Chapter 70 Daily Life of Residents and Spellcaster Apprentices

“More than a hundred newborns were born today.”

It was snowing, and the dog-headed man from the Family Planning Department was wearing a fur coat and writing with charcoal on a cardboard notebook, muttering these words unconsciously.

As the Dark Scale Tribe expanded, the division of labor naturally became more clear.

Warriors who hunt and protect the safety of the tribe, lake frogmen who sow rice seeds and are responsible for production, fishermen who raise fish and catch fish, and so on.

Based on individual differences, each monster finds its own position.

Some weak goblins, because of their extraordinary talents, entered the Mage Tower to learn magic knowledge.

There are also strong trolls who, because of their stupidity, fall behind in the practice of fighting spirit, and make little progress in strength, and end up becoming construction laborers.

After recording the data, the dog-headed man from the Family Planning Department put the cardboard book in his arms and walked slowly towards the market.

It has finished its work for the day and now it is free time.

Come to the market.

Crowded.

“Goqi, are you done with your work? Come and take a look at the rabbits I hunted today. Winter rabbits are so plump and juicy.”

“Gochi…”

As soon as the dog-headed man Gochi entered the market, many monsters recognized him and greeted him enthusiastically.

Obviously, Gochi still has some status here, otherwise with its weak strength, it would be impossible to get the enthusiasm of so many monsters.

“Let me see.”

Gochi responded to the monsters who greeted him, then walked to a goblin’s stall, squatted down, looked at the corpses of several huge gray rabbits on the stall, and reached out to fiddle with them.

This goblin has a stronger body than ordinary goblins. Ordinary goblins are generally between one meter and one meter two meters tall, like human children.

But the goblin in front of Gochi was different. It was over 1.8 meters tall, and its exposed muscles looked extremely strong. Gochi’s eyes fell on those muscles, and a flash of envy crossed his eyes.

“Hobli, your muscles are so strong. I wish I could be like you.” The ogre Gochi took a selected rabbit corpse in his hand and poured out twenty copper coins of the same size with dragon patterns printed on them from the purse on his waist.

Goblin Hobli took the copper coin skillfully, flexed his muscles, and chuckled, “I’m just lucky. I envy you for being so smart and being able to read and write. I can’t understand it at all.”

Creatures with abnormal body shapes like Hobli are actually mutants among the goblin population.

This is not uncommon among the goblin population, but most mutants are not much different from ordinary goblins.

For example, the six-fingered goblin.

Another example is the Thick-skinned Goblin.

Only a small number of goblin mutants have extremely outstanding excellent characteristics, such as the “big goblin” like Hobli.

Or like the ‘Mage Goblin’ named Hobumei, who was chosen by His Majesty the Dragon a month ago and has superior spellcasting talent.

These individuals are rare creatures that have mutated from tens of thousands of ordinary goblins, and are one of the important reasons why this weak race of goblins has been able to survive to this day.

“Haha, that’s true.” Geqi smiled, with pride in his eyes.

It is precisely because it is smart, can read and write, and is very sensitive and accurate about data that it can become a member of the Family Planning Ministry.

The Dark Scale Tribe is divided into multiple departments, and the Family Planning Department is just one of them. The main responsibilities of this department are:
1. Count the total population of the Dark Scale Tribe and record the number and age of newborns.

Second, encourage all races to have children.

Third, screen the monster residents with talents (mainly newborns).

Others, such as the combat unit, bring together almost the strongest warriors of the Dark Scale Tribe.

The Ministry of Agriculture is responsible for developing new paddy fields, increasing food production, etc.

Department of Fisheries, fishing and fish farming.
After the establishment of these departments, the overall development speed of the Dark Scale Tribe increased by several percentage points.

Many monsters strive to enter various departments, because after entering a department, their status is improved and there are copper coins as rewards.

“I won’t say any more. I’ll go to other places in the market to see if there’s anything else I need to buy.” Geqi smiled, got up and left Hobli’s stall.

Huo Buli glanced at Gochi’s receding figure, then looked down at the twenty copper coins lying on his rough palm.

Rubbing the exquisite and majestic dragon pattern on the copper coin, Huo Buli still couldn’t help but sigh,

“His Highness Eddie is truly so wise that the machine he created can actually produce such exquisite currency.”

Half a year ago, the Dark Scale Tribe discovered a copper mine that was relatively easy to mine. In order to cope with the trade needed to cope with the increase in the tribe’s population, the dragon leader Diugs went to Greystone Dragon Castle to report the matter.

Then, His Highness Eddie built an alchemical machine that was several meters high.

As long as you put in copper blocks, you can continuously produce exquisite copper coins of consistent specifications and printed with dragon patterns.

In the eyes of most monsters, this is naturally powerful and intelligent.

But what they didn’t know was that this kind of dragon copper coin had already existed in the Emerald City.

The Prince Eddie mentioned by the monster was just a copy.

As for the anti-counterfeiting mark of any currency? It is not necessary at all.

Because gold, silver, copper and iron possess mysterious powers and value in themselves.

Graystone Dragon Castle.

Leon broke away from the spiritual space and slowly opened his eyes.

A stream of information that only it could see flowed through its mind.

‘First level spell: Water Shield (maxed)’

‘Do you want to fuse the first-ring water shield rune with the third-ring tidal shield rune?’

‘Fusion success’

【Unknown Spell】: Level 1, Third Ring

[Fusion Features]: Level 1 Reserve, Level 3 Defense Amplification, Level 1 Automatic Defense)
‘You have named this unknown spell [Tidal Shield].’

Leon came back to his senses from the information about the fusion spell, took a look at the tidal shield after it was fused with the water shield, and nodded with satisfaction at the property of the defense enhancement being increased from level 1 to level 3.

It stretched out its nearly nine-meter-long dragon body and felt quite comfortable.

The pleasure of increased strength diluted the boredom of learning magic at this moment.

“It has been more than a month since we started recruiting spellcaster apprentices. It’s time to take a look at their learning progress.” Leon thought to himself.

It spread its dragon wings and stood up from its originally prone position. Then, its dragon body floated in the air under the effect of a levitation-like spell. The dragon wings shook slightly and it flew towards the hole above the Greystone Dragon Castle.

As for how Graystone Castle gets wet when it rains or snows?
Black dragons and white dragons like rain and snow.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, the black dragon is flying freely.

Not far away, the tall wizard tower, which was nearly fifty meters high, appeared in the black dragon’s eyes.

The Mage’s Tower is built of gray boulders, the same material used to build Graystone Dragon Keep, a hard gray marble.

The design of the entire tower is very simple. Although only a part of it has been built, it has already revealed a grand and rugged style, which is quite in line with the aesthetic of monsters.

Leon landed, folded his dragon wings, and slowly walked into the tower.

Even considering its huge size, once you enter the tower you won’t feel crowded, but rather quite spacious.

The sound of voices in the distance attracted Leon’s attention.

I saw a dozen or so ‘apprentice spellcasters’ gathered together, seemingly discussing something.

“The spell pattern of the level 1 water ball is not like this. The number of spell nodes of the level 1 water ball is the same as that of the level 0 water ball, both are three nodes. The reason why the level 1 water ball is more powerful than the level 0 water ball is that the structure of the three nodes of the level 1 water ball is more ingenious.
Specifically, you watch me perform it once, and then I slow down the speed. “

The thin and short Hobumei was surrounded by a group of monsters of different heights. Many of the monsters had a look of deep thought on their faces, their eyes fixed on Hobumei’s palm.

There was a water ball that slowly condensed from nothing.

Because the process of condensing the small water ball was extremely slow, and Hobmei intentionally used his mental power to outline the locations of the spell nodes within the small water ball, some of the monsters soon became aware of it first.

“I understand!” The troll in a gray cloth robe roared excitedly, causing the other monsters who were immersed in studying to glare at him with dissatisfaction.

The troll shrank his head, shut his mouth, and started to do the actual operation himself.

It pondered and muttered something, and then a small water ball appeared.

The troll felt that the explosive power contained in the small water ball suspended in his palm was about 10% stronger than the small water ball condensed before, and he was immediately very happy.

The magic power contained is the same, but the power has been increased.

The troll looked at the small water ball in fascination, marveling at the subtlety and greatness of the spell’s structure.

Leon looked at the young monsters who were immersed in learning and communication, watched them thinking hard, watched them make progress and fail, and a look of satisfaction appeared in his dragon eyes.

It seems that building a magic tower in the Dark Scale Tribe, selecting a group of monsters with spellcasting talents and training them is effective.

It was worth the effort to break down the knowledge of upgrading spells in detail.

Take the zero ring trick – small water ball as an example.

Level 0 water ball is the original water ball, followed by level 1, level 2, level 3, and so on until level 10, which is the maximum level, and is divided into ten levels by Leon.

The power of each level gradually increased. Leon recorded the knowledge of spell construction at different levels in paper books and placed them in the library of the Mage Tower for the twenty-one selected monsters with spellcasting abilities to study.

Otherwise, if there were no such detailed level division, and they were asked to learn the full-level water ball trick from the beginning, the difficulty would be too high, and they might not be able to get started even after a year of study.

But after being disassembled by Leon, they learned step by step, first learning the lowest difficulty level 0 water polo, and then went on to learn level 1 water polo and level 2 water polo, so that the difficulty suddenly dropped by a large level.

Although this will also increase the time consumed.

However, for spellcasting apprentices who lack the talent for comprehension, this is a direct path to the great road.

At least, there is a very clear goal of becoming stronger.

“After a few days, these spellcasting apprentices should have a certain level of combat capability.” Leon thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)