bigabreads Chapter 12 Harvest
Chapter 12 Harvest
A few hours later.
As he watched the raging fire, Jiang Shuzhou gradually calmed down. The flames purified everything, and the unpleasant stench was replaced by the smell of burning.
Without the annoyance of the smell, he was finally able to thoroughly sort through the items he had acquired and explore the game system.
Jiang Shuzhou opened his inventory and looked at the items he had acquired.
Item Name: "Mage and Spells: From Beginner to Expert"
Category: Books (Cannot be equipped)
"Class: Apprentice"
"Introduction: This is a common book published by the Third Publishing House of the Mage Alliance. Although it is somewhat exaggerated, the content is detailed and it is one of the must-read books for mages."
Item Name: Mage Robe
Category: Clothing (Equipable)
"Class: Apprentice"
"Attribute: Armor +2 (Full Body)"
"Description: A standard mage robe, offering only a little protection, without any additional enchantments, just better than nothing."
Item Name: Pointer (Velisco)
Category: Magical Items
"Class: First Rank"
Function: Navigation
"Description: It has two pointers, the larger one pointing south and the smaller one pointing to the port city of Velisco, making it an essential item for travelers."
Item Name: Paper with Writing on it
"Content: Find your own way back. I don't have time for you. Consider these things a gift from me. If you can't come back, don't bother coming back. The Mage Alliance doesn't need useless people."
Okay, okay, is this how you play it?
You dog! How can you be so selfish?
"call"
Despite the banter and the commotion, Jiang Shuzhou breathed a sigh of relief and realized that he had met a senior figure.
According to game conventions, even if the other party does not accept you as an apprentice, they should still send you to the main city.
How does it work to send yourself to a deserted island and then give you a pointer to go back?
Now it's gone from a fantasy world to a survival story on a deserted island.
However, it's not a big problem. Jiang Shuzhou still has plenty of supplies and a small boat, which should be enough to escape the deserted island and return to the civilized world.
The free exploration phase was just too free.
Now that we've sorted out the items, it's time to check out the basic attributes.
Name: Navis Lebo
"Soul: 10"
"Spirit: 10"
"Willpower: 10"
Strength: 4
Endurance: 4
Agility: 6
Note: The normal initial value is 5 points.
Clicking on the attribute will also show you the description of each attribute.
"Soul: The foundation of everything. Without a soul, you would cease to exist. The soul influences spirit and will, and your spirit and will attributes cannot exceed three times your soul."
"Spirit: The extension of the soul. The higher your spirit, the higher the magic power you generate."
"Willpower: The resistance of the soul. The higher your willpower, the greater your immunity to non-physical abnormal statuses."
"Strength: Strength determines your attack power and burst damage."
"Endurance: Endurance determines your physical strength and load-bearing capacity."
"Agility: Agility determines your attack speed, physical dexterity, and movement speed."
Looking at his attributes, Jiang Shuzhou fell into deep thought. It was obvious that the mage's main attributes of Soul, Spirit and Will were 10 points, and the only remaining attribute was Agility, which was slightly higher than the average. Fortunately, he had chosen the Battle Mage talent.
Otherwise, this attribute wouldn't even allow you to get past the initial personal storyline.
Then Jiang Shuzhou started looking at the other attributes.
"Health Points: 140 (40+100)"
Spell Power: 100
Attack Power: 46 (6+40)
Armor: 27 (7+20)
"Magic Resistance: 20 (0+20)"
Compared to the attribute panel, this numerical panel is quite luxurious, and it even thoughtfully uses parentheses to indicate the Battle Mage's bonuses.
"Thank goodness I chose Battle Mage, otherwise this stat sheet would be unbearable." Jiang Shuzhou was thankful again. Without the talent bonus, the only thing high on his stat sheet would be his spell power.
So here's the problem: Jiang Shuzhou doesn't know any magic.
Yes, it's outrageous that a mage doesn't know a single spell. Even Gandalf, who is famous for his melee mage skills, knows a spell called Illumination.
As for Jiang Shuzhou, he didn't even know how to use lighting techniques.
Fortunately, although he can't do it now, he can learn.
There are skill books, aren't there? He can choose some skills from them and learn them, and soon he'll be a qualified mage.
Before that, Jiang Shuzhou needed to figure out how to increase the spell's power.
"Spell strength: Calculated from soul, spirit, and will. The formula is: the total value of spirit and will divided by two, and finally multiplied by soul. That is, (10+10)÷2=10, 10×10=100."
I see. So the fastest way to increase spell power is to increase soul power, followed by mental and consciousness power.
Having determined the main direction for allocating skill points, Jiang Shuzhou opened the book "Mage and Spells: From Beginner to Expert" and prepared to learn a few skills.
“…………”
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"Where are my skills? Is there a system bug? Why aren't I getting any notifications?"
Jiang Shuzhou was stunned when he opened the system log.
"Currently reading the book 'Mage and Spells: From Beginner to Expert,' learning progress on the spell 'Mage's Hand' +0.1%"
Jiang Shuzhou looked at the pages of the book he had casually flipped open; the contents contained the method for releasing the Mage's Hand.
Jiang Shuzhou smiled; he smiled with relief.
Is this really a game? I didn't go to university because I didn't want to study, and now you're actually making me learn magic in a game?
What games require players to learn spells themselves?
I'm here to experience being a monk, not to actually become one!
Jiang Shuzhou, amused, put the book away. It wasn't that he didn't want to learn, but it was getting dark, and he figured he could postpone learning magic until tomorrow.
Regardless of whether the game has any problems or not, Jiang Shuzhou has to learn magic. There's no way around it; he chose this profession, so he has to practice even if he's crying.
Who knows, one day the game might merge with reality. Suffering now is for becoming a superior person in the future. Thinking this way, Jiang Shuzhou felt much more at ease.
Let's take a look at the price of gold now.
Gold coin price: 48560 yuan/coin
I knew it!
Gold coins are the general equivalent in the game, or you could say they are the currency of another world.
This game is clearly problematic, so the value of money in the game has naturally skyrocketed. After all, if the game were to become a reality, the currency on Earth would be worthless.
The reason why gold prices are so high is simply because no one treats it as a currency in a game, or more accurately, as foreign exchange.
The higher the price of gold, the more likely people are to believe that the game is real.
It's estimated that many people have now chosen the mage class and have also discovered the problem with skill learning. There are quite a few smart people out there. This game was already full of suspicious points, and now this situation with the mage class has only increased the suspicions of some people.
Fortunately, it seems that many people are only skeptical about this gold price; at least most players are still observing, with only various national entities taking action to buy it.
After all, the situation is still unclear. It's highly likely that the game has problems, but whether it's a game dropped by aliens or the game itself is real, nobody can say for sure.
When he checked the time again, he found that it was already past 7 p.m. Looking out the window, he saw that it was already dark outside. Jiang Shuzhou decided to log off and browse the forum to gather more information and have some fun.
He did a lot that day, dealing with corpses and chopping down trees. He was essentially being used like a beast of burden, but Jiang Shuzhou didn't complain. The experience was just so novel.
I experienced things I've never done in real life in the game, and it was incredibly exciting, especially the smell.