Chapter 71 Mission

He paused, looking at Benjamin with a hint of admiration in his eyes. "The academy hopes you can produce as much refined gold as possible. We can act as a middleman to help you sell it. Of course, this is a free service, and all points earned from selling refined gold will still belong to you."

"For sale?" Benjamin raised an eyebrow. "The academy is basically just replenishing its inventory."

"It's almost the same if you understand it that way, except that there are no handling fees and intermediate steps." Teacher Clark nodded reservedly.

After a moment of thought, he smiled again, his eyes penetrating. "The academy needs fine gold. Both for supplying returning wizards and as a reserve and research material for the academy itself. The academy provides the raw materials and channels, and you provide the technology and labor. This is a partnership."

Jieming thought thoughtfully: "How much refined gold does the academy need?"

"About this..." Clark didn't answer directly, but just repeated, "The returning wizard this time came back from the Shadow Plane."

Benjamin's eyelids twitched, and he understood what Teacher Clark meant.

To put it bluntly, he needs to prepare to attack the entire world, and the amount of refined gold required is an astronomical figure!

"Even if I work myself to death, I still won't be able to complete the mission!"

"You think too highly of yourself." Clark glanced at him.

"Who told you the academy relies entirely on you? You're just a small part of this war preparedness system, and fine gold is only a small part of the corrosion-resistant materials. The real war preparedness still relies mainly on the work of the high-level wizards of the alchemy department... You don't have to do too much, just use up all the materials in the academy's inventory."

Benjamin blinked, took out his small portable magic network terminal, logged into the magic network and started checking.

Although the academy did not know how to make refined gold, Benjamin was not stupid enough to think that people in the academy did not know what the raw materials of refined gold were.

Even though he always arranged a lot of other materials as a cover, the fact that the main raw material was gold was definitely not a secret to the academy.

Just by taking a quick look at the school inventory, Benjamin's hands started shaking and he almost dropped the terminal.

Tens of thousands of cubic meters of gold!

Even if his strength has improved now, it would still be a tiring job to refine so much gold into pure gold in a short period of time!

"...Is it too late for me to give up this mission now?"

"Absolutely not!" Clark said in an extremely firm tone. "If you hadn't checked the inventory yet, there's still a chance you might give up. But now that you've checked the inventory, I absolutely can't let you get away!"

"Why?!" Benjamin looked puzzled.

"Why?"

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but Benjamin once felt that the smile on Mentor Clark’s face was a little “sinister”.

"Three days ago, the school's gold reserves were only about a hundred cubic meters." He approached Benjamin with a sinister smile. "Gold is a common material with few uses and difficult to collect. How do you think the school managed to gather tens of thousands of cubic meters for you in such a short time?"

Frightened by Mr. Clark's smile, Benjamin took a step back and swallowed.

After glancing at the barely noticeable dark circles under his eyes and then the alchemy badge hanging on his chest, Benjamin suddenly understood:

"Alchemy?"

"clever!"

Clark suddenly reached out with a "grim smile" and grabbed Benjamin's head.

Clark brought Benjamin to him like a little chicken, his low voice filled with the exhaustion of a corporate slave:

"I was suddenly called out of the lab and forced to do hard labor for three whole days. If you dare to give up this mission, I will turn you into gold!!!"

"Okay, okay, I understand! I understand everything! I'll take this mission!"

Benjamin grabbed Clark's hand that was holding his head, and his legs flapped helplessly.

Although Mentor Clark had a good grasp of his strength, he could break free with just a little effort.

But now seeing that the other party was full of resentment and seemed to be planning to drag others into the water, Benjamin felt that it would be better to go along with him.

What's more, there is no harm in this matter for him. After all, the college purchases according to the market price and provides raw materials for free.

But now that I have taken on this task, I'm afraid it will be a bit difficult for me in the next period of time.

"well……"

Seeing that all his strength seemed to have been drained out and that Benjamin was hanging on his hand like a salted fish, Clark's expression relaxed and he opened his fingers to let Benjamin go.

"Okay, stop whining. This quest was issued by the academy through the workshop. If you can complete it, you'll get 10 military merit points. Gee, this is a lucrative job. Others won't be able to take it."

"Military merit?"

"Yes, and it's a high-level military achievement."

When he heard this word, Benjamin's eyes lit up and he no longer looked as indifferent as before. He became full of energy.

The military merit system is similar to the point system used in Norn Academy. Although there is a difference in value between the two, it is actually not particularly large.

If calculated based on the value of redeemable resources and knowledge, the exchange rate between points within the Noren Workshop and low-level military merits is approximately ten to one, while for high-level military merits it can probably increase to one hundred to one.

The main difference between the two sides lies in the scope of resources and knowledge that can be exchanged.

The points system of Noren Academy can only be used within the Noren Workshop. Once outside the Noren Workshop, it will not be recognized by other forces. However, the scope of use of military merit is wider.

Low-level military merits are issued by the Star Ring Federation and can be exchanged for resources throughout the Star Ring Federation.

If it is a high-level military merit issued by the Star Track Arbitration Tribunal, it can be exchanged for major forces in all camps of the entire wizard civilization.

The exchange capacity of 10 high-level military merits is equivalent to 1,000 points, and points at this price can be exchanged for some formal wizard-level knowledge.

In addition to the most special Star Track Arbitration Tribunal, the wizard civilization mainly consists of four major camps, each of which has its own unique ideas and representative technologies.

Under normal circumstances, the four major camps are not completely incompatible with each other, but it is also quite difficult to obtain corresponding technologies and special materials.

For example, the second-level training agreement that Benjamin had obtained previously included a treaty that could help him connect his sales channels to other factions.

But in terms of actual effect, the effect of this treaty is rather mediocre.

When purchasing from other forces, they usually use barter, and if you want to buy some unique materials, the price will be very low. As for the unique knowledge within the force, don't even think about it.

These military merits are not very high in terms of actual value, but they mean that Benjamin has more options.

The most important thing is that if high-level wizards want to go to the front line, they must consume high-level military merits to exchange for qualifications.

(End of this chapter)