1563 Working as a Unit, as a Hive, as One Mind.
Felix spent countless hours scouring through the finest details in his experints, not skipping a single thing.
With his wisdom eye in play and peak concentration, Felix finally spotted the missing link.
'Is this?'
It was a small detail, almost inconspicuous amidst the wealth of information he had gathered.
In one of his experints, he moved a pair of parent plants to a different location within his garden. These plants had been subjected to increased x10 sunlight during the afternoon hours.
As Felix reviewed his observations, he noticed that the plants exposed to the afternoon sunlight had exhibited a subtle change in their physiology. Their leaves had tilted slightly towards the sun, and their flowers had opened wider during those hours.
"This is it!"
Felix realized that the angle and intensity of sunlight played a crucial role in the pollination process of these particular plants.
It wasn't just about the standard factors like soil, environnt, or weather; it was the specific alignnt of the sun during pollination that triggered seed production!
With newfound excitent, Felix set to work imdiately.
He carefully marked the exact position of the sun during the successful pollinations, using a sundial and ticulously noting the angles. He also began to track the changing position of the sun throughout the day, paying close attention to the afternoon hours when his breakthrough had occurred.
As he conducted a series of focused experints, controlling the angle and duration of sunlight exposure, Felix watched in anticipation. And then, it happened.
The two parent plants produced a seed—a single, small, but promising seed!
"Haha, I did it!" Felix laughed excitedly while eyeing the seed on his palm.
It was the result of his dedication, patience, and the tiny but crucial detail he had uncovered.
"Now, you can start the crossbreeding." Lady Sphinx remarked with a faint smile.
Felix rubbed his hair with a foolish look, knowing that he was getting excited over rely succeeding in the simplest step.
The journey was far from over and it would only get harder.
Without wasting ti, Felix manifested multiple seeds in the sa manner until he had a couple of thousands.
Then, he started planting them in isolated see-through glass gardens. Each small garden had a different soil, different ti acceleration, different shade of light, different watering systems, elental energy levels, and the list goes on and on and on.
There were like a thousand experints running simultaneously and Felix understood that even with such massive quantity, it wasn't guaranteed to find the proper growth conditions for the seed.
"This is the true burial ground of botanists. While your illusionary garden made everything a hundred tis easier, you have to be focused and pay attention to the smallest details for each experint." Lady Sphinx advised, "If you missed even a single detail, it might be the key to whether the plant will beco an SSS or not."
"I understand, I am planning on putting multiple clones on watch duty." Felix nodded with a serious expression.
"Good, finish what I have started."
Lady Sphinx had never succeded in crossbreeding an SSS natural treasure and it was all because she didn't have Felix's cheat codes.
Even with the UVR's assistance, she was still forced to wait patiently for centuries, millennia, and sotis even hundreds of thousands of years before the plant failed due to so tiny issue.
This would force her to restart the entire experint from the top.
Now, Felix had the chance to surpass Lady Sphinx in her field and he had no plans to disappoint her.
Day after day, Felix observed the plants closely, waiting for that elusive mont when the seed would sprout into a bud.
But as the days turned into weeks, it beca painfully clear that the majority of his experints were failing.
The seeds simply refused to germinate, despite the ticulous attention he had given to every detail.
Felix's frustration grew, and he found himself constantly adjusting conditions and restarting experints in search of that magical combination.
However, persistence was one of Felix's defining traits.
On one particular attempt, after countless failures, three buds finally erged!
Each one was distinct, not only in appearance but also in the subtle energies they exuded.
One was vibrant green, another had a fiery red hue, and the third had a calm and serene blue aura.
"Three variations?! Let's go, this seems more promising now."
Excitent coursed through Felix as he carefully collected these three unique buds.
He understood that each bud represented a different path of evolution for the plant. While all three of them could fail eventually, it also ant that he could get three different types of SSS natural treasures at the end!
"There might be other variations, I shouldn't give up on the rest of the seeds."
Felix knew that while progress had been made, there were still countless possibilities to explore.
Each seed held the potential for sothing remarkable, and he was committed to unlocking their hidden potential, one experint at a ti.
So, he made so changes to their growth conditions and moved his focus to the three buds.
He moved his hand once and created another garden with hundreds of seeds provided with the sa conditions as the three budding seeds.
This helped him branch out more on his experints again, putting each budding seed in a different environnt and setting.
"If only Asna could see this." Jörmungandr smiled gently as he watched hundreds of versions of Felix, working as a unit, as a hive, as one mind, for the sake of creating a single SSS natural treasure.
This wasn't all as there were many other clones on duty focusing on SS natural treasures, running experints on them to invoke their evolution into SSS natural treasures without needing crossbreeding.
Obiviously, he had to be a great geneticist to run such experints since they require genetic modifications.
Fortunately, he left a clone to study genetic-related books left to him by his master in the past weeks and he also received so guidance.
So, he was running three types of fields in alchemy simultaneously, which in turn was more than enough to na him as an alchemist like his master!
All of this insane hard work was to create a re single recipe, a single recipe, which wasn't even guaranteed to work.
Yet, Felix never allowed such thoughts to ruin his resolve.
As the days turned into weeks and the weeks into months, and before long, a whole five years passed in the dinsional pocket. Yet, Felix's determination remained unwavering.
He had ticulously run close to one million experints. From this unimaginable number of experints,a small plant had finally yielded the result he had longed for.
Its slender stem stood proudly, bearing a single, exquisite flower with cubic petals that seed to contain stars within their crystalline facets.
Each petal glimred with a soft, ethereal light, casting a gentle, otherworldly glow in the room.
Surrounding the plant, a dense aura of gravity-related elental energy pulsed with newfound life.
The atmosphere seed to ripple with the power of this remarkable creation as if the very laws of nature had altered to accommodate its existence.
"I created this..."
Felix stood before the flower, his eyes filled with awe and appreciation.
He marveled at the beauty and uniqueness of this botanical wonder he had nurtured through countless trials and experints.
As he gazed upon the cubic petals with stars twinkling within, Felix knew that he had achieved sothing truly extraordinary...He had surpassed Lady Sphinx in her field, reaching a height, she never ca close to.
He knew that this was still not considered a fully grown SSS natural treasure since he had yet to even deal with the dark reaction and the challenges that co from its growth to ripeness.
Still, he felt a profound sense of accomplishnt and fulfillnt wash over him, knowing that his endeavors had borne fruit and passed the most difficult obstacle in crossbreeding.
"What are you going to title it?" Lady Sphinx asked with a faint pleased smile.
Felix gazed at the flower, his eyes filled with wonder and admiration, and then, with a soft, poetic murmur, he spoke a sentence that resonated with the essence of his woman:
"Asnaleigha's Rose, your radiance in bloom, a starlit dream in every petal's twinkle..."
With those words, he nad the exceptional plant that had defied the odds and blossod into a symbol of his enduring love and dedication, the Asnaleigha's Rose...
In response to his na, Asnaleigha Rose's stars twinkled brilliantly for a mont before becoming dim, seemingly, accepting the title with grace.
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