Mages are definitely the most suitable class for the battlefield.

With front-line protection and sufficient time to cast spells, mages can cause more than ten times the damage of other classes.

I just cleared out a wild area with resources.

Just build it directly.

After construction, recruiting an apprentice mage costs 3 gold coins.

Su Bai also recruited ten people.

An apprentice mage, at level one, will learn a fireball spell, which deals damage equivalent to a boarman's heavy strike.

Although it's not as effective as a heavy attack.

But its advantage is its remote range.

The damage from ten mages standing together casting fireballs is still considerable.

After clearing out the jungle, Su Bai still had over twenty gold coins left. After a brief deliberation, he directly upgraded the base crystal.

After the crystal is upgraded, its durability is immediately restored to full, and the maximum durability is increased to 3000 points.

and.

Advanced permissions for basic buildings have been unlocked.

Residential buildings can now be upgraded to level 2, increasing the maximum number of people that can be recruited to 4. Farmers can also be upgraded to level 2 farmers, reducing resource gathering time by 20%.

Now, Su Bai can gain benefits every 48 seconds.

Barracks and Mage Towers can now be upgraded. Upgrading the barracks allows trainee warriors to be promoted to two Tier 1 classes:

Soldier,

Shieldbearer.

The former focuses on output, while the latter excels in defense.

Upgrading the Mage Tower allows apprentice mages to advance to a first-tier class.

Elemental Mage

Magician.

Elemental mages are skilled in using magic based on the four elements: ice, fire, earth, and wind.

You can then choose an elemental energy as your specialty.

Advanced specialized professions.

The mage's specialty is dark magic and time-space magic.

It's basically the same as the player's mage class advancement options.

Of course, don't be fooled by the fact that magicians can manipulate darkness and spacetime—magic that sounds so sophisticated.

Based on Su Bai's experience in his previous life.

This profession is actually more inclined towards control and support.

Dark magic is under your control.

Spacetime magic is the main and auxiliary element.

The latter, in particular, learns a 'time acceleration' spell after the second job advancement, which can greatly speed up the cooldown of teammates' skills. It is almost a must-recruit class for dungeons, comparable to the status of a healer in the team.

...However, it's uncertain whether Su Bai can drag the game into the later stages in this mode.

Combat classes can only be changed after reaching level 10.

But it happened very quickly.

The experience points given in the jungle are fixed, and every unit participating in the battle will receive them. Basically, you can level up by clearing three jungle areas.

Furthermore, the level of monsters in the jungle increases every time they spawn.

Experience rewards will also increase.

The upgrade speed of combat units can be kept in sync with the level of monsters.

If things continue like this...

At most, Su Bai will be able to obtain the first batch of level 10 or higher units in fifteen minutes.

He immediately reorganized the troops.

There were a total of 19 trainee warriors, 1 boarman, and 10 trainee mages. He broke up the group and directly divided them into two teams.

The team on the left.

The team on the right.

The order of clearing jungle camps has been adjusted to be consistent to ensure that every unit in the team can get experience from every jungle area.

Maximize profits.

At this point, the progress had only been going on for eight minutes.

The newly acquired resources have been credited to your account.

In this round, Su Bai did not recruit any more combat units. Currently, each team has fifteen people, which is already the maximum utilization of the available positions. The wilderness area is almost overflowing.

Recruiting more combat units would only be a waste of resources.

He continued to invest resources in production.

Increase the number of farmers.

In ten minutes, he had already increased the number of level 2 farmers to 100. These units could collect the following resources for him every 48 seconds: 80 gold coins and 20 energy.

The jungle offers even greater rewards.

Now, clearing a round of jungle camps yields a whopping 78 gold and 78 energy, plus equipment drops that increase with your level.

Each wave can provide a significant boost to combat units.

Ten minutes.

The second wave of monster invasion has begun.

Compared to the previous wave, the strength of this wave of monsters has significantly increased, with all of them being level 5 units, and their numbers have increased to 50.

Su Bai took charge of directing the troops.

Soldiers stood in front.

The ten mages in the back row immediately began chanting spells as soon as the monster entered their range.

"Fireball, release!"

Whew!!

Ten blazing fireballs roared out, instantly reducing the front-row monsters to near-death.

The fireball's cooldown time is only 1 second.

No need to rest.

The mages then unleashed another round of fireballs.

As soon as the monster approached the front-line warriors, more than a dozen had already been killed, and many more were at half health or low health. As soon as they made contact, many more were killed.

"Change formation!"

Su Bai seized the opportunity and calmly issued the order.

Suddenly, the soldiers at the front row began to retreat in unison.

They avoided a counterattack from the monster.

Just as the monster was about to give chase, another group of warriors, poised to attack, burst out from the gaps in the formation, wielding their weapons and catching the enemy completely off guard.

One step back, one step forward.

They easily gained the upper hand in the battle.

All of this, besides relying on Su Bai's precise command, is largely based on the fact that combat units can transmit operational instructions in real time.

He controlled each unit with the same ease as he would his own arm.

It has zero latency.

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