Chapter 1 Before We Begin

"I, how did I come back to life..."

Ji Lin sat up from the bed, holding his head. He clearly remembered that he was still leading the army to fight against the corrupted bodies on the battlefield of the Civilization Expedition Team. Unfortunately, the backup was cut off by the fucking bunch of people who were eating nothing behind them. He was unable to hold the defense line for long, and was blown to ashes by the subsequent hell cannon bombardment.

His eyes fell on the time displayed on the phone.

2023, the last year of the old era, the last hour.

After today, the selection will begin, and all 8 billion people will be assigned identities and combinations, as well as talents.

In the future, he will be assigned the identity of a multi-person lord, and he will run a base with two other people that is neither fast nor slow in development.

Lords are divided into multi-person lords and single-person lords.

Single-person lords only have one lord who rules an area.

As the name suggests, multi-person lords have a slightly larger area, but the system will merge multiple people together to rule a territory based on your ability. In simple terms, the system believes that your ability is not enough to rule a territory.

The initial troops of multi-lords will be more. After each era, the total number of troops that can be selected is 1.5 times. There have even been super-large groups of lords with more than 20 people gathered together. However, resources are limited. If the relationship between them is good, they may survive for a long time. In the early stage, when resources are sufficient, the development speed is higher than that of single lords.

However, with the development of the times, multi-lords will need more promotion resources than single lords. This increase is not only ordinary resources, but also those rare resources that are extremely difficult to obtain. In other words, multi-lords have to use nearly 2 times the resources to be promoted when the land area is only slightly larger than that of a single person.

In an expedition, the two of them wanted to advance to the space age. The hegemony system stipulated that as long as a multi-lord died, the resource ratio of the upgrade era would be reduced. He actually sold him, the expedition commander, to death on the battlefield.

"Damn it..."

Ji Lin cursed inwardly. He had no merits but also worked hard. The subsequent support troops were not sent to him, which made him think that there would be a way if he firmly held on.

Multiplayer lords can use the Certificate of Glory to become a lord independently, but it is extremely difficult to obtain. Among the lords in the per capita industrial age at that time, only a few hundred lords can be confirmed to have used the Certificate of Glory.

Or use the same position link to make yourself and another single lord. The acquisition rate of the same position link is a little easier than the certificate of glory, but who likes to bring useless burdens to increase the difficulty of their game?

In addition to the certificate of glory and the same position link, there is a last method: kill all your teammates and automatically promote to a single lord.

So there is a method of using the same position link to find a player with many crimes, and then kill him, so that the bound player will become a single lord. This method is jokingly called pole vaulting by many players.

For players who really don't want to move forward, the system is not merciless. If you give up moving forward and don't promote, it won't do anything to you.

"System?"

Ji Lin shouted into the air, trying to try to shout out the system that could pop up and give prompts even when going to the toilet in his previous life.

After waiting for a while, no abnormal phenomenon appeared.

Yes, the battle for hegemony has not started yet, so it is normal that the system is not there.

It only bundles humans and other civilizations together, throws them into a huge battlefield, and then exists as the supreme supervisor.

Wait another hour.

"Self-awakening detected, the start of the hatching season is: 1 standard time. Startup completed, do you have any questions?"

The light screen unfolded, with the same cold words as always.

Ji Lin widened his eyes and looked at the light screen that appeared from the air.

Has it always been there?

A bold idea came from his mind, and then spread uncontrollably.

Since the allocation will start drawing later, then if he starts the allocation in advance, can't he force the allocation to become a single lord?

As long as there is no one in line, it will be a single row!

"Awakener, if you don't have any questions to ask, I will close it."

"Can I choose my lord status now?!"

Looking at the light screen, which seemed a little impatient, Ji Lin immediately raised his own questions.

Then the light screen fell into a downtime state and did not respond for a long time.

"Calculation completed, evolutionary branch, reply: Yes."

"Do you want to start selecting your identity now? Please note that even if you start selecting your identity and talent now, you will only officially obtain them after activation."

New text pops up.

"Yes! I want to select!"

Ji Lin shouted excitedly, fearing that he would slip away if he didn't seize the opportunity.

"Entry completed... Lord Ji Lin, please start drawing your start."

'Human', 'Elf', 'Tree', 'Rat', 'Undead'.

It is worthy of being the start of a single lord. The initial selectable races are more than those of a multiplayer lord. He only had two options in his previous life.

The other four options are all good choices for the early start. Elves and tree people have high-quality single and special magic technology trees, rat people have a number advantage, a series of building trees to increase population, and undead have their own magic promotion tree.

Ji Lin chose the ratmen in his previous life. As a special race that became strong in the middle stage, the individual ability of the ratmen was not strong and even inferior to that of humans. Their excellent reproductive ability was not enough in front of the elves and other races with high physical fitness. A high-level elf private soldier with full armor on a soldier card could easily suppress tens of thousands of ratmen.

And the armored ratmen would be easily slaughtered by the elves' heavy armor guards in close combat because of their poor physical fitness.

But after the firearms were pointed out, the ratmen race would undergo a qualitative change. The musket ratmen carrying a large number of usable firearms greatly extended their attack range, and the rat frenzy formed would overwhelm the elves, a race with high initial values.

In the early and middle stages, they consumed a lot of food, and their wisdom was not as good as that of humans, so their low-level soldiers performed poorly after crossing the middle stage.

Now the ratmen appeared in his options again. The other four were all race options that had not appeared in his previous life: elves, tree people and undead. These three races have a particularly obvious advantage. They can awaken magic talents in the classical era, get the bonus of spell talents earlier, and build their own special buildings.

The treeman can be said to be the best early start. This race is the best choice for farming. It is a race that integrates units and buildings. It has strong defense capabilities in the early and middle stages and has low operating pressure, which can ensure that the lord spends the early stage extremely safely.

He chose humans this time. Humans as the mother race will be directly refreshed to his selection pool. In other words, everyone can see the selectability of the human race, while the other races are random. When one race is a waste, only humans can be chosen.

If humans choose the human race again, there will be a hidden special bonus, and they will get a 10-point stability bonus.

The player forum composed of players later worked out a very special gameplay, which is also based on humans. They constantly choose blood purification when the era is upgraded. This is a bonus that only the main race can choose. Then the bonus of each era is superimposed to produce a very terrifying total bonus.

The first legion of the later civilization hegemony raised the strongest group lord by this method.

Even if it fails, humans can transform in many directions. The main feature is an all-round adaptability. Both the technology route and the dual magic route can be taken. There are even evil magic, runes, and technology. However, the three cultivations consume too much resources for the progress of the times. The lords with extremely abundant resources can only choose two of the three.

Unlike some special races that can only go one way to death, transformation is extremely difficult.

‘The landform has been randomly completed,’

‘The landform of your territory is: plain x1, swamp x1, floodplain x1’

The initial territory in the Civilization Hegemony is a territory composed of three hexagonal plots with the plot controlled by the center of the main town as the center, and two plots outside, and a total of three hexagonal plots. The number of plots will be increased according to the number of people for multi-leaders.

He was not surprised by the initial plain. As long as he was not particularly unlucky, he would not draw a particularly bad initial landform. The floodplain was a pleasant surprise for him. It was a very good initial landform. The sediments brought by the flood accumulated in the soil, improving the quality of the land, which was particularly suitable for growing crops.

Floodplains, there must be a river there.

You should know that rivers in other terrains are also randomly refreshed, and different terrains will only increase the weight. Among thousands of terrains, only a few will definitely refresh rivers. In this case, floodplains are even far better than some rare terrains.

Delighted.

Ji Lin hummed twice with pleasure.