other two, water and sunlight, could not exist due to the depletion of the 【Origin Power】 and the absence of 【Laws】 within the 【Fallen Star】.
Therefore, to solve this problem, until Janna obtained the 【Water Origin】 and 【Sun Origin】, she could only rely on the 【Growth Origin】 she produced herself to forcibly stimulate growth.
This method might be effective for a short time, but once time dragged on, without a proper ecosystem to sustain the environment, even with the aid of the 【Growth Origin】, those trees would not survive for long.
"If I could obtain some 【Origin Power】 related to the Sky Domain, then combined with the seawater already present within the 【Zoe Star】, I might barely be able to create a functional water cycle, except———"
Looking up at the gray, dusty sky of 【Zoe Star】, Janna could only shake her head helplessly.
"Compared to the 【Earth Origin】, the 【Origin Powers】 connected to the authority of the sky might not require as many exchange points, but… given my current finances, I still can’t afford them."
The 【Origin Powers】 Janna referred to—those associated with the authority of the sky—were actually the ones related to weather, such as the 【Rain Origin】, 【Cloud Origin】, or 【Wind Origin】.
These kinds of 【Origin Powers】 were not particularly rare compared to the 【Earth Origin】, and thus, their exchange value was relatively lower.
However, since Janna had spent almost all her money on purchasing 【Earth Origins】, she had no spare funds left to exchange for any other kind of 【Origin Power】.
"If it really comes to that, I could always sell some 【Growth Origins】… but at my current rate of condensation, it’ll take a long time to meet the Resource Exchange Center’s recovery standard."
As an officially designated trading platform for 【Origin Powers】, the White Tower’s Resource Exchange Center had strict standards regarding the energy concentration of all 【Origin Powers】—whether for exchange or sale.
The rice-grain-sized 【Growth Origins】 that Janna privately condensed were far below the platform’s collection standard.
Unless she managed to condense at least a thousand of her current-sized 【Growth Origins】, the center would not recover them.
Of course, aside from using the Resource Exchange Center, Janna could also look for private buyers.
However, for something as rare as the 【Growth Origin】, most potential buyers were concentrated in the 【Leap Zone】. The apprentice-level wizards in the 【Crawling Zone】—a region even the 【Fallen Star】 itself could not control—rarely had use for such resources.
The 【Leap Zone】, a region composed of officially recognized wizards from various settlements, not only housed the more orderly White Wizards but also many chaotic and evil Black Wizards.
Without a trusted introduction or a powerful backer, a mere apprentice like Janna, carrying such a precious resource to openly trade within the 【Star Domain Zone】, would almost certainly attract unwanted attention.
Her White Tower identity could guarantee her life, but not her wealth.
Especially in the 【Star Domain Zone】, it was quite common for unfamiliar wizards to ambush “newcomers” and rob them of their resources.
As long as the act wasn’t too excessive, most Second-Tier Wizard settlements simply turned a blind eye.
According to Hephis-Stellar, the 【Star Domain Zone】’s “law of the jungle” survival model was actually designed to help “newcomers” better adapt to the starfield environment.
At the same time, it also served to temper them—to force “newcomers” to fight back using the power of the 【Laws】, thereby sharpening both their vigilance and their control over their 【Law Domains】. It was, in his words, a “one stone, many birds” approach—
Rubbing her temples, Janna, already mentally exhausted, no longer had the energy to dwell on such matters.
What she could do now was focus on planting one thousand trees as quickly as possible to complete her 【Main Quest】.
As for how many of those trees would survive afterward—that was not something she needed to worry about yet.
Thinking so, Janna’s soul vision shifted toward the center of the purified land—toward the special cultivation area reserved for the oak seed left behind by the Oak Giant, Rosen.
Sure enough, even under the dual nourishment of both the 【Earth Origin】 and 【Growth Origin】, the gray, lifeless oak seed showed no signs of recovery.
It was as if the seed had truly “died,” completely losing any possibility of growth.
"It seems that forcefully stimulating it with the 【Growth Origin】 won’t work. I’ll have to find another method."
The reason Janna cared so deeply about this 【Side Quest】 was not only for the quest reward, but because she valued the Oak Giant himself even more.
According to the 【Humanoid Willow】 who had given her the oak seed, the Oak Giant—Rosen—had once been a follower of 【Ivrecia】, the former 【Lord of Nature and Life】.
In other words, if Janna could successfully revive the Oak Giant Rosen, she would gain a powerful ally—one at least as strong as a full-fledged wizard.
That fact alone was enough to make Janna’s heart stir———