Above the mage!

Chapter 8 [Repair +]

After passing through the long and dark corridor, the view suddenly becomes clear and the light becomes brighter.

The aroma of medicine wafted towards him, and what came into view was a vibrant green, making Gao De feel as if the smell of decay on his body had been dispelled a lot.

This medicinal herb growing area is not particularly large, but it is distributed with several plots of land with different soil types.

Because herbs are essentially extremely delicate "flowers and plants" that require careful care.

Different herbs have different requirements for their growing environment, some of which are even extremely extreme.

Not to mention external environments such as temperature and water quality, the requirements of different herbs for soil environment alone are very complex.

Most herbs grow best in loose, fertile, well-drained soil.

But some herbs like to grow in forest humus soil rich in humus, a typical example being ginseng.

There are also herbs that prefer to grow in acidic or slightly acidic soil or on riverside beaches.

Therefore, it is necessary to choose suitable soil for planting according to the growth habits and characteristics of the herbs themselves and local conditions.

The cultivation of herbal medicine is a profound subject. Not only does it require the ability to identify the herbs and be familiar with their habits, but it also requires knowing how to construct an environment suitable for their growth based on their habits, thereby ensuring their survival rate, increasing yields and improving their medicinal properties.

These tasks include but are not limited to the configuration of "nutritious soil", thinning, fixing seedlings, deep tillage combined with fertilization to improve soil physical properties, intertillage, soiling and weeding, fertilization, irrigation, disease and pest control, and plant shape adjustment.
The main part of Gaode's work in the morning is tilling the soil, applying fertilizer and watering, and checking for pests and diseases.

Generally speaking, these jobs become simple repetitive work after becoming proficient.

Because the types of herbs grown by Master Seda are fixed.

So even though it was the first time for Gao De to do this kind of work, based on the memories left by his predecessor, he was able to complete the cultivation of medicinal materials neatly and without any mistakes.

After finishing all this, he only had one last task left for the morning.

Gao De walked hurriedly to a small room.

There were many iron cages in the room, and each cage contained five to ten mice with gray-brown fur.

These are little gray mice that are specially bred by Master Seda for use in live potion experiments.

Although the results of human drug testing are the most accurate, even though human life is not that precious in this world, it is definitely not to the extent that Master Seda can unscrupulously test drugs on living people. In most cases, animal testing is still the main method.

Gray mice have strong reproductive capacity, low breeding costs, and are relatively less aggressive. Under these conditions, they are highly similar to humans - referring to their genetic similarity, not their appearance.

Therefore, the little gray mouse naturally became the best living experimental subject.

Gao De poured some feed into the feeding bowl in each iron cage and filled it with water. Then he checked the condition of all the little gray mice in the cage and found that one of the little gray mice looked sick and didn't even have the energy to grab food.

After a closer look, Gao De discovered that the back of the little gray mouse looked like "alopecia areata", with a small piece of fur completely fallen off, revealing the skin underneath, which was slightly red.

"It looks like you have some skin disease," Godard made a judgment and nodded, "That's you."

He took the sick little gray mouse out of the iron cage.

Of course, Gaode is not trying to cure it.

First, I don’t know how to do it, and second, there is no need to do so.

Because the little gray mice are far less valuable than medicinal herbs, the apprentices in the medicine garden do not pay as much attention to the breeding of the little gray mice as they do to medicinal herbs, so some of the little gray mice fall ill from time to time.

There is only one final outcome for these sick little gray mice, which is "early detection and humane termination" to prevent them from spreading the disease to other healthy little gray mice.

Gao De didn't hold back either. He grabbed the little gray mouse's head and twisted it hard along the neck. With a crisp snap, the little gray mouse died without even a chance to struggle.

Throwing the dead little gray mouse aside, Gao De focused his attention on his own mind.

Deep in his mind, an exquisite crescent gem was glowing with light.

Some changes have taken place: inside the gem, two spots of light and twelve dotted lines suddenly appeared, forming two Big Dipper-like sieve diagrams.

Each set of colander diagrams has seven points and six dotted lines, but at this moment only the point at the starting point is flashing, and the remaining six points are dim.

It is not difficult to infer that it will be complete only after all seven points are lit up.

The next moment, a familiar information interface appeared in front of Gaode’s eyes.

origin:

0环——【人类】（1/7）、【灰眼鼠】（1/7）

Spells:

0-Ring——[Hand of the Mage], [Repair]

Compared to before, there is one more entry in the origin information column: [Gray-eyed Rat].

It is the scientific name of the little gray mouse.

"It is true." Gao De muttered to himself.

When he first saw this information interface, Gao De was certain that the origin could not only be obtained from humans. It should be able to expand into multiple entries like the spell column, but he has only unlocked the human one.

When going to the back mountain to bury Yilan's body, Gao De crushed a few unknown insects to verify his speculation, but no new entries appeared in the origin column.

Either the source is not obtained by "killing".
Or maybe those insects are too weak to provide the source.

After all, before the human entry, there is a level division: Ring 0.

If you want to obtain the origin of the 0th ring, it is very likely that you can only get it from a 0th ring creature.

Yilan is a mage apprentice. According to the mage level classification, he is a 0-ring mage, who happens to be able to provide the origin.

The latter is obviously more likely.

You can't get the correct answer by guessing, you have to experiment.

And in the medicine garden, besides the mage apprentices, there happened to be a kind of 0-ring creature.

[Gray-eyed Rat], also known as the little gray rat by ordinary people, is so weak that it can be slaughtered at will, but in terms of level, it is really the same as the mage's apprentice, both at ring 0.

This is because the gray-eyed rat contains extremely rare blood of earth creatures.

This tiny bit of earth vein creature bloodline cannot give it any extraordinary abilities, nor can it make them have the same powerful strength as earth vein creatures, but it can make it no longer belong to the category of ordinary animals, but belong to the 0 ring ranks - there are also gaps between 0 rings.

The speculation was confirmed, and what happened next was a natural progression.

Killing seven people is difficult, but killing seven little gray mice is easy.

Gao De took action immediately.

Once again, he caught a healthy little gray mouse from the iron cage.

The little gray mouse kicked its legs hard in Gode's hands, making sharp squeaking sounds, but it was in vain, just like a weak girl who was about to be humiliated but had no power to resist.

Gao De looked at the little gray mouse carefully for about ten seconds. After confirming that there was no change on the panel, he silently stretched out his other hand to the little gray mouse, which seemed to have gotten used to being carried and stopped struggling.

With a crisp snap, the little gray mouse suddenly fell silent. The next moment, another light spot lit up inside the gem.

origin:

0环——【人类】（1/7）、【灰眼鼠】（2/7）

"Sure enough, death is a necessary condition, but I don't know if it must be death at my hands for it to count."

Gao De muttered in his heart.

This can be left for verification later, so don't rush it for now.

The most urgent task is to obtain the first complete origin.

He put down the dead little gray mouse in his hand and looked at the little gray mice in the iron cage who didn't know what was about to happen.
Little gray mice are not valuable and they often get eaten up, so even if seven of them die in one day, no one would care.

In addition, Gao De was eager to know the effect of "Origin", so five little gray mice immediately sacrificed their lives for it.

soon.

origin:

0环——【人类】（1/7）、【灰眼鼠】（7/7）

At this time, the crescent-shaped gem was still hanging firmly in the center of the Gaode Magic Star Sea, motionless.

However, inside the gem, there are now seven more twinkling spots of light, and the six dotted lines have turned into bright solid lines. The spots of light and the solid lines form an inseparable model, just like the "Big Dipper", slowly rotating and extremely beautiful.

"Come on, let me see what you are capable of."

Gao De muttered to himself, while shifting his attention to the two tricks he mastered in the spell column.

Each one has a small yellow plus sign flashing.

He hesitated for a moment, but decided to choose prosthetic surgery for experimentation.

[Repair] (Transmutation, Level 0):

This spell repairs a tear or crack in an object you touch, such as a broken chain, a key that has broken in two, a torn cloak, a leaking wineskin, and so on.

As long as the damage or break is no more than 1 foot in any direction, you can repair it without leaving a trace.

This spell physically repairs a spell item or construct, but does not restore spells on such an item.

Gao De once again used his mind to lightly tap the yellow plus sign behind the repair technique.

"Add some more".

The change happened instantly.

In the gem, the perfect group of "Big Dipper" that represented the origin of the [Gray-eyed Rat] no longer rotated, but flowed and swam out directly from the inside of the crescent gem.

They move towards the spell model representing [Repair].

The so-called spell model is the basis for a mage to cast spells.

It is composed of stars in the magical star sea, and its appearance resembles a constellation composed of stars in the vast universe.

It’s just that the lines between the constellations commonly seen in books are artificially connected to facilitate observation and understanding of the composition of the constellations, while the lines between the spell models are real.

The mage follows the guidance of the spell formula, uses mental power to pull the stars in the magic star sea, and uses mental power as a support to fix the stars, thereby constructing a spell model composed of stars.

Once the spell model is constructed successfully, it means that the wizard has initially mastered the spell and can cast the corresponding spell through the spell model.

The structure of each spell model is different, and it can even be said that the differences are huge. There are almost strict requirements on the number of stars and the distance and direction between the stars. Even the slightest difference will not be tolerated.

Therefore, mastering a spell is an extremely difficult and time-consuming task. Normally, one needs to experience hundreds or even thousands of failures before successfully constructing a spell model.

And now, the goal of the "Big Dipper" is the spell model, which can be called the most important thing for a mage.

The speed of the "Big Dipper" was very fast, and in a moment, it had crashed into the spell model of [Repair].

There was no Mars-Earth collision.

The next moment, a flash of spiritual light appeared, and seven flashing points of light merged into the spell model like young swallows returning to their nests.

"This is."

In Gaode's confusion, the originally complete [Repair] spell model seemed to have a second spring after the light spot was integrated. It began to grow branches and leaves again, and began to extend outward at certain nodes, with new lines and stars appearing.

The whole process is very stable and natural. Some nodes extend out a line and a star, and some nodes extend more. However, these changes do not destroy the original basic structure of the spell model.

Clearly, only seven light spots were added, but in the end, the number of stars extending from the [Repair] spell model was far more than seven. Instead, thirteen new stars were generated before stopping.

The "Big Dipper" has disappeared, and the [Repair] spell model has returned to normal, with no new changes.

Looking at the spell model that had changed in appearance and was very different from the [Repair] model in theory, some information instinctively emerged in Gaode's mind.

This information told Gaode that the new spell model in front of him was still the 0-level transformation spell [Repair], and its effect had not changed. It was still used to repair minor damage to the target object.

It's just that compared to the original restoration, it has something extra.

Under the new spell model, when repairing spell items, the repair spell will be able to restore the spells originally attached to such objects.

It seemed that only a slight change had taken place, but Gao De was not so short-sighted. He clearly understood that this was already a qualitative improvement.

This process, using the terminology of his previous world, is called "skill enhancement."

This kind of enhancement is not just a simple increase in values, but a higher level of mechanism enhancement.

Some changes have also taken place on the simple information interface

origin:

0 ring——[Human] (1/7), [Gray-eyed Rat] (used)
Spells:

0th level: [Hand of the Mage], [Repair+]

The 0-level spell [Repair], under the influence of the Origin, became [Repair+], and accordingly, the yellow plus sign after its name also disappeared.

[Repair+] (Transmutation, Level 0):

This spell repairs a tear or crack in an object you touch, such as a broken chain, a key that has broken in two, a torn cloak, a leaking wineskin, and so on.

As long as the damage or break is no more than 1 foot in any direction, you can repair it without leaving a trace.

This spell physically repairs a spell item or construct, but does not restore spells on such an item.

Additional: When you repair a spell item, you can restore spells on that spell item.

(End of this chapter)