Wizard of science

The entire mission hall covers an area of ​​nearly a thousand square meters, with twenty-four stone pillars as thick as a person supporting the stone roof above.

Underfoot, there is a ground paved with black stone slabs, and the surrounding walls are also gray-black.

At a glance, the entire hall looked a little gloomy.

This made the people in it subconsciously lower their voices.

But after walking into the hall and walking through the crowd, one can still hear bursts of conversation.

"Level 3 mission! There is a Level 3 mission coming out! The reward is 700 magic stones, what a big deal!"

"Hunting the giant black mountain bear and bringing back a complete heart, no wonder! The difficulty is so high that ordinary third-level wizard apprentices are not sure. I am afraid that it will take some top wizard apprentices in the academy to do it."

"Yeah, we'd better be safer, lest we don't earn the magic stone and risk our lives. Just accept a few simple secondary tasks..."

"This is a very good first-level mission, do you want to take a look..."

"Forget it about the first-level mission. The pay is too low. It's all hard-earned money..."

When the conversation subsided, Li He glanced at the speaker and found that they were two wizard apprentices, a male and a female. Judging from the patterns on each other's chests, they were both second-level wizard apprentices.

After taking a look, without paying much attention, Li He looked at a wall deep in the hall.

On the wall, there is a white stone wall four to five meters square.

On the surface of the stone wall, under the influence of the spell, blood-red characters continued to appear, displaying messages one after another.

After a while, the characters twisted and changed, and new information appeared, overwriting the previous information.

The content is constantly refreshed and is related to various tasks.

It can be as small as cleaning the wizard's laboratory, detecting information about a certain area outside the academy, as large as hunting some powerful demonic creature, or assisting the wizard to complete a dangerous secret adventure, they are all different...

The remuneration varies. The minimum cleaning wizard's laboratory only gets half a magic stone a week.

The previous hunt for the Black Mountain Giant Bear required as many as 700 magic stones.

To assist the wizard in exploring, there are up to 900 magic stones, and note: if you die during the adventure, 900 magic stones can be transferred to the designated beneficiary. However, only third-level wizard apprentices or Dark Heart Medal holders who have passed the wizard assessment can join. Ordinary first-level wizard apprentices and second-level wizard apprentices are not eligible.

This is the core of the mission hall - the mission stone wall, which is extremely popular in the entire academy.

You must know that most wizard apprentices do not have the wealth of Li He and are extremely short of magic stones. Without magic stones, you cannot learn courses, purchase spellcasting materials, or obtain enough resources to improve yourself.

What should I do if I want to get magic stones? The answer is to come to this mission hall and take on the various missions on the mission stone wall.

Every wizard apprentice will come here more or less a week to see if there are any suitable opportunities to earn magic stones.

Some wizard apprentices even stay here permanently. After completing a task, they will take on a new task, repeating it over and over again, trying to earn magic stones to buy a precious potion or spell casting model.

Li He is an exception. Although he knows there is such a place, he has never been there.

After all, for him, there is no shortage of magic stones, so he naturally has no motivation to come here. If you have time, it is better to use it for research, which will benefit you more.

But today was different. In order to get the right to leave the academy reasonably, he was ready to take on the next task.

The difficulty doesn't matter, as long as it gives him a reason to leave the academy.

Only after leaving the academy can you display your strength without any scruples and challenge your limits.

Thinking like this, Li He looked at the mission stone wall for a moment and landed on one of the contents.

"Well, this mission seems suitable..."

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More than ten minutes later, Li He successfully took over the next task and obtained the identity certificate to leave the college.

After that, without further ado, he left the mission hall, left the academy, and headed deeper inland.

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Four days later.

"Crack!"

One foot fell and crushed a dead branch on the ground.

Li He stopped and looked forward, and saw a large swamp in front of him, boundless and with no end in sight.

Looking towards the depths of the swamp, gray-white mist emerged, blocking the view.

Li He took out a parchment map, confirmed it, nodded slightly and said: "The place mentioned in the mission should be like this, the Rotting Swamp."

The previous mission he accepted in the mission hall required him to reach the outer area of ​​the rotten swamp, investigate the situation for three days, and report back.

The reason for this is because there are a large number of demonized creatures living in the rotten swamp - the swamp black crocodile.

A single swamp black crocodile is not scary, and a second-level wizard apprentice with extensive combat experience can handle it.

But once the number reaches a certain scale, it becomes different. There are more than ten groups and hundreds of swamp black crocodiles living in the entire swamp. If they break in casually, even the wizards, let alone the third-level wizard apprentices, will flee in panic.

In addition, the value of the swamp black crocodile is not high, and there is no motive for hunting. This swamp is not on the main traffic road. This swamp is simply listed as a dangerous place within the sphere of influence of Dark Heart Academy, and apprentices are usually prohibited from approaching it.

But the problem is that swamp black crocodiles have a strange habit. Near the end of each year, they will crawl out of the swamp collectively, migrate to dry land, gather, choose mates, and then return to the swamp after reproducing.

Such behavior has caused some trouble to Dark Heart Academy.

Because every time they migrate, some swamp black crocodiles will be too active and migrate too far on land, attacking passing students and causing casualties.

For this reason, when the swamp black crocodile is migrating quickly, the college will send people to investigate the specific situation, expand the scope of the rotten swamp dangerous area, and remind students not to enter by mistake.

Li He accepted this task, and the reward was... two magic stones.

Yes, two magic stones.

The journey alone takes four days, eight days for the round trip, and at least three days for reconnaissance, which is eleven days.

It took eleven days of hard work to get two magic stones.

On the one hand, it's because the college doesn't pay much attention to it.

On the other hand, the requirements for the reconnaissance mission are not high. They only need to find out whether the swamp black crocodile has left the swamp, from which direction it has landed on dry land, and how many there are.

Anyone can take on this task, and as long as you are careful and observe from a distance, there is no danger.

For some wizard apprentices who are not strong enough and lack magic stones, it is a cost-effective task.

For Li Hyuk, it's another story.

Li He stopped and looked around, confirming that the entire periphery of the rotten swamp was quiet, and made some guesses about the current situation of the swamp black crocodile... If there are no accidents, the swamp black crocodile will not migrate to dry land in this direction within a day or two.

However, he did not stay there for three days to confirm. After thinking about it, he took another step, stepped on the muddy ground, and walked quickly towards the depths of the swamp.

He has not forgotten that the main purpose of this time is to seek combat, not actual reconnaissance.

The swamp black crocodile in the depths of the swamp has strong attack and defense power, and there are many of them. It is a good target to help him.

Thinking like this, Li He's body sank into the gray-white mist deep in the swamp.

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After traveling for another half day, Li He entered the core area of ​​the Rotting Swamp.

He stopped, glanced at the pond next to him, and saw a huge black body slowly approaching him in the mud of the pond, ready to attack.

It's a predatory swamp black crocodile.

"Wow!"

The water surface broke open, and with the mud thrown away, a swamp black crocodile more than five meters long and completely black rushed out and bit Li He's body.

Li He raised his eyebrows lightly, showing no fear.

"Just waiting for you."

As he spoke, he took the initiative to greet him.

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