Chapter 397 The Water Beast Appears
Broster City.
Bayro County is a coastal county. Many cities are built on the seaside and become wealthy relying on maritime trade.
But Broster City is an inland city, not facing the sea on all sides, and the largest body of water under its jurisdiction is Lake Esmere.
As a non-coastal city in a coastal county, normally the development situation should be unsatisfactory.
But the fact is that in Barrow County, the economy of Broster City is in the middle, far stronger than the coastal city of Lagos.
The reason why this is possible is that Broster City is located in the center of Barrow County and is the intersection of land transportation and inland shipping in Barrow County.
It is also where the "inland transportation hub" is located.
Due to its status as a "logistics center", there are three airship bases in the city alone.
Hence, although the development of Broster City is not as good as that of several powerful cities along the coast, it still firmly occupies a mid-level position in Byro County and can be regarded as a traditional city with profound heritage.
After returning to Broster City from Lake Esmere, Gaude first went to the local Sheriff’s Department to pay a visit to the “pier”.
After expressing their intention, they successfully borrowed a long rowing boat that they used to patrol the waters for free.
After borrowing the boat, the Sheriff on duty also kindly invited Gaode to have lunch, but Gaode refused because he was exhausted from a busy night and needed to rest.
Following this was a polite remark: "Mr. Gaode has worked tirelessly, which is so admirable. I must follow your example."
After leaving the Sheriff's Department, Gao De found a hotel room in the city that met the reimbursement standards and prepared to rest.
A night of highly focused and intense patrols consumes a lot of energy, not to mention that we have to continue working tonight.
If he doesn't stay in good condition, if the basilisk in Esmere Lake is really a second-level black-winged scale snake, it will be enough for him to eat a pot.
Not to mention earning second-class merit, you might lose your life.
Gothe will not be blindly inflated just because he personally defeated a second-level mage and his own combat power has improved compared to that time.
In fact, in most cases, the combat power of second-level earth line creatures is stronger than that of mages of the same level.
This is because in order to survive in an environment where the weak and the strong prey on the earth line creatures, all their "talent points" are focused on fighting, including strong bodies and various extraordinary powers that are born for fighting.
But mages are different, with various development directions. The proportion of battle mages who are truly specialized in combat is not high among the mages.
Of course, the combat power of battle mages is much stronger than that of earth line creatures of the same level.
Aldrich is neither a battle mage nor a second-level veteran.
Hence, the record of defeating Aldrich was not enough to give him the confidence to underestimate the Lake Esmere Basilisk.
However, compared to human mages, earth line creatures also have their disadvantages: although they have a certain IQ, they are ultimately limited; they generally cannot rely on the power of external objects.
It is precisely with this in mind that Gaode chose to take on this task.
Of course, there are risks.
The first-level mage faced off against the second-level earth-line creatures, still in the water, and had the home field advantage. No matter how you looked at it, the chance of winning was slim.
But if you want to exchange for rare spell formulas, you must earn second-class merit.
No matter how many third-class merits there are, they cannot be used as second-class merits.
In order to increase the strength of the expertise awakened when promoted to the second level, rare spells must be mastered and expanded.
So, you have to do it even if there are risks.
Gaode didn't think much, gave himself a [Comfortable Sleep+], and fell into a deep sleep.
After nearly five hours of deep sleep, Gaode woke up refreshed, and the fatigue accumulated during the night had long been dissipated.
The first thing he did when he woke up was to spend half an hour using the magic mark method on the alien raccoon eggs, injecting his own mana into the eggs in an extremely subtle and stable way, so that the unhatched alien raccoon dogs could become familiar with his magic power.
Then comes daily practice.
After all this was over, Gao De, who was already hungry, went out to eat, visit the market, and collect tree species that must be done every time he goes to a new place.
As the "inland transportation hub" of Byro County, Broster City has a particularly rich and complete range of goods. Goods from all over the place are gathered and transferred here, and the tree species are much richer than the county town of Dorne.
Just after a rough walk around the city, Gothe gained a lot and collected more than 30 new tree species.
But the same thing is that magic tree species are still rare, and I haven’t received any.
After all this trouble, the sky has turned dark blue again, and the night is like a huge black satin, slowly covering the city.
Gaode immediately left the city and went to the small dock where the Sheriff's Department docked its boats. After showing the documents to the guard, he successfully received a small boat.
Compared with the fishing boats he borrowed from fishermen before, the patrol boat of the Sheriff's Department has a slender hull, is lighter and more durable.
Exquisite paddles are installed on both sides of the ship's side, which can reduce the resistance during paddling, make it more efficient and flexible on the water, and facilitate docking and turning around.
Gaude boarded the boat, shook the oars, and rowed towards the shore where the fishing boat docked this morning.
By this time, it was completely dark.
There is a special lighting lantern on the bow of the patrol ship, but Gaode still did not light it and chose to proceed in the dark.
Lake Esmere is unusually quiet at night, with only the sound of Gaud paddling on the entire lake.
Just at this moment, under the water of the lake, a slender shadow swam across, and its gray tail fin flashed across the water, leaving only a fleeting ripple.
Gaode did not panic, but smiled.
“Get ready to work.” He said towards the lake.
The next moment, the originally calm lake suddenly burst into spray. Tuanzi emerged from the lake with his round head and shook his two front fins up and down towards Gothe.
Gaud pulled out the map of the basilisk activity waters that he obtained from the Sheriff's Department. After first eliminating his search area last night, he planned tonight's search route in order from near to far.
Even if there is a general area and a divine berry nest, it is still very difficult to find a mysterious basilisk.
The first half of the night passed quickly, and Gaode still found nothing.
The darker the night, the darker the dark water surface appears.
Gothe dropped several jeweled sweetberries on a new piece of water, then rowed the boat to the side and began to wait.
After waiting like this for about half an hour, he was about to put away the gem berries and change places.
Gentle water waves suddenly rippled.
It looks like just ripples caused by the lake wind blowing through the lake water.
But Gaode knew it was not the case.
His Mandora's magic eyes have been lit up, and he can see through everything.
In the field of vision at this moment, where the water rippled, he could clearly see the veins of energy flow.
Water beast.
Not necessarily a basilisk, but definitely a water beast.
Hello.
In the darkness, in the lake below Gem Sweetberry, a huge black shadow swam across.
The water of the lake formed a whirlpool, and Gemberry was in the center of the whirlpool and was sucked into it.
The whirlpool disappeared in a flash, and the lake quickly returned to calm, but the jewel sweetberry was nowhere to be seen.
Hello guy, this sneaking move is quite neat!
While Gao De sighed in his heart, he already jumped into the water with the north wind.
And Tuanzi, who was hiding near Gem Sweet Berry, had already rushed out!
(End of this chapter)