Above the mage!

Chapter 170 New Year

After this wave of harvest, Gaode's deposits finally broke through three digits again, reaching the gratifying figures of 107 gold and 18 silver.

So much so that when he saw the medicine field being taken back, he felt a little reluctant.

"I have to find time to take the course 'Utilization and Reclamation of Spiritual Land'." Gao De said secretly.

"Utilization and Reclamation of Spiritual Lands" is also one of the branch courses under Alchemy, and it teaches how to reclaim natural spiritual lands and artificially create spiritual lands.

The conditions for the growth of magic plants are very harsh, especially the requirements for magic power are extremely high.

If you plant magic plants on ordinary land, they will not germinate and grow at all.

The so-called spiritual land is land that is rich in magical power and can provide space for the growth of magical plants.

And owning a spiritual land is equivalent to owning a treasure pot.

Whether you cultivate the land to grow magic plants yourself or rent it out to potion makers, you can always get a steady stream of income.

Such a promising course is a must for Gaode.

However, this course is an advanced course. To take it, you need more than 30 credits, which means you need to be a third-year student in the general sense. Gaode has not yet met the requirement.

When his door was knocked on by Jelica in the evening and he received a small New Year gift from her, Gao De suddenly realized that today was the last day of the year.

Winter Solstice month, 30nd.

Seres College also held a New Year celebration at the College Square tonight.

After all, apart from the local noble students in Saint Sean City who would go home for the New Year, most of the students would stay in the academy even on this day.

However, Gao De was not interested in this. Instead of wasting time on celebrations, he would rather use this time to learn more.

In a world where knowledge is expensive and monopolized, Gaode always has a looming sense of crisis.

This sense of crisis prompted him to want to learn more whenever he could.

This kind of psychology is similar to that of people who have experienced famine, who generally subconsciously develop the habit of hoarding food.

The magic bell of twelve o'clock rang throughout the college as the college representatives bid farewell to the old and ushered in the new.

The first year since Gaode came to this world passed just like that.

The year 9655 of the Nolan calendar passed quietly.

Listening to the bell ringing in his ears, Gao De felt filled with emotion.

He came into this world on the second day of the Awakening Month of this year, and so much has happened in the past eleven months.

In comparison, the twenty-one years of experience in the previous life were like a blank sheet of paper.

Gode ​​could not predict what would happen in the year 9656 of the Nolan calendar.

He only knew that he had to seize the present moment so that no matter what happened, he would be able to deal with it calmly.

For this year, Gaode's goal is to strive to push the practice of the Guiding Dharma to perfection.

As for the progress of meditation practice, you can only leave it to fate.

However, judging from the current progress of practice, the practice of meditation will be completed by next year at least.

By then he would be 15 years old and could try to be promoted to a 1st level wizard.

If successful, he would be only one year behind Youlan. However, he reached this mage level without any academy resources.

When he thought of this, Gao De couldn't help but sigh that this guy's talent was truly terrifying.

In the three months after the New Year, Gaode's life did not encounter any other "episodes".

He devoted all his thoughts and energy to practice and course study.

During this period, Gaode also welcomed the completion of several branch courses.

"Business Group Management and Trade Practice" is also a theory-based course specially designed for students who are interested in joining the chamber of commerce after graduation.

Amap mainly focuses on the knowledge points related to trade practices in this course.

In his opinion, "making money" is also a basic and necessary ability for a magician.

In the final examination, Gaode was only symbolically deducted 2 points in the final open-ended trade practice questions, and finally achieved a high score of 98.

This course brings 1 credit to Gaode.

The "Study of Earth Veins" is for combat mages. The existence of "Wind Spirit Moon Shadow" means that Gao De will inevitably deal with earth vein creatures frequently.

What's more, in this world, who among the wizards would not come into contact with earth creatures?

In Gaode's opinion, this course should also be included in the list of compulsory courses.

But the college didn’t do that, and the course attendance was not high.

When it came to the final examination, Gaode realized that the examination was too difficult:

In addition to the basic questions, the final assessment question is to give students several sketches of geocentric creatures and require students to infer the specific information of the geocentric creatures based on the course knowledge they have learned.

The more information you infer and the more accurate it is, the higher your score will be.

This is somewhat a matter of luck, and questions that are too "open" often leave students at a loss as to where to start.

Even with Gaode, the final score of this course was only 85 points.

This course is worth 2 credits.

"Magic Medicine", "Magic Pet Training" and "Magic Engineering" are also small courses with 1 point. Gaode scored full marks in the final examinations of these three courses.

The final examination of "Magic Ink Extraction and Production" is to make a piece of magic ink on the spot, and score according to the quality of the final magic ink.

The quality of the magic ink prepared by the students is not only related to the technique, but also closely related to the quality of the raw materials.

In terms of techniques, Gao De, who had experience in potion mixing and had a solid theoretical foundation, was definitely the best among all the students.

But he didn't want to spend a lot of money to buy good materials and improve the quality of the magic ink just for the sake of a result. He simply bought some basic materials and made some magic ink.

So he only got 80 points in this course, which is the lowest score among all the courses of Amap so far.

"Magic Ink Extraction and Production" is also 1 credit.

After completing this, Gaode's credits reached 24 points.

The remaining courses that have not yet been completed include the 2-credit "Racial History", the 3-credit "Pharmacological Research", and four courses in the first phase that are currently only 1 credit each: "Mage Fundamentals", "Spell Application and Combat", "Basic Cultural Courses", and "Runes".

After completing all the courses, Gaode’s first-year credits will reach 33 points.

As for Youlan, the basic credits are 22 points, and the seven elective courses add up to 9 credits.

After completing all the courses, his credits barely reached 31 points, 2 points short of Gaode.

Of course, it was only half a year after the end of the first school year.

In the next six months, both Gaode and Youlan can continue to take other courses to increase their credits.

It depends on who can beat whom.

Gaode is still very confident about this.

First, he has the blessing of [Divine Guidance +], so he cannot lose to Youlan in this aspect of learning.

Secondly, he heard that Youlan had spent most of his energy on learning magic during this period.

This was the instruction given to him by his mentor, the Minister of Magic.

At the mage level, one can use his talent to unreasonably make up for the resource gap.

However, mastering magic requires a lot of resources.

This caused Youlan to owe a lot in terms of magic, and now he needs to work hard to fill the gaps and repay his debts.

In comparison, Gaode, who actually masters a greater number of spells than his learning ability, has been on the right track from the very beginning.

During these three months, Gaode was so focused on studying that he didn't even pay too much attention to his own abilities or how he had improved in such a "boring" life.

His guidance method naturally achieved another breakthrough on the 14th of the Awakening Month.

His total mana has reached 13 levels of cantrips.

After nearly three months of self-study, he finally understood all the thirty-six classic compound rune diagrams and the stack of information half a person's height that He Xi had given to Gao De.

After that, Gaode entered the "problem-solving" stage.

Every day he would receive a requirement from He Xi, then independently design a compound rune based on the requirement and hand it over to He Xi for review the next day.

(End of this chapter)