Above the mage!

Chapter 390 [Primary Amber Body]

This sleep lasted for seven or eight hours.

When he woke up the next day, Gao De felt refreshed.

Whether it was the fatigue brought by refining the spiritual marrow or the negative effects of the slow potion, they no longer existed.

A “strong” body has amazing recovery capabilities.

Gao De focused his consciousness a little and observed his own state. As expected:

[Your immunity to toxins increases by 99.9%, and your body organs' ability to digest, metabolize and excrete various toxins increases by 99.9%].

Damn it. Gao De was in no mood to eat. He immediately took out a bottle of first-level psychedelic drug, opened it with ease, and finished it in one gulp.

I just don't believe this!
Psychedelic drugs can cause the target to have strong hallucinations, causing them to fall into a state of mental confusion and be unable to concentrate on fighting.

Its time of effectiveness and duration are much shorter than the other three potions, which also makes its efficacy more powerful.

As the saying goes, great strength makes miracles happen.

After this bottle of medicine entered his stomach, he finally took the final step.

Obvious changes suddenly occurred inside Gaode's body.

In fact, it wasn't just the inside of his body. This time, even the outside of Gaode's body had obvious strange phenomena:
On his exposed skin, including his face and hands, emerald veins were faintly visible.

Although it was only a fleeting moment, it did exist.

[Your immunity to toxins increases by 100%, and your body organs' ability to digest, metabolize and excrete various toxins increases by 100%].

The bottleneck was finally overcome.

The familiar eyes lit up, the familiar room turned white, and the familiar skylight emerged.

A shackle in the body was broken with a loud bang.

A series of information emerged from my consciousness:

[Your body continues to be attacked and tempered by toxins, and your immune and metabolic capabilities against various toxins gradually increase, adapting and evolving into a primary amber body].

[After evolving into a primary amber body, you will have extremely strong resistance to toxins, and will be immune to most natural toxins (snake venom, poisonous mushrooms, etc.). At the same time, your success rate in resisting low-level magical toxins (corruption curse, etc.) and extraordinary toxins (undead corpse poison, etc.) will be greatly increased, and the symptoms after poisoning will also be greatly alleviated. ]

[In the process of constantly consuming and metabolizing toxins, your body functions are deeply optimized, you gain the blood-purifying organs, and the efficiency of your internal organs in metabolizing toxins is improved, which can shorten the duration of poisoning. ]

[Due to your rich experience in fighting toxins, your senses have become extremely sensitive to toxins, and you can accurately perceive potential toxin threats in the surrounding environment through subtle clues such as smell and taste. ]

[Your blood will be able to dispel common poisonous insects and have a slight detoxifying effect. ]

Does blood have a slight detoxifying effect?

The corners of Gaode's mouth twitched.

Isn’t this Tang Monk?
This one is somewhat useless.

But the other three are extremely practical, which makes his self-torture of taking poison worthwhile.

There is no need to say much about toxin resistance, which covers both daily and combat practical resistance.

The existence of the Blood Purifying Organ has a more long-term effect and significance - it allows Gode to drink various magic potions relatively without any taboos.

If spiritual practice is compared to training, and a person can take drugs for a long time with basically no side effects, how can that not be considered a top talent?
What surprised Gaode even more was that the Amber Body, like the Bingyou Body, had a "primary" prefix, which meant that 100% was not the upper limit, and it could continue to improve and develop into an intermediate or even advanced Amber Body.

Gao De stood up contentedly and took out a brand new sea sentinel uniform from the closet.

——Promoted from a second-class trainee wizard to a first-class trainee wizard. In addition to a monthly salary increase of 5 silver coins, a new uniform was also issued.

According to the tradition of the Sea Sentinels, the original second-class trainee uniforms were not recycled and left to the mage as a souvenir.

The uniforms of first-class apprentice mages actually change very little compared to those of second-class apprentice mages.

An apprentice mage is equivalent to a soldier, so he has no official badge on his shoulder, only a cuff mark.

The second-class apprentice wizard's uniform has a single bronze star embroidered on the cuff, while the first-class apprentice wizard's uniform has two bronze stars, and there is also a small rune embroidery on the collar.

With Gao De's current level of rune knowledge, he can tell at a glance that this rune represents the water element rune.

After changing into a new uniform and picking up his purse, Gao De went straight out.

He first went to the "canteen" to have breakfast, and then he went straight to the headquarters of the Sea Sentinel, the Haiyuan White Tower.

His goal is clear.

It is only March of the 9658th year of the Nolan calendar.

According to the current progress of practice, as long as there are some additional gains such as "spiritual essence", it is very likely that the mana power will break through to 60 drops of liquid mana before the end of the year.

It’s not close, but it’s not far either. It’s only eight or nine months in total.

Once the mana power reaches 60 drops of liquid mana and breaks through to the late stage of the first ring, you should start planning for upgrading the ring.

The most important one is undoubtedly the awakening specialty.

In order to awaken super expertise when promoted to the second ring, it is imperative to increase the breadth of the spell library.

Gaode currently masters 32 first-level spells.

Although it is not as many as the number of cantrips he mastered when he was promoted to the first ring, this number of spells is already the best among first-ring mages.

But will Gaode be satisfied with this?
Naturally impossible.

When it comes to spells, the main idea is that the more the better.

One is that it is good for awakening expertise, and the other is that it is always better to have more skills.

Therefore, in the coming period of time, Gaode’s main task will be to expand the spell library.

For him, the most practical way to expand his spell library is to go through the exchange route of Sea Sentinel.

Safe and stable, and the spell recipe reserve is extremely comprehensive.

The only drawback is that both require considerable military merit.

——Of course, this is Gaode’s shortcoming.

Not much to say.

Just work hard to earn military merit.

Open the book!
The only way for a Sea Sentinel Mage to earn military merit is to accept and complete missions.

However, for the Sea Sentinel Mage, it is not only difficult to complete the task, but it is also difficult to connect the tasks.

Tasks that offer high military merit rewards or are relatively easy and time-saving will usually be "snatched" away by others within a few hours of being posted.

The tasks that can be retained are mostly difficult or time-consuming tasks that are not proportional to the rewards.

When it comes to accepting tasks, Gaode has no advantage over others and is even at a disadvantage.

Whether you can get a good task depends on luck and whether you are well-informed.

Those noble mages have many eyes and ears, so if there is a good task, they will receive the news quickly.

Even before the task is posted, they may have already received the task information in advance.

But Gaode doesn't worry about this.

It’s not easy to get a good task, so he just takes the “bad task”.

Just have a mission.

Entering the first floor hall of the Mage Tower, God began to pick tasks in front of the crystal board for distributing tasks. He was a man who listened to advice very much, so he remembered what Captain Roll and Mage Lupin had told him:

First, you must do what you can when accepting a task.

Because for the Sea Sentinel Mage, one failed mission on his resume cannot offset the result of ten successful missions.

That is, it is better to do less than to do it wrong.

Second, it is best not to accept missions from Lagos City during this period.

Based on his own strength as a first-ring mage, Gaode quickly selected two tasks that he could take on.

One is [Undercurrent of Corruption].

In the waters belonging to the town of Ithaca under the jurisdiction of Dorne City, a large number of fish died, and dark purple mucus was found spreading in some waters.

A mage is needed to find out the source of the pollution and solve the pollution problem.

Another is the [hidden danger of crab disaster].

Residents of Monte Town found a large number of empty turtle shells on the offshore beach. The flesh and blood had been hollowed out of their bodies, leaving only some brown sand and gravel.

According to the sea sentinels, this is an old shell shed by the larvae of a sea beast called a shell-stealing crab.

The shell-thief crab is a first-level sea beast that lives in groups. When it grows up, it can grow to the size of a fist. It feeds on flesh and blood. Adult shell-thief crabs will directly attack passing creatures.

The juvenile shell-stealing crabs will take advantage of the organism's inattention, drill into the organism's body, and begin to devour the flesh and blood from the inside.

Moreover, as long as this aquatic beast has enough food, its reproduction rate is extremely fast, and if we are not careful, it will develop into a large-scale shell-stealing crab plague.

This is a big safety hazard for residents living nearby.

As soon as any trace of shell-stealing crabs is discovered, people should be organized to eliminate them and not give them the opportunity to grow.

That's what the Sea Sentinel did, issuing the mission immediately.

One of these two tasks has been pending for four days, and the other has been pending for two days, and no one has taken them up yet.

The reason is also very simple.

Too tricky!

The mission description of [Undercurrent of Corruption] is very brief, but the other information behind it is not written out.

The actual situation is that, based on past experience, this inexplicable dark purple mucus is most likely caused by a leakage accident in the local magic workshop, with a large amount of harmful sewage flowing into the water through underground pipes, causing pollution.

As a shop in the supernatural realm, the magic workshop is usually backed by local nobles or high-level wizards.

Even the Sea Sentinel Mage would find it difficult to deal with these local bullies once he arrived at the local area.

The mission encountered many obstacles and was difficult to complete. If there were other inside stories behind the matter, murder to silence the witnesses was not uncommon.

Therefore, despite the trouble and great risks, no one has taken up this seemingly simple task.

As for the [hidden danger of crab disaster], it is not because the shell-stealing crabs are so difficult to deal with.

The shell-stealing crab usually hides under the beach or in the reefs near the sea and rarely moves.
Then, its body is very small, there are many of them, and they are extremely vigilant. They will run away without a trace at the slightest sign of trouble.

Although their combat effectiveness is not strong, it is difficult to find them all.

The most common process is to confirm the activity area and scale of the shell-stealing crab based on the activity radius of the crab and the food residues left by the crab.

Then, during the early morning and evening, the two peak times when shell-thief crabs go out to forage, we would wait for the shell-thief crabs to show up.

You can imagine how troublesome and time-consuming this whole process is.

What's even worse is that after the eradication operation is over, it will take another half a month for the residents of Monte Town to confirm that there are no more signs of large-scale shell-stealing crab activities in the surrounding waters and beaches. Only then can the mission be considered successfully completed.

If you find traces of shell-stealing crab activities again, it won't hinder your mission if it's just an isolated case. But if there are a large number of them, you'll have to redo the work, otherwise you'll have to consider yourself a mission failure.

Therefore, although the reward for the [Crab Disaster Hidden Danger] mission is as high as six third-class merits, no one has been interested in it yet.

Godard glanced at the two task introductions, thought about it for a moment, and combined with the warnings of Master Lupin and Captain Rawl, he quickly determined his choice.

"I want to take on the task of [Crab Disaster Hazard]." He took out his identity card, stepped forward and handed it to the staff member.

When the staff member heard this, he couldn't help but look up at Gaode for a second longer, but he didn't take a deep breath or kindly advise Gaode to "do what he can". He just took Gaode's identity card and quickly completed the registration.

"Master Gaode, I have registered the task for you. I wish you success in completing the task!" He said as he returned the identity tag to Gaode.

After leaving the Haiyuan White Tower, Gaode went to the Biboting Courtyard and took in Tuanzi, who had been "fat" after feeding him a bunch of high-level blood food.

After more than three months, Tuanzi was finally able to go out on a mission again. Apparently, he had "forgotten the pain" and had completely forgotten the bad experience in the Makoko area. He shook his head and was very excited.

But this time Gaode was really not prepared to "trick" it.

"Come in, we're ready to set off now." He first fed Tuanzi a piece of high-level blood food that he had just brought from the North, then opened the capybara bag and pointed the bag opening at Tuanzi.

Fortunately, after performing the animal shrinking technique, Tuanzi was still able to easily get into the capybara bag, but Gaode still clearly felt that the weight was a little heavier.

The economy of Monte Town is relatively unsatisfactory. One of the most obvious manifestations is that there is no airship base in the area.

Therefore, Gaode’s choice of “transportation” this time is no longer the most convenient and fastest airship, but a ship.

Fortunately, Monte Town is a small town under the jurisdiction of Dorne City and is not particularly far from Dorne City.

If you take a passenger ship, it usually takes more than five hours to arrive, unless you encounter bad weather.

With such a favorable terrain, although coastal cities are greatly affected by the marine climate, at least the weather in the inland areas of Bailo County is excellent most of the time.

The Plantagenet dynasty was the first human dynasty and also the longest-lasting dynasty.

Behind its long-term prosperity, apart from human factors such as inheritance, background, and the wisdom and strength of the royal family, superior timing and location are also indispensable.

After boarding the boat, Gode released Tuanzi from the capybara bag and let Tuanzi go to Monte Town with the boat underwater.

At the speed of the passenger ship, Tuanzi would not consume too much energy even if he swam for a whole day and a night. Compared to the stuffiness of staying in the capybara bag, he certainly prefers the former.

The inland river network of the Plantagenet Dynasty was huge and complex, extremely dense, with innumerable branches. It was a typical river valley plain terrain, and the rivers and lakes stretched for thousands of miles, rushing endlessly like giant silver dragons.

This vast expanse of water nourishes the land on both sides of the river, creates extremely developed agriculture in the Plantagenet dynasty, and supports countless people.

At the same time, the waters themselves also support countless lives.

In these crisscrossing water systems, there are countless types of magical plants, treasures, minerals and even ferocious water beasts.

However, most of the treasures in the water are extremely difficult to obtain.

First, it is extremely dangerous. There are dangers created by the natural environment of the water itself, such as undercurrents and whirlpools, and there are also ferocious water beasts lurking in the dark, ready to attack at any time.

The deeper the water, the more ferocious the water beasts hidden there are.

Second, the water is chaotic, making treasures hard to find and difficult to find.

Only occasionally, when someone is lucky, they can get a few treasures from the water.

As for Gaode, he seems to be very lucky today.

The boat was only halfway there when Tuanzi, who was swimming freely in the water, surfaced with his round head, approached the side of the boat, and made splashing sounds to attract Gaode's attention.

When Godard heard the sound, he came to the side of the boat and looked down. He saw Tuanzi in the water fiddling with his fins, calling out to him.

He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly: "Are you saying there was an unexpected discovery in the water?"

Tuanzi quickly bent his body, then straightened up suddenly, repeating this action three or four times in a short time, imitating the nodding motion of a human.

(End of this chapter)