Above the mage!

Chapter 98 Progress
After confirming Goder's intention to stay, the staff wrote Harvest Moon 4th on Goder's summons and stamped it with a seal.

Then, Gaode received another "daily salary" of 5 gold coins.

At the same time, he estimated that there were about five hundred mages who had originally applied.

After a day, one in ten people chose to leave.

The rest choose to continue working on it.

If we calculate based on 4500 people, even if they were all mage apprentices, the daily hiring fee spent by Bremen City would be about 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.

4500 gold a day, converted in purchasing power, is roughly equivalent to 450 million yuan on Earth.

The labor cost can be said to be shockingly high.

But when Gao De thought about it carefully, it didn't seem too much.

On Earth, the construction cost of building one kilometer of highway is between 2000 million and 3000 million yuan.

In comparison, an expenditure of 450 million yuan can advance ten kilometers, and there will also be spoils of war in the form of corpses of underground creatures.

The value of the corpses of these underground creatures may not allow the government to recoup its investment or even make a small profit, but at least it can make back a lot of money.

This time, in addition to purchasing five sets of 'blue light potions' from the magic potion shop, Gao De also bought five sets of 'basic magic potions'.

The 2 sets of basic magic potions purchased on the 10nd of Harvest Moon were all used up yesterday.

The monthly expenditure on potions alone is as high as 60 gold.

But Gao De had no choice but to grit his teeth and accept it.

The more battles he experienced, the more he felt his magic power was running out.

Therefore, using money to exchange for the progress of mana growth may seem like a luxury, but it is also extremely necessary.

After dinner, Gao De found a secluded corner, took out a bottle of basic magic potion and swallowed it while no one was paying attention. Then he ignored the noise around him, sat in meditation 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 we will stay in the wild for more than half a month this time.

Gao Deke could not tolerate interrupting his practice for so long.

The next day, at daybreak, the guards in charge of logistics had already cooked the broth in the pot.

In this world, there is no such scientific or unscientific saying as "breakfast is the source of energy for the day" or "breakfast is the most important meal of the day".

The reality is, not everyone in this world eats breakfast.

This was especially true among the working class, where waking up at dawn to start work was common.

If there was breakfast, it was very simple, consisting of leftovers, cold bread from the previous day, and water or light wine.

Therefore, although everyone needs to carry out the task, which consumes a lot of physical energy 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 formation.

"Yesterday was the first day, and some people came here on a whim."

"After yesterday's mission, I believe that those who are still here will not leave in the short term."

"Let me introduce myself first. My name is Maciej, a 1st-ring mage and a member of the law enforcement team." The leading mage, who had not revealed his name to everyone yesterday, took the initiative to introduce himself before setting off today.

"Everyone should also exchange their names and magician ranks. We will be together for the next half month."

Maciej took the lead, and then everyone followed suit to exchange basic information with each other.

Gao De counted and found that their temporary team, including Maciej, had a total of twenty-three people.

Except for Maciej who was a first-level mage, among the remaining twenty-two people, 1 were third-level mage apprentices and 11 were second-level mage apprentices, which was exactly a fifty-fifty ratio.

After a quick glance, Gaode could basically confirm that he was the one with the lowest actual level in the entire team.

Because among the others, the youngest one looked to be in his twenties.

At this age, even if he is still a second-class mage apprentice, he is definitely not comparable to him, a "newbie" who was promoted to a second-class apprentice just a month ago.

"Although my level is low, I know many spells." Gao De said in his heart.

When we were clearing out the gray stinger bee colony yesterday, more than half of the people could only watch.

Without magic power, no matter how many spells you master, they will be in vain.

vice versa.

After a simple repair and packing, the large army set out again.

Still the same arrangement as yesterday.

Advancing along the official road, two teams were dropped off every one kilometer or so to go into the dense forests on both sides of the road to carry out clearing and land reclamation work.

As time went by, everyone's ability to deal with the earth vein creatures and their level of cooperation were steadily improving.

However, as the land reclamation progressed, casualties gradually occurred.

Almost every day, several mage apprentices die unfortunately.

Gao De's team is quite lucky. Although some people were injured, there has been no casualties so far.

The only thing that made him dissatisfied was that he never encountered a "bonus level" like the gray stinger bee swarm again.

Harvest Moon, 8st.

Five days have passed since the main force set out from Bremen.

night.

On the frame next to the campfire.

Gao De sat cross-legged and had entered a state of meditation.

It can be seen that in the entire temporary camp, many mage apprentices are doing the same thing as Gaode.

After all, most wild mages who would respond to the call have a "fighting" heart.

And diligent practice is just the most basic thing for a monk.

Half an hour later.

Gao De opened his eyes and a look of joy appeared on his face.

"Finally, there is another breakthrough!"

His guidance method has just been upgraded to a new level.

Now, Gaode's mana is enough to support him to cast eight tricks.

He calculated with his fingers and found that the last time he had a breakthrough in the Guidance Method was on the 1st of the Rizhao Month, when he had just arrived in Bremen.

Only thirty-seven days had passed, and it had risen again.

It was several days faster than expected.

"It may be related to the continuous use and recovery of mana during this period of time." Gao De said secretly.

After thinking for a while, he closed his eyes again, concentrated his attention, and opened the simple information panel of "Wind Spirit Moon Shadow".

origin:

0环-——【人类】（2/7）、【掘地虫】（1/7）、【狼鼠】（4/7）、【魔爆蛙】（1/7）、【凶暴鼠】（3/7）、【土魔蝠】（2/7）

There are 11 entries in total. Excluding the five origins that have been collected and used, there are still 6 entries left to be completed.

[Humans] Don’t consider that for now.

The same goes for [Digger]. During these five days, not only his team, but other teams have never encountered it.

It should be the land vein plane territory connected to the 'Hogan Land Vein', where this kind of land vein creature does not exist.

[Wolf Rat] is only three away and is the closest to full progress.

As for the [Magic Explosive Frog], Gaode still feels a lingering fear when he thinks of this thing.

It looks like "frog" is the weakest of these entries.

But in the extraordinary world, you can never use common sense to make judgments.

In fact, during these five days, the Magic Exploding Frog was the most difficult of the 0-ring earth vein creatures that Gaode encountered.

Because this thing possesses extraordinary powers and spell-like abilities, it can shoot out a fierce beam of energy from its mouth, which is terrifyingly powerful.

According to Maciej, the spell-like ability possessed by the Magic Explosion Frog is equivalent to the trick [Magic Energy Explosion].

[Magic Explosion] can almost be said to be the most powerful spell among all the tricks, even surpassing [Fire Arrow].

Fortunately, the Demonic Exploding Frog cannot continuously spray and release energy beams.

So after it injured a mage apprentice, it was blasted into charcoal by Gaode's timely and accurate [Fire Arrow+].

[Dire Rat] is the weakest of the earth creatures in these entries. It is not as big as [Wolf Rat], nor does it appear in groups like [Dire Bat].

So almost as soon as they were discovered, they were easily dealt with by the mage apprentices in the team.

[Earth Demon Bat] is another 0-ring earth creature that possesses extraordinary abilities, but these are not spell-like abilities. Instead, it can spit out cone-shaped gravel from its mouth.

Their power should not be underestimated either, and they appear in groups, which is rare, with as many as eight or nine of them.

However, thanks to the timely action of Maciej, a 1st-ring mage, this group of [Earth Demon Bats] did not cause much damage to the team.

And because they were flying earth creatures, relying on the range of [Fire Arrow+], Gao De actually killed two of them.

Of course, during these five days, Gao De's team cleared out far more earth vein creatures than these.

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"It's so damn hard to grab kills!" Gaode once again made the complaint he has repeated countless times in the past few days.

(End of this chapter)