💰 Shops: Your City's Economic Engine
Shops are permanent structures in your city that serve as your primary source of passive Gold Revenue.

Unlocking Progression: become available for construction as you progress through the Adventure chapters.
Core Mechanics: Shops feature three key systems that allow you to maximize their gold output:
Recruiting Employees: Hiring workers is essential to increase a shop's Level.
Dispatching Characters
Leveling Up
🧑💼 Employees: The Backbone of Growth
Employees are workers hired for a specific shop. While they provide a small amount of passive Gold Revenue themselves, their crucial role is serving as the primary resource needed to Level Up a Shop.
📈 Shop Level: Permanent Revenue Boost
The Shop Level is a permanent stat that directly scales the shop's base Gold Revenue. Investing Employees and Gold into leveling up your shops ensures a continuously increasing stream of passive income, which is vital for funding your Adventure progression.
🦸 Characters: Your Primary Revenue Drivers
Characters are the heroic units you use in Adventure and your most potent source of active and passive Gold Revenue.

🗺️ Adventure: The Path to Progression
The Adventure is the main campaign mode, and where most of your progression takes place. Successful completion of chapters yields crucial rewards, including new resources, Character XP, and unlocking access to new content.
Each Chapter has 5 Stages. Completing a stage and opening the chest will give you rewards.

🤝 Diplomacy
Diplomacy is your strategic resource sink and the primary dedicated source of Character EXP. It represents investing Gold into public works or treaties to gain favor and advance your heroes.
Core Goal: To rapidly level up your Characters, allowing them to perform better in Adventure and generate higher revenue in Shops (due to increased INT Stats).
The Process: Diplomacy is straightforward: you invest Gold into a specific project, known as a Treaty, until it reaches its full completion.
Rewards: The primary reward is a substantial amount of Character EXP, essential for progression. You can also earn small, valuable side rewards, including Diamonds and other resources.