Chapter 71

This is a sand dune two kilometers away from the camp.

After receiving the relevant mission from his senior, Zoro, Sain and Lina came here to investigate and record the relevant information.

With someone covering for them, everything was indeed much easier.

Although Senior Zoro was low-key, as a quasi-mage and the main person responsible for setting up the coordinate generator, it was not a problem for him to assign some easy and safe tasks to Sain and the others.

It had been fifteen days since Sain arrived at the camp.

Gradually, Sain also adapted to the life at the camp.

Mages, after all, are human beings, a social species.

Sain had not yet reached the level where he would bury himself in the laboratory for years, or even longer.

With other apprentices around, Sain felt much better, at least not so lonely.

The crystal ball in his hand recorded the relevant information.

After recording the surrounding environment, Sain called out to Lina and quickly returned in the direction of the camp.

This sandy world was not without danger.

The harsh environment and extreme natural disasters were enough to make these black magic apprentices suffer greatly.

In the past fifteen days, Sain had the fortune to witness a massive sandstorm from a distance.

Although the center of the sandstorm was far from their camp, the oppressive and destructive force was enough to make anyone realize their insignificance.

Sain was unsure if formal black mages could withstand such a terrifying storm, but he imagined it would not be easy.

Through his senior, Phoe, and Lina, Sain learned that two months before he arrived at the camp, the camp had narrowly escaped a smaller sandstorm.

Two senior apprentices who were closer to the storm were immediately swept away, their fates unknown.

Other apprentices were also injured, and this harsh environment was not one where ordinary people could survive.

Lina, his girlfriend, still maintained her cold and distant demeanor.

Except for the occasional subtle emotional changes she showed in front of Sain, most of the time, Lina seemed like a transparent person.

After returning to the camp with Lina, Sain first submitted the mission to his senior, then went with Lina to a tent on the east side of the camp.

This tent was smaller than the one Sain and the others lived in, and only one apprentice lived inside.

"Senior Apprentice Modi, I want to learn the process of making elemental mushrooms. This is the price I am willing to pay." Sain walked into the tent and said to the apprentice sitting in the middle, who was holding a jar and mixing some green liquid.

This was a senior apprentice who looked rather aged, and it was unclear how old he was.

In the Black Magic Academy, this senior apprentice was not particularly famous.

But after coming to the sandy world, this apprentice became one of the figures that all apprentices in the camp had to take seriously.

Because he and a few other apprentices who mastered plant magic were responsible for the food supply in the camp.

In addition to the elemental mushrooms mentioned by Sain, he also knew the cultivation technique of a plant called the Seven-Branch Bread Tree.

However, the latter was said to be the core magical knowledge of the apprentice, almost impossible to be passed on, so Sain set his goal on the elemental mushrooms.

Different people had different views on the matter of making food.

Sain believed that this skill would be useful wherever he went in the future, so he wanted to master it.

But for his senior, Phoe, or his senior, Zoro, they thought that mastering the cultivation techniques of such magical plants was not very meaningful.

Actually, mastering the production of nutritional potions and the carrying capacity of spatial rings were enough to solve most food problems.

A situation like being trapped in the sandy world was a rare exception.

Like Sain, there were not a few black magic apprentices who had a sudden idea and tried to master the cultivation techniques of magical plants.

However, since the apprentices who provided food in the camp were mostly senior apprentices, there had been no forced buying and selling.

Sain had also observed and analyzed other magical plants, and ultimately chose the elemental mushrooms in Modi's hands because the cultivation of this magical plant did not require specific seeds.

It only needed water, elemental energy, and some specific techniques, making it more convenient than other magical plants.

As Sain finished speaking, he pushed two low-level magical items in front of him.

These two low-level magical items were plant-related equipment, which the senior apprentice, Modi, should find useful.

"Oh? It seems my unfortunate junior apprentice met his end here. I wonder if he was swallowed by the sand,

or..." Modi chuckled, his eyes looking at Sain.

"When I found him, he was already a dried corpse," Sain said with a calm expression.

Modi nodded and did not continue to investigate the cause of his unfortunate junior's death.

After collecting the two low-level magical items whose elemental power had dissipated and needed to be re-enchanted, he added, "Not enough!"

After a moment's thought, Sain took out a magic short staff and about three hundred pieces of black gold.

The magic short staff was obtained by Sain from the intermediate apprentice, Mari, and the black gold came from various sources.

This time, the senior apprentice, Modi, carefully examined the intermediate magical item, and then nodded in satisfaction.

He casually pushed the black gold on the table back to his side and said, "Not bad, now you can learn the technique of making elemental mushrooms from me."

"Of course, if you are willing to pay more, I can give you a cultivation guide for magical plants, hehehe..." the senior apprentice, Modi, laughed hoarsely.

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After leaving the senior apprentice, Modi, Sain and Lina walked towards the tent they lived in.

After half a month, the camp was much busier than when Sain first arrived.

Nearly twenty intermediate apprentices had arrived at the camp one after another.

And during this period, new apprentices continued to arrive.

After Sain's batch of intermediate apprentices, the formal black mages seemed to have sent other intermediate apprentices over as well.

It was unknown whether the low-level apprentices and the few remaining beginner apprentices would also be sent over by the black mages.

It was also unknown how the fat Bos and Meli were doing now.

"The process of making elemental mushrooms is not complicated. Do you want to try my skills tonight?" Sain asked Lina beside him.

"Sure." Lina replied.

"Do you want to learn it too? I think the cultivation techniques of these magical plants are quite useful." Sain hesitated a bit before asking.

Lina's perspective was different from that of Sain's seniors.

In response to Sain's suggestion, Lina merely paused for a moment before nodding and answering, "Sure."