Chapter 9 Era Upgrades and Rewards

It turned out that his plan was flawed.

The front was still a one-sided massacre.

The patrolling Chang Heng only killed a gray wolf that tried to climb over the wall. The gray wolf was swept down by a spear on the edge of the wall before it could climb over the wall. Although the 2.5-meter-high vertical wall was made of mud, the height was still an insurmountable defense.

Those testers composed of goblins and gray wolves who lost their minds due to their enthusiasm did not think about the possibility of attacking from other places. It was not that there were no gray wolves trying to attack the front wall, but the wooden frame had already connected the entire mud wall together, and the overall structural strength was more than doubled.

The result of rushing in rashly was only a bloody head.

However, too many people died.

The dense rotation of spearmen curbed the momentum of the mixed charge.

Even with Ji Lin's talent, he could see that the spearmen were beginning to lose strength. Using a spear weighing more than ten kilograms to thrust was also a very physically demanding task. The heavy spears used by the spearmen in formation were not considered for swinging, but for holding the line as the main requirement.

The corpses of the goblins mixed with the gray wolves had filled up the previously reserved opening. The dead goblins alone had spread a layer half a person high on the ground. As long as it was a little higher, these goblins and gray wolves would use the corpses to climb the mud wall.

The numbers displayed on the panel in front of him showed.

[Goblin: 103, Gray Wolves: 22]

There were nearly 40% of the enemies surrounding and preparing to launch an attack.

"Prepare for throwing stones!"

The villagers standing behind him had already picked up the stones he had taken out of the warehouse under his command. This kind of stone weighing 1kg was very painful when it hit people.

They didn't need to have a high throwing accuracy. There were enemies outside, and throwing stones could kill people.

The villagers picked up stones and threw them hard outside the mud wall.

One wave of stones reduced the number of goblins by one tenth.

Is it enough?

Should we retreat to leave space?

Corpses piled up in the small opening, with nearly a hundred corpses lying together, so that the spearmen faced higher enemies. The piled up corpses also reduced the attack space of the spears.

The stabbing of the spears was more strenuous.

He admitted that he had not considered this problem.

The pressure was too great. If the spearmen retreated two steps, they would leave a gap for the attackers to rush up. The most fearful thing in war was to lose their footing.

Once the height of the corpses approached the city wall, it would be very troublesome for these things to climb the city wall.

The spearmen were still fighting bloody. Ji Lin saw that their spear shafts and cloth clothes were stained with the blood of monsters, and they seemed weak every time they threw the spear.

Facing three times their own enemies...

But now the ratio has reached 1:1.

There were no casualties on our side. Should we send someone out to pull away some of the goblins?

But there are gray wolves among the goblins, and the gray wolves move very fast.

His goal is to win without any damage.

"Changheng, you roll out, attract as much attention as you can, and lead them around in a circle."

Ji Lin's eyes fell on the centurion, who clasped his fists and rolled over the wall.

He figured it out, and asked his centurion to attract the attention of the monsters and pull away some of the monsters to reduce the pressure on the front.

Retreat, what retreat?

The enemy can step on the corpses to come in, and they can also step on them to go out, and the advancing spearmen can also break through the defense line.

Spearmen have not been a type of soldier that can only defend since ancient times!

"The first row of spears, hold the pile of corpses, and the second and third rows of spearmen raise the spear tips!"

Ji Lin shouted, and the spearmen held the spears in their hands tightly:

"Listen to my command! Get ready to move forward!"

Since you can only charge madly, let's see whether you have enough people left or your spears are long enough!

Ji Lin held the spear and wanted to jump down to fight with them, but there was no room for him to play here. The positions that should be filled with people had been assigned by him. If he went down now, he would just cause trouble.

His judgment was correct. The morale of the goblins had actually completely collapsed. Because of the special reasons of the system, these goblins would not collapse, but their combat effectiveness had actually been reduced to a limit.

The spearmen advanced without any resistance.

Changheng was slightly injured, scratched by the suddenly attacked gray wolf. The speed of the goblin with collapsed morale was also seriously affected. He could not catch up with Changheng who was standing firm. He was led away to disperse the frontal forces. The gray wolf that could catch up was also killed by several spearmen standing on the wall.

Finally, when finishing off the knife, a dying gray wolf suddenly jumped up and scratched Changheng's thigh.

The battle was over, and the last dying goblin was killed by the spear.

How to say it, perfect?

The sense of oppression was still as strong as ever.

The system also called out in time to announce his upgrade.

‘You have successfully resisted this wave of enemy attacks, please choose the era upgrade’

[Classical Era (Magic)]: We realized very early that some of us have potential beyond imagination. We don’t understand, but we can try to use it.

[Classical Era (Runes)]: Do you know those lines that suddenly appear? They represent a certain form of rules between heaven and earth. We can use them.

[Classical Era (Technology)]: We have long understood that there are no gods in the world, and everything depends on our own hands.

A classic three-choice dilemma.

Different eras will bring different bonuses to your civilization. He actually wanted to choose magic and runes, but he did not follow the early magic school in his previous life, and he did not know how to play the rune flow.

Moreover, both the magic flow and the rune flow can be directly switched from the conventional school in the later stage, and the technology term... will give an amazing feature when upgrading the era later.

He may not choose it.

In his previous life, he was only promoted to an ordinary classical era without a suffix, and now there are three options with suffixes.

There is a feeling of happiness.

Ji Lin chose technology for himself, not for anything else, just because technology can make him upgrade faster. He does not plan to stay in the classical era for too long. His real goal is to run to the third era as soon as possible.

The third era is the starting point for the lords to reform their civilization drastically.

It is also the starting point for letting a hundred flowers bloom.

‘You have chosen the era [Classical Era (Technology)], the era upgrade cost -20%, you have unlocked the blueprint: [Academy], and the wonder: [Great Library] has been added to your buildings. ’

Unexpected gains, not only the era cost -20%, but also the blueprint of the academy and the wonder Great Library can be unlocked in advance.

[Academy]

[Requirements]: Food: 4000, Stone Mine: 1200, Gold Mine: 600

[Features]: It can be used as a research building, consuming food and gold to improve the education level of the territory population, limited by the affairs officer who presides over the academy and the level of civilization era.

[Introduction]: The cohesion of wisdom.

[Great Library]

[Requirements]: Food: 4000, Stone Mine: 1200, Gold Mine: 600

[Features]: Wonder (improve the stability, attractiveness and livability of the location), technology research and development speed +5%, affairs officer experience gain +5%, hero unit generation rate +5%.

[Introduction]: Knowledge still needs a place to be stored.

These two are good stuff. The name of the academy sounds nice, but it actually studies buildings and improves the knowledge level of the territory population. It is an active ability and costs money. Before the colonial era, people didn't have to be illiterate, so most people rarely used the second ability to improve the knowledge of the territory population.

Wonders, the more wonders, the better!

The spawn rate of hero units is difficult to obtain, that is, generals and affairs officers like Changheng and Chongshan, and there will be great engineers, great scientists and other units in the future.

It's just too expensive. If he remembered correctly, the price of this large library is close to the cost of entering the third era.

'Your race has survived an era upgrade, please choose a civilization characteristic'

Another three choices.

'Bloodline purification: +5% physical limit, -5% physical decay, +5% experience growth (mutually exclusive with bloodline fusion)'

'Subordinate population: add a subordinate population'

'Agricultural proficiency: +10% food output. '

Here it comes! Ji Lin's eyes were focused on the feature upgrade. The era selection would only change one era, while the feature upgrade would accompany the civilization to the end!

The feature upgrades brought by the three era upgrades were all very good. One was the blood purification he needed most. The subordinate population would directly give you a chance to choose a race, and add subordinate races equal to your main population as slaves. The system would increase the population supply given to you each time. The subordinate races would exist as slave populations before the industrial era.

The subordinate populations could be selected multiple times. This type of feature was called a superimposable feature by the players. If you selected it once, it would inevitably appear in your optional features later.

Until it could not be superimposed.

The non-superimposable features were not necessarily good, but they were all a little more extreme than the general features. For example, the features he had seen in his previous life: [farsightedness], which could directly increase the overall production and R&D speed, at the cost of reducing stability and increasing population maintenance costs. [Subspace Collusion] would require the sacrifice of population in exchange for special troops and buildings, which would also reduce stability.

Stability is also a resource.

Back to the original topic, if too many subordinate populations were selected, it would become a palette-type civilization.

The advantage is that the population is large enough, but the disadvantage is that after the industrial age, a bunch of problems unique to the palette civilization will emerge, and the population maintenance cost is much higher than that of normal civilization territory.

Blood purification twice will directly awaken the potential of magic, and it is stronger than the magic awakening obtained in general. The third time will increase the total output... the fourth time... the fourth time is a secret issue. He has never seen anyone publicly discuss what will happen after the fourth blood purification.

But in the final analysis, these are not what ordinary people can choose. Ji Lin got a +5% grain production feature after the hard work of upgrading multiple lords at that time, and there was still no choice.

"Civilization Lasts Forever" is unfair.

There are very few rare features, and more of them are those that seem to be filled by the system from nowhere.

The values ​​are also very stingy.

Ji Lin curled his lips and chose blood purification.

The selection of era rewards and civilization rewards is completed, and the rest is his personal rewards.

He is still looking forward to what personal rewards he can get.

‘We are giving out rewards based on player needs,’

‘Quest Book: Steam and Steel’

‘Equipment: Hold on to the flag (increases the defense of the troops by 20%, -15% garrison morale decay.)’

‘Equipment: Fine steel armor (light armor infused with rune power, +80 armor strength.)’

Ji Lin’s eyes were fixed on the task book called Steam and Steel.

A-level task book, Steam and Steel, is only produced by players in the fourth era. After all, this copy is extremely close to the normal steam era, but it is mixed with some rune and magic civilization branches. The things produced in it are super mixed, but each one is very valuable.

As long as he can get a little good results, he can directly get a special blueprint from the steam era in the classical era.

Even if it is a blueprint for training the lowest-level front-loading musketeers, it is enough for him to walk sideways for several eras.

The other two are very good, one makes a turtle shell, and the other allows him to be a top general on the battlefield, but compared with the task book that can directly get the blueprint building beyond the era, it is nothing.

The system really understands his needs.