First Trial of the Seeker
Seek the answer to the problem presented before you.
No sustenance shall be needed.
Only once you complete the Trial shall you be allowed to leave.
Task: Problem solving.
Reward: Knowledge for future use, 500xp, 2 XP candy L.
[Enter Trial]
Both Mewtwo and myself stand in the throne room, with the Trial window floating before us for all to see. Princess is seated at the edge of her dais, waiting. The forest defenders leader, Ugo, is there along with his four lieutenants. A few citizens have joined the event as well. Some I have seen before, like the clefairy from the first day, as well as the first blessed pokemon of the Sanctuary, the young drowzee girl. But there are many others neither of us have ever seen.
The crowd is here to get their answers. Citizens were asked and allowed to submit questions they may have for the Trio. And for the last three weeks, the aide to Princess has compiled them into questions that, should they be answered with details, would allow most citizens to have answers.
The zoroark has actually been relaying these questions to Mewtwo for the last several minutes, along with the exact wording that he believes should grant optimal answers.
Once Mewtwo finishes repeating these questions back to the aide, the zoroark nods and moves back to the side of Princess.
We are ready. Although that trial is said to not necessitate sustenance, we have still prepared. Mewtwo is well rested and ready for anything, while I have a stockpile of food large enough to hold us for weeks, and am actually producing even more as we wait.
We nod at each others, and press the [Enter Trial] mention.
Before we can blink, the entire room disappears. The root walls and wooden ceiling blink away, and a new harsh white light replaces the soft yellow of the torches, blinding us for a good minute.
Once our eyes adapt to the new luminosity, we brace ourselves for horrors beyond our comprehension and maddening sights, but when we finally behold the room, we feel both relief, and slight disappointment.
We are standing within an endless space. Our feet rest upon a transparent grid floor extending beyond the horizon. Below the grid, and above our head, is a blue sky, with blue cubes lazily floating around. The cubes are of all size and seems to move without patterns.
An unnerving melody plays along the background noise of the place, a grating and repetitive semi-orchestral, semi-electronic tune with slight scratching beneath the notes.
-[Greeting chosen ones, and welcome to the Trial of the Seeker. Your choice of order is quite an interesting one. We shall first get the questions out of the way, then I shall explain what this trial entails.]-
The voice echoes all around us. Knowledge has come. Yet we do not see him anywhere.
-[As much as my brother enjoys the effects he has on others, I consider them detrimental to the task at hand. Now your questions, if you would.]-
Alright, so we won't be seeing him... Not that this changes our plan.
"Sir Knowledge..." I start, unsure of myself. this is the first time I am addressing one of our sponsor directly, without it being to answer their questions or comply to their orders. "We have something to propose to you first."
-[Address me as Knowledge, no need for any honorific.]-
"Thank you, then Knowledge, this proposal we have comes from us on behalf of the citizens of the Sanctuary. After we allowed you, the Trio, to take over, you have manifested yourselves, and proven to those you now protect that you would meddle into their lives. Although from what I have heard, the numbers of blessed is only two. I hope you can understand that some of the citizens were terrified of the previous god they knew about. As such, they also fear you. All of you.."
-[We are no gods, merely elevated beings, but you know that already.]-
We do, Knowledge, but it will be difficult to convince them, and easier for them to consider you so. However, that will do little to alleviate their concerns. As such, we would propose for us the possibility to ask a third question, devoted solely for them. Mewtwo finishes our explanation. I can feel his awkwardness at addressing directly knowledge.
For a long minute, Knowledge is silent. Only the melody fills the empty realm around us.
-[Your proposal is bold. And I applaud your courage to try and change the rules we designed.]-
I can almost feel the however coming.
-[And we are amendable to such change.]-
Wait what?
-[HOWEVER!]-
There it is... Wait am I hearing muffled laughter?
-[There will be a few restrictions. First, these questions shall be only for the sole benefit of the denizens of the Sanctuary. Should you try to ask questions that would benefit you more them, these questions shall be either ignored or answered while counting as both third question and one of your own, depending purely on our mood at the time.]-
That was... good, we had not really though of using these questions for ourselves, mostly, we had hoped for us to be able to ask more questions on behalf of the Sanctuary citizens. The risk of losing a question in the process is worth taking.
-[Second, you may forfeit your own questions to ask one for them. These will not be judged as harshly as the third question will be, but may still be denied if it is judged too personal when it should not be. And third, once you leave the Sanctuary, and until you reach another community that ends up under our yoke, this third question shall be denied. Do you accept these conditions?]-
I look and Mewtwo, and he nods. It is mostly what we wished for, although we might need to be careful in what we ask.
Looking back toward the cube-filled sky, we declare in unison. "We do."
-[Then ask your first question.]-
Mewtwo takes a step forward. I wish to forfeit my personal question in favor to one for the citizens. He declares.
-[Wish granted. Ask the question.]-
Within the information you have given us, you state that should you decide so, a citizen may be blessed. Yet to this day, only two were chosen. The first was chosen, allegedly, for her quick thinking, while the other is still undetermined. What are the actual requirements for someone to be blessed by you?
-[Eh...]- Knowledge snorts, surprising us, before clearing his throat. -[Fine, let us clear those pokemons fears and hopes. It is as you have said, should we decide so. There is nothing else to it. As User:Astra has guessed, Chaos blessed blind Yellee because she was the perfect opportunity for a demonstration, while for Blair... well the reason is too personal to go into details. If they wish for requirements, they may be resumed so: impress us by your most mundane actions. Any who go out of their way to earn our attention will most certainly be ignored. We have seen much, consider we have already seen better. We do not seek heroic deeds, grand altruism or blind devotion. Ignore us, and maybe we will find your most unimpressive actions worthy. Next question.]-
I take a step forward as well. "Why are you hiding your true strength?"
-[Surprising of you to use a question for your own benefit when so many remain to be answered for the citizens.]-
"We only stated that we could ask two questions per trials. We came up with the idea of a third question together. They do not know about it, nor do they need to. As much as we promised we would ask questions on their behalf, we still wish to further our own knowledge."
-[How cunning. But that justification is only here to appeal to my aspect. I acknowledge the effort. So. Why are we hiding our strength? The answer is simple: to make sure they underestimate us. Final question now.]-
Wait, that's it? that's your answer?
-[Indeed it is. Now ask your final question.]-
I grind my teeth at that. Again our question is almost dashed. Who are them? Why do they need to underestimate the Trio? What is the Trio even after? More questions to ask I guess.
As Mewtwo is the one who know all the questions, he is the one to ask the final one. What is the complete and exhaustive range of the blessings you may give?
-[AH!]- Knowledge exclaims at the question, I can almost imagine a large smile on the face he previously wore. -[Ozo will have this answered when you return. And now for the Trial.]-
We do not even have time to dwell on his final answer.
Multiple spaces on the grid floor light up and extend into large cube-shaped columns of light. Once the light dims, piles of materials are left behind. Hoppers, redstone components, chests, mystical flowers and saplings, mana spreaders, mana pools, raw materials such as sand, dirt, stone, and ores among the instantly recognizable. The most bizarre is the a of frame cubes made of white lines. It is by far the largest pile.
-[Your task is simple. Create an automated mana generator. The test will be considered concluded once the entire process is automated and produces an amount of mana I consider sufficient for its type.]-
We both look at the mess of materials littering the ground, speechless.
-[The limitations will be that you can only use what is available. No inventory, or equipment will be available to you. You only have the material before you to use. Should you run out, the Trial will start anew, with any progress made wiped. You will be allowed to leave once you complete the task. Until then, you shall remain here, suffering from neither sleep or hunger. Good luck, and may your knowledge expand during your experience]-
The first thing I do when he claims neither inventory nor equipment shall be available is to confirm it. And sadly, it is as Knowledge announced. My inventory opens to reveal itself empty, and I realize I have no armor, nor rings on me anymore. No free mana for me.
Mewtwo decides to try all of his moves, making sure he can still use them while establishing their potential usefulness.
Left with nothing but a grid floor, a featureless blue sky with floating cubes and a massive pile of materials of all sort, we decide to get to it. We fortunately still have access to the tutorial section, and start scouring the lexica botanica in search for a hint or a lead as to how to do so.
We have barely started experimenting with botania, the most we did was make sure our endoflames would output the mana they produce into a mana pool. And here we need to produce mana not only automatically, but at an unknown rate? And we are stuck here until we figure out how to do so... Great... I hope Princess won't be too mad if it takes us days to figure it out.
We first take a look at the list of possible generating flora for us to use. Most of the more advanced flowers are out of our reach as we are missing key ingredients to make the runes necessary for their creations. After taking stock of our actual list of material, we only have enough to make four kinds of flowers: the gourmaryllis, the thermalily, the hydroangeas and endoflame.
Out of the four, only the endoflames seems like a viable option.
A gourmaryllis would ask for as many kinds of foods as possible, of which we have... a very limited amount and no way to obtain more. The seeds we do have will be needed for making flowers.
A thermalily needs lava and, if the entry is to be believed, is overall a bad idea for automation.
And the hydroangeas seems like a waste when we read its entry. The flower will decay after a set time, making its possible automation even more tedious. Also, we would need a source of water.
That narrows it to the endoflame. We need to automate the fueling of the flower, or multiple, to somehow create a fully automated mana generator.
Only with endoflames... Mewtwo looks at the entry with curiosity. How do we fuel them? Wood? This feels inefficient.
"You're right here. How do we even bring the wood to them? How is that something that can be done automatically."
I turn to the piles of materials, starting to organize everything by types. I am unable to store any materials within my inventory, making me worried that only Mewtwo will be able to create anything.
Once I am done, I realize a few things of note. Although the endoflame still appears to be the only viable option, we have access to every colors of mystical flowers. There are also some materials that I am unsure why we have. A pile of pink mix of dust and flakes is the most mysterious to me. The dozens of fishing rods are also up there in therm of mystery. Why do we need so many? And why do we have a melon slices?
Astra, come here, I think I have found something. Mewtwo calls me.
I return to his side and he presents me with two entries of the lexica. The first one is for lenses. As I look through them, I can start to see what he may be planning.
"Okay so... we use mana spreaders, use this bore lens to make the mana beam they shoot able to destroy a tree we grow, then what?"
Well... He points me to the second page and adds a third on top, one for a flower, another for something called an open crate. Using this flower, we could get the wood transported to the flowers, allowing for it to be delivered to the endoflames. We need something called a hopper for it to work, but it could allow us to make a space where we grow a tree, then another where we create the mana.
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Mewtwo's plan is sound. Using this method, we could generate mana with partial automation. However, we are looking for full automation. I signal it to Mewtwo, and he nods.
True, but we should try to make it work already. We have as many chances as we need. We should experiment.
I agree with him. We should experiment.
With our first attempt decided, we get to work.
We almost instantly stumble upon a road block. A lot of utilities are already ready to be used, such as the floral apothecary, vital to make any sorts of flowers. However... we are still missing a water source for it to work... Wait! I turn to Mewtwo. We have water! Of course we do, did you forget that I have water-type moves??
I nod in shame. I had momentarily forgotten. That still does not the hydroangeas viable, but they could give us a bit of a jump start.
And so we begin our work. We prepare the petals, craft our first endoflame-
DEADLOCK REACHED - RESETTING TRIAL!
Before we can blink, everything returns to its first state. "What?"
Why? Both of us are flabbergasted. We expected a reset, but not at the second we did our first flower!
Why did it reset? Clearly we made the trial impossible to complete for some reasons... but how?
Mewtwo looks at the piles of materials with me this time. We once more take the needed mystical flowers, a brown, a grey and a red, and try to think why using them got us to a deadlock. We have one of each, which is enough for us to make an endoflame... Oh...
"We need more flowers." I realize, and I rummage through the pile of tools, searching for shears I am almost certain to find. Indeed, not two minutes later, I am holding a pair of manasteel shears.
"Alright, we did not need to make them at for our current needs, but we need the tall flowers." I say as I go to take some dirt from the large pile of diverse materials.
My builder tool activate, surprising me. The feature it wants to use is something I have never used, and might have skimmed through its related entry in the tutorial section. It outlines a cube flashing yellow, half-buried in the pile of soil, with a little dirt cube symbol on it. I validate the action, curious, and the cube fills itself, allowing me to move it as a cohesive block.
Once I place it, it almost snaps to the grid floor. And that is when I realize that the entire grid is made of one by one meters cells. The same size that my builder tool operates at. I look at the pile of cubes still waiting to be used, and then back at the floor. I bend down, lowering my left hand on the floor. The edges of the square I touch flash yellow, and I remove a one by one by one meter transparent cube from the floor.
Oh Trio the entire floor is editable. Mewtwo realizes.
"This should be helpful." I note.
Rather than leave the hole empty, I move the dirt block in it, discovering in the process that the floor is actually transparent as sides of the block are visible through floor. I then plant a single brown mystical petal, and Mewtwo makes bone meal from some of the bones we have. He sprinkles it upon the small shimmering mound, and a new plant surges upward, growing as a thick vine-like shoot. Soon after, a second, then third brown flower blooms. We harvest all three, watching as the plant shrivels and disappears once the flowers are gone.
I quickly repeat the same process for each flowers, and we are left with small piles of mystical flower petals. Now confident in having overcome the first deadlock, we return to the petal apothecary, and create an endoflame. No announcement comes forth this time, and continue.
Now that we have an endoflame, we need livingwood to make the open crate. We also need mana to make our first rune of air, so we can make the flower that will move materials for us, the hopperhock. Another dirt block is moved in the floor, an already built mana spreader is placed above the newly made endoflame, and a mana pool is place before it. I also quickly make a wand of the forest from purple and magenta petals to properly aim the spreader.
With that done, we now need to feed our endoflame. And there comes a strange realization. Our plan was for the endoflame to consume wood, but without mana to jump-start everything, we are kind of stuck... We could make hydroangeas and Mewtwo can feed them until we have enough mana, but it still feels like a waste somewhat.
What if we grow the tree?
"How? Wait, does bone meal works on tree?"
Turns out it does. The sapling we plant grows at an exponential rate and a tree truck almost fills the singular dirt block. However, no roots can be seen within the dirt block. Even when I remove every floor cubes around the dirt block, no roots appear. I go as far as to completely remove the block and we are left with a floating tree.
"Okay... trials specific physics? Or builder tool physics?" I rhetorically asks Mewtwo as we stare at the floating tree.
Hum... would that even help us?
"I mean... not really... We still need dirt to plant the tree." After another moments of observation, Mewtwo cuts the tree to pieces and proceeds to feed the logs to our single endoflame. the trickle of mana we obtain is laughable, but still, it is mana. Reassured, we proceed to grow multiple trees until we finally have enough to begin with rune crafting. Which is when we realize we could have just sent the mana directly to the runic altar, we are not trying to store it right now, only prepare for the automation.
With a wince, we place a second sapling and grow more and more trees. Until we almost run out of bone meals.
DEADLOCK REACHED - RESETTING TRIAL!
Everything we have made vanish, and we return to square one.
Again? Mewtwo exclaims angrily.
"Okay, the last thing we did was use all the bone meals to get enough mana for a rune... and running out of bone meal stops us from completing the trial..." I summarize. "Can we just wait for a the tree to grow? Mewtwo, could you try to grow the tree faster somehow?"
Bone meals are needed for something else... but what? Can Mewtwo accelerate trees growth without our need for our main fertilizer?
The answer, as we soon find out, is no. He tries to imbue the sapling with grass type energy at first with energy ball, resulting in the sapling utter destruction, then with life dew, hoping the concentrated life restoring power could be used as a growth accelerator. Neither ideas work, and in the end, we decide to wait. An hour passes, then another, and the sapling remains as it is. We decide to leave it for now and return to the lexica.
We must have missed something, we have to. Without the wood, we cannot have enough fuel to make mana, which stops us from making runes which are needed for the flowers to even begin to consider automation.
We spend another hour reading through entries, looking at our piles of materials, then looking at the entries again. And we finally find it.
We find a few things actually. First, an alternative to the bone meal. Agricarnations. A pretty bright green flower that uses mana to fertilize nearby plants. And bone meal is technically needed to make it, as it requires a rune of spring to make, which in turn requires a rune of fire and a rune of water, and that last rune requires bone meal. That was why we needed at least one piece of bone meal.
Another thing we found is the rannuncarpus. A strange flower looking almost like a hand that will place anything it finds close to itself on the surface similar to the one below its roots. So if we were to plant one on a dirt block here, it would instantly try to place anything close to itself on the transparent grid floor as it would be considered as the surface beneath its roots.
From these, the beginning of automation is starting to emerge. We use bore lenses to break the wood, have some ways to supply a rannuncarpus with saplings to place a new one on the now supposedly empty slot of dirt and have an agricarnation make the tree grow. Now we just need to figure two things. How do we tell these things to the flowers, and how do we have the fuel to power all of this?
For the instruction parts, we have some ideas. Mostly something that neither of us have tried to use yet: redstone. Throughout our reading, we have references to the material multiple times. It appears redstone can produce and interpret signals from many machines and objects. It seems like it should be possible to create some sort of circuits that could read actions and act on it.
As the tree has yet to grow, we experiment with our supplies of the stuff.
The powder itself is quite inert, and only once we begin putting it in contact with powering parts, does it activates. The first kind of parts we find is a simple button. Simply placing it at the end of a line of redstone powder has the entire thing light up brightly. The same happens when we try with a pressure plate. Even better, as long as the pressure plate is kept pressed, the signal continues.
So we can send power to redstone, but what can redstone power?
A lot of things it would seem. The main entry for functional flowers such as the hopperhock or the rannuncarpus states that these flowers works as long as they do NOT receive a redstone signal. On the other hand, combining a mana spreader with redstone turns it into a pulse mana spreader, allowing for fine control on when one should fire mana. This might be our main way for automating the tree harvest with the bore lens. Once we do get mana...
Automation is figured out, now how do we get the fuel? We look through every entries on the lexica, and come empty. There is a way fuel furnace without the need for fuel, allowing them to operate slightly faster, through the use of an exoflame, but the flower does not makes but it does not fuel an endoflame. With only wood, it appears it would take several logs to break even on the cost of growing the tree, destroying it, and then getting it to the endoflames to repeat the process.
We are missing something, we have to be!
Let us look into our available materials again, maybe we missed something. Mewtwo proposes.
i agree and we once more look through the piles of material. I begin the tedious process of sorting everything once more, aware that any errors would render my efforts moot. It will allow us to see more clearly what we are working with here.
After some time, The piles are once more sorted. I begin to list most the things we have, trying to see what could answer our fuel problem. "Okay, so... the nether labelled stuff is for the fire rune... The singular pile of pixie dust exist... We have furnaces, we have wheat, quite an amount of saplings, enough dirt to make multiple plots for the trees... miscellaneous materials that I still am unsure what we need for and ores to make a lot of different runes... mana pools, diluted mana pools, mana spreaders. Far too much redstone dust and contraptions... What is something that seems weird in a list of materials to automate a tree farm to make mana from burning combustibles."
Well, the furnaces are a weird addition, as well as the ores... What use to they have? They do not seem to appear in any recipes for the items we need, I would have said the nether bricks to make the fire rune, but we already have them...
"The furnaces... Alright, why not, what can we do with furnaces?"
We do so. Which of the materials we have could be used in a furnace, and for what purpose? And from that question, we finally find a new piece for our puzzle. No, two pieces! First, another tool for us to further the automation: hoppers. Which explains the iron ores.
As we experimented with the redstone, we unlocked a new section of the tutorials centered around redstone circuits and how to use them. And the moment we saw the recipe for hoppers, a new entry became available. An interesting interaction between hoppers and redstone is that, should one get a signal to a hopper, the hopper would lock itself, stopping items from being delivered. So, when combined with an open crate, it would allow us to control items deliveries quite easily.
But most importantly, we found a possible solution for the fuel: Charcoal! A coal equivalent made by burning a log of wood in a fire, allowing for more than five times the fuel efficiency. A massive improvement compared to trying to make the farm using solely wood as fuel. Which then clears the reason we have have so much materials for runes of fire. Exoflames! We only need enough charcoal to power the furnaces create the materials for one exoflame, then we only need the charcoal to power the exoflames to continue using the furnaces.
Now we just need to design everything.
DEADLOCK REACHED - RESETTING TRIAL!
And thus ends our first real attempt. We still need to start the entire process with wood, but somehow, we overused our saplings.
DEADLOCK REACHED - RESETTING TRIAL!
Our second attempts goes further, we manage to make charcoal, but then Mewtwo forgets to keep a grey petal to make more tall gray flowers, making us unable to make hopperhocks or more endoflames.
DEADLOCK REACHED - RESETTING TRIAL!
This one has us quite frustrated, we had almost finished setting up the auto-harvester. Using lines of mana spreaders, we had made a five mana spreader high looping circuit that should cut enough of the trees for us make enough charcoal for the production to outpace the demand.
DEADLOCK REACHED - RESETTING TRIAL!
Okay... something is wrong with the bore lenses. We tried some ways to lessen the need for them, but we still need at least five, and the moment we make the fourth, the trial resets. We end up resetting multiple times because of that.
DEADLOCK REACHED - RESETTING TRIAL!
Why do we have pixie dust? That is the last piece of material we have yet to understand the use.
Mewtwo is right. The pile of pixie dust... exists. And that is all. There is no mention of what the material is, nor its use anywhere in the tutorial section. Holding it reveals we have enough for it to be considered three units by the system. We look at the possible recipes, and except for maybe sparks augments, which we have no reasons to make as we lack the ability to make sparks, whatever these may even be, the only other one is a lens. A quick skim through the lens section of botania reveals a strange lack of information about it. It is not mentioned, nor is pixie dust. Maybe this is something from outside the botania quest line? It would seem strange considering this trial seems centered around it?
"Okay, let's try to make other lenses, and see what resets us." I propose to Mewtwo.
Numerous resets follow, until we find some sort of balance. Three bore lenses, and three warp lenses. Which makes sense considering we had three units of pixie dust.
But what use do they have? Three bore lenses is far too little for the wood collection to work efficiently! Mewtwo groans as he looks the purple and glitchy lens over.
"Who knows, let's try to keep going with everything else. Maybe we will stumble upon their use at some point."
DEADLOCK REACHED - RESETTING TRIAL!
We had most definitely reached a new record in therms of advancement on this attempt. We had agricarnation, allowing us more mana at the cost of mana. We had tried a possible solution for distribution and collection with the rannuncarpus and hopperhocks. Using pressure plates, we could lock a hopper from distributing more than one sapling to an open crate. this allowed us to make sure only a single sapling was ready for pickup by the rannuncarpus, instead of an ever growing pile that could interfere with the working of the farm in the long term. We still needed to figure out how to manage the eventual overflow, but that should not have been an issue too quickly.
We were in the process of preparing the furnaces and the exoflames for the log processing when the reset happened.
"Okay what did we overuse this time?" I ask.
I think it was the slime? We still had... three or four balls left when the reset struck.
"Let's try it again and figure out if that was it?
DEADLOCK REACHED - RESETTING TRIAL!
That was it. we need to keep three slime balls for something else.
We put them to the side and get back to our previous state of advancement.
DEADLOCK REACHED - RESETTING TRIAL!
"So that worked... until it did not."
We had voluntarily stopped this attempt. We were almost there, we could feel it. The bore lenses worked great, destroying tree trunks into logs that would then be picked up by an hopperhock, while the branches would fall all around the now missing trunk. Another hopperhock would then pick those up and sort them in different chests, allowing for the saplings to be returned back to the planting and growing cycle.
The logs would end up in a furnace, produce charcoal, and that charcoal would then be distributed to multiple endoflames to produce mana.
However, the system quickly backfired in a few places. As the bore lenses would ignore most of the tree branches, destroying a the trunk, and then letting the upper part fall down. It turns out the floating tree was linked to the builder tool. As the falling tree parts would accumulate, it would slow the log collection requiring more mana per trees, or worse fall sideways and stop the rannuncarpus from planting a new sapling, resulting in a tree slot becoming unusable. This would continue until the entire system would run out of mana to sustain itself and stop.
We tried multiple things to fix the issue, but as none worked, we decided to just start back from zero.
We are missing something. these warp lenses have got to have some sort of use.
DEADLOCK REACHED - RESETTING TRIAL!
Okay, what in the Trio do we need pistons for?
Knowledge had been generous with his supply of redstone contraptions. After our previous failure, and a few more that followed, we tried the bore lens on different blocks, out of boredom and curiosity. Most blocks got destroyed, rendering them either unusable or in need of repairs. And when we fired upon a piston, we instantly got reset.
"Good question."
DEADLOCK REACHED - RESETTING TRIAL!
So... Pistons... why do we need them? What can we do with them? We tried to think of some sort of contraption using them to push trees back and forth, which somehow works, but that barely fixed the branch clogging problem. Then we tried pushing the mana spreaders back and forth, which gave some mixed results.
One broke, which got us reset. What else can we do with pistons? Can't really make machines, which appear to be one of their main use, and enchanted books are pretty useless to our situation. We can dip them in a mana pool and get a weird purple brick block called a force relay... Which we have an entry for... Relays piston force through it... Uh uh...
DEADLOCK REACHED - RESETTING TRIAL!
THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE USED FOR! Mewtwo exclaims with excitement.
We figured it out! The warp lenses! They are the absolute KEY to this trial!
"Alright, let's redesign everything!" I am feeling so excited!
DEADLOCK REACHED - RESETTING TRIAL!
"Okay, my bad, I did not expect the sapling reset AGAIN!"
DEADLOCK REACHED - RESETTING TRIAL!
I made one too many...
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DEADLOCK REACHED - RESETTING TRIAL!
Deadlocks after deadlocks, we slowly refine the design, until finally, it is done. Three series of three trees, all surrounded with as many agricarnations as we could make. the first two lines of trees have a force relay above them linked to the surface of the next slot in a line until the last tree, at the top of which mana spreader would send the mana to a diluted mana pool with a mana void beneath, removing the slight excess of mana that may be generated by the tree cutting and avoiding a mana clog of the system.
Pulse mana spreaders fire once every thirty seconds, which is the average time it takes for all three trees in a line to grow to their full size. Faster wastes too much mana, and slower results in a slight efficiency loss. The need for hovering hourglasses explained the gold ores.
Each beam of mana passes through a composite bore-warp lens placed atop each pulse spreader, which explains why we needed to keep three slime balls, it was to make the composite lenses. These beams then hit a yet another force relay placed some distance above the spreaders linked to the surface of the first dirt block on its corresponding line. It goes up any grown tree, destroying its trunk while ignoring still growing saplings. It then continues its way until it either runs out of mana to continue to exist or goes all the way to the diluted mana pool.
Every pieces of wood are collected and taken to furnaces operating at a faster rate with the help of a few exoflames surrounding them, and the acquired charcoal is then transported to the endoflames, allowing for mana production and thus fueling the reaction over. the final result is slow but steady mana production. A result that seems to satisfy Knowledge.
-[Congratulation chosens, you have managed to conquer this trial. Although you were presented with unknown materials, may it be through research or Pyrrhic experimentation, you made the necessary discoveries that allowed you to overcome. Never forget that many answers are hidden within our system. But also remember to always push the boundaries of what may be possible. You will be sent back to the Ezian plane shortly.]-
Knowledge congratulates us, and we reappear within Princess throne room.
We stumble slightly at the brutal change, and all eyes are on us.
Hast thou fail to enter? Is the first thing Princess asks us. Hold on, what is that sound?
Neither of us answer Princess as we are too busy looking at the throne room. It has remained has remained as it was for when we left it, three weeks ago for us.