Chapter 148

Gao De is busy with his own affairs regularly and attentively every day.

Whether it is his mentality or state, he maintains it well.

For eight courses, if you have been to high school, even if you exclude miscellaneous subjects like physical education and music, don't you start with at least six courses?

And compared to the numerous assignments after class, the courses at Sairisi Academy basically have no assignments and are much more relaxed.

Sleeping at one or two o'clock and getting up at six, isn't this also the daily routine of the third year of high school? Not to mention that Gao De also has Water of No Leak fruit drinks, which can eliminate and reduce fatigue after drinking.

Time passes very quickly.

Twenty-one students were newly recruited during the recruitment period, including a 1-circle magic user; the emergence of these things attracted the attention of the entire academy.

And Gao De was only targeted by the chief student of the Alchemy Department, Geli Haileier, because he was in the restaurant at the beginning, and he refreshed the record left by the former dean in the entrance task, becoming famous for a while.

Since then, he has been on a three-point-one-line routine all day: either cultivating in the cultivation building, or rushing to various "teaching buildings" for classes, or learning basic runes in the rune workshop; in addition, the most time is spent cultivating poisonous insects in the cultivation room. Gao De never takes the initiative to get to know others, and even less will he take the initiative to find trouble, just like an invisible person.

Therefore, as time passed, he, the "lucky one" who entered the academy with the highest treatment with Dean Jia Wen's recommendation letter and had been famous for a short time, was soon no longer paid attention to by anyone and was forgotten by others.

After all, most people are still rational.

Even if many students were somewhat jealous and dissatisfied with Gao De's ability to enter the academy with the highest treatment.

But if it's not a special situation like Gelei Haileier, who would inexplicably target someone who has nothing to do with themselves and make an enemy for no reason?

Everyone is very busy; if it's not a deep hatred, no one will have the mind to stare at others.

Not to mention, later everyone knew that the high-rank instructor Gao De was assigned to was He Xi Oukenli of the Rune Department, the chief rune instructor who had long been out of fashion.

Suddenly, they didn't even have "jealousy," and more of it was schadenfreude.

Even Gelei Haileier seemed to have forgotten Gao De.

Except for blocking Gao De once in the restaurant at the beginning, he never appeared in front of Gao De again.

In the entire academy, perhaps only Instructor He Xi and Instructor Xiao Er can be considered to know Gao De.

The former goes without saying, and the latter, after all, still has to come over from time to time to check the completion of Gao De's poisonous insect cultivation task, so they have frequent contact.

But no matter what others think, at least Gao De is very satisfied with his current life:

The magic user level is improving at a considerable speed;

In terms of Rune Studies, the number of zero-level basic runes mastered is also steadily rising at a rate of five per day;

The most lacking magic user knowledge is being supplemented rapidly;

The poisonous insect cultivation task is also gradually advancing, and the origin of the 【Phantom Thorn Centipede】 has already been collected.

Everything is thriving, except for the savings.

77 gold and 19 silver, this is Gao De's total savings at the moment.

Frost Gold Month, 10th, the usage time of the first-rank cultivation room that Gao De bought last time was completely exhausted.

He endured the heartache and "splurged" 10 gold again to take down 40 hours of first-rank cultivation room usage time.

And his savings balance, after this time, has fallen to 67 gold and 14 silver.

When time reached the 17th of Frost Gold Month, two things happened on this day.

One is that Jielika finally completed her entrance task.

It took a total of 43 days, which was 18 days earlier than the average time of 61 days for students who completed the task by mining.

However, this is not surprising; Jielika's physical strength cannot compare with male students and those civilian students from ordinary backgrounds.

But as a "second-generation magic user" and a "rich daughter," she can continuously drink physical strength recovery potions to quickly restore the physical strength consumed that day.

This point is enough for her to easily smooth out the gap in physical strength and allow her to achieve better results.

Of course, Gao De's news is not so well-informed.

The reason why he knew this news was because Jielika took the initiative to come to the door to buy "Water of No Leak" after completing the entrance task.

43 days of mining made this young lady of the City Lord's Mansion exhausted, and she wanted to use Gao De's magical fruit drink to relax.

Gao De thought about it and took a small pot from the special fruit drink that was already running low and gave it to Jielika.

But this time Jielika resolutely refused to "get it for free," so Gao De had no choice but to accept her 10 gold.

If I could stably produce "Water of No Leak," I wouldn't have to worry about money, right? After this, Gao De couldn't help but think.

It's just that he also knows this can only be a fantasy.

Since the first time he produced Water of No Leak, Gao De's "daily first draw" has never stopped.

But in these ten days, most of them were "guaranteed" honey water; in addition, there were two times of malt wine and one time of high-quality honey water.

Water of No Leak simply does not exist.

Another thing is that on this day, Gao De's guidance method had another breakthrough, ascending to a higher level.

His current total magic power is enough to support him to release ten cantrips in one breath. Gao De has already completed half of the twenty cantrips required for a third-rank magic user apprentice.

And the last time his guidance method broke through was on the 12th of Dark Night Month.

These two breakthroughs were only 35 days apart.

This efficiency of breakthrough can be considered a genius at any rate.

Of course, this is the product of the superposition of "Water of No Leak" + first-rank cultivation room + improved breathing, not that his own aptitude has really improved.

These external objects and external methods that assist cultivation have the greatest improvement for magic users like Gao De whose aptitude is not too bad and not too good.

This is a bit like "tutoring" for students' grade improvement; for students who are too good, tutoring is of no use to them, and for students who are too poor, tutoring is also of no use to them.

And average students are exactly the ones who can get relatively obvious improvement through "tutoring."

It's just that because Water of No Leak has not been replenished, according to the current consumption, it will be completely exhausted in three days.

At that time, the progress of Gao De's guidance method will decline slightly.

However, Gao De has no solution for this.

"If my aptitude were better, I wouldn't have to spend so much money on cultivation." He couldn't help but think.

Just like learning, Gao De has watched his classmates since he was a child, spending a lot of money on various tutoring classes, looking for so-called famous teachers and private tutors, but they are still not as good as him who never attended tutoring classes and private tutors.

He didn't have any sense of superiority; he just felt sorry for their money.

Now, Gao De finally experienced the helplessness of his classmates.

Don't they feel sorry for this money themselves? They must also feel sorry, but they have no choice.

If your aptitude is average and you want to improve your grades, you can only rely on money to pave the way.

Just like him now.

"Is there any way to improve aptitude?" This question popped up in Gao De's head.

Reasonably speaking, there should be.

Demand determines the market; the magic user system has developed for so many years, and there must be many, many magic users who want to improve their aptitude.

Even if it's just luck, one or two methods should have been stumbled upon.

But even if there is such a method, it is not something he, a magic user apprentice, can come into contact with now.

Still have to become a formal magic user first!

Gao De's mind was full of thoughts, and in the end, it just turned into a sigh.

Meals must be eaten one bite at a time.

And a more urgent matter than becoming a formal magic user is making money.

Even with the extra income of 10 gold coins paid by Jielika, Gao De's savings returned to 77 gold.

But obviously, this little money cannot support him for long in Sairisi Academy.

At least Gao De currently doesn't dare to buy spell formulas, for fear of falling into a financial crisis because of this expenditure.

However, it is worth mentioning that Gao De just learned two days ago that Sairisi Academy has a mechanism similar to a "scholarship."

To be precise, there should be a credit ranking list.

After the end of each academic year, the academy will reward students who rank high on the credit list that year to support excellent students so that they have more time to devote to cultivation.

Of course, there is more than one list, and the academy will rank students according to the number of academic years they have entered the academy.

This is also very reasonable, just like the last stage of the "Rune Studies" course, you get 7 credits after finishing it, while the first stage of the course only has 1 credit.

If the ranking is not divided by academic year, the ranking rewards of this credit list will only be monopolized by senior students who can choose high-credit courses.

However, the list is not divided very finely.

There are a total of four lists.

The first is the freshman credit list specifically for freshmen, only allowing students who have just entered the academy to participate in the ranking.

The rewards of the freshman credit list are the richest among the four lists.

The freshman who ranks first in credits that year can get a reward of 100 gold, the second has 80 gold, and the third has 60 gold.

The second list is for students in the 1st-3rd academic year, which is inferior to the rewards for freshmen.

The reward for the first place in credits is 50 gold, the second has 40 gold, and the third is 30 gold.

The third is for students in the 3rd-5th academic year, and the rewards are the same as those for students in the 1st-3rd academic year.

Finally, there is the list for students in the 5th academic year and above, and the rewards are still the same as above.

(End of chapter)