Chapter 312: The Tree Spirit's Gift
Willow branches swayed, fireflies flickered.
Looking at the emerald green willow leaf handed over by the Human-faced Willow with its thin branches, Jia Na felt a strong sense of vitality on the leaf, while also feeling an unbelievable sensation growing in her heart.
It was given to her just like that?
Looking at the emerald green willow leaf in her hand, like a jadeite, Jia Na still felt a sense of daze even now.
Leaving aside the effect of "bringing the dying back to life," just the ability to "extend the lifespan of a healthy person by three years" was already an incredibly outrageous effect.
For those Wizards from Wizard families whose lifespans were about to run out, let alone extending their life by three years, even extending it by one year would have people striving for it with all their might. Not to mention, it also had the effect of "bringing the dying back to life."
For those transcendent beings who often explored Secret Realms, this was no less than gaining an extra life!
And the Human-faced Willow, not knowing Jia Na at all, and with her not having actually completed the task the other party assigned,
directly gave such a precious item to Jia Na as a task reward. It was truly too extravagant.
"Thank you for the Tree Spirit's gift. I will definitely do my best to complete this task!"
"Mm, I believe you can definitely complete it."
Jia Na, feeling the Human-faced Willow's unconditional trust once again, put away the "willow leaf" and couldn't help but become curious about the reason for the other party's trust in her.
"Could it be that this is also a benefit brought by the Nature Affinity talent?"
Thinking of this, Jia Na still couldn't suppress the curiosity in her heart and asked the Human-faced Willow,
"Tree Spirit, may I ask the reason for your trust in me?"
The rustling night wind blew again, making the leaves on the Human-faced Willow's branches rustle.
Hearing Jia Na's words, the Human-faced Willow said with extreme certainty, almost without any hesitation,
"Because you have the aura of Evefresia on you, I believe you."
Was it the same source of magic aura as Evefresia? Hearing the Human-faced Willow's reply, although Jia Na had guessed a similar reason, her mood was still somewhat complicated.
After the person and the tree continued chatting about this topic for a while, the Human-faced Willow, not used to being active at night, couldn't help but let out a long yawn, then said with a hint of tiredness,
"Alright, I have delayed you for too long. You should go back now—"
"Okay, Tree Spirit."
Tree shadows stirred, mist gathered.
After the Human-faced Willow finished this "order to leave," it hid back in the mist, disappearing from sight.
Seeing this, Jia Na, who had indeed been delayed for a long time, took out the mist branch again and quickly walked into the tree vine passage, accompanied by the sound of vines rustling by her ears.
"Rosen—?"
While passing through the passage, Jia Na couldn't help but take out the oak seed again, then activated the power of the Growth Law Fragment and poured Growth energy into it.
However, no matter how hard Jia Na tried, the oak seed in her hand remained like a true "dead seed,"
completely unresponsive.
"Why would such a difficult task be rated as blue level? Could it be that I'm overthinking the task..."
Caw caw. As Jia Na walked out of the tree vine passage, the familiar sound of Ravens also echoed in her ears,
"Forget it. The most urgent thing right now is—meditation."
Looking at the time displayed on the pocket watch, two o'clock in the morning, Jia Na also quickened her pace and walked quickly towards the dormitory building. In the following time, Jia Na spent her time attending classes, working, reading in the library, doing Mutant Studies experiments in the dormitory, doing the Main Quest, and going to the Extreme Cold Secret Realm with Vivian to comprehend the Withering Law.
In order not to waste any time, Jia Na had already started skipping some courses she had a firm grasp on (such as Ancient Magic History). At the same time, she also directly skipped the time for eating in the cafeteria, reading in the library while eating odorless food to fill her stomach.
It could be said that she had utilized all the fragmented time she could use, but she still felt like there was not enough time at all.
And this state continued for Jia Na for over three months.
"Success!"
On the dormitory lab bench, looking at the plant cells in the culture medium that had developed "autonomous active traits," the surprise on Jia Na's face almost overflowed.
"The next step is embryo culture—if it goes smoothly, then the most difficult part of my research topic will be conquered!"
Jia Na's Mutant Studies research topic this time was called "Cultivation of Active Magic Plants." It was a topic she chose under the guidance of countless experiences from predecessors, which was neither particularly simple nor particularly difficult at the apprentice stage.
To put it simply, the reason White Coral Academy required every apprentice to publish a research topic at the end of the second year was not to make things difficult for people, but purely to use this opportunity to cultivate every apprentice's ability for independent thinking and research.
And Jia Na's research topic content was also very simple: by transplanting cells and changing the elemental pathways within the cell nucleus, cultivate an ordinary magic plant into an "active magic plant" with certain mobility and spellcasting abilities.
So far, there is a lot of research on "active magic plants" in the Wizard world. The most famous case is Florence's "Devil Vine."
A powerful active magic plant purely cultivated manually, possessing the strength of a Formal Wizard, and also Florence's gatekeeping weapon...
"It's almost time to go to Rose Manor and meet up with Vivian."
Looking at the time on the dormitory wall, which already showed three-thirty in the afternoon, Jia Na, who had agreed to meet Vivian at the entrance of Rose Manor at four o'clock, poured the experimental waste residue into the waste bin next to her, changed into the dark green wizard robe newly sent by the Spiritual Communication Group last week, and quickly left the dormitory.
At this time, it was early July. In the Turin Wizard Gathering Place, which had entered summer, the weather gradually became hot.
Therefore, to match the seasonal change, the Spiritual Communication Group specifically sent the latest summer style wizard robes to Jia Na in advance for her to try on,
and also to prepare for the shooting of the latest pictorial a few days later.
"Chirp—chirp—" The moment Jia Na stepped out of the dormitory, the high-pitched buzzing of cicadas started calling throughout the campus.
And the Raven, who hated hot summers the most, was currently hiding in the cool shade of the trees, looking listless.
"Indeed, compared to Turin's long and cold winter, I still prefer the summer climate."
Bright sun, clear skies, green trees, flowers and birds—unlike the lifelessness of winter, the Turin Wizard Gathering Place in summer was full of vibrant greenery everywhere.
Even the Mist Forest, which was always shrouded in thick fog on weekdays, changed its usual gloomy and oppressive atmosphere, becoming lively amidst the interwoven sounds of birds chirping and insects buzzing.
