Chapter 75

The lichen nutrients I absorbed were minuscule so I directed them to a place a bit further from the originating tree. I hoped to have the mushroom in direct sunlight. Doing so should net me more nutrients than if I were to just grow them in the shade.

Unfortunately, for all my varying and odd abilities, finding an ideal spot of unshaded space will be difficult. Growing the mushroom away from the tree was a start but there was the overall canopy to consider.

With the fire having destroyed a portion of it, I’m sure it’ll be much easier to find the perfect place to grow it but it wasn’t a guaranteed thing.

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I suppose if the first one doesn’t work out, I could always find a different location. Though it’ll be a pain to cannibalize and then regrow elsewhere.

On the upside I can use the algae itself to check if the area I have it in is optimal or not. I would need multiple mushrooms to better compare and contrast where the best unshaded spot was, though.

Something to consider as well was the fact that the lichen mushroom I have at the moment was basically a prototype at the moment, it wasn’t a fully realized thing yet. Growing multiple completelichen mushrooms would result in me completely consuming multiple colonies and that was not something i was comfortable with. I could snatch a few cells here and there from the surviving 17 lichen colonies, but outright consuming even one colony was out of the question.

Waiting for the algae to replicate within me was the move here I just had to wait patiently.

Wait a minute …I got it. Growing them in an ideal location will no doubt increase its replication rate and I think I know just the place.

Right next to the pain mushroom.