Chapter 136

The official average price of a 0-circle spell formula is 6 gold coins.

The number of spells Gao De currently masters is 19, and he is still 16 away from 35.

Calculating this way, just purchasing spell formulas requires at least 96 gold coins.

And this is still the lowest price.

Because the further you go, the more difficult it is to buy unmastered spell formulas, and the more money it costs.

In addition, spell formulas are also divided into two levels: ordinary and rare.

Rare spell formulas, besides being hard to buy with money, are usually much more expensive than ordinary spell formulas.

So if he wants to expand his spell library to more than 35 before upgrading to a first-circle magic user, Gao De must prepare at least hundreds of gold coins.

His current deposit balance is: 90 gold and 19 silver.

It has already fallen below the 100-gold mark and is still decreasing at a stable speed.

Although the academy does not need to pay house rent, eating still requires money.

In addition, the expenditure for renting a first-rank cultivation room is 10 silver/2 hours.

If the Water of No Leakage can really be preserved, with its blessing, the time Gao De needs to rent the cultivation room per day will be extended to two and a half hours.

The expenditure will increase to 12.5 silver accordingly.

This can be considered a daily fixed expenditure.

And elective courses in the future will also require paying a large amount of course fees.

This is another foreseeable large expenditure.

"Make money, make money!" Calculating this way, a deep sense of "fiscal deficit" crisis suddenly surged into Gao De's heart.

Finding a stable way to "make money" suddenly became urgent.

Potions?

Without his own herb garden to reduce raw material costs, the profit of preparing zero-circle potions is too low, purely earning hard-earned money.

Not considering it.

Resuming his old profession, being a restoration craftsman?

This requires no cost, 100% profit.

It's just that even in an environment like Sairui Academy where everyone is a magic user, the total amount of damaged magic items that need restoration will not be too many.

So this is a way to make money, but it is not stable, more like a one-off deal.

Moreover, how to solicit business is also a problem... Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the sea to eat the sea... After a round of screening, Gao De found that, it seems that under the current situation, the most practical way to "make money" is still to work for the academy and undertake the academy tasks provided by the academy's logistics department.

And to be honest, he is also quite curious about what kind of academy tasks the academy will provide.

Thinking of the logistics department, Gao De suddenly remembered one more thing:

The 5 silver coin maintenance fee for the "dormitory" per month, he hasn't paid it yet... If he drags it on, I'm afraid he will be put on the "deadbeat" list by the academy.

He can't afford to lose that face.

This trip to the logistics department can be considered a must-go... Logistics Department, Finance Office.

Gao De handed his identity badge and the 3 gold coins he had prepared to the old pedant wearing the Sairui Academy uniform in the office.

He plans to take advantage of the current abundance of money to pay the maintenance fee for one year in advance.

"Gao De, paying the maintenance fee for Building 30 in the First District for one year, totaling 3 gold coins."

The old pedant took Gao De's things, lowered his head to record, and confirmed with Gao De again.

"Recorded." A moment later, he handed Gao De's identity badge and a receipt stamped with the Finance Office seal back to Gao De.

"Thank you." Gao De, whose deposit was -3 gold, took these things, left the Finance Office, and headed straight to the mission hall on the first floor of the Logistics Department.

This is his destination for this trip.

Compared to the course selection hall of the committee, the mission hall of the Logistics Department is much livelier, and even three counters are open at the same time. Two of the counters are used for students to take tasks.

There is another counter used to record needs and publish tasks.

— Except for a small part of the tasks posted in the mission hall issued by the academy, the rest are mostly from mentors and even students in the academy.

"The mission bulletin board is above, look at it yourself first, and go to the counter to take the task if you see one you like."

A young female staff member in the hall pointed to the huge "display screen" hanging horizontally above the counter and said to Gao De.

The "display screen" displays in real-time the tasks that have not yet been undertaken by anyone.

Of course, there is definitely no electronic screen in this world.

The "display screen" is actually a kind of alchemy machine.

The general direction of "employment" for alchemists, half is to manufacture supernatural objects, and the other half is to manufacture alchemy machines.

Although the former has the word "supernatural," it sounds more noble, but in fact, the prospects and money prospects of the latter are not weaker than the former.

The gold content is also not weaker than the former.

If it is difficult to understand why these two directions are of the same level, just one sentence is enough to make people understand:

Airships are actually a type of alchemy machine.

Gao De stopped in front of the huge mission bulletin board and looked up to browse carefully.

【River Patrol】: Patrol, expel, and hunt down geomorphic creatures in the Naga River area under the hard labor cliff.

This task is based on a seven-day cycle. Accepting this task requires completing at least one task cycle, and the daily patrol time must not be less than five hours.

Completing this task can earn 35 gold coins, and there will be extra rewards for hunting geomorphic creatures above 0-circle in the process.

This task requires a magic user rank of at least 1st-circle magic user.

【Caring for Magic Plants】: Care for the No. 5 herb garden of the Potion Department (mainly Vermilion Grass, Vera Aloe, Crimson Naine Root).

90 days is a task cycle. During the task cycle, it is necessary to ensure that the damage rate of magic plants in the herb garden does not exceed 5%, the high-quality rate is not lower than 90%, and the growth of magic plants is good.

Completing the task can earn 27 gold.

Application to accept this task requires: completion of the branch course "Magic Plant Cultivation" under "Magic Potion Science."

【Magic Array Maintenance and Inspection】: Inspect and maintain magic arrays and barrier facilities in the academy student living area (mainly small cleaning magic arrays, small soundproof barriers, small warning barriers, small temperature regulation barriers).

The task cycle is half an academic year, and it is necessary to ensure that the inspection and maintenance of faults reported by students are completed within two working days... Completing the task can earn 36 gold.

This task requires at least completion of the third-stage course of "Runology."

【Book Restoration】: Go to the academy library to assist in restoring damaged books. The task cycle is one month, during which at least three hours of work time must be invested every day to restore at least three ancient books.

Completing the task will earn 20 gold coins and special borrowing authority for some books in the library.

This task requires... The tasks hanging at the very top of the mission bulletin board are all tasks issued by the academy.

The remuneration is actually very considerable.

But either there are requirements for magic user rank, or there are requirements for student course level, and specified courses must be completed to apply for acceptance of the task.

Gao De looked at more than a dozen task notices, and there was not one he could take.

Of course, it definitely wouldn't be the "chicken-and-egg" dilemma of "having work experience to work, having work to have work experience."

It should be that those simple tasks with no requirements had already been "snatched" by other students.

Gao De continued to look down.

After the academy tasks, the ones below are tasks posted by academy mentors and students.

The task content and requirements have become strange and varied.

(End of chapter)