From Wild Mage to Wizard King

For Roland, the main value of Old Qi City is to provide sufficient soldiers and a stable garrison. As for how it develops, it is just a matter of convenience. Roland will not deliberately develop it.

After all, the Green Tide is still active on the front line. No matter how prosperous a city is, if it does not have sufficient military power, it will turn into ruins when the Green Tide approaches.

Therefore, as the government team was initially established, Old Qi City was initially on the right track. All civilians inside and outside the city were carrying out various large-scale constructions under the command of grassroots officials and gradually integrating into the new order.

Roland did not wait for Old Qi City to be completely stable, and immediately shifted the focus from administration to military.

Outside Old Qi City, the military camp that had just completed the enclosure and built an empty shell began to operate under Roland's order.

Although the conditions given by Roland were not very good, including food and accommodation, the monthly salary was only one silver coin, or one hundred food coupons.

One food coupon could be exchanged for a pancake.

However, even if the conditions were not very favorable, there was still an endless stream of refugees and citizens coming to join the army outside the camp.

Although at Roland's request, a lot of public projects in Old Qi City absorbed a lot of labor.

However, there are still too many people in Old Qi City. Even if new projects are launched every day and people are recruited, all the public projects combined cannot absorb all the labor.

Therefore, Roland had to divide them into shifts to ensure that everyone can do half a day's work. In order to prevent them from making trouble in the remaining half day, Roland cut their food supply and only provided basic survival guarantees to ensure that they would not starve to death, but also would not eat too much.

After all, some people eat too much and want to make trouble when they are bored. This is the experience Roland brought when he asked Hela to suppress the fight that suddenly broke out because of eating too much for the seventh time.

Therefore, after cutting the food supply, if they want to eat enough, they either pass Roland's review and become part of the rapidly expanding government team in Old Qi City, or come to join the army and become Roland's new army soldiers.

For civilians who don't know magic, the former need to pass Roland's magic review, and whether they can pass depends entirely on their looks, while the latter only depends on their physical fitness and willpower, and they can also rely on their own efforts.

Therefore, as civilians from Donnar, there are more civilians who choose to join the army because they are afraid of Roland's magic.

Moreover, one big pancake can meet the needs of an adult for a day. If there are 100 pancakes a month, at least three adults can be fed. If they break it up and eat it, and dig some tree bark and wild vegetables, it is not a problem to double it.

Although one silver coin is not bad, in the current Old Qi, no matter how much money you have, it is not as practical as a big pancake.

Therefore, as Roland expected, more than 99% of the soldiers who joined the army chose food coupons.

And because the food problem was solved by making big pancakes with the meal making technique, Roland also had the confidence to continue to expand the army. Three thousand is too few, five thousand is enough, and ten thousand or even more is not too much for him.

At the recruitment office of Old Qi City.

The only first-level knight in Old Qi City was responsible for recruitment with dozens of soldiers, and was also responsible for maintaining good order.

Sitting at the table, the soldier looked at the civilian in front of him, pointed to a square crystal on the table, and said.

"Put your hand on it."

Some of the timid civilians heard the soldier's words and honestly stretched out their right hands and pressed them on the crystal.

Then, the soldier pressed the button on the side of the crystal.

A micro-ray appeared under the table and followed the civilian's right hand that touched the crystal to conduct a full-body examination.

After spending more than ten seconds to check, the micro-array quickly dissipated, and the results of the examination also appeared on the crystal.

There was no detailed and complex data, only a light red light.

After all, the soldiers could not understand the specific data, so Roland directly used colors to divide them.

This was just a simple inspection and classification of the civilians' physical fitness and talents. Even if their physical fitness and talents were particularly poor, they would not be eliminated immediately.

The soldier looked at the light of the crystal, pressed another button to reset the crystal result, and turned around, pointing to a passage with a red sign behind him and said.

"Red, go through the red door. If you can reach the end of the passage within one minute, you will pass. Don't ask how long one minute is. Just run and you'll be done."

The civilian hesitated.

"Hurry up, the next one is waiting."

Seeing the civilian hesitate, the soldier urged impatiently.

Hearing the soldier's urging, the civilian didn't dare to say anything more. He stood up quickly and walked into the passage behind the red sign in small steps.

"Next one!"

Following the voice of the soldier behind him, the civilian swallowed his saliva. After taking a deep breath, he ran all the way to the depths of the passage.

As he ran all the way, the passage suddenly lit up, and various magic arrays quickly unfolded and began to slowly exert pressure on the civilian.

Fear mind, gravity field, dullness, weakness

The negative spells that were weakened countless times were added to him. At first, it was just a little bit of influence, but as he continued to go deeper, the influence of the spells became more and more profound and strong.

Under the effect of the spell, he went from walking very fast in the beginning to having to grit his teeth and move forward step by step in the end.

Since he didn't know it was the effect of the spell, he could only guess that he was too tired from time to time or for some other reason. However, thinking of the 100 food coupons after joining the army, he didn't want to endure hunger anymore, so he gritted his teeth, carried various negative buffs, and moved forward step by step.

Fortunately, Roland was just conducting a simple selection after all, and the standard was not set too high. Therefore, with his persistence, he still managed to hold on and walked out of the passage.

The moment he walked out of the passage, all the negative buffs on his body disappeared. At the same time, the weak life force was injected into his body from his feet, quickly replenishing and stimulating his extremely tired body.

"Huhu."

After walking out of the passage, he breathed a sigh of relief and noticed the marks on his body while panting.

Countless mud mixed with sweat was constantly pouring out of his body. He almost vomited just by smelling it.

Just as he was about to look up and take a look at the situation around him, a person crawled out of the passage beside him.

Yes, he crawled out.

He touched the mud beside his eyes, and watched the man holding his head high, using his hands and feet, biting his lips, dragging blood all over the ground, and crawling out of the passage bit by bit.

After desperately crawling out of the passage, mud began to flow out of the man's body, but he ignored it, raised his head, and made a hoarse voice.

"Did I pass?"

"You passed."

A voice sounded in front of him, and after hearing this, the man finally couldn't hold on and finally lowered his head.

The civilian looked in front of him, and a soldier with a cloth wrapped in iron and a mouth came over.

"Follow."

After speaking to the civilian, the soldier picked up the guy on the ground and muttered.

"It's the first time I've seen someone crawling in."