Chapter 98: Progress

After confirming Gao De's intention to stay, the staff member wrote down the 4th of the Harvest Month on Gao De's summons order and stamped it with a seal.

Then, Gao De received the "daily salary" of 5 gold coins again.

At the same time, he estimated that there were about five hundred magic users who had originally applied.

After one day, one-tenth chose to leave.

The rest chose to continue working.

If calculated based on four hundred and fifty people, even if they were all magic apprentices, the daily employment expenditure of Bremen City would be almost 4500 Saint Xi En gold coins.

And in one day, the team could only advance more than ten kilometers.

If everything went smoothly, it would take more than half a month to complete this task.

One day, 4500 gold; according to purchasing power conversion, it was equivalent to about 4.5 million yuan on Earth.

This labor cost could be said to be shockingly high.

But Gao De pondered carefully, and it didn't seem excessive.

On Earth, the construction cost of building one kilometer of highway was between 20 million and 30 million yuan.

By comparison, an expenditure of 4.5 million yuan could advance ten kilometers, and land reclamation would also have the loot harvest of ley line creature corpses.

The value of these ley line creature corpses, not to mention allowing the official side to break even or even make a small profit, could at least recover a lot of blood.

This time going out, besides purchasing five sets of "Blue Light Potion" from the magic potion shop, Gao De also replenished five sets of "Basic Mana Potion."

The 10 sets of basic mana potions purchased on the 2nd of the Harvest Month were just consumed yesterday.

The expenditure on magic potions alone in one month was as high as 60 gold.

But Gao De could only grit his teeth and accept it.

The more battles he experienced, the more he felt the shortage of mana.

Therefore, exchanging money for the progress of mana growth, while seemingly an extravagant behavior, was also extremely necessary.

After a good dinner, Gao De found a quiet corner, and while no one was paying attention, took out a bottle of basic mana potion and drank it, then ignored the surrounding noise, sat quietly, and began to practice the guidance method.

Even in the wild, he was not prepared to interrupt his practice.

After all, this time it was foreseeable that he would stay in the wild for more than half a month.

Gao De could not tolerate interrupting his practice for so long.

On the second day, when the sky was just dawning, the guards responsible for logistics had already cooked meat soup in the pot.

In this world, there were no sayings like "breakfast is the source of energy for the day" or "breakfast is the most important meal of the day," whether scientific or unscientific.

The fact was that not everyone in this world would eat breakfast.

Especially among the laboring class, because it was common to start working at dawn.

If there was breakfast, it was also very simple, including leftovers, cold bread from the previous day paired with water or light wine.

So although everyone needed to perform tasks and consumed a lot of physical strength, and could not just deal with it casually, equipping everyone with a bowl of meat soup was already a very high treatment.

The staple food was still dry rations.

After breakfast, everyone gathered according to yesterday's team composition.

"Yesterday was the first day, and some people just came on a whim."

"After a day of tasks yesterday, I believe that those who still stay now will not leave in the short term."

"Let me introduce myself first. My name is Ma Qieyi, a Rank 1 magic user and a member of the law enforcement team." The leading magic user, who had not revealed his surname to everyone yesterday, took the initiative to introduce himself today before setting off.

"Everyone, let's exchange names and magic user ranks as well; we will be together for more than half a month."

Ma Qieyi took the lead, and everyone followed suit and exchanged basic information.

Gao De calculated that their temporary team, including Ma Qieyi, had a total of twenty-three people.

Except for Ma Qieyi, who was a Rank 1 magic user, among the remaining twenty-two people, 11 were third-class magic apprentices, and 11 were second-class magic apprentices, which was exactly a fifty-fifty split.

After a slight glance, Gao De could basically confirm that the one with the lowest actual rank in the entire team should be himself.

Because for the others, even the youngest looked like they should be in their twenties.

At this age, even if they were still second-class magic apprentices, they were definitely not comparable to him, a "new recruit" who had just been promoted to a second-class apprentice a month ago.

"Although the rank is low, I have mastered many spells," Gao De thought to himself.

Yesterday, when clearing the Gray-Spined Bee swarm, more than half of the people could only watch.

Without mana, no matter how many spells one mastered, it was all in vain.

And vice versa.

After simple tidying up, the main force set off again.

The arrangement was still the same as yesterday.

Moving along the official road, every kilometer or so, two teams were dropped off to enter the dense forest on both sides of the official road to carry out land reclamation work.

Days passed one by one. Everyone's ability to deal with ley line creatures and their degree of tacit cooperation were steadily improving.

But as land reclamation progressed, casualties gradually appeared.

Almost every day, several magic apprentices unfortunately sacrificed themselves.

Gao De's team was very lucky; although some people were injured, there had been no reduction in personnel so far.

The only thing that made him dissatisfied was that "reward levels" like the Gray-Spined Bee swarm had never been encountered again.

8th of the Harvest Month.

Five days had passed since the main force set off from Bremen City.

Night.

By the carriage next to the campfire.

Gao De sat cross-legged and had entered a state of meditation.

It could be seen that in the entire temporary camp, many magic apprentices were doing the same thing as Gao De.

After all, wild magic users who would respond to the summons order mostly had a heart of "striving."

And diligent practice was just the most basic thing for magic users.

Half an hour later.

Gao De opened his eyes, and a look of joy appeared on his face.

"Finally, another breakthrough!"

His guidance method had just improved by a small level.

Now, Gao De's mana was enough to support him in casting eight cantrips.

He calculated, the last time the guidance method broke through was on the 1st of the Sunshine Month, when he first arrived in Bremen City.

Only thirty-seven days had passed, and it had actually improved again.

It was several days faster than expected.

"It might be related to the constant use and recovery of mana during this period," Gao De thought secretly.

After thinking for a while, he closed his eyes again, concentrated his attention, and opened the simple information panel of "Fengling Yueying."

Source:

Rank 0—【Human】 (2/7), 【Digging Worm】 (1/7), 【Wolf Rat】 (4/7), 【Magic Explosion Frog】 (1/7), 【Fierce Rat】 (3/7), 【Earth Magic Bat】 (2/7).

A total of 11 entries; excluding the five points of source that had been collected and used, there were still 6 entries in progress.

【Human】 need not be considered for now.

【Digging Worm】 was the same; in these five days, not only his team but other teams had never encountered one.

It should be that the ley line plane territory connected by the "Hogan Ley Line" did not exist with this kind of ley line creature.

【Wolf Rat】 was only three short, which was the closest to full progress.

As for 【Magic Explosion Frog】, thinking of this thing, Gao De still had lingering fears.

It looked like "frog" was the weakest among these entries.

But in the supernatural world, one must never judge by common sense.

In fact, in these five days, the Magic Explosion Frog was one of the most difficult Rank 0 ley line creatures Gao De had encountered.

Because this thing possessed supernatural power and had spell-like abilities, it could shoot a fierce energy beam from its mouth, and the power was shockingly high.

According to Ma Qieyi, the spell-like ability mastered by the Magic Explosion Frog was equivalent to the cantrip 【Magic Explosion】.

And 【Magic Explosion】 could almost be said to be the most powerful spell among cantrips, even surpassing 【Fire Arrow】.

Fortunately, the Magic Explosion Frog could not continuously spray and cast energy beams.

So after it injured a magic apprentice, it was blasted into charcoal by Gao De with a timely and accurate 【Fire Arrow+】.

【Fierce Rat】 was the weakest ley line creature among these entries; it neither had the body size of the 【Wolf Rat】 nor appeared in swarms like the 【Fierce Bat】.

So almost as soon as it was discovered, it was easily resolved by the magic apprentices in the team.

【Earth Magic Bat】 was another Rank 0 ley line creature that mastered supernatural abilities, but it was not a spell-like ability; instead, it could spray ruler-cone-shaped gravel from its mouth.

The power was also not to be underestimated, and it was a rare case of appearing in teams, with as many as eight or nine.

However, with Ma Qieyi, who was a Rank 1 magic user, taking action in time, this team of 【Earth Magic Bat】 did not cause much damage to the team.

And because it was a flying ley line creature, relying on the range of 【Fire Arrow+】, Gao De actually killed two of them.

Of course, in these five days, the ley line creatures cleared by Gao De's team were far more than these.

It was just "snatching a kill is really damn hard!" Gao De once again uttered the complaint he had repeated countless times in the past few days.

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