Chapter 400

Brost City.

Luo Jun is a coastal county, with many cities built along the sea, relying on maritime trade to become rich.

But Brost City is an inland city, not bordering the sea on all sides, and the largest water area under its jurisdiction is Esmer Lake.

As a non-coastal city in a coastal county, normally its development should be unsatisfactory.

But the fact is that in Luo Jun, Brost City's economy is in the middle tier, far stronger than the coastal city of Lagos.

The reason why it can be like this is because Brost City is located in the center of Luo Jun and is the intersection of Luo Jun's land transportation and inland river shipping.

That is, where the "inland transportation hub" is located.

Relying on its status as a "logistics center," there are three airship bases in the city alone.

Therefore, although Brost City's development cannot compare with those strong coastal cities, it firmly occupies the middle position in Luo Jun and can be considered a traditional city with deep foundations.

Returning to Brost City from Esmer Lake, Gao De first went to the local sheriff's office to "pay a visit."

After stating his purpose, he successfully borrowed a long rowing boat they usually used to patrol the water area for free.

After borrowing the boat, the sheriff on duty also warmly invited Gao De to share lunch, but Gao De declined, saying he was exhausted after a busy night and needed to rest.

Immediately following was a round of polite words like "Master Gao De is tireless, it is so admirable, we must take you as an example..."

Leaving the sheriff's office, Gao De found a hotel in the city that met the reimbursement standards, opened a room, and prepared to rest.

A night of highly concentrated and tense patrolling consumed a lot of energy, not to mention that he had to continue working tonight.

If he didn't maintain a good state, if the Esmer Lake serpent monster was really a second-rank Black-Winged Scaled Snake, that would be enough for him to handle.

Not to mention earning a second-class merit, he might even lose his life.

Gao De would not blindly expand because he had once personally defeated a second-circle mage and his own combat power had improved compared to that time.

In fact, in most cases, the combat power of second-rank earth-vein creatures is stronger than that of mages of the same level.

This is because in order to survive, in an environment where the weak are prey to the strong, all the "talent points" of earth-vein creatures are placed on combat, including powerful bodies and various supernatural powers born for combat.

But mages are different; their development directions are diverse, and the proportion of battle mages who truly specialize in combat among the mage group is actually not high.

Of course, the combat power of battle mages is far stronger than that of earth-vein creatures of the same level.

And Du Wei was neither a battle mage nor a senior second-circle mage.

So the record of defeating Du Wei was not enough to be his confidence to underestimate the Esmer Lake serpent monster.

However, compared to human mages, earth-vein creatures also have their weaknesses: although they have a certain IQ, it is ultimately limited; generally, they cannot rely on the power of external objects...

It was precisely considering this that Gao De chose to accept this mission.

Of course, risks definitely exist.

A first-circle mage fighting a second-rank earth-vein creature, and still in a water area, occupying the home-field advantage, no matter how you look at it, the chances of winning are slim.

But to exchange for rare spell formulas, one must earn second-class merit.

No matter how many third-class merits there are, they cannot be used as second-class merit.

In order to improve the strength of the expertise awakened when advancing to the second circle, rare spells must be mastered and expanded.

Therefore, even if there are risks, it must be done.

Gao De didn't think much, cast 【Comfortable Slumber+】 on himself, and fell into a deep sleep.

After nearly five hours of deep sleep, Gao De woke up refreshed, and the fatigue accumulated overnight had long since dissipated.

The first thing after waking up, he spent half an hour casting the magic mark method on the Thunder Yili egg, injecting his magic power into the egg in an extremely subtle and stable way, allowing the unhatched Thunder Yili to become familiar with his magic power.

Afterward, it was the daily cultivation.

After all this was finished, Gao De, who was already hungry, went out to eat, and took the opportunity to stroll through the market to carry out the tree seed collection that must be done every time he arrives at a new place.

As the "inland transportation hub" of Luo Jun, the variety of goods in Brost City is particularly rich and complete, and goods from all over the world gather and transfer here, so that the tree seeds are much richer than those in the county seat of Encheng.

Just by strolling around the city roughly, Gao De had a fruitful harvest and collected more than thirty new tree seeds.

However, the same thing was that magic tree seeds were still rare, and he didn't receive a single one.

After such a toss, the sky had turned deep blue again, and the night curtain, like a huge piece of black silk, was slowly covering the city.

Gao De immediately left the city, went to the small pier where the sheriff's office moored boats, showed the documents to the guards, and successfully received a small boat.

Compared to the fishing boat he had borrowed from the fishermen before, the patrol boat of the sheriff's office was more slender, light, and durable.

Exquisite oars were installed on both sides of the hull, which could reduce the resistance when rowing, making it more efficient and flexible on the water, and convenient for docking and turning.

Gao De boarded the boat, rowed the oars, and rowed toward the shore where he had docked the fishing boat this morning.

By this time, the sky had completely darkened.

There was a special lighting lantern at the bow of the patrol boat, but Gao De still didn't light the lamp and chose to move forward in the dark.

Esmer Lake at night was unusually quiet, and there was only the sound of Gao De rowing on the entire lake surface.

Just at this moment, under the lake water, a slender shadow swam past, its gray tail fin flashed and disappeared on the water surface, leaving only a fleeting ripple.

Gao De, however, was not panicked but revealed a smile.

"Ready to work." He said to the lake surface.

The next moment, the originally calm lake water suddenly splashed, and Tuanzi poked its round head out of the lake water, shaking its two front fins up and down at Gao De.

Gao De took out the serpent monster activity water area map obtained from the sheriff's office, first excluded his search area from last night, and planned tonight's search route in order from near to far.

Even with a general area range and divine berry baiting, it was still very difficult to find a serpent monster with mysterious whereabouts.

The first half of the night passed quickly, and Gao De still gained nothing.

The deeper the night, the more profound the pitch-black water surface appeared.

Gao De threw several jewel sweet berries into a new water area again, then rowed the boat to the side and began to wait for the rabbit.

After waiting for about half an hour like this, just as he was about to put away the jewel sweet berries and change locations.

Gentle water waves suddenly rippled.

It looked as if it were just ripples caused by the lake breeze blowing across the lake water.

But Gao De knew it wasn't.

His Mandola Magic Eye had already lit up, insight into everything.

In the field of vision at this moment, where the water waves rippled, he clearly saw the veins of energy flow.

Water beast.

Not necessarily a serpent monster, but definitely a water beast.

Whoosh.

In the darkness, in the lake water below the jewel sweet berries, a huge black shadow swam past.

The lake water formed a whirlpool, and the jewel sweet berries were in the center of the whirlpool, being swept into it.

The whirlpool flashed and disappeared, and the lake surface quickly returned to calm, but the jewel sweet berries were already gone.

Good fellow, this stealing action is quite nimble!

While Gao De sighed in his heart, he had already carried the North Wind and leaped into the water.

And Tuanzi, who was lurking near the jewel sweet berries, had already rushed out!

(End of chapter)