Yuri Burns temporarily had a second-class wizard apprentice clerk receive customers in the shop, and brought Locke into the reception room inside Lijin Secret Language.
A cup of fragrant Angulala tea was placed in front of Locke.
Locke knew this tea was a special wizard tea cultivated by breeders. Wizards who regularly drank Angulala tea could even gradually reduce the mental strength deterioration caused by excessive use of potions and other magical resources.
However, this tea was expensive, and anyway, few people at the second-class wizard apprentice stage could afford to drink it daily.
Locke took a sip, while Yuri Burns pushed a contract in front of Locke. Yuri said, "Breeder Locke, magical plants like Wiregrass Bull Sinew have considerable impact on many cantrips at the apprentice stage, so they naturally have high value. But as far as I know, bull sinew grass has a very high seed production rate, and this thing is also a consumable in various cantrip models."
"It's different from magical vine seeds and magical vine saplings."
Locke nodded, "Indeed, that's the case."
"But the magical plants I brought to sell have all undergone sterility treatment."
Sterility technology was a small technique that even breeder's assistants should know. After all, if others bought magical plants and could produce seeds, some relatively poor wizard apprentices might try to incubate the seeds themselves.
To some extent, the emergence of this technology was also to prevent large-scale special magical plants cultivated by breeders from invading natural environments, causing magical plant control loss, and leading to situations like the Abyssal Plant Catastrophe that occurred at the Green Ring Society fifty years ago.
Yuri Burns smiled, "Breeder Locke, Lijin Secret Language sells similar deer bone millet seeds at 1 magic stone per gram."
"According to our previous trading rules, we'll also purchase your Wiregrass Bull Sinew seeds at 1 magic stone per gram. How does that sound?"
"After all, this isn't magical vine. Magical vines are magical plants that can be used for a long time, while this is a consumable type of magical grass seed."
Locke weighed this in his mind.
This result was acceptable to him.
Because the cantrip models that deer bone millet seeds paired with were definitely at a higher level than Wild Grass Entanglement, so the price would be slightly more expensive.
So, selling 1 gram of Wiregrass Bull Sinew seeds for 1 magic stone was relatively reasonable.
Wiregrass Bull Sinew had a very high seed production rate.
Besides, even badansi wood shavings used with ordinary plant-based meditation techniques only sold for 15 magic stones per gram.
One gram of Wiregrass Bull Sinew seeds was about 100 seeds, which was equivalent to enough for two uses of Wild Grass Entanglement.
A second-class wizard apprentice, just for practice, would cast it about a hundred times a month, requiring at least fifty-plus magic stones.
To learn it from scratch would take at least half a year. Using only Wiregrass Bull Sinew for practice would cost over three hundred magic stones.
This was already a considerable expense.
Of course, this second-class wizard apprentice could also first use some cheap, less effective magical plant seeds to practice Wild Grass Entanglement type cantrip models.
For example, using the most common holly grass seeds, that type of magical plant seed could be purchased for dozens of grams with 1 magic stone, and was one of the cheap magical plant seeds most commonly used by poor second-class wizard apprentices to practice plant magic cantrip models.
It was just that the practice effect wasn't very good, and learning efficiency was somewhat low.
Generally speaking, when second-class wizard apprentices learned a spell, if they wanted to save money, they would use cheap holly grass seeds in the early and middle stages, then use more expensive consumable magical plant seeds in the later stages.
But even in this case, they would ultimately need to spend at least over a hundred magic stones purchasing Wiregrass Bull Sinew.
Their combat use after learning wouldn't likely cost too much, since white wizards had limited combat.
But with small amounts adding up, this was inherently a steady, long-term business that could last for a very long time.
Locke calculated in his mind that one bull sinew grass plant could produce some seeds daily, adding up to at least 5 grams per month.
To ensure Wiregrass Bull Sinew quality, about fifty Wiregrass Bull Sinew plants could be grown per acre.
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Of course his plantation would definitely need to expand, requiring additional personnel and equipment, but now that he was a first-class wizard apprentice, he needed to expand his plantation anyway.
Moreover, Wiregrass Bull Sinew had another difference from Super Mandrake Vines: the supporting cantrip models it suited were learned by more wizard apprentices.
Through Chimera Trading Market, Locke could sell not only to Lilith's Cottage wizard apprentices, but also to wizard apprentices from other wizard organizations.
Wizard apprentices learning the Vine Hand series were, after all, only a small portion of plant studies wizard apprentices, but every plant-based wizard apprentice would basically eventually learn Wild Grass Entanglement or Green Thicket Tangle.
These two spells, especially Wild Grass Entanglement, were classic plant studies cantrip models, particularly suitable for controlling enemies, used for combat, escape, imprisonment, and control, with very significant applications.
The learning difficulty wasn't high, mana consumption wasn't high either, and the cost-effectiveness was very high.
The popularity was even more widespread than the Vine Hand series spells.
So, Wiregrass Bull Sinew seeds wouldn't worry about sales.
Moreover, this thing was also a consumable, unlike magical vines that could easily cause market saturation.
Locke picked up the contract and signed it.
Seeing Locke sign the contract, Yuri Burns felt relieved.
She was all smiles. Now, with Locke, the poor sales problem she had been facing at Lijin Secret Language had been mostly resolved.
Yuri Burns felt more grateful toward Locke. "Locke, thank you, my friend. From today on, you are my friend."
"Lijin Secret Language has some high-status breeders, and the vice president of the Breeders Association often visits." Yuri spread her hands, "I will let them know what an excellent breeder you are."
"I believe you'll get your breeder certificate very soon."
Locke smiled, while curiously looking at Yuri's face. Previously, his relationship with Yuri wasn't very close, so he had never been comfortable asking, but according to what he heard later, Yuri was not yet thirty years old this year, right?
How did she look so aged?
Locke hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Yuri, by the way, I've always wanted to ask you, why do you look so old?"