CH424

I’ve done it Myriad. I’ve opened my third eye and can see the truth. Biology is chemistry, chemistry is physics, and physics is fucking awful. I hate this. Who’s terrible idea was this to begin with?

<Yours.>

Then I’m a fool.

The worst part of trying to memorize the structure of a seed was the sheer level of detail it needed for a chance to be viable. A lump of iron was just one type of atom again and again and again. Anyone who was materializing it didn’t need to worry about its precise structure, it ultimately didn’t matter.

Even for normal materials someone wanted to materialize, this was infinitely worse. If a water mage wanted to create water or ice, they’d only need to know a ridiculously simpler structure, and it would even be possible for them to achieve it without knowing that, though much harder. For him, he couldn’t have an atom out of place.

Which means I really do need to know if this is even possible before I try to help Sachel, don’t I?

He, Thera, and Sonya were all waiting by the cart for her to arrive, but given the stakes, he needed to have some sort of assurance that he wasn’t insane for thinking such a thing. Regardless of how possible it would be for someone else to do it with his help, if he couldn’t personally manage then he’d drastically knock down the odds of success in his head.

Of course, the fact that I don’t have life magic might hold me back a bit, but this is just an arrangement of atoms. I can create atoms, therefore…

As Sonya and Thera chatted, he instead looked at his hand, concentrating with all he had as he did.

It was Thera who noticed he was doing something first, the air thickening with a bit of mana under his intense focus, but she didn’t speak up. She might not have known what he’d decided to do on such a whim, but she could see he was invested in it. Instead, she pointed her aunt to him as well, assuming that whatever happened, it might at least be interesting.

He took no notice of it. Almost a thousand minds were all intensely devoted to his singular goal as mana flowed out of him, bending to his will.

At first, he felt himself fail. Stray atoms were created but didn’t link to a greater whole, being so insignificant it was more like he’d done nothing at all, but from there he kept pushing, letting mana seep out of him as it changed from elements to compounds, compounds to genes, genes to cells, and final showed its end goal, becoming a proper seed and proving that even if he might not have been able to help someone else manage the same thing, it was possible.

<MATERIAL MANIPULATION LEVEL INCREASED>

<LESSER INSPIRATION LEVEL INCREASED>

<PLANT KNOWLEDGE HAS COMBINED WITH BIOLOGY KNOWLEDGE LV7, TRAP KNOWLEDGE LV4, AND PHYSICS KNOWLEDGE LV5 TO AWAKEN TO KNOWLEDGE>

<KNOWLEDGE LEVEL INCREASED>

<ACQUIRED TITLE- CREATOR OF LIFE>

With the success came the feeling of his mind reeling as it underwent another extreme change in such a short time as everything in his head suddenly became more clear, topics he’d read in the past standing out in his minds, unfaded by time as books he poured over were recalled perfectly, word for word in his head as he quickly put together what happened.

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Knowledge skills do the same sort of thing for specific types of knowledge, but given how it awakened does it mean I can do the same thing with all knowledge? That would explain why I immediately got another level of it too, but why the hell did I even awaken it to begin with?

He had no clue how the two events were connected. He understood it was plant knowledge specifically that had awakened, but he hadn’t just learned anything as far as he was concerned, at least nothing that should have been enough to push the skill over the edge like that.