A mage's journey begins with a battle mage.

Chapter 95 Naval Battle

The players' enthusiasm for the war exceeded Jiang Shuzhou's expectations. In less than half a day, dozens of players joined the Mage Alliance's mercenary army, either as a squad or as lone wolves.

Hayes hadn't been idle all day, and neither had the other logistics officers' followers.

Jiang Shuzhou saw Teacher 87's strategy guide on the forum. The content was not very useful to him, but at least he finally understood why every player knew that he was the logistics officer.

After all that, they highlighted it for me.

Master Roland has also made his move.

Jiang Shuzhou is now preparing to recruit soldiers online. After all, the more players there are, the more cannon fodder there will be, and the fewer ordinary soldiers will die.

Let those who can be resurrected fill the gaps; those who can't win or can't participate in the resurrection match shouldn't come.

Jiang Shuzhou had the authority given to him by Roland, so he had to immediately produce a video to show everyone some impressive skills.

Soon, he produced a new video.

The new video is titled "The Mage Alliance Needs You!"

"The Mage Alliance, our home."

The scene depicts a peaceful port where countless residents work and live.

But everything comes at a price.

The scene shifts to a once-prosperous port now ravaged by bloodshed, with countless corpses scattered on the ground. A fish-man, armed, is carrying out a massacre.

"No, don't kill me!"

The little girl's voice rang out, but the fishman showed no sign of stopping, his knife still wielding the blade.

Just then, a soldier stepped forward and saved the little girl.

"Does this look familiar? This kind of thing is happening all over the continent!"

You could be next! Unless you make the most important decision of your life.

Then, the scene shifts, rousing music begins, and a burly man in a ceremonial robe appears.

"Join the Mage Alliance."

"To become an elite mercenary."

"To witness the strange races of another world."

The scene shifts again, revealing bizarre fish-men and sea creatures, with countless warriors battling them.

"Let the glory of the mage spread to every corner of the astral plane!"

"Become a hero."

"To become a legend."

"Become an elite mercenary in the Mage Alliance!"

Finally, the image freezes on the moment when the warriors of the Mage Alliance raise their banners and swear victory.

The video quickly went viral, and at the same time, a job posting appeared.

"The Mage Alliance is recruiting mercenaries. Excellent benefits and extremely high salaries. Unlimited recruitment."

Position: Mercenary

Compensation: Depends on the level of danger of the work; compensation varies by rank: apprentices receive 50 gold coins, first-rank apprentices receive 500 gold coins, and higher ranks are negotiable.

Requirements: Must be alive, a human being, capable of eating, drinking, and relieving oneself; mages, priests, and paladins are excluded.

Benefits: Free Life-Burning Potions (Note: Quickly becomes an apprentice warrior; the only drawback is that you only live for ten days). Quest rewards remain valid after a player's death and will be directly converted into contribution points, which will be added to their character panel.

Position: Mage

Compensation: Extremely high

Requirements: High IQ, mage profession, EQ is not important, low IQ is not acceptable, no magic network mages or apprentice mages are acceptable.

Benefits: Those who know, know; those who don't, I can't explain. Anyway, those who know, know.

Position: Spell Tester

Compensation: None

Requirements: Belief in God, with preference given to priests and paladins.

Benefit: Experience spell attacks up close; there's a chance to become a high-level spell range observer.

It's obvious that this recruitment post was also written by Jiang Shuzhou.

Anyway, he was just idling around, and besides, he wasn't making things up; the information was true.

Countless players flocked to the Mage Alliance; clearly, such benefits were tempting to everyone.

Aside from being a bit too expensive, it has no major drawbacks. But what players have the most to lose is their lives. A single life can be sold for fifty, and they can sell them all day long.

It's conceivable that gold prices will likely plummet during this period, and Jiang Shuzhou is already prepared to make acquisitions.

In any case, once the game arrives, money will be worthless, and the huge trade deficit will instantly destroy all economic systems. Even if there is a trade surplus, with the strength of Earth, it simply cannot protect these interests.

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"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

87 is still a bit confused. He just became a mercenary yesterday, so how come he's on the battlefield today?

"Captain, what do we do?"

He had five men under his command: two soldiers, a doctor, and two musketeers like himself.

However, they were all apprentices, so naturally, the strongest one, 87, became their captain.

This is the seabed, but the seawater has been drained by magic, and countless ice walls hundreds of meters high divide the battlefield into square sections, like chessboard squares.

They are merely pawns, obeying commands and fighting against the enemy here.

"North, let's head north, there are friendly forces there!"

In any case, there is strength in numbers, so let's rejoin our teammates first.

"Boom boom boom".

High in the sky, armed airships, blotting out the sun, tilted their fire downwards, while magic cannons bombarded the battlefield, which was divided like a chessboard.

"Damn it, they're attacking friendly forces!"

Seeing his allies waving to each other suddenly wiped out by the magic cannon, 87 cursed loudly and, without regard for anything else, led his team to run in another direction.

High in the sky, Ralf commanded the magic cannons to attack. He scanned every inch of the land with his mental power and naturally knew everything 87 said and did below.

"Interesting. This otherworldly being seems completely oblivious to the fact that the opposing forces aren't allies. How could allies possibly be displaying a flag with the Holy Symbol of the Storm on their backs?"

87 is a key focus, since not many players have joined yet.

As one of the first players to join, 87 received special attention. Although he roamed around the battlefield, the air gunships always provided timely support, destroying anything that could threaten his life.

"What a coward! They didn't even send anyone."

Ralph was feeling a bit bored; being a humanoid radar on an airship was not what he wanted.

A real man should fight fiercely!

Unfortunately, even after the victory in this battle and the Mage Alliance successfully took control of this sea area, only low- to mid-level cannon fodder were present, and the high-level murlocs showed no intention of coming.

"Looks like they've given up, trying to buy time with space?"

The outer perimeter of the Storm Sea is vast. The Mage Alliance appears to be strong and well-equipped at the moment, but as they control more and more areas, their forces will inevitably become more and more dispersed. The Murloc Kingdom is also planning to do just that. They intend to divide and conquer the Mage Alliance when their forces are dispersed, and then use their strength to defeat the weak.

But they will soon be disappointed.

A tortoise swam slowly towards us from afar, with a mage tower on its back.

The defense of an area only requires one mage tower, a corresponding mage, and some warriors.

The Murloc Kingdom intends to delay, but the Mage Alliance does not. As for the construction cost of the Mage Tower?

The entire school of thought was promoted.

When the island tortoise docked at its designated spot, and when the light of the mage tower enveloped the area, everyone knew that yet another region had fallen into the control of the Mage Alliance.

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The temple was completed, and the glory of the gods shone upon it. A miracle occurred: an island was created, the temple floated into the air, and finally landed on the island.

"Another area has returned to the embrace of the gods."

Bishop Mereges was very pleased, for if things continued this way, the Merfolk Kingdom would soon be destroyed.

"Your Excellency, they have agreed!"

"Agree to what?"

"Agree to our missionary work!"

Fishmen are indeed all shameless; they won't know they've done anything wrong unless they're beaten up. It would have been better to do this earlier; why bother?

Bishop Meredes did not wish to form an alliance for personal reasons, but he was God's representative, and moreover, it was the archbishop's order, which he had to carry out.

"Target: The Fifth Fleet of the Mage Alliance, advance!"

Upon hearing this, the ship turned and left, leaving only the corpses behind to tell everyone about the war that had just taken place on this land.