Chapter 1288: Chapter 723: The Peaceful Witch’s Home
Moreover, even if she could afford it, she wouldn’t be able to maintain it. Anyone who has cared for plants knows that some of these masters are quite precious and difficult to nurture. You can’t just plant them and leave them unattended; maintenance later on is a significant expense.
Even though Senior Mia said she could cover these expenses, Dorothy thought about it and decided to pass.
Alright, the real reason is that she is just a little witch with less than 100,000 Magic Power, incapable of causing any environmental change. That requires the traits of a Great Witch.
Besides, the Witch’s Home isn’t just her own home; it’s everyone’s shared home, and planting only Dragon Spirit Wood wouldn’t be fair to others.
So, Dorothy applied her somewhat limited Potion Studies knowledge to choose from thousands of Spiritual Wood, the variety currently planted—the Fairy Tree.
This is a magical Spiritual Wood from the Elf World. A mature Fairy Tree is absolutely top-tier among all Spiritual Wood. The Fairy Fruit it produces is incredibly delicious and has the fantastical effects of beauty-enhancement as well as nourishing yin and yang. It’s highly marketable and has always been expensive.
Moreover, the wood of the Fairy Tree is one of the best materials for elves to craft Magic Bows. However, even in the Elf World, mature Fairy Trees are few, and the wood produced each year is scarce; they barely have enough for themselves, let alone for outside sales.
A Fairy Bow is a treasured dream for all archers.
Back then, these were secondary; the most important thing is when a Fairy Tree matures, it will nurture a special fairy called the Tree Fairy. These Little Fairies are super cute, and each one can melt hearts. They are naturally great helpers in managing territories, assisting with farming, potion making, anything really. With Tree Fairies, producing 18,000 units per acre is just the beginning.
In fact, in times of need, Tree Fairies can even delve into their Mother Tree, transform it into individual Tree Fairy Guardians, and help fend off external threats.
Of course, the Fairy Trees themselves are visually stunning, and different types of Fairy Trees have varying blooming seasons. If coordinated well, you can see flowers and enjoy tasty honey all year round.
Overall, they are almost perfect Spiritual Wood; some even say the Elf’s World Tree is a special kind of Fairy Tree, just an evolution of the ordinary Fairy Tree.
Although the World Tree isn’t rare in the Witch World now, it still indicates the potential of the Fairy Tree.
However, the prerequisite is that the Fairy Tree must mature. Otherwise, an immature Fairy Tree is nothing but a financial loss, with none of the benefits mentioned earlier: no Tree Fairies, doesn’t blossom, certainly doesn’t bear fruit, and its wood isn’t significantly better than common wood.
The criterion for judging a Fairy Tree’s maturity is whether it can nurture Tree Fairies.
With Tree Fairies, it becomes a valuable high-grade Spiritual Wood. Without them, it’s trash even a dog wouldn’t notice.
Thus, Fairy Tree seedlings are super cheap, even less expensive than some rare and valuable common wood. Many bored witches occasionally buy a couple of Fairy Trees to roll the dice, see if luck favors them to raise a Tree Fairy.
Dorothy put her entire Spiritual Wood budget on the Fairy Tree.
Not because she’s poor and can only afford such cheap Spiritual Wood. It’s for everyone, right? They say Fairy Trees can evolve into special individuals according to their unique growth environment, like Dragon Fairy Wood, Fire Fairy Wood, Water Fairy Wood, Flower Fairy Wood, etc.
Well, in that way, everyone in the community can expect to find their own Attribute Fairy Tree influenced by them on the island in the future.
After all, it’s not because Fairy Trees are worthless; just one or two Tree Fairies emerging from this whole forest could easily pay back the investment, and with three or more you’d be making a huge profit.
Would Dorothy be such a big gambler?
Gambler’s nonsense.
Of course, that’s what she said, but the homebody witch still strolled into the woods, optimizing the alignment of trees using the Feng Shui Secret Techniques she recently learned in Japan, while eagerly inspecting each Fairy Tree to see any about to bear fruit.
Sadly, even though the Witch’s Home’s Magic Furnace functions abundantly, these Fairy Tree seedlings have only been planted for three months. Frankly, even three months wouldn’t guarantee breeding for a sow, let alone the long-lifespan Fairy Trees.
"Tsk, hurry up and eat, grow quickly."
The homebody witch walked out of the forest rather disappointed, wishing she could inject Magic Power from the Magic Furnace severely into these Fairy Trees and charge them up directly.
But after calming down, she reckoned it was no big deal.
Why hurry? She has innumerable futures to look forward to, doesn’t care, just let it take its course, things will improve.
Thinking this way, she used her fullest Potion Studies knowledge to well-maintain these future priceless trees.
Finally, covered in sweat from her labors, she walked out of the forest and passed the pasture and farm medicine field areas.
Although the Fairy Trees grow slowly, the various Magical Beasts raised in the pasture and the various crops planted in the farm are, however, thriving fabulously.
"What are you looking at? Are you mocking me? Oh god, I challenge you to a duel. Come, let’s have a prestige Samurai Duel."