Chapter 179

Facts have proven that Gao De's worry was superfluous.

It seems that he was busy with spell learning and couldn't spare time to compete with Gao De for credits.

Or perhaps after his genius persona in learning became more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Yilan also knew that he couldn't compete with Gao De in credits, and rationally chose to give up.

In short, by Flower Flame Month, Yilan did not choose extra courses for himself.

This also means that if there are no other situations, his credits for the first academic year stopped at 31 points.

Completely lost the possibility of competing with Gao De for the first place in freshman credits.

Gao De, who had no competitive pressure, also breathed a sigh of relief.

——Learning is not difficult, but tuition is expensive!

If he continues to compete, he will fall into a financial crisis before the next academic year arrives.

The remaining few courses also came to an end one after another.

The first to start was the final assessment of the "Spell Application and Combat" course.

Since it is called application and combat, the assessment content is naturally not theory, but practical assessment, testing the students' application ability and control ability of spells.

Instructor Farong set up ten different assessments for the ten most common cantrips for magic user apprentices.

For example, the assessment of 【Mage Hand】 is to use Mage Hand to disassemble and assemble an alchemy machine part.

Students choose two spells from them for corresponding assessment.

Then Instructor Farong will give the final score based on the students' performance in these two spell assessments.

Gao De chose 【Mage Hand】 and 【Fire Arrow】 as his assessment items.

The assessment content of 【Fire Arrow】 is to hit two fast-moving spell-testing puppets within the specified time.

Obviously, for Gao De, these two assessment contents are easy.

"Done, instructor." As if cheating, but actually cheating, he finished the two assessments quickly, and Gao De signaled.

"Gao De!" Instructor Farong, who had just finished assigning the assessment content and precautions to Gao De and turned to explain matters to another student, turned his head with an unbelievable expression.

He stared at Gao De, who completed the two assessment contents in almost one minute, and shouted at Gao De, unable to suppress the emotions in his heart: "Why did you finish all the assessments so quickly?"

"You told me to do this, instructor."

"My god!" Instructor Farong's voice became louder and louder. It shouldn't be called speaking, it should be roared out with ecstasy:

"This is a new record for this course assessment!"

"If it weren't for the academy's clear regulations that compulsory courses must be carried out in stages, I would definitely let you participate in the third stage assessment of this course directly and graduate from this course directly!"

"And now, I can only give you full marks!"

For a time, all the students on the field heard what Instructor Farong said and cast shocked gazes at Gao De.

Gao De's genius persona in learning has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it is not the first time he has obtained full marks.

So, he obtained full marks again, logically speaking, they shouldn't be surprised.

The problem is, this is the "Spell Application and Combat" class! It assesses spells, not learning.

How come Gao De also possesses talent in this aspect that even Instructor Farong is shocked by? Gao De pretended not to see the surprised and envious gazes around him, nodded to Instructor Farong, and then silently exited—having been an academic bully for a lifetime, he was already very familiar with this set.

For the remaining "Magic User Basics" first stage course, "Spiritual Land Reclamation and Utilization," and "Extreme Environment Survival Skills," Gao De also passed the final assessment with high scores.

As for "Rune Studies"... because he has always been learning with He Xi and self-studying, there is no reference object.

So Gao De only knew that his learning content had exceeded the first stage, but he was still a bit unsure about the specific assessment.

Therefore, Gao De, who had been focusing on practicing brushwork during this time, specially took half a day before the assessment to go through the previous rune study materials again.

As a result, when it came to the assessment, he found that the assessment content actually required students to choose five from the ten zero-level basic runes given to draw.

Each rune has three drawing opportunities.

That is to say, as long as you have mastered about half of the zero-level basic runes, and your luck is not too bad, you can pass the assessment.

Gao De, who saw the assessment content, had the first thought: just this?

"Rune Studies" is a major course with a course span of ten months, and the assessment content is so simple, which indeed exceeded Gao De's expectations.

After all, when he had been learning rune studies for two and a half months, he had already mastered all 651 zero-level basic runes.

Without any accident, Gao De also passed the test of "Rune Studies" with full marks.

Finally, Gao De's first academic year ended.

Subsequently, it was a one-month waiting period.

By Frost Gold Month, the first academic year of all freshmen also ended.

The final first place in freshman credits fell on Gao De without any suspense.

This year he completed a total of eighteen courses and passed the assessments.

And more than half of the final assessment scores were full marks, obtaining a total of 36 credits.

It can only be said that in the first year at Seris Academy, Gao De's life was exceptionally fulfilling.

The second is Yilan, who obtained a total of 31 credits.

The third is naturally Jielika, who obtained a total of 25 credits, which is also a very high score.

Because in the ninth month after entering Seris Academy, which is Flower Flame Month, after drinking Soul-Ascension Water, she successfully promoted to a 1st-circle magic user and received an extra credit reward of 8 points.

25 credits, in any freshman class in the past twenty years, would be the first place in freshman credits for that class.

But this year, it can only rank third.

It is conceivable how intense the competition for freshman credits was this year.

And Gao De's first place in credits was snatched from the hands of two 1st-circle magic users, so the gold content naturally goes without saying.

After the credit ranking came out, the titles of the three great geniuses of the 9655th freshman class of Seris Academy—Gao De, Yilan, and Jielika—were also upgraded, removing the prefix "9655th freshman class."

However, among the three great geniuses, Gao De, who ranked first in credits, was actually the last one.

After all, in the world of magic users, magic user talent is always the evaluation standard with the highest proportion.

Gao De's learning talent has been fully displayed, and his spell talent also has a thin reputation, but the magic user level of a second-rank magic user apprentice is still too much of a drag.

But in fact, thanks to the drive of mental power, on the last day of Harvest Month, Gao De's guidance method had already been cultivated to the 18-cantrip level.

And it is only a matter of a few days before the next breakthrough.

And in the middle of Dark Night Month, the last petal of the apprentice meditation technique was also manifested by Gao De.

This declares that Gao De has cultivated the apprentice meditation technique to perfection, just waiting for the guidance method to catch up, and he can try to be promoted to a 1st-circle magic user.

The most urgent thing in front of Gao De is to expand the spell library.

It can be said that it is already imminent.

The reason why Gao De has been slow to act is also very simple, in a word: poor! The uninterrupted rental of the first-rank cultivation room means an expenditure of 10 silver coins a day.

Plus, even if he saves on food and clothing, daily living expenses require at least 1 silver.

From Green Leaf Month to now, only out and no in, Gao De's once three-digit savings have reached single digits.

To be precise, it is 1 gold and 18 silver.

This little money is only enough to barely have a meal, not enough to pay for the next cultivation room expenditure, let alone buy spell formulas.

Fortunately, Gao De finally waited for the end of the first academic year.

The freshman credit ranking has settled.

The 100 gold reward belonging to the first place in freshman credits is also about to "arrive".

(End of chapter)