Necropolis Building Tree, Tavern Heroes

As for the other buildings, Rod planned to think them over carefully before deciding how to build them, striving to maximize his gains.

Rod first experimentally clicked the button to end the day, only to find that nothing happened.

The city's time display matched reality. Only after a day passed in the real world could Rod continue constructing the next building in the system interface.

A serious problem now emerged: he had very few resources. The basic buildings were manageable, since they only required gold, stone, and wood.

Gold, wood, and ore were easy enough to deal with. If he upgraded to a Citadel, he would receive at least 4,000 gold every day. After upgrading the market into a Resource Warehouse, it could provide one unit of wood and stone each day.

Therefore, Rod would be able to construct any building that consumed only those three basic resources in the future. It was merely a matter of time.

As for more advanced resources, Rod currently had no way to send a hero out to scour the map for them.

He wondered whether mercury, sulfur, gems, or crystals existed in this world's reality. When he explored this world in the future, he could test it out.

If all else failed, he could only build a market and trade massive amounts of resources with the profiteers in the game for those advanced resources. But if he did that, he would not be able to keep up with the pace.

He might not even be able to recruit all the troops produced each week. The good news was that there were no computer-controlled enemies coming to attack him.

What should he build next? Should he prioritize upgrading troop buildings, or should he upgrade other structures first?

Troop buildings could recruit Necropolis troops, while the Mage Guild allowed him to learn the spells within it. He already possessed one offensive spell.

There was also the Blacksmith, where he could buy first aid tents. The market and Resource Warehouse could exchange goods and provide free resources.

As for Cover of Darkness, he would not take it even if it were free. The Skeleton Transformer and the Tomb could be considered later.

After thinking it over, Rod decided that economic development was still the priority. The prerequisite buildings for the City Hall upgrade, the Citadel, were the market, Blacksmith, and a level-one Mage Guild.

Building a market required 500 gold and 5 wood. The Blacksmith required 1,000 gold and 5 wood.

A level-one Mage Guild required 2,000 gold, 5 ore, and 5 wood. The Citadel itself was simple, requiring only 5,000 gold.

At present, he had enough ore to unlock all the prerequisite buildings. He was short 5 wood, but he could buy those resources with gold in the market.

Although the price was outrageously high, he had no other choice. Rod decided that tomorrow, he would first build a market at the cost of 500 gold and 5 wood, then build the Mage Guild.

The market could exchange resources, while the Mage Guild would let him learn five new spells.

After that, he only needed to save gold. Rod estimated that after saving for half a month, he would have 15,000 gold. By then, he should have enough to buy 5 units of wood, then upgrade the Resource Warehouse and Citadel.

Rod turned his attention to several other buildings in the town, starting with the Tavern.

This was an extremely important building in Heroes of Might and Magic III. Here, he could obtain basic intelligence and hire heroes. Each hero cost 2,500 gold.

Rod clicked on the Tavern and entered it. Like the others, it was a virtual interface. A bartender was polishing a glass, while two heroes sat inside.

Upon entering the Tavern interface, Rod automatically received information on how to use it. The Tavern could provide Rod with intelligence for free, but since he had no opponents yet, the Thieves' Guild had no information at all.

After purchasing a hero from the Tavern, it would automatically refresh with a hero from another faction, though that hero would come with only a single troop.

After a week, another hero from his own faction would appear for Rod to hire. Just like in the game, Rod could hire a total of eight heroes, not including himself.

That was quite good. At the very least, having another controllable hero gave him a significant advantage.

In the game, one hero could garrison the starting town, while another could visit it, for a total of two heroes.

Rod himself did not count toward that limit. If he chose one hero to garrison the town, he could buy at most one more hero. At present, he could purchase two heroes.

If he bought a third hero, Necropolis City would not be able to accommodate it. Or he could simply leave one hero outside in the world before recruiting another. That should allow him to buy a third hero.

But Rod did not have that much spare money to buy hero units right now. 2,500 gold was expensive, and hero slots were limited, so he had to choose carefully.

Rod shook his head and temporarily stopped thinking about it.

The key was to hire one hero first. He had little combat power himself, but heroes did! If troops could appear in reality, then heroes could as well.

There were two heroes awaiting recruitment in the Tavern. One was Si Keqiang, a Death Knight who came with a spellbook, the Haste spell, and two stacks of zombies totaling fourteen units.

His specialty was zombies, and he came with the Necromancy skill. Well then! The famous undead powerhouse Brother Qiang, please sit tight in the Tavern while I see whether the other one is any better than you.

To be honest, Rod was not interested in this famed undead powerhouse Brother Qiang for the time being.

If he had a choice of specialties, Rod currently wanted a hero with a resource-related specialty, such as Estates.

Rod looked at the next hero. She was a witch named Rosco from the Swamp faction. Her starting troops were a stack of twelve werewolves and six unupgraded washerwomen. They were lizardmen.

Her specialty was Mysticism, and she came with Wisdom and Mysticism. Of those two skills, Wisdom was the better one.

Mysticism was only decent, at most. At least it improved mana recovery.

Now came the problem. With 2,500 gold, Rod began agonizing over which hero would be better: the famous powerhouse Brother Qiang, or this somewhat unremarkable female hero with Mysticism.

If one of them were human, the choice would be easier. Rod would choose a human as his bodyguard without hesitation. Even an elf or a Tower sorcerer would do.

But there was a female Swamp faction hero who looked like a dog, and Brother Qiang, who was obviously undead. What a miserable situation!

If he chose the undead hero, Brother Qiang would work well with his own troops. Brother Qiang could command the zombies in his possession.

And if summoned into the outside world, Brother Qiang could pick up a spear and fight on his own. At the very least, he bore the title of Death Knight.

After thinking for a moment, Rod made his decision.

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