After some maneuvering, a sizable army finally appeared in front of Lin Ye.

On the ground, ferocious Earth Dragon Knights served as the front line of the charge.

Following them were the backbone, the Demon Pattern Heavy Armor Infantry, with Elf Divine Archers and various Mages providing support from the rear.

In the sky, Dragon Knights and Iron-Winged Divine Eagles, two top-tier soldier types, provided escort.

It could be said that this army was luxurious to the extreme.

"Perfect!"

Lin Ye looked at the army, which numbered only about a thousand, and clapped his hands contentedly.

There may not be many in number, but each was a top-notch elite soldier type!

In battle, one could stand in for hundreds of low-level soldier types, and while their numbers might be fewer, the actual combat power was anything but lacking.

"Has it already been half an hour?"

Lin Ye glanced at the game's duration and didn't expect that just picking soldier types had taken him half an hour.

There was no other way since before entering the game, he had no understanding about these soldier types at all.

Therefore, while selecting soldier types, he did spend some time understanding their Skills and compatibility with each other.

For a complete newbie like Lin Ye, being able to assemble such a seemingly flawless army in half an hour was already impressive.

Many players who have played several times might not be able to do as Lin Ye did.

"Only giving ten minutes preparation time, they really don't consider giving newbies enough time."

Lin Ye couldn't help but snort.

With such a vast variety of soldier types that make one's scalp tingle, it took quite some time to weed out the subpar ones.

Then, within a small pool of relatively high-quality soldier types, making an adequate composition, how could ten minutes ever suffice?

Clearly, Gongsun deliberately set this time constraint.

As for the reason behind it...

It's easy to imagine that the intention was to allow his proxy to quickly mobilize and catch opponents off guard.

After all, as a game planner, it would not be a big issue to pre-emptively provide his proxy with detailed information about various soldier types and even their combinations.

For Gongsun, such actions may not even count as cheating, and any potential punishment would be negligible.

However, he probably never expected that Lin Ye would directly bypass the largest quantity of low-level, intermediate, and even mid- to high-level soldier types, choosing from top-level soldier types to form his army.

Although it's true that even among top-level soldier types, there are still quite a few duds.

But those are only considered subpar within the context of top-level types; against other levels, top-level types still possess near-unparalleled combat power.

That is precisely why Lin Ye only considered top-tier soldier types.

Because this approach could achieve his goals directly and avoid many detours.

Of course, Lin Ye also exchanged for many small units for scouting purposes, similar to the Mechanical Puppets he often used.

Since using the Puppets equates to using personal Talent, Lin Ye couldn't deploy his Mechanical creatures and had to exchange for some scouting soldier types instead.

Naturally, for the sake of secrecy, he couldn't reveal his ability to use Mechanical Puppets within Gongsun's game.

After all, for someone of the Holy Light Profession to have a Mechanical Puppet Control Talent is as unrelated as cattle and horses, quite eight poles apart.

Even if he were exposed, no one would be able to fathom how Lin Ye managed it.

But he still wanted to avoid such a scenario as much as possible.

Fortunately, the game provided scout soldier types, which operated similarly to Puppet Crows, making them quite convenient to use.

They just had no combat power, and with the pricing for mid- to high-level soldier types, most players would balk at investing too many resources into such units, especially in the early stages, even more so.

However, such a small cost posed no issue at all for Lin Ye.

"Starting a battle as a blind bat, how could you not exchange for some scouts?" Lin Ye quipped.

Lin Ye felt the resource allocation on this soldier type was worth it.

After all, with scouting in place, one can prepare in advance for combat or, if facing unfavorable odds, retreat immediately.

Especially for Lin Ye, once he acquired the Mechanical Puppet Control Talent, he had become accustomed to the convenience of a full-field view.

It gave a feeling of overlooking the battlefield, like playing a real-time strategy game.

In this perspective, such gameplay was really convenient.

With the assistance of the numerous Gale Falcons used for scouting, Lin Ye quickly discovered a bandit outpost in the southeast of his position.

Such an outpost was meant for players entering the game to farm Experience Value.

After all, players need Experience Value to summon soldier types, and relying merely on the initial Experience Value given is far from sufficient.

So, at the start of the game, players must quickly clear wild monsters and various outposts to acquire enough Experience Value for army building.

Otherwise, they would fall significantly behind in troop strength, unable to keep up with the opponent's progress, being left far behind.

As for Lin Ye...

Even if you clear all the wild monsters and outposts in the entire map, you probably wouldn't have more Experience Value than what Lin Ye currently holds.

So, from another perspective, Lin Ye didn't really need to farm monsters and outposts but instead focused on chasing opponents across the map.

Clearing this bandit outpost was just Lin Ye wanting to test the power of his army.

Happily, this bandit outpost wasn't far, so what reason did Lin Ye have to hold back?

Just flatten it!

Under Lin Ye's command, the entire army advanced towards the bandit outpost.

If other players saw this, they would be utterly speechless.

These bandits, whose combat power was equivalent to the most basic soldier types, numbered less than thirty in total in the outpost, meant for players to find some confidence at the game's start.

Using an army entirely made up of top-tier soldier types to attack?

Isn't that somewhat crazy?

A torrent swept through, almost completely flattening the outpost.

Lin Ye looked at his army, which suffered no losses, and felt a bit regretful...

If he had known, he would have only dispatched a few troops to besiege the outpost.

Only then could he clearly discern the specific combat power of these soldier types.

Just then, Lin Ye received a warning from a Gale Falcon that an army was approaching from ahead.

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