Chapter 8: Association Invitation
After shopping around, Pei Ze had a rough idea.
These tasks in the square can be mainly divided into three categories.
The first category is the chore category.
This includes cleaning the lab, tending the medicine garden, serving as a teaching assistant in meditation classes, and more.
This type of task is the easiest and most secure, but the cycle is relatively long and the rewards are not satisfactory.
Often after seven days, I can only get about 10 contribution points in reward, which is just enough to buy 2 Yunling Grass blades.
The second type of tasks is experimental.
Usually there is only one way, and that is to assist a certain teacher in conducting experiments.
Regardless of the length of such tasks, the rewards are also exciting.
You can get 50 contribution points in one day.
However, according to Pei Ze's observation, there are very few people who take on such tasks.
As for the reason, he could figure it out with his toes.
In the final analysis, it is because of the uncertainty and high risk of the experiment.
It is said that in the dark ages, many wizards often used high rewards to lure students to assist in experiments due to lack of experimental subjects, which resulted in the death or mutation of many students.
In that era, the number of wizard apprentices who died in wizard experiments was no less than those who died in combat conflicts.
However, in the tens of thousands of years that followed, due to the improvement of knowledge inheritance, wizards no longer needed to rely on human experiments to study knowledge, and many dangerous experiments were gradually banned.
Even if they really need test subjects, wizards prefer to use slaves captured from the colonial plane for experiments rather than ruining their own apprentices.
To this day, experiments that require the assistance of students are often very low-risk.
Of course, no matter how low the risk is, it is not without risk.
As long as it is an experiment, there is a possibility of accidents.
Therefore, unless they are very short of money, no student is willing to risk their life to take on experimental tasks.
Pei Ze was naturally no exception, skipping such tasks without even looking at them.
The last type of mission is combat.
As the name suggests, it is a mission that requires combat, including guarding a mining area or medicine garden outside the city, cleaning up monsters in a mine, and hunting down certain dangerous creatures in the wild.
This type of mission is the most dangerous, but the reward is usually very considerable, starting with a minimum of 100 contribution points.
However, after hesitating for a moment, Pei Ze gave up on this type of task.
He hasn't mastered a single spell yet, and based on his knight-level physique, taking on this kind of mission is no different than courting death.
Those who dare to take on combat missions are either third-level wizard apprentices or second-level wizard apprentices holding magic items.
"It seems that I can only choose chore tasks."
Pei Ze shrugged helplessly and began to choose tasks.
But at this moment, his eyes suddenly paused.
'Task number 877'
'Task content: Take care of No. 8 Medicine Garden, duration 7 days'
'Task requirements: Proficient in plant cultivation, basics of pharmacy, identification of extraordinary materials, allology and rare botany, and proficiency in spells 'Plant Aura'
'Task Reward: 50 Contribution Points'
Among the many chore tasks with a reward of only 10 contribution points, this task is particularly outstanding because its reward is five times that of other tasks!
"50 contribution points. The reward is high, but the conditions are also very harsh." Pei Ze thought thoughtfully.
Among the five courses of knowledge required by the task, the basics of pharmacy and rare botany are both advanced courses. Except for students who are interested in becoming pharmacists, they will study them specifically. Others can only have a general understanding of them and will not have in-depth exposure at all.
As for the plant aura, it is a type of zero-ring spell, and its function is to catalyze the growth of plants.
In the same way, except for students who aspire to become pharmacists, no one will learn such a spell that is not very useful in improving their strength.
People who aspire to become pharmacists are often the owners of mines at home, so it is impossible for them to take a fancy to such a task.
The student I was interested in did not meet the conditions.
So it was very embarrassing.
"No wonder no one accepted this task after watching it for a long time."
Pei Ze smiled slightly. He didn't know about others, but this task suited him very well.
Although he has never been exposed to the two advanced courses, it doesn't matter. With the omniscient eye, as long as he finds the corresponding books in the library, he can master them in minutes.
However, plant aura requires time to analyze and master.
After thinking for a moment, Pei Ze quickly made a decision.
Just take this mission!
During the 7-day mission period, the rewards you get can be exchanged for 7 days of Yunling Grass blades, and the rest can be saved to buy spell models. This mission is worth doing!
But before that, you must first learn the aura of plants.
"I only have 7 gold coins left now, and I still have 13 gold coins left to buy the plant aura."
Pei Ze frowned, money was really a big problem.
At this moment, a call suddenly came from behind.
"Pei Ze."
Pei Ze looked back and found a group of people standing behind him.
Five men and three women, all familiar faces, they were the group of people in class three who were promoted to wizard apprentices before him.
The leading boy is Shao Hong, whose qualifications are second only to Cheng Li in Class Three.
"Long time no see, Pei Ze."
Shao Hong raised his hand to say hello, with a sincere smile on his face that made people feel friendly involuntarily.
However, Pei Ze refused to comment.
I remember that he and Shao Hong had not exchanged a few words, and the latter had never been so kind to him. Now he was uncharacteristically different, obviously because of his status as a first-level wizard apprentice.
In the final analysis, it's just about watching others order the dishes.
But instead of hitting the smiling person, Pei Ze also said hello to them.
"Long time no see."
"I heard that you were promoted to wizard apprentice. I guessed that you would come to the mission area to have a look, so I came to look for you, and sure enough I found you." Shao Hong said with a smile.
"What's the matter?" Pei Ze asked.
Shao Hong looked serious and said, "We are here to invite you to join the association."
"Association." Pei Ze raised his eyebrows.
The so-called association refers to a group formed spontaneously by students to exchange knowledge and experience and help each other.
Tower Academy has a long tradition of forming societies.
A few extremely outstanding associations even exist today from hundreds of years ago.
For example, the Shadow Snake Society, the Wisdom Society, and the Rose Society are all well-known old associations in the academy, bringing together countless outstanding wizard apprentices.
In addition, many new associations founded by freshmen emerge every year in the college.
Of course, due to various reasons, few of these new associations can last more than two terms, and they often fall apart soon after.
"We are all from Class Three, and we all know each other fairly well, so we simply formed an association to exchange knowledge and intelligence with each other, and at the same time prepare for the next trial." Shao Hong explained.
"Trial?" Pei Ze raised his eyebrows and asked curiously, "What trial?"
(End of Chapter)