Chapter 103: Add Points

Freezing damage... Gao De looked at the newly added extra effect and thought deeply.

The strengthening direction of 【Ice Ray】 looked ordinary, but in fact, it should have miraculous effects in some special environments or team battles.

For example, in an extreme cold environment, without any foreshadowing, basically every 【Ice Ray+】 could directly trigger the freezing effect.

【Ice Ray】 had not had a high appearance rate in Gao De's hands.

Because whether it was power, spellcasting distance, or damage range, it was far inferior to 【Fire Arrow】.

But this did not mean that 【Fire Arrow】 was a higher-level spell than 【Ice Ray】.

【Ice Ray】 itself possessed strategic value that 【Fire Arrow】 could not replace.

This was also one of the characteristics of spells; they were both damage spells, but the applicable range was vastly different.

Even spells with lower damage had their unique roles.

The spells in this world were not like what was written in some early novels Gao De had read in his previous life, which were simple promotion and elimination systems.

The great archmages in those books seemed to have mastered a bunch of spells, but in reality, the ones they commonly used were just one or two of the most powerful spells.

Here, spells mastered at Rank 0 could even be used all the way to the end.

For example, 【Mage Hand】, high-circle magic users had been using it all along.

This also made the breadth of each magic user's spell library exceptionally important.

Only by storing enough spells in the spell library could one respond freely when facing various situations and be called "omnipotent."

This time, Ma Qieyi let everyone rest for a full hour before leading the team into the dense forest again.

The land reclamation task of this day was just a bit thrilling when encountering the Earth Magic Bat swarm at the beginning, and no other accidents happened in the remaining time.

And it seemed that because the number of ley line creatures gathered in an area was always fluctuating around a fixed value.

Because they killed twelve ley line creatures, including a Rank 1 ley line creature, at the beginning, Ma Qieyi could no longer find a single ley line creature in his "contracted" area before dark in the afternoon.

This was the first time Gao De's team had completed the task ahead of schedule in so many days.

The weather was getting hotter and hotter.

As time went to the 20th of the Harvest Month, this "land reclamation" that lasted for more than half a month was finally coming to an end.

The arduous environment and the life of sleeping in the open made the magic apprentices who were radiant when they set off now all disheveled.

Death had always been like a shadow.

Even Gao De's team had one person unfortunately killed.

That was a Rank 1 Leaf Poison Snake, hiding in the leaves, suddenly launching an attack.

Although Ma Qieyi took action in time to kill it.

But the poison of the Leaf Poison Snake spread too fast, and in just those few minutes, the poison had already infected the entire blood of the attacked magic apprentice, and medicine could not cure it.

However, as time passed, the casualty rate was getting lower and lower every day unless there were special circumstances.

For more than ten consecutive days, there were at least five or six battles every day.

This made the wild magic users who only wanted to earn some extra money at the beginning increasingly proficient in dealing with ley line creatures, with richer experience, higher vigilance, and gradually forming their own understanding of combat.

For Gao De, it was even more so.

Before this, his combat experience was too lacking.

These ten-plus days of high-intensity land reclamation made up for the weakest link in Gao De.

And by teaming up with so many magic apprentices to fight, and with Ma Qieyi, a Rank 1 magic user from the law enforcement team, leading the team, he also learned about the specific effects of many spells, greatly increasing his knowledge.

Of course, saying so much was secondary.

For Gao De, the real harvest was what others could not see. His heart moved, and he pulled up "Fengling Yueying."

Compared to before setting off half a month ago, the information panel of "Fengling Yueying" was undoubtedly much richer.

Source:

Rank 0—【Gray-Eyed Rat】... 【Earth Magic Bat】 (Used);

【Human】 (2/7), 【Digging Worm】 (1/7), 【Wolf Rat】 (7/7), 【Fierce Rat】 (7/7), 【Magic Explosion Frog】 (2/7), 【Electric Lizard】 (7/7), 【Mane Dog】 (1/7), 【Giant Soldier Ant】 (2/7).

When setting off, there were only 7 entries in the source column, and now it had expanded to 14, exactly doubling.

But it was limited to this.

Gao De believed that the number of Rank 0 ley line creatures emerging from the "Hogan Ley Line" was definitely far more than these.

It was just that not all Rank 0 ley line creatures would wander to places so far from the center of the ley line, and not all ley line creatures would appear on both sides of the official road.

In the final analysis, the area they were involved in sweeping was just a very, very small piece.

"Unknowingly, it's been seventeen days since we came out."

Gao De looked at the set of casual clothes he bought only when he arrived in Bremen City, which he was prepared to wear for a year or two, now worn out due to high-intensity outdoor life, and couldn't help but sigh.

However, although these days were bitter, looking at the jumping numbers on the source column of "Fengling Yueying" every day, as well as his increasingly proficient combat techniques and stable mentality, Gao De was somewhat addicted to it.

It really felt a bit like a "net-addicted teenager" in his previous life staying up all night in an internet cafe with a bucket of instant noodles and a sausage to grind levels; although it was hard, he was happy in it.

Now Gao De, excluding the used source and the incomplete source, still had 3 points of source unused.

Thinking this way, Gao De had already set his "gaze" on the spell column.

Spells:

Rank 0—【Repair+】, 【Acid Splash+】, 【Ice Ray+】, 【Resistance Enhancement+】, 【Fire Arrow+】, 【Blade Protection+】; 【Mage Hand】, 【Create Water】, 【Direction】, 【Purify Food】, 【Tracking Mark】, 【Flash】, 【Fatigue Touch】, 【Detect Magic】, 【Read Magic】, 【Detect Poison】, 【Prestidigitation】, 【Open/Close】, 【Message】.

A total of 19 Rank 0 spells, of which 6 had already been added points, including all the spells Gao De used most frequently in combat.

Among the remaining spells without added points, Gao De's current usage rate was not particularly high, so he was not in a hurry to add points immediately after obtaining the source.

It was foreseeable that after this land reclamation task ended, he would not have such a fast opportunity to obtain source in the short term, and the source collection progress would temporarily stagnate.

Good steel should be used on the blade.

Gao De needed to carefully consider which three spells to add these three points of source to.

After thinking for these few days, he already had a decision.

Excluding spells that could enhance combat power and spells with high current usage frequency, the priority order for subsequent "adding points" should be:

Spells that need to be used frequently > spells like 【Repair+】 that have a certain possibility of providing monetary gains > others.

Following this train of thought, the three spells Gao De selected were:

【Detect Magic】, 【Create Water】, 【Read Magic】.

"Food in the wild is easy to find, but it is not so easy to find safe water sources, and food is also relatively light to carry, even if you carry several days of dry rations, there will not be too much weight burden."

"Water is different. Calculated according to the amount of 3.5 liters per day, that is 3.5 kilograms. Carrying three days of water is 10 kilograms..."

"Therefore, the main source of water for survival in the wild must rely on spells."

"My next plan is to go to the Sairisi Magic User Academy to study. It is foreseeable that the opportunity to come into contact with magic text will greatly increase... the frequency of using Read Magic will definitely increase."

"Detect Magic goes without saying; it has always been one of the most commonly used spells for magic users, second only to Mage Hand."

Gao De re-organized his thoughts in his heart, confirmed the choice, concentrated his attention quickly, and clicked on the three flashing yellow "+" signs after the three spell entries.

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