Supremacy Games

1563 Working as a Unit, as a Hive, as One Mind.

Felix spent countless hours scouring through the finest details in his experiments, 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 experiments, 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, environment, or weather; it was the specific alignment of the sun during pollination that triggered seed production!

With newfound excitement, Felix set to work immediately.

He carefully marked the exact position of the sun during the successful pollinations, using a sundial and meticulously 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 experiments, 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 merely succeeding in the simplest step.

was far from over and

the same manner

he started planting them in isolated see-through glass gardens. Each small garden had a different soil, different time acceleration, different shade of light, different watering systems, elemental energy levels, and the list

and Felix understood that even with such massive quantity, it wasn't guaranteed to find the proper growth conditions

is the true burial ground of botanists. While your illusionary garden made everything a hundred times easier, you have to be focused and pay attention to the smallest details for

putting multiple clones on watch

what

natural treasure and it

still forced to wait patiently for centuries, millennia, and sometimes even hundreds of thousands of

would force her to restart

surpass Lady Sphinx in her field and he had

waiting for that elusive moment when the seed would sprout

weeks, it became painfully clear that the

the

adjusting conditions and restarting experiments in search

persistence was one of

particular attempt, after countless failures, three buds finally

not only in appearance but also in

hue, and the third had

go, this seems more promising

coursed through Felix as he carefully collected these

all three of them could fail eventually, it also meant that he could get

give up on the rest of the

been made, there were still

and he was committed to unlocking their hidden potential, one experiment at

conditions and moved his focus to

and created another garden with hundreds of seeds provided with the same conditions

experiments again, putting each budding seed in

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

natural treasures, running

be a great geneticist to run such

left a clone to study genetic-related books left to him by his master in the

fields in alchemy simultaneously, which in turn was more than enough to name him as an