Above the mage

Chapter 98 Progress

After confirming Gaode's intention to stay, the staff wrote "Harvest Month 4" on Gaode's summons and stamped it.

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

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

After a day, one in ten chose to leave.

The remaining option is to continue.

If we calculate based on 450 people, even if they are all mage apprentices, the daily employment cost in Bremen City would be approximately 4500 Sean gold coins.

In a day, the team can only advance more than ten kilometers.

Even if everything goes smoothly, it will take at least half a month to complete this mission.

One day, 4500 gold coins, which, according to purchasing power conversion, is roughly equivalent to 450 million yuan on Earth.

The labor costs are shockingly high.

But after careful consideration, Gaode realized that it wasn't too excessive.

On Earth, the construction cost for 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 the clearing of land will also yield the spoils of ley line creature corpses.

The value of these ley line creature corpses, if not enough to recoup the official costs or even generate a small profit, is at least enough to significantly recoup the losses.

On this trip, in addition to purchasing five sets of "Blue Light Potions" from the potion shop, Gao De also replenished his stock with five sets of "Basic Magic Potions".

The 10 sets of basic magic potions I bought on the 2nd of the harvest month were all used up yesterday.

The monthly expenditure on magic potions alone reaches as high as 60 gold.

But Gaode had no choice but to grit its teeth and accept it.

The more battles he fought, the more he felt his magical power was running out.

Therefore, using money to accelerate the growth of magical power may seem like a luxury, but it is absolutely necessary.

After finishing his dinner, Gao De found a quiet corner and, taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, took out a bottle of basic magic potion and swallowed it. He then ignored the surrounding noise and sat down to begin practicing the guiding spell.

Even in the wilderness, he was not prepared to interrupt his practice.

After all, it is foreseeable that we will be spending more than half a month in the wild this time.

Gao De could not tolerate interrupting his cultivation for so long.

The next day, at the crack of dawn, the guards in charge of logistics had already prepared meat soup in the pot.

In this world, there is no such thing as "breakfast is the source of energy for the day" or "breakfast is the most important meal of the day," whether it is scientific or not.

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

This is especially true for the working class, as it is common to start work at dawn.

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

Therefore, although everyone needs to carry out tasks and their physical strength is greatly depleted, and they cannot just do it casually, providing everyone with a bowl of meat soup is already a very high level of treatment.

The staple food remains dry food.

After breakfast, everyone gathered according to the team composition from yesterday.

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

"After yesterday's tasks, I believe that those who are still here will not leave anytime soon."

"Let me introduce myself first. My name is Machete, a 1st-ring mage, and a member of the enforcement team." The leading mage, who hadn't revealed his name to anyone yesterday, took the initiative to introduce himself before setting off today.

"Let's all exchange names and mage ranks, as we'll be spending the next two weeks together."

Maciej started the conversation, and everyone naturally shared basic information with each other.

Gao De calculated that their temporary team, including Maciej, consisted of twenty-three people.

Apart from Maciej, who is a 1st-level mage, among the remaining twenty-two people, 11 are third-level mage apprentices and 11 are second-level mage apprentices, which is exactly a 50/50 ratio.

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

Because the others, even the youngest of them, should be in their mid-twenties.

At this age, even if he is still a second-level mage apprentice, he is far superior to him, a "greenhorn" who was promoted to second-level apprentice just a month ago.

"Although my rank is low, I have a lot of spells at my disposal," Gao De thought to himself.

Yesterday, when we were cleaning up the gray stinger bee colony, most of the people could only watch helplessly.

Without magical power, no matter how many spells you master, it's all for naught.

vice versa.

After a quick rest and tidying up, the main force set off again.

The arrangements are the same as yesterday.

As they proceeded along the official road, every kilometer or so, they would drop off two teams to enter the dense forests on both sides of the road to clear and reclaim wasteland.

Time passed day by day.

Everyone's ability to deal with ley line creatures and their level of teamwork are steadily improving.

However, as the reclamation progressed, casualties gradually began to occur.

Almost every day, several apprentice monks would tragically perish.

Gaode's team has been very lucky; although some members have been injured, there have been no casualties so far.

The only thing that dissatisfied him was that he never encountered a "bonus level" like the Gray Stinger Bee Swarm again.

Harvest month, 8th.

Five days have passed since the main force departed from Bremen.

night.

Beside the car frame by the campfire.

Gao De sat cross-legged, having entered a meditative state.

As you can see, throughout the temporary camp, many mage apprentices and high-ranking monks are doing the same thing.

After all, most of the wild mages who respond to the call to arms still have a fighting spirit.

For a Dharma Master, diligent practice is merely the most basic thing.

Half an hour later.

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

"Finally, another breakthrough!"

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

Now, Gao De's magic power is sufficient to support him in casting eight spells.

He calculated that the last breakthrough in the guiding method was on the 1st of the month, when he had just arrived in Bremen.

Only thirty-seven days have passed, and it has already improved again.

It took several days faster than expected.

"It might be related to the constant use and recovery of mana during this period," Gao De thought to himself.

After thinking for a moment, he closed his eyes again, focused 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 a total of 11 entries. Excluding the five original points that have been collected and used, there are 6 entries that are still in progress.

We don't need to consider [humans] for now.

The same goes for the [Digging Bug]. In these five days, not only his team, but other teams have never encountered it either.

It should be the leyline plane territory connected to by the 'Hogan Leyline,' where such leyline creatures do not exist.

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

As for the [Demon Frog], Gaode still feels lingering fear just thinking about it.

It seems that "frog" is the weakest of these terms.

However, in the extraordinary world, one must never use common sense to make judgments.

In fact, during these five days, the Demonburst Frog was one of the most troublesome Leyline Creatures that Gaode encountered with its zero-ring ley lines.

Because this thing possesses extraordinary power, has spell-like abilities, and can shoot out a fierce energy beam from its mouth with terrifying power.

According to Marchey, the magic-like abilities possessed by the Magic Explosion Frog are equivalent to the trick [Magic Blast].

[Magic Blast] is arguably the most powerful spell in magic, even surpassing [Fire Arrow].

Fortunately, the Magma Frog cannot continuously fire energy beams.

So after it injured a mage apprentice, it was blasted into a charred corpse by a timely and precise [Fire Arrow+] from Gaode.

The Ferocious Rat is the weakest of these leyline creatures, lacking the size of the Wolf Rat and not appearing in swarms like the Ferocious Bat.

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

The Earth Demon Bat is another type of 0-ring ley line creature that possesses extraordinary abilities, but these are not spell-like abilities; rather, they can spew out cone-shaped pebbles from their mouths.

The Welshmen are also not to be underestimated, and they are a rare sight to be seen in groups of eight or nine.

However, thanks to the timely intervention of Machete, a first-ring mage, the [Earth Bats] team did not cause too much damage to the team.

Moreover, because they were flying ley line creatures, and thanks to the range of [Flame Arrow+], God managed to kill two of them.

Of course, Gao De's team cleared far more ley line creatures than just these during those five days.

just

"It's so damn hard to get kills!" Gao De once again voiced this complaint, which he had repeated countless times over the past few days.

(End of this chapter)