Above the mage!

Chapter 136 Making money! Make money!
The official average price of a 0-level spell recipe is 6 gold coins.

Gaode currently has 19 spells, 35 short of 16.

By this calculation, it would cost at least 96 gold coins just to purchase the spell formula.

And this is the lowest price.

Because the further you go, the more difficult it becomes to purchase spell recipes that you haven't mastered, and the more money you'll need to spend.

In addition, spell recipes are divided into two levels: common and rare.

Rare spell recipes are not only difficult to buy with money, but are also usually much more expensive than ordinary spell recipes.

Therefore, if Gaode wants to expand his spell library to more than 35 before being promoted to a first-ring wizard, he must prepare at least hundreds of gold coins.

His current deposit balance is: 90 gold and 19 silver.

It has already fallen below the 100 gold mark and is still decreasing at a steady rate.

Although the college does not have to pay for housing rent, meals still have to be paid for.

In addition, the cost of renting a first-level training room is 10 silver/2 hours.

If the leak-free water can really be preserved, with its blessing, the time Gaode needs to rent the training room per day will be extended to two and a half hours.

The expenditure will increase accordingly to 12.5 silver.

This can be considered a daily fixed expense.

You will also need to pay a lot of course fees if you choose to take elective courses in the future.

This is another foreseeable large expense.

"Make money, make money!" After thinking about it, a deep sense of "fiscal deficit" crisis suddenly surged into Gao De's heart.

Finding a stable way to make money suddenly became urgent.

Potion?

Without one's own medicine garden to reduce the cost of raw materials, the profit from preparing zero-level potions would be too low, and it would be pure hard-earned money.

Not consider.

Go back to old profession and become a restoration craftsman?

This requires no cost and is 100% profit.

However, even in an environment like Seres Academy, which is full of mages, the total number of damaged spell items that need to be repaired would not be too large.

So this is a way to make money, but it is not stable and is more like a one-time deal.

Moreover, how to attract business is also a problem.
Live by the mountain, eat by the mountain; live by the sea, eat by the sea.
After some screening, Gaode found that under the current circumstances, the most practical way to "make money" seems to be to work for the college and undertake the college tasks provided by the college logistics department.

And to be honest, he was also quite curious about what kind of academy tasks the academy would provide.

When Gao De thought of the logistics department, he suddenly remembered something else:

He hasn't paid the monthly maintenance fee of 5 silver coins for the "dormitory" yet.
If I delay any further, I’m afraid I’ll be put on the college’s list of “deadbeats”.

He couldn't afford to lose this person.

This trip to the logistics department is a must.
Logistics Department, Finance Office.

Gao De handed his identity badge and the three gold coins he had prepared to the old scholar in the office who was wearing the work uniform of Ceres Academy.

He plans to pay one year's maintenance fee in advance while he has plenty of money.

"Gaudet, pay the annual maintenance fee for Building 30 in District 3, a total of gold coins."

The old scholar took Gao De's things, lowered his head to record them, and confirmed with Gao De again.

"Recorded" After a moment, he handed Gao De's identity badge and a receipt with the seal of the Finance Department back to Gao De.

"Thank you." Gao De, who had a deposit of another 3 gold, took the things and left the Finance Department, heading straight for the mission hall on the first floor of the Logistics Department.

This is the destination of his trip.

Compared to the course selection hall of the committee, the task hall of the logistics department is much more lively, and three counters are open at the same time. Two of the counters are used for students to accept tasks.

There is also a counter used to record requirements and issue tasks.

——Except for a small number of tasks posted in the task hall that are issued by the academy, most of the rest are from the instructors or even students in the academy.

"The task notice board is above, take a look first, and then go to the counter to accept the task if you like it."

A young female staff member in the hall pointed to the huge "display screen" hanging above the counter and said to Gao De.

The "display screen" shows in real time the tasks that have not yet been undertaken.

Of course, there are definitely no electronic screens in this world.

The “display screen” is actually an alchemical machine.

The main direction of alchemists' "employment" is half to create extraordinary things, and the other half to create alchemical machines.

Although the former has the word "extraordinary" in its name and sounds more noble, in fact the prospects and financial prospects of the latter are no less than those of the former.

The gold content is equally as good as the former.

If you don’t understand why these two directions are at the same level, just one sentence will make it clear:

Airship is actually also a kind of alchemical machine.

Gao De stopped in front of the huge task bulletin board, looked up and browsed it carefully.

[Patrol the River]: Patrol, expel and hunt the underground creatures in the Naga River below the Coolie Cliff.

This task has a cycle of seven days. To accept this task, you must complete at least one task cycle, and the daily patrol time must not be less than five hours.

Completing this task will earn you 35 gold coins. If you kill ground creatures above level 0 during this process, you will receive additional rewards.

This quest requires a minimum mage level of 1st level.

[Magic Plant Care]: Take care of the No. 5 potion garden (mainly Vermillion Flowers, Vera Aloe, and Scarlet Nirnroot).

One task cycle is 90 days. During the task cycle, it is necessary to ensure that the damage rate of the magic plants in the medicine garden does not exceed half, the yield rate does not fall below %, and the growth of the magic plants is in good condition.

Completing the mission will earn you 27 gold.

Requirements for applying to accept this task: You must complete the "Magic Plant Cultivation" branch course under "Alchemy".

[Magic Array Maintenance and Inspection]: Inspect and maintain the magic array and barrier facilities in the academy’s student living area (mainly small cleaning magic array, small soundproof barrier, small alarm barrier, and small temperature control barrier).

The task cycle is half a school year, and the inspection and maintenance of the faults reported by the students must be completed within two working days.
After completing the task, you can get 36 gold.

This task requires completion of at least the third stage of the Rune Science course.

[Book Repair]: Go to the college library and assist in repairing damaged books. The task period is one month. During this period, you need to work at least three hours a day and repair at least three ancient books.

Completing the task will earn you 20 gold coins and special borrowing privileges for some books in the library.

This task requires.
Hanging at the top of the task bulletin board are all tasks issued by the academy.

The rewards are actually quite substantial.

However, there are either requirements for the mage level or requirements for the students' academic level, and they need to complete designated courses before they can apply to accept tasks.

Gaode looked at more than a dozen task announcements, but there was not a single one that he could take.

Of course, it is definitely not the so-called "you need work experience to get a job, and you need a job to get work experience" dilemma.

Those simple tasks that didn't have many requirements had probably already been "grabbed" by other students.

Gao De continued to read on.

After completing the college tasks, the next ones are the tasks assigned by the college instructors and students.

The content and requirements of the tasks become more and more bizarre.

(End of this chapter)