Chapter 149

At Sairisi Academy, a complete academic year is calculated from the Frost Gold Month of the current year to the Frost Gold Month of the following year.

Credits obtained beyond this time limit are counted as the next academic year.

This also overlaps with the academy's recruitment time.

However, there are also some "second-generation magic users" who will be sent to the academy before the recruitment time arrives.

However, there is no such thing as their academic year being longer than the freshman academic year who entered the academy through assessment.

A magic academy with a history of thousands of years will not have such low-end loopholes.

For these "freshmen" who entered the academy in advance, the academy calculates the first academic year starting from the time limit they entered the academy.

For example, Gao De entered Sairisi Academy on the 2nd of Dark Night Month.

Then his first academic year is from the 2nd of Dark Night Month of this year to the 2nd of Dark Night Month of the next year.

Then there is a one-month gap in the middle, and by the second academic year, it is calculated according to the standard schedule, starting from the Frost Gold Month to the end of the Frost Gold Month of the next year.

Of course, for these "second-generation magic users," they don't look down on the rewards of the credit list.

But "credits" have many functions in the academy, and even "second-generation magic users" need to try their best to earn more credits; this point is beyond doubt.

After knowing the freshman credit list and the corresponding huge rewards, Gao De was instantly moved.

100 gold coins are enough for him to buy more than a dozen 0-circle spell formulas.

He naturally wants to strive for this reward.

In fact, in previous years, Gao De would have had a good chance.

Because he broke Dean Jia Wen's record in the entrance task, he received a reward of 5 credits.

Plus the magic user level settlement, Gao De already had 10 credits before taking any courses after just entering the academy, which can be said to be leading at the starting line compared to other freshmen.

The problem is that this year is different.

Among this year's freshmen, there is a "pervert" who was promoted to a 1-circle magic user at the age of 14—Yilan.

A 14-year-old 1-circle magic user, first is the credit for magic user level assessment, 1 credit for first-rank magic user apprentice, 2 credits for second-rank magic user apprentice, 3 credits for third-rank magic user apprentice, 5 credits for early 1-circle magic user.

There are 11 credits here, which already exceeds Gao De's 10 credits.

In addition, if a student can be promoted to a 1-circle magic user before the age of twenty, he will be rewarded with 3 credits, and an extra 1 credit for every year earlier.

And Yilan is 14 years old, so the reward credits are as many as 3+6=9 points.

That is to say, as long as he enters the academy, he can get 22 credits.

Plus the 2 credits for the entrance task, he starts with 22 credits!

Gao De, who has always been "proud of the crowd" in terms of grades, felt such huge pressure on grades for the first time.

He has now chosen eight courses; if he finishes all of them and passes the assessment, he can get a total of 13 credits, and the total credits can reach 23 credits, barely exceeding Yilan's 22 credits.

The problem is that Yilan can't possibly not take any courses in a year, so the credits will definitely increase... Gao De actually has a kind of toughness in his bones.

Under these circumstances, normal people know that this first place is probably unlikely, so they will set their goal on second place.

Anyway, the reward for second place is only 20 gold coins less than first place.

But Gao De was inspired by this "unlikely" and ignited his fighting spirit.

Without "securing second and striving for first," the goal he set for himself is "first."

And the direction is, one is to take as many courses as possible, and the other is to achieve certain standards set by the academy to obtain extra reward credits.

Frost Gold Month, 20th, Water of No Leak fruit drink was finally exhausted.

Frost Gold Month, 27th, the usage time of the first-rank cultivation room bought last time was running out, so Gao De could only spend 10 gold coins to buy 40 hours of usage time again.

And on this day, another thing happened.

The 269 poisonous insect eggs that Instructor Xiao Er expected to take a month and a half to fully hatch, today, which is the thirty-fourth day of accepting the task, only 3 insect eggs have not yet hatched.

As an academy instructor, Xiao Er did not haggle over the remaining little bit with the student and directly settled the "wages" for Gao De in advance.

"269 insect eggs, currently 266 have hatched."

"After you screened and disposed of the defective products, there are 79 Fire-patterned Ant larvae, 54 Scorpion larvae, and 29 Phantom Thorn Centipede larvae left, totaling 167 qualified poisonous insect larvae."

"The pass rate is 60%, this is the extra reward promised to you before." Instructor Xiao Er, who checked the poisonous insect larvae in the large incubator, nodded with satisfaction and handed Gao De 5 Xi En gold coins.

"As for the task reward, you have to go to the Logistics Department to collect it yourself; I will notify them later that you have completed the task."

Gao De took the 5 gold coins, and while nodding in thanks, he took out the secret key of the cultivation room from his arms and returned it to Xiao Er.

Completing the task eleven days ahead of the expected time and receiving an extra reward of 5 gold, Gao De felt refreshed when he left the cultivation room. It's hard to say whether the high-level people in the academy are good or bad, but at least most of the instructors are not bad.

Rushing to the task hall of the Logistics Department, Gao De lined up to settle the task.

Xiao Er did indeed confirm with the Logistics Department that he had completed the task as he said.

So after swiping his identity badge, the staff member handed the task reward to Gao De: Rare 0-circle spell formula: 【Insect Swarm Proliferation】.

He put away the spell formula and didn't rush back to build the spell model, but browsed the task bulletin board in the task hall.

Since the 【Poisonous Insect Cultivation】 task has been completed, Gao De prepared to see if there were any other tasks suitable for him and take another one.

Short of money! In the supernatural world, you also have to work and study.

Since most academy tasks either have magic user level requirements or knowledge requirements, they need to be taken after completing certain courses of the academy.

So don't look at the many tasks listed on the bulletin board, but for Gao De, who is still in the "starting from scratch" stage, it is really not easy to take a suitable task that meets the requirements.

However, Gao De was lucky today; just after scanning the bulletin board a few times, he found that the task bulletin board jumped suddenly.

The next second, a new task appeared at the forefront of the bulletin board—this represents a task issued by the academy.

【Patrol the Mountain】: The magic array of the Magic Pet Department malfunctioned, causing a large number of Red-eyed Sparrows to escape and enter the back mountain of the academy; help the academy to patrol, drive away, and hunt these Red-eyed Sparrows in time so as not to affect the ecological environment of the back mountain.

The task reward is settled by the number of Red-eyed Sparrows hunted, and each Red-eyed Sparrow hunted is rewarded with 1 gold. (Use the eyeballs of the Red-eyed Sparrow as the settlement voucher)

There is no magic user level requirement to accept the task; this task is a long-term task, and there is no limit to the number of people accepting the task and the task time limit.

Note: Except for Red-eyed Sparrows, no plants in the back mountain may be picked; violators will be punished.

Red-eyed Sparrow, 0-circle earth vein creature, raised by the Magic Pet Department for high-altitude reconnaissance; after corresponding training, it has extremely strong vigilance, is good at concealment, and is not aggressive.

The entire Sairisi Mountain Range, including the back mountain and the water area under the Hard Labor Cliff, belongs to the assets of the academy.

Students are not allowed to approach without permission, let alone privately collect and obtain resources within it.

For example, the Maid Clams in the water area of the Hard Labor Cliff are equivalent to the fish raised by the fish pond owner in the fish pond.

Picking clams in the water without permission is occupying the academy's assets.

And even if permission is granted, such as the entrance task, the clams picked must be handed over, which is equivalent to working to earn credits.

Otherwise, Gao De would have made a living by this long ago... and wouldn't be worried about money now.

While pondering, Gao De had already come to the task handling counter, handed in his identity badge, and applied to take the 【Patrol the Mountain】 task.

If you don't take it, you don't take it; for this kind of task without any restrictions, even if you don't necessarily do it, take it first, anyway, there is no task penalty.

And Red-eyed Sparrows are earth vein creatures; completing the task can not only get gold coin rewards but also obtain origin.

Here, after the staff member made a record, he handed Gao De a voucher to enter the back mountain, a map of the back mountain marked with restricted areas, and a "portrait" of the Red-eyed Sparrow to avoid Gao De recognizing the wrong one.

At the same time, some information was provided, including the habitat environment that Red-eyed Sparrows like, common concealment methods, etc.

"Most of these restricted areas are planting areas for the Magic Medicine Department, and they are also protected by barriers or magic arrays, but try not to approach them if you can."

The staff member pointed to the restricted areas marked on the back mountain map and exhorted Gao De.

Gao De, who took the information, nodded to the staff member to show that he understood, and then turned and left.

After returning to Building 30 in the First District, Gao De hurriedly took out the rare spell formula he had just obtained and flipped through it: 【Insect Swarm Proliferation】 (Conjuration, 0-circle):

You cause mites, fleas, mosquitoes, and other insects to appear temporarily on a creature within range (30 feet) that you can see.

The target suffers a certain amount of poison damage depending on the strength of its physique, and experiences negative states such as itching and paralysis.

After reading the spell introduction of 【Insect Swarm Proliferation】, Gao De instantly understood why it was a rare spell formula.

As introduced by the staff in the task hall, the damage of this spell is not outstanding.

The negative states such as itching and paralysis do not have a very fatal impact in battle.

Although the attack method is novel, that's all.

But...

This spell is actually a "directional skill"! It has no spell trajectory; as long as the target is within the spell range, it will take effect on the target.

Equivalent to having two additional effects: "100% hit rate" and "instant effect."

The name of rare spell is well-deserved.

Facts have proved:

Ordinary spells are not necessarily weak, but the reason why rare spells are rare is that they must have outstanding features.

(End of chapter)