"The quickest quest to obtain magic stones?" Kaidi bowed his head and mused "This is nothing more than going out on hunting quests and quests to find various materials, but compared to the latter, the magic stones obtained from hunting quests are a bit more plentiful."
"Hunting missions?" Hearing Kaidi Flea asked curiously "What are they hunting for?"
"There is no special indicator for this, it mainly depends on what the publisher of the hunting mission needs, sometimes it may be monsters, sometimes it will also be people, most of the apprentices who take the hunting mission are negative energy department, those guys themselves are very suitable for doing these, and you and I are only second class apprentices now, most of the hunting mission carries a certain degree of danger, it's not very suitable for us. " Caddy, perhaps seeing Freya somewhat moved by this deliberately reminded.
"Oh." Freya nodded her head, in her heart she had some understanding of this mission, then she raised her head and swept her eyes at the huge mission sign not far away and asked "Then what kind of mission is suitable for us?"
"There are a lot of them, such as acting as an experiment assistant for the tutor, handling magical materials or seal engraving runes, or if you're good at plant-based spells you can even go to the logistics department as a full-time job, and you can receive at least three magical stones a month, it's very rich!" Kaidi said with slight envy.
"Three pieces a month ah." Hearing Caidi's words, Freya pretended to show an expression of surprise, but in her heart, she frowned slightly.
Just now, she scanned the mission board, the income of three magic stones a month in peace was indeed much higher than the pay of ordinary missions, but in the end, it was not comparable to a hunting mission.
A simple hunting mission's pay was as low as one magic stone, and the higher ones could reach ten or even twenty, and although there were unknown dangers, both in terms of time and quantity were much higher than ordinary missions, and after the hunting mission was over in addition to the pay received there were also some other grey incomes from the prey, which were transparent grey incomes.
'It's true, killing people and getting rich is the fastest shortcut to getting rich no matter which world it is' Freya sighed in her heart.
"Alright. That's where the registration files are." Cady pointed to a red wooden door in the hall and then said "I have to go to Mentor Griffia's place to sort out the experimental materials later, so I won't accompany you."
"Well, you go ahead." Freya smiled as she looked at Cady and waved her hand away.
Caidi was likewise an ordinary apprentice without any background family. Relying on herself step by step to get to the Elgrim Witch Academy, but compared to Freya who knew nothing, Kaidi, who was a native, knew a lot more than her.
Although Kaidi's learning ability can not be compared to Freya, but his hard work and struggle are obvious, in addition to learning he is the busiest of the three, the biggest ideal is to become a formal wizard after being a wizard family valued and recruited into. He also seems to have a secret liking for Lillian. I just don't know if this secret liking will eventually become explicit.
But in the end, Cady and Lillian were two of the few friends that Freya could talk to in the academy.
Suddenly, it occurred to me that if the two frequent fighters were to actually get together, what would it be like in the future?
However. What happens to the two of them in the future is all up to the two of them, right now her main purpose is to earn magic stones.
The corner of Freya's mouth curled up slightly as she turned around and walked towards the red wooden door.
Two months later.
The outer area of the Elgrim Wizard Academy.
A dense sea of forest, a low rumbling sound came from the gloomy rain clouds in the sky, and the wind gradually grew stronger.
In the depths of the forest, four figures whose entire bodies were shrouded in grey robes were hidden in the tops of large trees, quietly hibernating.
Two males and two females. The appearance of the four people was young, no more than eighteen years old, and all of them had a vigilant look, as if they were waiting for something.
Because of the gloomy sky coupled with the dense foliage cover, the four people crouching on the tree could not be discovered at all if they did not look closely.
In this quiet forest, as the wind grew stronger. Fine raindrops fell from the sky. Hitting the trees with a rustling sound.
Freya, who was standing on the treetops, with her eyes motionless, put the hat on the back of her robe on her head. Although she didn't mind the rain but getting her underwear wet was always uncomfortable.
The crossed swords that were coated with a layer of grey paint were held in her hands, rainwater running down the cold blade.
She was on a low-level hunting mission, the target of which was a scavenger that came from outside.
The hunt mission had to be issued because its severely damaged the vigilance sorcery and ecosystem of the forest around the academy, and the rot-eating beast's toughness wasn't something the rabbit guards could resist so they had to be sent out on a hunt mission.
Frya knows this kind of creature from the canon of the science of all things, itself is just a kind of low-grade magical creature, the appearance is somewhat like an enlarged grey wolf, in addition to having a brute force comparable to a great knight's IQ and ordinary beasts are no difference, belongs to a kind of better deal with a kind of magical creatures.
Even if Freyja encountered it, she could kill it single-handedly, but it was just a bit more difficult.
However, because this foreign scavenger brings more harm, and seems to know how to hide so it is hung in the hunting mission, the reward is also generous four magic stones.
This quest was not monolithic, anyone could take it and there was no limit to the number of people, it could be completed in a group or solo.
Originally, Freya had also tried to do it solo, but she found that the intelligence of this scavenger was much higher than she had expected, and once it sensed a threat it immediately turned around and fled, not giving anyone a chance to face off head-on at all.
Because it also had the brute strength of a Grand Knight level itself, although it couldn't be beaten, it was simply too easy to break free from the pursuit of one or two apprentices with a single mind.
After several fruitless attempts, Freya also had to temporarily look for other apprentices who received the same mission to come together.
In the end, a day after the group was formed, one of the Shadow apprentices who was good at tracking spells captured the movements of the scavengers, which was why several of them were planning to snipe each other in this route.
The rain seemed to be showing signs of getting heavier and heavier, but fortunately, the grey apprentice robes had a rainproof function, and apart from the exposed skin being soaked, the inside was still dry.
However, as time passed by, apart from Freya who was still staring ahead, the other three were slightly restless. The long hibernation had made these mentally immature apprentices a little impatient.
"Folanthe, does your tracking spell indeed show that the scavengers are about to pass through here?" The other girl among the four who was holding a longbow and wooden arrows couldn't help but ask the boy next to her in a low voice.
"This...should be here." The boy named Flint looked at the wooden sign in his hand that was emitting a faint light and also looked a little unsure.
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The four of them were all second-class apprentices. All of them had only just come into contact with spell models themselves, and their grasp of the basics was not yet comprehensive and solid so the spells would inevitably be off.
Moreover, the girl among them hadn't even mastered any of the spells yet, and if it wasn't for her excellent bow skills, it would have been impossible to join this squad.
"The Shadow Department's tracking spell is one of the most accurate of all the departments, maybe the timing might be a little off, but it probably shouldn't be wrong!" The other boy was also a bit impatient though. But his basic knowledge was much more comprehensive compared to that girl. That's why he whispered in a soothing voice.
"Alright, then wait a little longer." That girl questioningly glanced at Folanthe and slightly moved her somewhat stiff body to whisper.
Freya listened quietly to the conversation between the three without making a sound. She was the one who had come into contact with the Scavenging Beast the most out of the four, and knew a lot about this magical creature, and based on her previous experience, the possibility of it passing through here would be very, very high.
Just when all four of them were harbouring various thoughts, there was a slight shake in the tall grass not far away.
"It's coming!" The boy who had calmed the two down was the first to notice the glimmer of abnormality, while the crossed swords in Freya's hands tightened at the same time.
She squinted her eyes slightly, and through the hazy curtain of rain she could clearly see there a huge grey wolf-like creature lightly scurrying out from that grass.
Grim fangs. Scarlet eyes, majestic body, all of them showed the toughness of this creature.
For a moment, the other three, who had never come into contact with such a creature, all slightly sucked in a cold breath.
"Is this the Carrion Eater..." the girl looked at the strong appearance of the Carrion Eater and gulped her voice trembled a little "We... we really want to kill it?"
"It has traces of the shadows I put out on it, and it also has many scars on its shoulder blades. It should be the one we're looking for..." said Flint, who was also nervous but much better than the girl. At that moment, she also drew the crossbow that had been hanging from her belt and filled it with arrows one by one.
"Don't make another sound. Pay attention to the preparations, Freya, you're the best at surprise attacks, you'll end up preparing for a kill shot, Folanthe and Lena you two cover Freya, I'll attract its attention! Quick battle!" The boy in the lead swept the other three in a deep voice.
This time, all three of them did not reply and nodded heavily at the same time.
Freya, who had been watching the movements of the scavenger, slightly raised the cross-sword in her hand, made a strange gesture with her empty left hand, and softly chanted an incantation with her mouth.
Then a slight wind sound crossed her ears, and her body, which had been somewhat stiff from the long period of hibernation, suddenly became lighter.
This was the only level zero spell she had exchanged for after accumulating magic stones through ordinary hunting quests over the course of two months, the wind-type 'Light Wind'.
The original point of this spell was to be used on escaping, the model itself was not as complex as some other spells, and the price was cheap enough that it was resolved within five days of Freya buying it.
However, compared to this simple zero-level spell, it was the best value for money for Freya, both in terms of usefulness and other things.
Seeing the faint greenish-coloured aura surrounding Freya, the boy at the head of the group also took out the black liquid in a test tube from his belt pouch and threw it down without a word.
The ordinary glass test tube hit a small stone below with a thud and exploded, and the black liquid slowly flowed down the broken test tube onto the ground with a slight ''nuisance'' sound.
Like some kind of chemical reaction with an unknown substance, the flowing black liquid suddenly moved on the ground, and then actually, as if it had been activated, it quickly gathered up everything around it on its own.
The black soil, the leaves, the rain that fell from the sky all quickly surged towards the black liquid, and in less than a few seconds, a strange-looking black giant was formed.
As the giant formed, a faint putrid odour emanated from it.
Freyja, who had already looked over all the zero level spells in the academy, knew at a glance that this giant was a summoning system Corrosive Giant, which was considered to be a more advanced zero system spell, and it was said that in addition to needing to analyse the complex spell models in it, it also needed to be specialised in pharmacy, and possessed strong defence and strength, but the speed was the same as that of an ordinary person, but it was a powerful spell for the second grade apprentice, and naturally, the purchase price was also very high. The purchase price on it was also very high.
"Go on, attract it!" The boy at the head of the group pointed towards the scavenger and issued a command with his mental power.
Freya slightly swept a glance at the boy and found that his face was much whiter than just now, thinking that summoning such powerful creatures was proportionate to the loss of spiritual energy.
Hearing his master's order, the Corrosive Giant fiercely stood up from the ground, its pitch-black, faceless head slowly opening up into a large hole, from which a muffled whistling sound came out.
"ROAR!!!"
A strong* odour rushed along that black hole towards the Corruption Eater, even the four people standing on the tree could smell that corpse-like smell.
The Scavenger that was not far away was even more directly attracted by the odour.
Fleeing for many days, it has been hungry for a long time, and now steeply smelled the smell of rotting corpses and immediately looked over towards their side vigilantly.
However, when it saw the lone corrosive giant in the distance it slightly froze, somewhat unable to understand what kind of creature it was.
However, even though it was a bit more resourceful than an ordinary carrion-eater, it hadn't broken away from the intelligence of a wild beast after all, and soon the instinct of hunger suppressed the curiosity.
After roughly observing the surroundings and discovering that there were no other creatures, it directly slightly crouched down and slowly moved over towards the corrosive giant that was still emitting a strong aura.
Its hunting instincts made it not easily run towards the other party right away, but instead cleverly hid itself.
As it got closer and closer to the Corrosion Giant, the Corruption Eater's hind limbs slowly tightened up, in a stage where it could burst into a sprint at any time.
The four people who had been hiding in the treetops were staring nervously at the Corruptor's every move.
Perhaps it was close to the best time to sprint, that Scavenging Beast suddenly jumped out directly from the hidden grass, the wildly running limbs made the huge figure directly break through the rain curtain, the slightly opened and closed mouth fangs were already exposed, revealing a morose lustre.
"Woo!"
The swift speed made the corrosive giant that was still spewing out its breath not even have time to react before it was pounced on the ground, the sharp fangs precisely bit down on the position of its neck, and with a 'click' sound, the corrosive giant that was made of a mixture of mud and rotting leaves was actually bitten off its neck with a single blow.
"It's now!!!"