Chapter 200
The next two days were a blur of activity. Alice spent most of each day monitoring Jonathan’s condition. Now that she had given him a new version of a ‘Class Seed,’ she desperately wanted to spend every moment observing it and seeing if it worked or not.
At first, she was hopeful. At the time, she had felt like she might have really solved the problems related to creating Class seeds and developed a viable alternative. However, she started to realize there were a lot of issues she still needed to work out.
First of all, the Magic seed was prone to the same issue the System-created magic seeds had –that is, the magic seed quickly got clogged up when it tried to absorb nearby mana. Since Alice had a way to solve that problem, it wasn’t the end of the world if she didn’t develop a solution for this. However, it required resources and manpower to create, and so Alice filed it away as a possible improvement she could make if she had time.
However, there was a bigger, more fundamental issue to her Class seed.
Stability issues.
Alice had thought that ‘stabilization mana,’ paired with some amount of mana compression, would be enough to make a pseudo-class seed. That was the entire reason that Alice had worked so hard to make the Class seed produce Stabilization mana. Without it, the Class mana would always outgrow the stabilization mana eventually, and then the whole thing would fall apart.
However, Alice’s solution only partially resolved the issue. On Alice’s request, Jonathan kept fishing in order to stress test the seed. At first, it seemed to work… and then, after thirty-six hours, the Class Seed started to collapse.
The problem was organization.
The magic seed still grew like it was supposed to. It absorbed [Fisherman] mana and generated stabilization mana, and with the help of some density mana, the whole thing remained reasonably compact. However, the way it grew was lumpy, uneven, and disjointed. After a few rounds of collecting [Fisherman] mana, the seed was barely held together by Alice’s hopes and dreams. It looked like a cancerous tumor rather than a Class seed. It was constantly trying to grow, fall apart, and spread throughout Jonathan’s body, and Alice had a sneaking suspicion the problem would only get worse if the seed kept growing like this.