Wizard: I'm leveling up by AFK in another world

After a short rest, Claire didn't stay any longer.

He returned to his office and placed the Breath Stone, now dull from deactivation, on Borg's desk.

"Hey kid, you managed to stay afloat for two hours on your first dive?"

Old Jack, who was wiping his scraper, looked at the breathing stone with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

The confined and oppressive working environment of underwater operations means that most beginners are lucky to last an hour on their first trip.

Claire took off her heavy diving helmet, revealing her hair soaked with sweat.

"For survival, Mr. Jack."

If he hadn't spontaneously decided to participate in cave diving in his previous life, this trip would never have gone so smoothly.

Of course, he didn't explain further, simply replied with a sentence, and then looked at Borg.

"The area you designated for me has been cleared. You are welcome to inspect it."

Borg was quite surprised.

He had only hoped that this seemingly frail apprentice could adapt to the underwater environment, but to his surprise, the other party completed the task directly.

The diving helmet scans the work area in real time, so the other party cannot lie.

He thought for a moment, then opened the drawer, took out a stack of gold coins, and pushed them toward Claire.

"Here, this is your pay for today," Borg said. "This money is enough to pay your room tonight and buy some food. Go back and get some rest; you'll start work officially tomorrow."

To his surprise, Claire accepted the gold coins but did not turn away. Instead, she gave him a determined look.

"Mr. Borg, I would like to request a second assignment."

The air in the office seemed to freeze for a moment.

Borg stopped writing, his eyes narrowing slightly. "What did you say?"

Claire repeated it.

"Did you know that the contract stipulates today is the probationary period? No matter how much work you do, it won't increase the magic stones you'll receive in eight days?"

"These gold coins are also a personal sponsorship from me, reflecting my appreciation for your abilities and attitude?"

"Mr. Borg, I am very grateful for your kindness," Claire said, bowing in thanks. "So, I'd like to get more proficient at my job as soon as possible."

Borg stared at Claire for a while, then finally opened another drawer, took out a new breathing stone, and pushed it in front of Claire.

"You only have one hour this time. Once you're done, go back and rest."

"thank you."

Watching the young man walk away, old Jack leaned closer to the table and said leisurely, "Should I follow him and take a look?"

"No need."

Borg took the cigarette Old Jack offered, took a big drag, and exhaled a cloud of smoke.

"He reminds me of my son..."

……

……

The underwater world remains dark and oppressive.

Claire swam to the pipe at drain number three and turned on the searchlight on her helmet.

The remains of the shadow anemones he had just destroyed were still floating in the water, looking like a sticky, disgusting mass.

This thing is extremely resilient; even if its roots are cut off, it may continue to grow. Only high temperatures can completely kill it.

During this process, valuable materials, including the venom glands, dissolve in the seawater.

Previously, in order to be efficient, Claire had carried out a large-scale cleanup.

Now, it's time to use the scalpel.

Instead of activating the burning magic circle on the shovel tip, he carefully used the sharp edge to cut open the fleshy base of the sea anemone.

The dark purple tentacles curled wildly, trying to entangle the intruder.

Claire flicked her wrist, precisely avoiding the tentacles' entanglement, and then lifted the tip of her shovel upwards.

puff.

A translucent sac about the size of a thumb fell into my hand, emitting a faint purple light.

[Shadow Anemone Venom Gland: 1/10]

Claire relaxed her wrist and a smile appeared on her lips.

The panel provides the best methods for gathering blueprint materials, and it also allows for meditation training, which he quickly mastered.

Before long, he had completed the collection of ten Shadow Anemone Venom Glands.

"Is there half an hour left?"

After checking the remaining magic power in the Breathing Stone, Claire decided to end the session early.

He arrived at the Blue Ocean Boundary after noon and needed some time to determine his accommodation for the next seven days.

Just as he was about to surface, a line of striking red text suddenly popped up on the panel in front of him.

[Required material for the blueprint detected: Deep-sea coral heart]

Claire's movements suddenly stopped.

Deep-sea coral heart!

This is the core material for creating the energy source for the sea creature's clones.

According to the guidebook, this thing usually only grows in the deep sea, thousands of meters below the surface, or in high-energy areas where magic converges.

"How did this get here?"

Claire looked down at the dark abyss beneath her feet.

The panel showed that this valuable material was only about 100 meters away from him at a height.

"Could it be that the long-term discharge of waste liquid has created a high-energy environment similar to the deep sea in some area below?"

As a newly colonized world, the Blue Ocean's city hall has purchased advanced diving suits with sufficient safety redundancy.

Diving to this depth is more than enough.

However, that was also an area that Borg strictly forbade anyone from approaching.

Dangerous creatures like carrion eels mostly roam there.

Although that area was also within the influence zone of Whale City, the wizards clearly didn't care what lived below, as long as it wasn't a high-level sea race.

After weighing the options, Claire quickly made a decision.

He turned off the automatic recording and searchlight on his diving helmet and began to descend.

Fortune favors the bold.

The panel had been silent until a notification popped up, indicating that the coral heart had just been created.

If we don't seize this opportunity, and some other creature snatches it away, we'll probably only find it in the market.

One hundred meters...one hundred and ten meters...

The numbers on the headset kept increasing, but Claire didn't feel any change in her physical sensations, which made her tense heart relax slightly.

In the pitch-black world, only the light from the panel's indicator guided him downwards.

at last.

As he reached the height indicated on the panel, a strange fluctuation caught his attention.

He looked around and soon saw a faint, dark red light pulsating rhythmically on the seabed not far away.

It's like a heart.

Although the red light was faint, it appeared particularly eerie in the pitch-black seabed.

Even the surrounding corals it illuminates exhibit a crystalline characteristic.

"That's it."

Claire was delighted, but did not rush closer.

Although he believes the panel should have been the first to discover it, who knows, there might have been indigenous people in this area before?

He held his breath, fully unleashing his mental energy to probe the area around the faint light.

At first, he felt nothing except the rhythmic energy pulse.

But just as he was about to set off, a coral moved.

No, that's not coral.

In the shadows cast by overlapping corals, a creature as thick as an adult's thigh lurked.

Its skin is a grayish-brown color, similar to that of coral, and is covered with sore-like spots.

Its head has no eyes, but instead a huge, round mouth filled with countless rows of sharp teeth.

Without a doubt, this is a carrion-eating moray eel.

At this moment, this guy slowly started circling around the coral heart, not knowing what he was doing.

"This is troublesome." Claire's heart sank.