Above the mage!

Chapter 445 Three Invitation Letters
Gode ​​stayed in Phoenix for another two days, both to deal with some miscellaneous trivial government affairs and to leave time for the tribe to help him prepare things to take back to the North.

It is worth mentioning that the day before he was about to leave the North, he successfully constructed the spell model of [Light Armor].

At this point, Gaode has mastered the remaining three second-ring spells, and the number of second-ring spells in his spell library has reached 6:
Beast Sense (Divination, 2nd level):
You touch a willing beast, and for the duration of the spell, you can use your action to switch your sight and hearing to those of the recipient beast, then until you use your action to return to normal perception.

When you use the beast's senses, you also gain the creature's own special senses, but you treat your surroundings as if you were blinded and deafened.

[Light Armor] (Transmutation, 2nd Ring):
The armor you wear no longer slows you down.

[Hound Tracking] (Transmutation, Second Ring):
You gain special senses for scent, including the ability to track scents, awareness of scents, and a survival sense for specific scents.

But be aware that when you are being tracked by a hound, you will suffer more serious negative effects when facing supernatural powers involving smells, such as [Smelly Cloud].

All three are auxiliary spells, or functional spells.

With [Frozen Blade+] and [North Wind], Gaode's output is sufficient for the time being, so his need for attack spells is not particularly urgent.

This mentality allows him to maintain an objective attitude towards functional spells.

Although these three spells cannot bring any improvement to his strength, they provide significant bonuses to various actions, and he is still very satisfied with them.

Before leaving, Gaode also took out all the spell formulas collected by the Zhenbing tribe.

There is no copy of the fourth-ring spell recipe, but there are two copies of the third-ring spell recipe, and five copies of the second-ring spell recipe.

These are the spell formulas left behind by adventurers or merchants who entered the North from the outside world for various reasons throughout the long history.

They are all universal spell formulas, and the main and auxiliary materials needed for spell potions are mostly only available in the outside world and are not produced in the North.

To the Iceborn wizards of the North, these spell formulas are like waste paper.

But for Goder, who can now travel freely between the Plantagenet Dynasty and the North, these spell formulas still have certain value.

The materials needed for spell potions do require him to spend time and energy to collect, but one must know that the market price of a second-ring spell formula is as high as 120 gold.

These five spell recipes are equivalent to saving Gaode 600 gold.

Yes, the price of a spell recipe, not including potions, is a "sky-high" price of over 100 gold.

Add to that spell potions, the amount of money required to learn and master a second-level spell will reach a terrifying 300 gold.

Fortunately, the life span of a second-ring mage is long enough, up to 225 years old.

With such a long lifespan, even if a second-level wizard could only save up 300 gold in two years, after a hundred years, theoretically, it would be enough to save up enough money to cast 50 second-level spells.

Of course, it's just theory.

Because most spell recipes are hard to buy even if you have money.

The higher the level of the spell formula, the stricter the official control.

When you are at the first level, you can easily buy more than a dozen universal first-level spell formulas at the official Dorne Magic Association.

But by the second level, the number of second level spell formulas that the Dorne Official Mage Association would put out for public sale dropped sharply to less than ten.

This is in a big city like Dorne.

In those remote and poor areas, there may be only two or three second-level spell recipes openly sold in the official wizard association.

Therefore, for most civilian mages, not to mention for resources, even for spell formulas, even if the mage has outstanding talent, in the end he often cannot escape the fate of joining a mage organization and working hard or even risking his life for others.

You can earn resources yourself in the wild, but what can you do if others refuse to sell spell formulas?

——Knowledge monopoly is always the best way for the upper class to hinder the rise of the lower class.

Although he felt emotional, Gaode quietly put away the five spell formulas collected by the Zhenbing tribe and told Sunaifa that he was about to leave.

Although in front of Sunaifa, Gaode acted in a "bad attitude" towards the mysterious and powerful master craftsman, as if he didn't take it seriously at all.

But both Sunaifa and himself knew that this was largely just an act of lightness.

Not to mention the presence of the master craftsman in person, even if he simply sent a few more mages similar to Master Yang to show up, it would already be a pressure that the Zhenbing tribe could not bear.

But the situation is just like this. Yugath Shila has been planted and cannot be moved. All Gaode and the Zhenbing tribe can do now is to pretend they don't know about it and focus on development.

It was also because of this that Gao De decided to return to the Plantagenet Dynasty so quickly - in the Plantagenet Dynasty, he could obtain many mage resources that he needed but were not available in the North through the Sea Sentinels.

Otherwise, he planned to stay in the North for a while, at least to reach the level of a second-class wizard apprentice in the Secret of Zhenbing before leaving.

Sunaifa, who received the news, came quickly and brought supplies prepared for Gode to bring back to the Plantagenet Dynasty.

The high-level blood food used to feed Tuanzi is already a regular item, and in addition there are some extraordinary materials.

There is also a box of ice jade sycamore leaves.

When the Ice Jade Wutong is upgraded, a total of three hundred and sixty fifth-level Ice Jade Wutong leaves will be dropped.

This should be the most valuable treasure in the Zhenbing tribe at present.

The last time, in order to purchase the Harland Shipyard, Gode took away fifty pieces.

In addition, the ice wizards in the tribe used a small part of them during this year, so there are more than 250 ice jade sycamore leaves left.

Sunaifa directly took out another fifty leaves from the remaining ice jade sycamore leaves and gave them to Gaode.

But this is something that Gaode did not require.

"It's better to be prepared in case you need a lot of money and can't take it out." Facing Gao De's inquiring gaze, Sunaifa gave his own explanation.

She curled her lips and said, "As the King of the North, if you are in such an awkward situation outside, wouldn't the North be ashamed of you?"

At this time, she didn't seem like Zhen Bing Zhan's mother, but rather like a concerned housekeeper.

"Okay." Gao De didn't waste any words and quickly put away the box containing the ice jade sycamore leaves.

What Sunaifa said is not impossible.

The huge sum of money obtained from the last sale of the Ice Jade Wutong Leaves is now less than three thousand gold, or to be more precise, 2657 gold.

It seems like a lot, but he is now a second-level wizard, and his expenses have also increased accordingly. He can't be said to be wealthy.

But he hadn't thought about this for the time being, but Sunaifa had thought of it.

Otherwise, how can you say she is attentive?

After packing up his things and saying goodbye to Flora, Godard rode on the snow wolf and set off for Valar Bay.

Because of the incident a few days ago, Sunaifa began to pay great attention to Gao De's safety when traveling, so this time he was directly escorted by Deputy Director Lan Wen of the Public Security Bureau. Gao De had no objection. He was not a person who underestimated himself. He knew how much impact it would have on Phoenix if something happened to him.

Compared with this, mobilizing a deputy director to be a "bodyguard" is not an exaggeration or a show.

After arriving at Valar Bay, God first checked the alien raccoon eggs that he had kept on the trunk of the Yugathhira tree to absorb astral energy.

Because of Gaode's instructions, Yugathira generously helped the alien to absorb the energy of the star realm.

With its help, in less than a month, the blue color representing the water element on the surface of the alien raccoon egg had been reduced by one-tenth and transformed into the colorful color representing the energy of the star realm.

Gao De gently placed his hand on the alien raccoon egg. After a month of cultivation with the magic imprint method, his connection with the alien raccoon egg had reached a very close state.

He soon received a faint emotion from the young life in the alien raccoon egg, expressing that it was in very good condition, absorbing energy, and waiting to "leave the warehouse".

Gao De felt relieved, but he was still extremely looking forward to the "Star Alien" that had never appeared before.

Afterwards, he confirmed Yugathishira's growth progress.

After all, this time when he came back, he brought back a lot of tree species and magic tree species, including even a fourth-level magic tree species.

Under Flora's skillful hands, these tree species, including the fourth-level spiritual spring nectar tree species, have sprouted and been successfully grown.

In addition, although it has been less than a month since the development of the Everfrost Oak during this period, the changes in Flora Forest have been very great compared to when I just came back.

This is visible to the naked eye, and even more so from what Yugatshira has reported.

【Yugatshira】

Level: Second-level magic plant (3248/5568 August)
Growth gain factor: 8.12
With the birth of this wave of new tree species, the promotion progress has directly exceeded half, and it is only 2320 months of growth, or 193 years, away from being promoted to the third-level magic plant.

Another big improvement was the growth gain coefficient, which soared from 4.04 when he first returned to the North to 8.12, more than doubling.

To improve the growth progress of Yugath-Shira, the most effective way is to plant new tree species. The higher the level, the better, which is equivalent to unlocking a new illustration bonus.

If you want to increase the growth gain coefficient, you need to eat the comprehensive quality of all tree species in Flora Forest.

Such a huge improvement is due, on the one hand, to the germination of the fourth-level spiritual spring nectar tree species, and on the other hand, to the development of the permafrost oak tree species.

This is a second-level magic tree species, and it obviously improves the overall quality of tree species in Flora Forest.

The growth gain coefficient is 8.12, which means that after a normal natural day, Yugathshila's growth progress can be increased by 8.12 natural days.

By this calculation, even if the Flora Forest stops expanding and developing, it will only take 23 years for Yugatshira to be promoted to a third-level magical plant on its own.

The future is boundless.

I just don't know what the upper limit of Yugathixila is?

Demonic plants are somewhat similar to earth vein creatures. For example, a fifth-level earth vein creature naturally rises from level zero to level five from childhood to adulthood. Unlike human mages, there is a threshold bottleneck.

However, after reaching level 5, it becomes extremely difficult to upgrade further, even more difficult than upgrading a human mage.

Yugathiro is currently in the state of transitioning from "childhood" to "adulthood". Once his growth progress is reached, he will naturally be promoted.

This is the tasting period.

But once you enter adulthood, you start to worry.

However, with the supernatural powers that Yugathira has shown so far, I can't say anything else, but he is confident that he can reach the sixth level as a minimum, so this worry has nothing to do with him for the time being.

Without wasting any more time, Gode activated the astral teleportation and headed for the Plantagenet Dynasty.

I don’t know if it’s because I’ve adapted to it, or because my mage level has improved.

In short, Gaode no longer felt any discomfort during this astral teleportation, and appeared very naturally in the bedroom on the second floor of the Walmart Magic Materials Store.

He is already very familiar with the process of switching between the two locations.

First of all, there is the time difference. The time difference between Dorne and Valar Bay is about three hours, and Valar Bay is three hours behind Dorne.

The time Gode chose to start the astral teleportation was in the afternoon, while it was exactly noon for Dorn.

He went downstairs and put the extraordinary materials he brought from the North on the shelves in the store on the first floor.

Because he is already a second-ring wizard, the quality of the extraordinary materials that Gaode brought this time has been slightly improved and is no longer as conservative as before.

After finishing this roughly and casually, he left the Wal-Mart Magic Materials Store and rushed back to the Sea Sentinel dormitory.

The first thing Gao De did after arriving at the dormitory was to open the mailbox at the door to check.

Accompanied by a slight creaking sound of opening and closing the mailbox, as expected, after disappearing for nearly a month, there were three letters lying in the mailbox.

The thick parchment had a faint scent of wax seals, all embossed with gold.

Godard opened the letters one by one, two of which were invitations to a banquet from Dorne nobles.

One of the letters was from the Burns family, whom Gao De was quite familiar with. The Corporal Zuo Wen who tried to "recruit" him was a member of the Burns family.

Well, he is now a sergeant mage. I wonder if Corporal Zuo Wen has been promoted to sergeant?

The words in the letter were sincere, and Gao De was specially invited to a banquet.

Gao De looked at the date at the end of the invitation letter, which was the 20th of Huayanyue, thirteen days ago. Well, let alone the fact that the banquet had ended long ago, even the banquet was over.

He shook his head and glanced at the other invitation letter.

This invitation letter was very special. It came from Golden Feather Castle, the residence of Marquis Drake, the lord of Dorne.

However, it is not a special banquet. Instead, the Golden Feather Castle will hold a large banquet one day after Pentecost, and send invitations to the nobles and some outstanding and young wizards in the city, inviting them to the banquet.

But Gao De happened to return to the North during Pentecost and missed the invitation.

This kind of invitation is not one-on-one, so you can go or not, it doesn’t matter.

It's just because this is a rare social occasion. Although this invitation is not mandatory, it is a great opportunity to make friends with the powerful and expand personal connections. Therefore, all the mages who receive the invitation letter will be proud of it and will gladly attend the event.

If Gaode had received the invitation letter one day earlier, he would have probably attended the banquet. Now that he missed it, there is nothing he can do.

The last letter, however, came from Auckland City and was delivered just yesterday.

The content was also very simple. It basically said that the disaster in Auckland had come to a temporary end, and Count Roland was going to take time out to hold a ceremony to award Gaode the title of "Honorary Mage of Auckland" and sincerely invited Gaode to attend to receive the gift.

(End of this chapter)