Chapter 403

In shock, everyone's movements didn't stop, and they had already controlled the alchemical machine to drag the Black-Winged Scaled Snake to the pier.

Its huge body was coiled and piled together, emitting a strong fishy smell.

The huge wound on the head was even more amazing, and one could imagine the intensity of the battle process at that time.

"Master Mage is mighty!" Someone couldn't help but "flatter."

"This is a second-rank earth-vein creature, the master is so young, and he is already a second-circle mage..." Someone else sighed about this.

Under normal circumstances, only second-circle mages can kill second-rank earth-vein creatures.

So this cognition is also no problem.

Of course, Gao De would not specifically explain and correct it.

Just thinking that he really killed a powerful second-rank earth-vein creature, Gao De couldn't help but touch the hilt of the North Wind.

This is different from Du Wei, that "water-goods second-circle mage"; the Black-Winged Scaled Snake is a genuine second-rank fierce creature with good combat power.

Although he borrowed the power of the Zhenbing magic weapon, no matter what, it can be considered that he already possesses the power to kill a second-rank earth-vein creature alone.

With the level of a first-circle mage.

Under the strict mage system, completing such a record, the sense of achievement is no less than doing the last final question of the college entrance examination mathematics paper.

While enjoying it, Gao De was even more moved by the power of Su Naifa.

It is so difficult for the first circle to win the second rank, not to mention the fourth circle winning the fifth rank, which has a larger gap and is more difficult.

I don't know if I will be able to possess such heaven-defying strength in the future.

At least from the current point of view, it is very reluctant.

But everything is hard to say.

Because every time you advance a circle, the newly awakened expertise will bring a possibility of "carp leaping over the dragon gate" to the mage.

Perhaps the next time he advances a circle, he will awaken some heaven-defying combat expertise.

"This serpent monster has appeared several times in a row recently, making everyone worried, but the master killed it on the first day he came! It really solved a big problem for us!"

"Sea Hai Shao Bing mages are Sea Hai Shao Bing mages; you know if they have it as soon as they make a move."

"..."

On this side, those people were still sighing constantly.

Listening to their discussion, Gao De smiled slightly.

It must be said that looking at their shocked eyes and flattering words, it is still very cool in the heart.

No one doesn't like to be praised, especially this kind of praise with true feelings.

"Help me deal with its corpse, and then send it to..." Gao De opened his mouth, gave his address, and said: "As for the snake meat, each of you will be divided into five jin."

This means remuneration.

Asking people to help, naturally, you have to pay remuneration.

Hearing Gao De's words, the eyes of the people present lit up.

The flesh and blood of second-rank earth-vein creatures are very valuable.

Snake meat is even more nourishing, and the price will be raised by another level.

"Thank you, Master Mage!"

"Leave it to us!"

"Don't worry, we will definitely handle it properly for you!"

As for Gao De now...

He first took out the water capybara bag, called out to the lake water gently, and put away Tuanzi.

Then...

Go back to sleep!

Back to the hotel.

Gao De took off his blood-stained clothes and then took off the rune construct.

On his chest, there was a bruise, and the color of the bruise was close to black.

The last tail swing of the Black-Winged Scaled Snake before death, which was powerful and carried the force of a thousand jun, fell straight on Gao De's chest.

Even with the dual protection of the shield spell and the rune construct, he still suffered not-so-light injuries in the face of the powerful power of the second-rank earth-vein creature.

After confirming that the Black-Winged Scaled Snake was dead, Gao De gave himself a healing spell at the first moment.

But even so, the skin at the bruise was still in a swollen state.

Every time he breathed, Gao De could feel the sharp pain coming from his chest, like a dull knife cutting meat.

Gao De knew that a healing spell alone was not enough.

His heart moved, he mobilized the magic power remaining in his body, and cast 【Divine Berry Spell+】.

The jewel sweet berries created by 【Divine Berry Spell+】 also possess healing effects.

After obtaining the jewel sweet berries, Gao De stuffed them into his mouth one by one, ate eight jewel sweet berries in a row, reached the upper limit, and then stopped.

A warm force had already spread and diffused on his chest.

Afterward, he mobilized his magic power again and gave himself a 【Comfortable Slumber+】.

With the effect of the spell, a warm and comfortable feeling wrapped him, his body gradually relaxed, and his tense nerves slowly eased.

He couldn't hold on anymore, lay on the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.

During the comfortable sleep, the natural recovery speed of Gao De's injuries will be doubled.

Moreover, when he was suffering from frostbite, 【Adaptation】 also increased his body's injury recovery ability to 79.6%.

This is equivalent to a quadruple buff blessing.

Therefore, after Gao De entered sleep, the color of the bruise on his chest began to lighten visibly, slowly turning from near-black to deep purple, then to purple-red, until finally, some blood color was restored.

The swelling also began to subside slowly.

Gao De was woken up by a knock on the door.

However, nearly six hours had passed since he fell asleep, and even if no one disturbed him, he would soon wake up naturally.

It was the people from the sheriff's office.

They worked for most of the day and finally finished processing and decomposing the corpse of that huge Black-Winged Scaled Snake, and according to the address given by Gao De, sent it to him.

The Black-Winged Scaled Snake was six or seven meters long; not to mention anything else, the meat pieces alone that were cut down were more than six hundred jin.

Of course, the most valuable thing was the scales on the Black-Winged Scaled Snake; in addition, the snake gall of the Black-Winged Scaled Snake was also a top-notch magic medicine material, and the snake blood was the same.

This Black-Winged Scaled Snake, because its meat is edible and extremely abundant, has a total value of more than five hundred golden sparrow coins.

——Killing monsters is always extremely profitable.

But in most cases, these earth-vein creatures live in the wilderness.

Even if mages kill them, without the legendary space storage equipment, they can only choose to collect some parts of the earth-vein creature with higher value and lighter weight to take back to the city for sale according to their own load-bearing capacity.

Gao De had also operated like this before.

But this time it was different.

Clearing out water beasts in the inland water system near the city generally has boats as transportation tools, and transportation is convenient, so most of them can bring the killed water beasts back completely.

Gao De thanked the "delivery" people and divided a jin of snake meat to each of them as thanks.

Afterward, he put these goods in the room first, and he himself brought some "samples" out.

But it wasn't to go out to eat.

Eight jewel sweet berries in his stomach, he wouldn't be hungry for at least this day.

Gao De went out to find a buyer for these snake meats.

He could take things like snake scales back to Encheng and put them in his own Walmart Magic Materials Store to sell slowly.

But there were more than six hundred jin of snake meat, which was not easy to carry.

And this thing is not like snake scales that are fine after being left for half a year, but the fresher it is, the better the price.

Edible earth-vein creature meat is not worried about sales at all in a big city like Brost City.

There are many rich people in the local area who just like this bite.

So Gao De just walked through two high-end restaurants, and except for leaving a small amount for Tuanzi to change its taste, the rest of the snake meat was sold out.

The average price per jin was as high as 5 silver dragons, which was already three hundred golden sparrow coins in the account.

Plus the military merit that was about to be obtained, the total income of this mission was definitely more than eight hundred golden sparrow coins.

Since the mission had been completed, Gao De didn't stay in Brost any longer.

He spent half a day strolling around the city seriously, and sure enough, he collected more than ten new tree seeds that had not been collected before.

Early the next morning.

Gao De checked out of the room, brought large and small bags of supplies, and boarded the first airship back to Encheng.

Sea Abyss White Tower.

Material Department.

"Deliver the mission." Gao De walked in boldly and placed a bulging cloth bag on the table.

Old Neil heard the sound, looked up, found it was Gao De, and was slightly surprised: "Back so soon? You did this mission quite smoothly."

He had worked in the Material Department for so many years and knew clearly that in most cases, missions of the water beast clearing type would take seven or eight days from acceptance to delivery.

And Gao De accepted the mission on the afternoon of the 1st of Spring Bud Month, and now it is only the morning of the 4th, and he is already back.

Even the observation period of the 【Crab Disaster Hidden Danger】 mission he completed before had not ended yet.

This extraordinary efficiency made him feel somewhat incredible.

While sighing, Old Neil skillfully untied the cloth bag and carried out "inspection."

As soon as the bag was untied, a ferocious triangular skull came into view.

A pair of dark green vertical pupils made people feel fearful in their hearts.

The top of the head was a mess, with broken scales and solidified blood intertwined, and white bones exposed, one could imagine what kind of huge damage and blow it suffered before death.

"This is..." Looking at this huge triangular skull, Old Neil's mouth opened slightly, "Second-rank Black-Winged Scaled Snake? You killed it?"

Not only was the mission completed within three days, but it was also over-completed?

Thinking back to the last time Gao De defeated the second-circle Du Wei and won three second-class merits in one fell swoop, he thought there was a luck factor in it at the time...

Once might be luck.

Twice, then there are inevitable factors.

Old Neil couldn't help but look Gao De up and down.

A grassroots mage, why can he do things that noble mages find difficult to do one after another?

"I killed it. Master Neil doesn't know, the expertise I awakened when I advanced to the first circle is related to combat, and it is particularly restraining to earth-vein creatures, so killing monsters is much easier and simpler for me..."

Gao De revealed some information, half-true and half-false, and attributed the reason why he could win against enemies across levels one after another to expertise.

This is a universal explanation.

Because the awakening of expertise is too random, no one knows what kind of expertise a mage can awaken, and what kind of things can be done by relying on expertise.

Old Neil actually felt a bit unbelievable in his heart.

Expertise is very important, this is recognized, but to say that an expertise can allow Gao De to cross the strict level suppression, he actually felt it was not very possible in his heart.

Gao De smiled "shyly" at Old Neil at this time, "Can this count as second-class merit?"

Old Neil was silent for a moment, flipped through the mission list, checked it carefully, nodded, and confirmed: "According to the mission classification, I will record a second-class merit for you."

Gao De smiled.

Although it cannot compare to the harvest of winning three second-class merits in one breath last time, that mission was more complex after all, and there were extra rewards.

Being able to get a second-class merit, he was already very satisfied.

On the second-class merit exchange list of the Sea Sentinels, except for the Divine Berry Spell, the exchange price of all other rare first-circle spell formulas is a unified second-class merit.

This is equivalent to another rare spell formula in hand.

"Right, there is also this," he took out the head of the Serrated Puffer killed on the first night at Esmer Lake, which was much smaller than the serpent monster, "Besides this second-rank Black-Winged Scaled Snake, I also accidentally discovered a first-rank Serrated Puffer and solved it by the way."

Master Neil picked up the head of the Serrated Puffer, observed it carefully, and then said: "First-rank Serrated Puffer, count it as a third-class merit for you."

Gao De nodded with satisfaction.

Many a little makes a mickle; with more third-class merits, you can also exchange for spell formulas.

Old Neil had already taken out a piece of parchment from the drawer and lowered his head to start recording Gao De's military merit this time seriously.

A moment later, Old Neil, who had finished recording, looked up and found that Gao De hadn't left yet.

"Is there anything else?"

"Master Neil, I want to use this second-class merit to exchange for the spell formula of 【Appraisal】." Gao De put forward his exchange request.

When he browsed the exchange list last time, he had already made arrangements for the spell formulas he was going to exchange next.

So as soon as the military merit was in hand, Gao De didn't need to deliberate anymore and immediately put forward the exchange request.

Master Neil was slightly stunned.

Mages like Gao De who want to use their military merit immediately after it is in hand are actually really rare.

However, he still reacted quickly, wrote the exchange form, asked Gao De to sign it, and then called the staff to take Gao De's mission record and exchange request for review.

About half an hour later, the staff member came back with the spell formula Gao De needed.

"Thank you." With the spell formula in hand, Gao De said thank you, left the Material Department, and then turned and went straight to the Finance Office for reimbursement.

Old Neil picked up the military merit record that had passed the review and stood up.

He came to the file room inside the Material Department and found Gao De's military merit book.

This military merit book was still very new.

Old Neil put this new military merit record in.

"Second-class merit, I will get it again soon."

For some reason, the words Gao De said when he exchanged second-class merit for ordinary first-circle spell formulas last time suddenly flashed in his ears.

He wanted to advise Gao De at the time that second-class merit was not so easy to get.

However, looking at those three second-class merits, the words of advice were ultimately not spoken.

And now... Gao De had verified that his "bold words" at the time were definitely not big talk.

"His momentum is much more amazing than Master Du Wei's back then." Old Neil muttered to himself.

Du Wei's sudden rise back then made many people think that he would finally enter the "Light Hai Shao Bing."

It's just that the development of things in the end far exceeded his expectations.

So much so that now another "Du Wei" appeared, making Old Neil's first reaction actually somewhat worried.

And what exactly he was worried about, he couldn't say.

First-floor lobby of the Mage Tower.

After finishing the reimbursement, Gao De stood in front of the crystal board again to select missions.

But good luck is no longer there.

This time, none of the missions listed on the crystal board were ones he could accept.

The missions above had level restrictions, and the lowest was also restricted to second-circle mages.

In fact, this is the normal situation.

Among the mage group, the number of first-circle mages must be much larger than that of second-circle mages.

But among the Sea Sentinels, it is the other way around.

Here, second-circle mages are the ones with the largest number.

In this environment, it is common for first-circle mages to have no missions to do.

One is that for missions of this level, in many cases, the local sheriff's office can handle them by themselves, and it is not said that they must be reported to the Sea Sentinels.

The second is because missions of this level are rare, so the competition is more intense, everyone is rushing to do them, and there are fewer empty ones.

In most cases, in order to ensure the completion efficiency and success rate of missions, Sea Hai Shao Bing missions will be evaluated before release, and strict level restrictions will be set.

If you don't reach the level, you absolutely cannot accept the mission.

However, the Sea Sentinels also considered that individual mages might be too heaven-defying and possess cross-level combat power.

So outside of strict level restrictions, an extra opening was opened: military rank.

Mage level or military rank, as long as one of them meets the requirements, you can accept the mission.

For example, for most missions that are limited to mage levels of second circle and above, as long as the military rank reaches second lieutenant and above, you can ignore the level requirements and accept the mission.

Of course, this is not something that Gao De, a first-class apprentice mage, should think about now.

His mentality is very good.

There is no mission to accept today, so let's go back and settle down first!

(End of chapter)