Above the mage!

Chapter 455 Primary Healing Body
"The winner of this fencing match is still our 'Mountain' fencer!"

The host's loud and inspiring voice, amplified by brass pipes, spread along the plaster lines of the dome, echoing within the enclosed fencing hall.

His response was met with cheers from the audience throughout the stadium.

And on the central stage of the sword hall.

Gao De's clothes were already soaked in blood, and dark red bloodstains meandered along the folds of his clothes, congealing into scabs.

His left hand rested on a blood-stained steel sword, and blood was still seeping from the open wound at the base of his thumb, but his swaying body remained upright.

In contrast, his opponent was already kneeling on one knee, and although the cut on his shoulder was still bleeding, his overall injuries were far less severe than Gao De's.

"Incredible! The Mountain Swordsman fought four battles in just six days, each one extremely difficult, leaving him covered in wounds, yet he still managed to win the final victory!" The host's voice trembled.

This shows that it was not just about inciting the audience's emotions; his own inner feelings were as shocked as he described.

"Mountain Swordsman is absolutely insane!" Not only him, but the audience who witnessed Gao De's performance firsthand over the past few days were also stunned.
Although they themselves were not skilled in swordsmanship, they were all theoretical experts who had watched and bet on matches for many years. Everyone could see that in all four of Gao De's matches, his opponents were actually better swordsmen than him.

However, with Gao De's fearless playing style and seemingly painless performance, all his opponents were defeated without exception.

But the price to pay is that every victory for Gaode comes at the cost of countless gruesome wounds.

The injuries were so horrific that, in the eyes of the audience, it would take at least half a month for him to recover and reappear in the fencing hall.

But the reality was quite different from what they expected. Except for a day's interval between the second and first matches, the Mountain Swordsmen's matches were held consecutively afterward.

Simply inhuman!

They waved their arms vigorously, and some even shouted "Mountain!"

People who come to this kind of place are all looking for thrills, either the thrill of gambling or the thrill of seeing blood.

Gaode's performance has an excellent effect on stimulating their adrenaline.

Therefore, although "Mountain" is still a novice swordsman, he has already begun to have a group of his own fans in the sword club.

After winning, Gao De slowly walked off the stage.

Led by the waitress, they went to the manager's office to collect their pay.

"Why is it 20 gold coins this time?" Gao De opened the money bag full of gold coin, glanced at it, and raised an eyebrow.

The portly manager smiled broadly. "Mountain Swordsman, your outstanding performance in these matches has attracted a surge in betting chips, so your compensation has naturally increased accordingly."

In layman's terms, it means they've been "upgraded".

It must be said that the chubby manager is quite good at dealing with people.

However, it's not that he has a conscience; it's just that in the swordsman category, it's a seller's market.

A swordsman who can compete in matches needs at least five years of rigorous training.

In wet fencing, even if a fencer is injured, let alone killed, the injury could render them unable to hold a sword again.

Or perhaps a near-death experience could make a swordsman decide never to participate in such life-threatening competitions again.

Producing swords is so difficult, while consuming or reducing them is very easy, so the sword hall is always in short supply of swordsmen.

Swordsmen like Gaode, who have a "fan base," a high appearance rate, and seem incredibly resilient and capable of lasting a long time, are truly treasures.

What if we don't quickly improve our compensation and other fencing schools poach our members?
The chubby manager understood this principle, and Gao De understood it even better, so he accepted the payment quite readily.

Your body's injury recovery ability has increased by 93.6%.

Gaode Maps has assessed its adaptive progress and is getting closer and closer to 100% completion.

As a result, his injuries hadn't healed in the past five days, essentially making him suffer the torture of having his flesh cut off every day.

An ordinary person would probably have a mental breakdown in one or two days, let alone five days. It's only because he has the "Painful Body" that he can do this.

Besides the rapid progress in [Adaptive], Gao De also felt that his sword skills had improved noticeably.

As expected, real-world experience is always the best way to improve skills.

After receiving his payment, Gao De changed into a new set of clothes in the locker room and left the sword club without lingering.

Ultimately, the sword hall was just a small dungeon for him to "farm specific experience points," and once he finished there, he would never come back.

However, he did not go straight back to his dormitory to rest. After leaving the sword hall, he used the [Disguise Technique] to cover up his visible injuries, then hailed a carriage and headed towards the White Tower of the Sea Abyss.

Since his promotion to warrant officer, his privileges have been greatly enhanced. He can now enter the second floor of the Mage Tower and browse more books for free. He treasures this opportunity and has been going to the White Tower of the Abyss whenever he has free time these past few days.

Upon entering the library on the second floor of the Mage Tower, Gao De first selected the books he planned to read that day, and then took out his water bottle, which contained very ordinary drinking water.

But it will soon become extraordinary.

Suddenly, a faint light burst forth from the palm of Gaode's hand, which was touching the kettle, and a gentle magical power surged forth, flowing slightly down his palm, onto the kettle, and then into the open opening.

As the magic flowed in, fine ripples appeared on the surface of the water in the kettle.

The clear water began to churn, and its color gradually changed from transparent to a rich amber hue, with fine fluorescent patterns appearing on the surface.

【Miracle Elixir】: Choose a fun effect related to health, happiness, and joy for a bottle of water to create a miracle elixir.
Gao De chose the [Super Memory] potion effect, and added the "Aftertaste" characteristic, which can consume mana to extend the [Super Memory] potion effect to two hours.

[Hypermeation] The secret medicine is complete. Gao De picked up the kettle and drank it all without hesitation.

A scent of citrus and pine needles, mixed with a faint metallic note, wafts into the air.

The secret medicine tasted as cool as mint, and after swallowing it, the coolness rose up and flooded his mind.

Gao De felt a throbbing sensation in his temples, and his mind became incredibly clear.

This indicates that he has entered a state of hyperthymesia, where his memory has been greatly enhanced, and he can instantly remember the text, maps, or biological features he sees.

Not daring to waste any time, Gao De opened the book in his hand and entered a state of deep reading.

— Casting the [Medicine of All Souls] doesn't put much strain on him, but the Hypermemory state consumes a great deal of his stamina.

Gaode has tested its limits. The hyper-memory state it can maintain for about two hours a day is before it experiences mental exhaustion.

Two hours later, Gao De, with a throbbing head, left the White Tower of the Abyss and returned to the Vanjolen District. After having dinner at the Sea Sentinel's public canteen, he finally felt a little better.

Then he returned to his dormitory to continue his daily practice.

After these days of effort, he has almost completely refined and absorbed the remaining medicinal power of the Dragon Bird Blood Fungus in his body.

Therefore, today, after only a short time of circulating the "Green Wood Longevity Scripture", a brand new pattern materialized and condensed on his jade magic crystal.

The sixty-first pattern.

His cultivation progress was still incredibly fast. Unfortunately, it was only a temporary illusion. Without the medicinal power of the Dragon Bird Blood Fungus, he would have to rely on himself to slowly grind his way through the rest of his cultivation.

It's hard to go from luxury to frugality. Having experienced the feeling of rapid progress in cultivation after "taking drugs," Gao De was really not used to having to honestly grind his skills.

Not to mention, he also possesses the [Primary Azure Amber Body], making him completely unafraid of the side effects caused by the drug toxicity accumulating in his body.

Given these conditions, it would be against all reason not to diligently take drugs.

Gaode took out his savings and counted them.

The remaining balance, minus the odd amount, is 2152 goldbird coins.

No doubt about it, buy medicine and take drugs!
However, high-quality magic potions that can quickly improve the cultivation progress of a second-ring mage are not readily available on the market and are not easy to buy.

Because of these high-quality items, the potion shop would never sell them publicly. Even if they were available, they would only be sold in limited quantities to attract customers.

What you can usually buy at a potion shop are magic potions, which can improve your training efficiency to a certain extent, but only to a very limited extent.

However, this is no longer a problem for Gaode Maps.

If you can't find good products in Dorne, then go to Auckland to buy them.

Once the title conferment ceremony is over, with his title of "Honorary Mage of Auckland," if he wants to buy some good magical potions to aid his cultivation, a lot of people will deliver them to his door.

"The title conferment ceremony is on the 15th, and it's the 8th now. I need to arrive in Auckland at least one day in advance to avoid any unexpected delays on the way. That means I should arrive in Auckland on the 14th and try to get my physical recovery to 100% before then." Gao De calculated in his mind and determined his short-term goal.

There's still a little over a week left, which should be enough.

After finishing his calculations, Gao De got up, went to his study, took out paper and pen, and began to write furiously. Well, perhaps "copying" would be a more accurate description.

He was reciting the contents of the book he had just memorized using the "Super Memory Elixir".

On the table, there was already a thick stack of handwritten manuscripts.

He doesn't produce knowledge; he's just a conveyor of knowledge.

The North, or rather, Phoenix right now, is actually lacking in many ways.

But what they lacked most was books, or rather, knowledge—the primitive Zhenbing tribe simply did not have the ability or idea to establish a library.

Since Gaode established its Ministry of Education, the importance of knowledge has begun to take root in people's minds.

Sunefa gradually realized this as well, so she had long ago begun to use the money she earned from selling Northern resources through her fleet to buy books in order to build Phoenix's library.

In this world of knowledge monopoly, the books that can be bought with money are, frankly, mostly miscellaneous books. They are not entirely useless, but they are certainly not worth spending too much time studying in the present day.

Therefore, this task still needs to be handled by Gaode Maps.

His method was very simple, just one word: "move".

Using his privileges and the [Hyper-Memory Elixir], he extensively perused the Sea Sentinels' collection of books, then transcribed them from memory afterward, packing them up to take back with him when he returned to the North.

After writing for a while, my wrist started to ache.

This is because he suffered a severe hand injury during today's fencing match, with his thumb and forefinger splitting open.

Gaode didn't try to be brave. He stopped immediately, thought for a while, and suddenly an idea flashed into his mind.

The next moment, he took out a quill pen, then activated the spell model and cast [Hand of the Mage+].

Two ghostly hands appeared, each picking up a quill pen and beginning to write rapidly.

Writing is an extremely delicate craft, and the hands of an ordinary mage certainly cannot perform such a task.

However, Gaode's [Hand of the Mage+], after being enhanced by Fenglingyueying, can not only control two "Hand of the Mage" at the same time, but also perform complex actions, just like his own hands.

Writing is naturally no problem for him either.

This doubled the speed at which he copied the book.

Gao De couldn't help but slap his thigh.

What about all that painstaking handwriting I've done these past few days?
Do I consider myself diligent?

In the following days, Gao De continued to frequent the Sword Hall and the Sea Sentinel's library.

At the sword club, Gao De's progress in adapting to the recovery of his physical injuries has been very stable, and it can even be said that he has not encountered any hurdles, unlike other adaptation processes that stagnate in the later stages and require stronger stimulation.

It seems that this is because there is a fundamental difference between the body's self-healing mechanism and its environmental adaptation mechanism?

When the human body is in a harsh environment, through the intervention of "adaptation", it can quickly adapt to these harsh environments and no longer be harmed.

Injuries sustained during fencing matches leave a lasting impact on the body, which hasn't yet adapted, thus continuously triggering the "adaptive" effect.
The underlying principle is currently unknown, but for Gaode Maps, this is a good thing, so they readily accepted it.

After the fencing competition on the 13th of the month, Gao De, covered in injuries, received his payment and, unusually, did not ask the fencing hall manager to arrange another competition for him the next day. Instead, he declared that he needed to rest for a while.

There's no other reason than that evolution is just around the corner.

Your body's injury recovery ability is increased by 99.5% to 99.6%.
Gao De left the sword hall and went straight to the Walmart magic supplies store. He went up to the second floor and quietly waited for the final moment to arrive.

It didn't take long.

A thunderous roar resounded in his mind.

This was the sound of a barrier collapsing within his body.

[Your body's injury recovery ability is increased by 100%, and damaged flesh and bones are regenerated at an astonishing speed.]

A warm, spring-like power instantly flowed throughout Gao De's body.

The scenery before him was bathed in a soft glow, and life, like vines, spread and grew within him.

Deep within his body, another extremely stubborn chain snapped in response, and then some kind of power was released, taking root wildly.

A series of messages burst forth from the depths of my consciousness:

[Your body is constantly being tempered through continuous pain repair, gradually improving its ability to heal various types of trauma, and evolving into a rudimentary healing body.]

[Upon evolving into a basic Healing Body, you will possess extremely strong wound repair abilities, capable of rapidly healing most physical injuries (sword wounds, blunt force injuries, etc.), while significantly increasing the success rate of recovery from low-level spell damage and damage over time (bleeding, infection, etc.). The duration of movement restriction after being injured will also be greatly reduced.]

[Through repeated injury repair processes, your bodily functions are deeply optimized, resulting in denser bones and stronger muscles. Bone density increases by 46.4%, and muscle strength increases by 46.4%, enabling you to withstand higher-intensity external impacts.]

Because of your extensive experience dealing with pain, your senses are exceptionally acute to trauma. You will be able to accurately perceive potential injuries to yourself or others based on subtle tingling sensations, tearing sounds, and other cues.

Your blood possesses a special power that can accelerate the healing process of others' wounds by 46.4% and, to some extent, inhibit wound infection.

(End of this chapter)