Chapter 43: Picking from the Bottom of the Sea

"Is it the mage of the Eternal White Tower?"

Ke Mingde's arrival alarmed the mages on Blackstone Island, and a middle-aged man walked out of the mage tower to verify his identity.

Ke Mingde handed over a certificate that contained the magic insignia of the Eternal White Tower, which could not be faked.

"It's Lady Victoria's new disciple!"

The middle-aged mage suddenly became enthusiastic:

"I'm a disciple of Master Owen, called Duncan, come on, smile a little high, do you need help?"

Master Owen is the fourth disciple of the Eternal White Tower, and he specializes in the production of magic props.

Blackstone Island stands abruptly on the ice, with no steps or piers, making it difficult to climb.

"No, thank you!"

Ke Mingde declined Master Duncan's kindness and pulled out a thick black book.

This is a spell book, there are ten pages, each page is engraved with a magic array diagram, a total of ten intermediate spells are recorded, the use is very simple, inject magic into the corresponding page, you can release spells.

He doesn't have many spells at the moment, and this spell book is very important to him.

Turning the pages, each sheet was thick, made from the bark of the Figmy Tree, Ko Mingde pressed one end of his staff to the page, injecting the magic from the core into it.

The entire sleigh floated and landed on Blackstone Island.

"Oh my God!

Duncan exclaimed, as if he had seen something terrible.

The production of spell books is very difficult, and the skills and materials required to record the three-dimensional structure of spells on a two-dimensional book are amazing, and spell books can be used repeatedly unlike spell scrolls.

"This was lent to me by His Highness Dila. Ke Mingde replied.

He looked around the island, and in the center was a five-story mage tower, surrounded by several fruit trees, and the treetops were still hanging red and yellow fruits, showing their beauty in the cold wind.

The reindeer chirped a few times and burrowed into a hut under the tree.

Two more people walked out of the mage tower and welcomed Ke Mingde into the mage tower.

There are three black-robed mages stationed on Blackstone Island, who maintain the magic circle here and collect the magic cores produced by the magic mussels.

The stationed mages can return to Neverwinter after three months of service, and Ke Mingde has come to replace Master Duncan this time.

In the afternoon, Duncan familiarized him with the work and environment, and the next morning, he returned to Winterfall in the sleigh that Ke Mingde had come, carrying a box of magic cores.

The other two mages on Blackstone Island are named Lucien and Lin Lei, both of whom are disciples of the Eternal White Tower, and they are also enthusiastic, and they get along very well with Ke Mingde.

Life on the island is not tiring, but it is far away from the crowd and seems extremely lonely. In addition to cultivation and work, he kills time through various ways to relieve loneliness.

Lucien loved theatre and had been on the island for a month and had already completed a play and was working on a second part, while Ray was fond of sculpture and his room was filled with all kinds of stone sculptures.

Ke Mingde used this free time to practice the Guiding Technique, and with the assistance of the Life Bottle, he was already able to operate the Dou Qi freely, and it was not far from the release of the Dou Qi and the advancement of silver.

When he got up early in the morning, Ke Mingde stewed a pot of fish soup and had breakfast with Lucien and Lin Lei.

The sea is rich in products, every time you go into the water, you can bring up a lot of sea cucumber abalone, rare seafood, the staple food is bread, which is created out of thin air by several mages using the intermediate spell "magic bread", Ke Mingde's spell book, this kind of spell is recorded.

At noon, when the temperature was the highest and the daylight was the highest, Ke Mingde put on a fish skin and went into the water with Lucian.

According to the schedule, you have to go into the water once a day to complete the work of the day, and each time you go into the water, two people need to take care of each other, and those who stay on the island are responsible for the monitoring and inspection of the magic array.

They have to check the growth of the underwater magic mussels, expel the creatures that threaten the magic mussels, and collect today's magic cores, which is not a very difficult job, but a little more tedious and hard.

There was a wooden stake on the Black Rock Island, and two ropes were tied to the stake, the ropes were two hundred meters long, and every five meters, a magic lamp the size of a fist was tethered.

The two mages jumped onto the ice and found their usual place to enter the water, where the ice was relatively thin.

Ke Mingde gripped the staff, chanted for five seconds, and released the impact orb, chiseled a large hole in the ice, and plopped and jumped on several large fish.

The impact orb is an advanced level of the primary spell impact technique, the power is higher than the impact technique, and the difficulty of releasing it is considered low among the intermediate spells, and it is the only intermediate spell that Ke Mingde has mastered so far.

Kommad grabbed a rope and jumped into the ice hole, followed by Lucien.

In addition to the lamp on the rope, the two of them each carried a magic lamp, which was powered by three magic cores, which were very bright and illuminated the deep waters.

The deeper the dive, the brighter the ice could not reach here at all, and the water temperature was higher than that of the upper layer, but these factors could not affect the two black-robed mages in the slightest.

The water they wore was an extremely practical magical creation, which was anti-compression, insulating, and waterproof, and was made of the skin of an intermediate magical beast such as the deep-sea giant ray, exuding the breath of a top predator and dispersing schools of fish in deep water.

The mussel farm is located in the water at a depth of 90 meters, which should be a natural scenery, but it shows neat carving traces everywhere.

The bottom of the water is extremely flat, with straight grooves, inhabited by algae and shrimp and crabs, and every one meter, grows a giant mussel as large as a car cover, with a hole in the shell and nailed to the ground with a metal chain.

The metal chains are about two meters long and the thickness of a thumb, giving these magic clams space to move and mate.

There are more than 8,600 magic mussels locked in metal chains at the bottom of the water, and each one has a string number on the chain, ranging from 1 to 8600, and there is no duplicate.

These more than 8,000 magic mussels occupy a huge part of the water, and according to common sense, the natural resources here are far from enough to support the growth of such a large number of magic mussels.

His Royal Highness Dila arranged a huge magic array under the water, regulating the temperature of the water, gathering magic power, and allowing these magic mussels to grow to their heart's content, Rao, this water area of tens of thousands of square meters can only afford more than 8,000 demon mussels.

"It's the turn of Demon Mussel No. 4399 today!"

A word reached Komingde's ears, and through the natural crystal-polished lenses, Lucien was waving his staff.

This is the Sound Transmission Technique, an unpopular primary spell that is very convenient to communicate underwater, and Ke Mingde also learned this spell after coming to Blackstone Island.

The two men paddled to the side of number 4399 and landed at the bottom of the water.

The surrounding demon mussels immediately closed the two mussel shells tightly, setting off a turbulent current, stirring up the mud and sand, and the deep water that was not clear became even more turbid.

"I'll pick from 4419 and you'll pick from 4399!" Cumming, using his telephonic technique, told Lucien his idea.

Lucien nodded, and the two of them each found their target.

“...... Sitamada, the order of nature, the demon clam in front of you, listen to my command......"

Ke Mingde recited a lengthy spell, this is a primary spell to drive the beast, it is the most difficult of the primary spells to use, Ke Mingde also needs a combination of spells and gestures to cast.

“...... Open your shell and offer the core!"

The staff rested a little on the huge mussel shell, and the magic mussel slowly opened, revealing the soft tissue inside.

Ke Mingde approached the magic lamp and illuminated the inside of the magic clam.

The pearls are wrapped in the mussel meat, all of them are bigger than soybeans, and some of them can be compared to large peanuts, and there are more than 20 of them at a glance.

Ke Mingde was not surprised by these pearls, rummaged carefully, found a hard lump in the mussel meat package, pinched it hard, and a magic core was squeezed out, and the demon mussel twitched.

After removing the Core, the Clam will choose a pearl in its body and nurture it into the next Core.