Chapter 120: Maid Clam

After hearing Instructor Sha Hu introduce the Maid Clam, Gao De realized that he could use 【Detect Magic+】 to take a shortcut.

And this was not considered cheating.

During the enrollment task, it was allowed to use the spells one had mastered.

It was just that there were too few spells in the 0-circle spells that were helpful for mining and clam collecting, almost none, so everyone could only grit their teeth and endure hardship.

But Gao De was different.

He only needed to practice diving well, and he could use the specialty of 【Detect Magic+】 to complete the enrollment task at an extremely fast speed.

He wouldn't dare say anything else, but at least it would be much faster than going to mine.

Gao De's gaze scanned back and forth at the bottom of the river.

Until he began to feel his chest getting stuffier and stuffier.

This was a sign that the breath he was holding was about to run out.

He didn't dare to be too arrogant and prepared to surface.

But just at the moment he shook his legs, a magic spiritual light that was still quite bright suddenly flashed in the corner of Gao De's eyes.

"Is it a Maid Clam?" Gao De was not sure.

But he couldn't hold on anymore and couldn't go to verify it directly.

Gao De was not in a hurry, continued to surface, exposed his head to the water surface, and gasped for two breaths.

After recovering his breath, he had time to scan the shore.

He suddenly discovered that at some point, the other five people who entered the mine cave had all come out of the mine cave and were resting on the river beach, looking at Gao De who had just emerged with a strange gaze.

There was mockery, incomprehension, and disdain—the emotions in everyone's gaze were different.

"Have you collected any Maid Clams?" Lu Ka, who was resting, couldn't help but shout and ask.

"Not yet." Gao De told the truth.

"It's been a whole morning, we've all dug a back basket of water-gold ore, and you've gained nothing, and you're even still learning to dive."

"When will you complete the task if this continues? Why don't you hurry up and give up?" Kaplan also couldn't help but interject.

Just now, Lu Ka had already publicized Gao De's "great achievements."

Everyone knew that Gao De, who was trying to take the "clam-collecting route," was even learning to dive on the spot.

This was too absurd!

"It's okay, maybe there will be a harvest next trip." Gao De laughed and said very seriously.

After speaking, Gao De, who had recovered his breath, dived into the water again.

Watching Gao De disappear on the river surface again, Kaplan, who had just persuaded Gao De to "turn over a new leaf," was stunned for a few seconds, and finally gave an evaluation: "Stupid!"

Jielika's gaze also fell on the river surface, her brows locking unconsciously.

Compared to the negative emotions in other people's gazes when Gao De emerged just now, there was more doubt in her heart.

And it was more and more doubt.

The doubt that arose from seeing Gao De in the new student queue in the morning had accumulated to its peak at this moment.

"Work, work, he's wasting time here, I won't follow him!" Lu Ka, who left the mine cave first, stood up, clapped his hands, and put his back basket on his back again.

The water-gold ore wasn't finished just by digging it out; it also had to be transported to the top of the cliff to be considered task completion.

Carrying nearly thirty kilograms of water-gold ore on his back, the already steep mountain road suddenly became even more rugged and dangerous.

Only walking up a dozen steps, a layer of sweat beads appeared on Lu Ka's forehead again.

This mandatory enrollment task, besides letting magic user apprentices who want to enter the Sairisi Magic Academy learn to endure hardship and hone a tenacious character, another function is that in this process, it can also exercise the new students' physique.

Once the 3000-kilogram water-gold ore submission task is finished, no matter how poor one's physique is, one will become strong.

Lu Ka gritted his teeth and persisted.

Even if he didn't agree with this task in his heart and didn't think it had any meaning, but after hearing that the record holder for the enrollment task was the previous Dean "Jia Wen Hoge," he understood that the enrollment task could absolutely not be shaken off.

—Even the academy Dean had sweated at the bottom of Kuli Cliff back then, so what qualification did he have not to do it? Lu Ka walked forward staggeringly with his back basket, stopping to rest for a while every few steps, his expression slowly becoming ferocious.

Because he felt that a layer of skin had been worn off his shoulder position by the hemp rope of the back basket, and it was burning with pain.

This is not coming for "advanced gilding," it is clearly coming to be abused!

Fortunately, this back basket was also woven from special vines, let alone a burden of thirty kilograms, even if it were doubled, it would be no problem.

"If I had known, I wouldn't have come... No, I'm so strenuous, Jielika, that little lady, must be even more miserable..."

Lu Ka, who was originally somewhat regretful in his heart, suddenly didn't regret it anymore after thinking that Jielika, as a female and younger than himself, also needed to carry 3000 kilograms of water-gold ore up the mountain without any preferential treatment. He even felt that the water-gold ore on his back was lighter.

And after Lu Ka carried the water-gold ore he dug and started to go up the mountain, the remaining four people also acted one after another.

Everyone had their own things to do, and no one had time to care about Gao De who was still "wasting" time underwater.

The four people carried their back baskets and stepped onto the road up the mountain one after another.

Kandisi, who had the weakest physique, chose to walk at the end.

She knew that she had the weakest physique and the least strength among the six, and walked the slowest, so she was afraid of affecting the efficiency of others climbing the cliff.

Among the five, it was her who carried the least water-gold ore on her back.

Others carried twenty or thirty kilograms of water-gold ore more or less, while she only had about fifteen kilograms.

But even so, when walking halfway up the steps of the cliff path, she suddenly felt her legs soften, and her whole person was about to fall backward.

With such rugged and steep cliff paths, one could imagine what would happen if one fell backward.

This scared Kandisi so much that her whole face turned pale.

Fortunately, a force suddenly came from behind, supporting her, so that she did not fall.

"If you're tired, rest, don't force it. It's fine to complete the task slowly; it would be miserable if you fell down." A gentle voice came from behind her immediately after.

Kandisi turned her head.

She was already the last person walking.

In this situation, the only one who could support her from behind was Gao De, who had just left the water and climbed the cliff even slower.

Although Gao De had consumed a lot of physical strength after diving all morning.

But in the end, he didn't need to carry a burden up the mountain.

So he quickly caught up with the main force that started first, trailed behind Kandisi, and reached out a helping hand in time when Kandisi was in danger.

"Thank you." Tears were almost about to fall, but Kandisi held them back again.

"We'll be there soon, come on." Gao De comforted her again.

"I know..." Kandisi said in a low voice, but before she finished speaking, she suddenly froze, her eyes widening unconsciously, looking straight at Gao De's back basket.

The cliff steps were steep, so Jielika, who was walking in front of Gao De, looked back at this moment, looking down from a high position, and happened to be able to see the objects in Gao De's back basket.

Compared to the large and small pieces of water-gold ore in everyone else's back baskets, Gao De's back basket was much emptier.

But it was not completely empty.

There was only one thing.

A clam.

That was a clam with an unusually wide shell and an elegant streamlined shape.

About one foot long, and the width was close to the length.

The surface of the clam shell was also covered with a layer of pearl luster as delicate as silk, as if condensed from moonlight.

The two sides of the shell were slightly upturned, like the skirt of a maid being lifted, elegant without losing solemnity.

The most peculiar point was that fine and complex patterns grew naturally on the shell surface.

Under the change of light, these patterns seemed to vaguely show the figure of a maid dancing lightly on the shell surface.

"This... this is a Maid Clam?!" Kandisi asked incredulously.

"It should be." Gao De replied.

"You, you really collected a Maid Clam?!" Kandisi exclaimed.

"Didn't I say, maybe there will be a harvest next trip." Gao De smiled.

"Your luck is really good." Kandisi, who had recovered, envied.

Don't look at the fact that there was only such a clam weighing less than 5 kilograms in Gao De's back basket, but it could be equivalent to 50 kilograms of water-gold ore.

And she, after working hard all morning, and even almost falling off the steps just now, only harvested less than 15 kilograms of water-gold ore.

Comparing people with people, it's really infuriating.

It's just a pity that not only can she not dive, she can't even swim, a pure landlubber.

Otherwise, Kandisi really wanted to learn from Gao De and go into the water to "try her luck."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 121 =====