Chapter 98 Progress
After confirming Gaode's intention to stay, the staff wrote the 4th of Harvest Moon on Gaode's summons and stamped it with a seal.
Then, Gaode once again received the "daily salary" of 5 gold coins.
At the same time, he made a visual inspection and found that there were about 500 mages who originally applied.
After one day, one in ten people chose to leave.
The rest is to choose to continue.
If calculated based on four hundred and fifty, even if they are all mage apprentices, Bremen City's daily employment expenses would be almost 4,500 Sean gold coins.
In one day, the team can advance more than ten kilometers.
If everything goes well, it will take more than half a month to complete this task.
One day, 4,500 gold, is equivalent to about 4.5 million yuan on earth based on purchasing power.
The labor cost can be said to be astonishingly high.
But after Gaode thought about it carefully, it seemed that it was not too much.
On Earth, the construction cost of building one kilometer of highway is between 20 million and 30 million yuan.
Comparatively speaking, with an expenditure of 4.5 million yuan, we can advance ten kilometers, and the land reclamation will also yield trophies of corpses of earth-line creatures.
The value of the corpses of these earth-line creatures cannot be said to allow the official to recover their capital or even make a small profit, but at least they can restore a lot of blood.
This time when he went out, in addition to purchasing five sets of "Blue Light Potions" from the potion store, Gothe also replenished five sets of "Basic Magic Potions".
The 10 sets of basic magic potions purchased on the 2nd of Harvest Moon were all consumed just yesterday.
One month’s expenditure on magic potions alone is as high as 60 gold.
But Gaode could only grit his teeth and accept it.
The more battles he experienced, the more he felt that his mana was in embarrassment.
Hence, exchanging money for the progress of mana growth may seem like a luxury, but it is also extremely necessary.
After dinner, Gothe found a secluded corner, took out a bottle of basic magic potion and drank it while no one was paying attention. Then he ignored the noise around him, sat down quietly and began to practice the guidance method.
Even in the wild, he was not prepared to interrupt his practice.
After all, it is foreseeable that this time we will stay in the wild for more than half a month.
Gaode couldn't bear to interrupt his practice for so long.
The next day, when it was dark, the guards in charge of logistics had already boiled the broth in the pot.
In this world, there are no scientific or unscientific sayings such as "breakfast is the source of energy for the day" or "breakfast is the most important meal of the day".
The truth is, not everyone in this world eats breakfast.
Especially among the working class, as it is common to start work at dawn.
Breakfast, if there is one, is very simple and consists of leftovers, cold bread from the day before, and water or light wine.
Thus, although everyone needs to perform tasks, which consumes a lot of physical strength and cannot be dealt with casually, providing everyone with a bowl of broth is already a very high treatment.
The staple food is still dry food.
After breakfast, everyone gathered according to yesterday's team composition.
“Let me introduce myself first. My name is Maciei, a 1st-level mage and a member of the law enforcement team.” The leading mage who did not disclose his name to everyone yesterday took the initiative to introduce himself before setting off today.
"Let's all know our names and mage levels, and we'll have to get along with each other for more than half a month."
Maciei got up, and everyone took advantage of the situation to exchange basic information with each other.
Gaud calculated that their temporary team, including Maciei, had a total of twenty-three people.
Except for Maciei, who is a first-level mage, among the remaining twenty-two people, 11 are third-level mage apprentices, and 11 are second-level mage apprentices, which is exactly 50 to 50.
After a brief glance, Gaode can basically confirm that he should be the one with the lowest actual level in the entire team.
Because the other people, the youngest one, must be in their twenties by the looks of it.
At this age, even if he is still a second-class mage apprentice, he is definitely not comparable to the "new recruit" who was just promoted to a second-class apprentice a month ago.
"Although the level is low, I have many spells." Gothe thought in his heart.
When we were cleaning the ash sting bee colony yesterday, most of the people could only watch.
Without mana, no matter how many spells you master, it will all be in vain.
Vice versa.
Simply repaired and tidied up, and the large army set off again.
Still the same arrangement as yesterday.
Advancing along the official road, two teams will be dropped every one kilometer or so and enter the dense forests on both sides of the official road to carry out clearing and clearing work.
Time passes day by day.
Everyone’s ability to deal with earth-line creatures and their tacit understanding of cooperation are steadily improving.
However, as land reclamation progressed, casualties gradually appeared.
Several mage apprentices unfortunately die almost every day.
Gaode's team is very lucky. Although some people have been injured, there has been no attrition so far.
The only thing that made him dissatisfied was that he had never encountered a "bonus level" like the Gray Sting Swarm.
Harvest month, 8th.
Five days have passed since the large army set off from Bremen.
Evening.
The side of the carriage next to the campfire.
Gaode was sitting cross-legged and had entered a state of trance.
It can be seen that throughout the temporary camp, there are many mage apprentices and Gothe doing the same thing.
After all, most of the wild mages who will respond to the summons have a "fighting" heart.
And diligent practice is only the most basic thing for a mage.
Half an hour later.
Gaode opened his eyes, a look of joy on his face.
「Finally there is another breakthrough!」
His guidance method has just been upgraded by a small level.
Now, Gothe's mana is enough to support him to cast eight tricks.
He counted on his fingers and found that the last breakthrough in the Guidance Method was on the 1st of the Rizhao Month, when he first arrived in Bremen.
It has only been thirty-seven days, and it has improved again.
Several days sooner than expected.
"It may be related to the constant use and recovery of mana during this period." Gothe said secretly.
After thinking about it, he closed his eyes again, concentrated his attention, and opened the simple information panel of "Wind Spirit Moon Shadow".
Origin:
Ring 0 - [Human] (2/7), [Digger] (1/7), [Wolf Rat] (4/7), [Magic Explosive Frog] (1/7), [Dire Rat] (3/7), [Earth Mephit] (2/7)
There are a total of 11 entries. Excluding the five points of origin that have been collected and used, there are still 6 entries in progress.
【Humanity】Don’t think about it for the time being.
The same goes for [Ground Digger]. In the past five days, not only his team, but also other teams have never encountered it.
It should be the leyline plane territory connected to "Hogan's leyline". There is no such leyline creature.
【Wolf Rat】There are only three left, and it is the closest to full progress.
As for the [Magic Explosive Frog], Gothe still has lingering fears when thinking about this thing.
It seems that "frog" is the weakest of these entries.
But in the extraordinary world, common sense cannot be used to make judgments.
In fact, in the past five days, the Magic Explosive Frog was the most difficult to deal with among the 0-level leyline creatures that Gaode encountered.
Because this thing has extraordinary power and has a spell-like ability, it can shoot a fierce energy beam from its mouth, which is frighteningly powerful.
According to Maciei, the spell-like ability mastered by the Magic Explosion Frog is equivalent to the cantrip [Magic Explosion].
And [Magic Explosion] can almost be said to be the most powerful spell among the cantrips, even more powerful than [Fire Arrow].
Fortunately, the Explosive Frog cannot continuously spray energy beams.
So after it injured a mage apprentice, it was turned into charcoal by Gothe's timely and accurate [Flame Arrow+].
[Dire Rats] are the weakest earth-line creatures among these entries. They do not have the size of [Wolf Rats], nor do they appear in groups like [Dire Bats].
So almost as soon as he was discovered, he was easily solved by the mage apprentices in the team.
[Earth Mephit] is another 0-level leyline creature with extraordinary abilities, but it is not a spell-like ability, but can spit out ruler-cone-shaped gravels from its mouth.
Hits power cannot be underestimated, and they rarely appear in groups, with eight or nine of them.
However, Maciei, who is a level 1 mage, took action in time, and this team of [Earth Magic Bats] did not cause much damage to the team.
And because they are flying earth-line creatures, Gothe actually killed two of them by relying on the range of [Flame Arrow+].
Of course, in these five days, Gothe's team cleaned up far more earth-line creatures than these.
Just
"It's so hard to steal people's heads!" Gothe once again made a complaint that he had repeated countless times in the past few days.
(End of this chapter)