Tasks and Contribution Points

Leaving the puppet factory, Amy led the three of them on a tour of the magical plantation, finally heading straight to the warehouse.

The last stop on the base tour was the warehouse.

As they approached the warehouse, even from a distance, Sheman heard a melodious music.

“It’s a violin,” Arthur said, closing his eyes to listen for a moment, then confirmed.

“Yeah,” Kolai nodded, “The performer has impressive skills, better than my former violin teacher.”

Sheman scratched his head, unable to distinguish but finding it pleasant to hear.

“It’s Little Geli playing, meow. She loves to play the violin,” said Amy, leading the way towards the warehouse.

Suppressing their curiosity, the three hurriedly followed.

Upon reaching the warehouse, they found a small chair in front of the entrance, where a tiny figure was diligently playing the violin.

The little figure was about twenty centimeters tall, with a delicate and pretty appearance, looking like a miniature version of a girl.

She had light green skin with some scales, deep green hair adorned with shells and pearls, and was draped in a shawl woven from various seaweeds, giving her an exotic beauty.

Arthur’s eyes lit up: “So cute!”

Sheman hesitated, “Is this… a fairy?”

“Sheman is correct, meow. Little Geli is a Gree fairy, a helper summoned from another world by Master Sunan a few days ago,” Amy explained.

Another world summon? Gree fairy?

The three listened in awe, gaining a greater respect.

“Despite her young appearance, Little Geli has lived for many years. Gree fairies are a rare immortal race.”

The three apprentices’ eyes widened in shock.

An immortal race!

Does that mean eternal life?

Could such a race truly exist in this world?

At that moment, the melodious violin sound slowly ended, followed by a tender yet pleasant voice.

“Amy, discussing a lady’s age behind her back isn’t polite.”

“Why, meow? I was only telling the truth,” Amy asked, puzzled, turning back.

Geli, walking over, gave it a helpless glance, sighed without further comment, and turned to smile at the three, saying:

“Nice to meet you, I’m Geli, the new warehouse manager.”

Returning from their surprise, the three hurriedly introduced themselves.

“I know about you. Lord Sunan mentioned it to me,” Geli smiled mildly, signaling them to follow her to a bulletin board.

“Take a look at this.”

Sheman and the others checked the bulletin board, finding it filled with tasks.

Caring for magical plants, cleaning the laboratory, refining moonflower, maintaining clay golems, repairing human-shaped targets, making lesser vitality potions, producing lesser dragon blood potions, creating brute strength potions, and crafting Black Rock Panther—a myriad of tasks, about twenty or thirty in total.

Each task listed location, time, requirements, and contribution points that could be earned upon completion.

Tasks like caring for magical plants, cleaning the laboratory, and maintaining clay golems earned the fewest points, in single digits.

Next were refining moonflower and repairing humanoid targets, with a dozen points each.

However, the former required some understanding of potion-making.

The latter required the basic spell [Repair],

which they couldn’t currently take on.

As for the series of potion crafting and crafting Black Rock Panther tasks, they didn’t even mention.

Looking at the listed tasks, Arthur pondered a bit then asked, “Lady Geli, are the contribution points we earn from completing tasks exchangeable for some items?”

“Just call me Geli,” Geli nodded, affirming Arthur’s guess.

“You’re correct, contribution points can be exchanged for resources with me.”

“Amongst wizards, there’s a rule of equivalent exchange.”

“To obtain something, one must offer something of equal value, including knowledge.”

“The previous meditation methods, knowledge, and potions were gifts from Lord Sunan as your teacher.”

“But starting today, you must earn your resources through work.”

Geli led them to another bulletin board, listing various resources.

From simple materials like clay, silver, black stone iron, and moonflower, and various books—to advanced items like superpower potions, secondary magical items, and rune stones that dazzled Sheman and his companions with their value—things they had already learned from Amy’s stories.

Even steel golems could be exchanged!

Looking at those items, they were tempted.

But after seeing the contribution points needed for a steel golem, their hearts twinged, and they dismissed such unrealistic thoughts.

“You are quite lucky, meow,” said Amy beside them.

“In the current resource-poor Starlight Continent, many of the items here can’t be found outside, only Lord Sunan can acquire them.”

“As long as you work hard, you won’t lack resources to quickly improve your strength.”

Sheman, Kolai, and Arthur were stirred by Amy’s words.

Over the past six months, through books and chatting with Amy, they had come to understand the importance of resources for wizard apprentices.

Without adequate resources, even meditation to increase mental power was difficult for an apprentice, let alone seeking truth.

And now, their teacher provided them with a platform.

A platform where labor could be exchanged for resources.

By diligently earning contribution points, they could continuously grow stronger until they one day became powerful like their teacher!

“I’ll be stationed at the warehouse. You’ve come to find me for tasks, checking contribution points, and exchanging items at any time,” Geli said.

After speaking, she lifted her violin again.

Seeing this, Sheman and the other two sensibly bid farewell and left.

On the way to the residential area, Amy continued, “Don’t underestimate Little Geli due to her size. She’s excellent in archery and versed in enchantment, detection, and invisibility spells. Even I’m not a match for her.”

The three responded absent-mindedly, their thoughts elsewhere.

To these young apprentices, everything they witnessed was so novel.

Before today, they had read many books and believed they understood the wizarding world.

But upon seeing the facilities in the base, they truly felt like they had glimpsed a corner of the wizarding world.

Previously, they were just like frogs in a well, ignorant.

Especially for Sheman, the experience was deeply impactful.

Recalling his earlier dream of living in a castle, he couldn’t help but mock himself, realizing his past naivety.

This world was far more vast than he had imagined.

Compared to the broad, mysterious world of wizards, noble castles were as insignificant as grains of sand.

“I must become a wizard to see more of the world!”

In that moment, the young apprentice made a firm determination.