Chapter 82 Just Take This as the Title

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Leyton's life didn't change much during the two days his father was back; basically, the family only sat together for meals. Other times, his father and Mother were inseparable, or they went out to visit friends and relatives.

Leyton had no interest in such social gatherings. Fortunately, with the collaboration with the Church of the Earth Mother as an excuse, Leyton didn't have to follow his father around to visit friends and relatives or attend various parties.

"Boss, didn't you say you were going to start hybridization experiments? Why have you been staying in your room?" Bugs Bunny asked curiously after just finishing watering his plants with nutrient solution.

"Haven't you already started? I'm not a Beyonder of the Planter pathway. I'm not good at this kind of thing, so I can only leave it to you," Leyton explained, patting Bugs Bunny's top hat.

"Ah!" Bugs Bunny stared blankly at Leyton.

It felt like he had been tricked by his boss again; it was clearly his boss's business, but he ended up doing all the work.

"Then what are you doing, Boss?" Bugs Bunny asked with a wronged voice.

"I'm creating a new spell that will be placed in the Library deep within the Spirit World. I want to see if this can help me digest the potion. You can learn it too when it's done," Leyton explained, painting a grand picture for Bugs Bunny.

"I can learn it too!" Bugs Bunny's eyes lit up, and suddenly, being coaxed into working by his boss didn't seem so bad.

"Yes, although it lacks the talent bonus from the potion of the corresponding Pathway, as long as you grasp the principle, it's very easy for a Beyonder to learn," Leyton nodded.

"Boss, how long until you can create this spell?" Bugs Bunny asked impatiently.

"Probably in the next two days. I'm experimenting with which materials will make the spell casting more convenient," Leyton said, recalling his progress.

Then he turned to Bugs Bunny and asked, "How are your grafted branches? Can they grow normally?"

"I don't know yet. They haven't grown together. When two different plants are grafted together, they will reject each other," Bugs Bunny explained, shaking his head.

After a moment of contemplation, Leyton said, "Let's go to the Church of the Earth Mother and ask a Beyonder for help to speed up the research. Let's first determine the outcome, and then slowly reduce the influence of Beyonder factors in the process."

"Exactly! Exactly!" Bugs Bunny fully agreed with his boss's idea.

He even thought it should have been done this way earlier. The unscrupulous boss dumping all the work on a rabbit was truly too hard on a rabbit.

Leyton took Bugs Bunny and a potted plant for the grafting experiment to the Church of the Earth Mother.

Originally, Leyton wanted to ask Uther for help. As a Harvest Priest, he could easily graft two plants together.

But Uther refused Leyton's suggestion after hearing it, believing that directly grafting two plants together with Beyonder abilities would prevent them from determining if they truly possessed the characteristics for grafting.

Finally, Uther found Leyton a new assistant. Leyton almost couldn't suppress the smile at the corner of his mouth when he saw the other party.

"What kind of look is that?! You're very impolite, you know!" Yas, the Sanguine wearing a clergyman's linen robe, said with a somewhat gritted-teeth expression.

"Nothing, just a little curious. Are you my experimental assistant?" Leyton said, trying hard to control the upward curve of his lips.

"That's right! I really don't understand why the Church of the Earth Mother would let me, a noble Sanguine, be an assistant to a rookie like you," Yas said with a very arrogant tone.

"An ordinary adult Sanguine is only equivalent to a Beyonder at Sequence 7. If I'm a rookie, aren't you too?" Leyton shrugged indifferently and retorted.

"You're Sequence 7?" Yas looked completely incredulous.

"Later, I'll be Sequence 6, Sequence 5, but you Sanguine are different. To advance, without several decades or a hundred years, it should be very difficult for a characteristic to fall to you, right?" Leyton couldn't help but retort to Yas, thinking of the Sanguine's internal advancement mechanism.

"Cough! What do you need me to do? In terms of plant research, I'm certainly not as good as a Beyonder of the Planter pathway. What I'm good at is compounding potions," Yas coughed lightly, changing the topic that embarrassed the Sanguine.

"Hmm, can you compound potions for plants? Like ones that promote plant growth and rooting?" Leyton asked.

Yas looked at Leyton with a puzzled expression. If it weren't for Leyton's serious and earnest expression, he would have suspected the other party was deliberately teasing him.

"Couldn't you just buy them directly from the Church of the Earth Mother? Or find a Harvest Priest to help you catalyze plant growth? For this kind of thing, the Planter pathway is the most proficient," Yas said with a somewhat confused tone.

"It's precisely to avoid the influence of Beyonder abilities. What I want are crops that can be cultivated on a large scale by ordinary people, without the influence of Beyonder abilities," Leyton explained.

Yas looked at Leyton with a bewildered expression. As a well-informed Sanguine, at this moment, he felt his knowledge was not broad enough. For example, right now, he really didn't understand Leyton's strange idea.

"People from the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom are all outrageous in research, but this guy in front of me is even more outrageous!" Yas thought of a very reasonable and self-convincing explanation in his mind.

"Is there a place nearby where we can sit and rest? This topic won't be finished in a short while," Leyton saw Yas still staring blankly at him, so he had to break the silence himself.

"Oh, yes, come with me," Yas came back to his senses and nodded.

Then he turned and led Leyton to the clergy's resting area behind the church, found a secluded corner, and sat down.

Leyton explained his ideas for the current grafting experiment and the problems he was encountering to Yas in detail.

Yas went from being confused at first to being completely stunned by the end. Even after Leyton finished speaking, Yas still hadn't fully recovered.

"Did you understand? Do you need me to explain it in detail again?" Leyton asked the Sanguine who was still in a daze across from him.

"Ah? No, I understood, but what's the point of doing this? Wouldn't it be better to just plant plants directly? Grafting different plants together seems completely unnecessary, right?" Yas said, very bewildered.

"If suitable, grafting can combine the advantages of two different plants. This saves a lot of time and cost compared to cultivating new varieties from scratch. And for some plants that don't produce seeds, it can also simplify large-scale propagation, can't it?" Leyton stated his reasons.

Yas's expression was conflicted for a while before he said, "Are you sure the Church of the Earth Mother will agree to you doing this? Don't you think this idea violates what the Church of the Earth Mother calls the natural laws of life?"

"If it can succeed, it doesn't violate the natural laws of life's gestation!" Archbishop Essie Mia walked over and said.

"Ah? Why?" Yas looked at the Archbishop of the Harvest Church with an incredulous expression.

"As long as it can succeed, it means that the existence of this life form is in line with natural laws," Archbishop Essie Mia explained.

"As long as it can help the church spread faith, it doesn't violate natural laws. Even if it did, the Earth Mother could change that natural law," Leyton added in his heart.

Archbishop Essie Mia turned his gaze, looking at Leyton with a gentle, smiling expression, seemingly very satisfied with Leyton's discussion with Yas just now.

"This indeed saves a lot of time and cost compared to cultivating new varieties from scratch. I originally thought it would take a long time to get some results, but I didn't expect you to have new ideas so quickly," Archbishop Essie Mia praised Leyton in a gentle tone.

"I will have the church collect enough plant samples as soon as possible. In addition, I will arrange a few more assistants to help you cultivate grafted plants, so you don't have to keep this rabbit working all the time," Archbishop Essie Mia said this while specifically glancing at Bugs Bunny, who was perched on Leyton's shoulder.

Bugs Bunny nodded excitedly at Archbishop Essie Mia, casting grateful glances.

Leyton was slightly stunned, feeling that the whole world knew about him exploiting a rabbit for labor.

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