My Apocalypse Territory-Chapter 427 - 399: Lord’s Personal Guard
Chapter 427: Chapter 399: Lord’s Personal Guard
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"Combat Power rating—it’s to highlight the true strength of our Territory’s adventurers, understand?" Nancy stared at him for a while, then shook her head.
Tang Yu sighed.
Although Nancy was sixteen, not exactly young, she had been sealed for ten years in the middle. Even after becoming a Transcendent, her mentality still remained at the level of a child.
To develop Nancy into a reliable left and right arm was a task with a long road ahead.
It would be best to let her complete her nine years of compulsory education first, like scoring at least 700 on a test.
"If adventurers only take on commissions within the Territory, having a Combat Power rating doesn’t make much of a difference."
As many adventurers acknowledged, the star ranking, to a certain degree, represented the combat power of an adventure group.
"But now, we have established branches of the adventurer guild in more than a dozen or twenty other Sanctuaries. The main bodies issuing missions will no longer be us, but the local Sanctuaries and various local forces."
"Our Territory’s adventurers do not rank high in terms of Awakening levels compared to other Sanctuaries and do not have an advantage. But their combat power far exceeds others. Adding a combat power boost to their personal information is precisely to reflect the true value of adventurers. Should there arise a difficult mission that mercenaries can’t complete, our adventurer guild will naturally be sought after."
Nancy listened in a daze. Tang Yu sighed again and left. Before departing, he told her to keep hitting the books. Nancy, who had shown a delighted expression, immediately (｡•́︿•̀｡).
Establishing branches served two purposes: first, to expand Green Shadow’s influence, enabling the local branches to carry out tasks on our behalf; second, to utilize the resources of other Sanctuaries to cultivate ’our own people.’
In Tang Yu’s vision, followers were the core strength, with the Investigation Corps, Guardian Corps, Cavalry Corps, Sky Corps, and other combat corps located slightly on the periphery, belonging to the direct lineage force of the Territory.
The substantial number of adventurers could be mobilized through mission deployment.
Although they were in the Outer Circle, they were still part of the Territory’s power, not only strong but exceedingly so. Major Sanctuaries also utilized similar methods to manipulate unofficial Awakeners within their regions.
Tang Yu’s ultimate goal was to grow the adventurer guild into a national and even global organization.
Certainly a difficult task—Beiting had only managed to control a few large Sanctuaries nearby. As for other Sanctuaries within Daxia Country, they were nominally under Beiting’s jurisdiction, but in reality, Beiting lacked the ability to give orders, even the communication of messages was extremely difficult.
If it weren’t for the ongoing decoding of the Crystal Ball for spiritual power communication, along with quick modes of transportation such as Floating Airships and Floating Chariots, enabling the tracking of every Sanctuary’s movements, Tang Yu would not have planned to establish branches. Otherwise, even if trusted officials were sent, it would be hard to ensure their loyalty under the temptations of interests and the influence of local Sanctuaries.
However, local powers weren’t fools, allowing the adventurer guild to set up was their compromise, but they would inevitably restrict the growth of the adventurer guild.
Tang Yu summoned Chen Haiping and asked, "Have the frameworks for the local adventurer branches been set up?"
"The frameworks are in place, and with the cooperation of Earth Series and Metal Series ability users, the guild buildings are mostly constructed. However, there are currently very few registered adventurers. The local powers have not posted any commissions with the adventurer guild, and there’s a lack of missions and adventurers, making growth very difficult."
This was within Tang Yu’s expectations.
"Once the adventurer information is updated, I’ll send a batch of top adventurers to each Sanctuary to open up the situation."
Doomsday Cult’s aftermath lingered, with the escaped elites of the Ghost Hand Clan and the traitors who had joined the cult... the numbers were not small. For Tiannan Province and for the stability of major Sanctuaries, it was essential to eradicate these remnants of the cult, especially those traitors privy to many secrets.
Yet their strength was formidable. With the direct lineage forces of local Sanctuaries significantly weakened, it would indeed be challenging to find, capture, or eliminate these remnants.
This was when adventurers with top combat power would ’coincidentally’ appear before them.
What choice would the top brass of the local Sanctuaries make? Great Lord Tang, who had just wiped out a wave of Doomsday Cult members, expressed great curiosity.
It was not only about adding the ’Combat Power rating’, but to better utilize the resources of other Sanctuaries to cultivate adventurers, it was necessary to timely change some policies like the star ranking system.
In the future, the main bodies issuing missions would shift from Green Shadow itself to the local Sanctuary forces, and the use of points for settlements would not be quite suitable.
The rewards for commissions would be provided by the mission issuer, which could be Source Crystals, materials, equipment, etc. Points would only serve as experience points for ascending stars. No matter which faction’s force issued the mission, adventurers completing the mission would be able to earn points, and the promotion tasks required for star ascension would be canceled—this move was to facilitate certain adventurers who had made significant contributions yet lacked sufficient strength.
The points in the adventurers’ accounts would be equivalently converted to items like Source Crystals.
The original Grade C Equipment Exchange Vouchers, Grade B Exchange Vouchers, etc., Tang Yu planned to unify and convert them into Merit Points... Merit Points + Source Crystals would be necessary to exchange for advanced rune equipment, and as for the star ranking, in addition to appropriate discounts, it mostly provided the privilege to exchange for goods.
Regarding the specific award amounts and conversion ratios, Tang Yu, after all, being a common person, naturally left it to other professionals to deal with.
"How’s it going with the Martial Arts Hall?"
"The Martial Arts Halls have been built next to the adventurer guild branches in all locations. Compared to the guilds, with the batch of Core Apprentices that went out, business at the Halls was not bad at startup. But due to lacking those training facilities, they couldn’t reach the level of Luoxia."
Tang Yu nodded, ignoring Chen’s puzzled gaze.
Without establishing Sub-territories or training camps, he had no way to come up with facilities like Gravity Rooms!
Chen Haiping then remembered something, "Dozens of Martial Arts Hall apprentices, upon graduation, most serve as instructors in various Martial Arts Halls. A few have joined the Intelligence Department, and a part, I heard Minister Eileen personally selected eight top apprentices to form your future Personal Guard."
"Oh?"
Tang Yu showed a bit of anticipation.
Soon, he would be someone of stature.
Before long, Chen Haiping let people from the Municipal Department bring in the eight members of the Personal Guard.
The weakest of them was at the Seventh Layer Peak, and the strongest had already stepped into the Ninth Layer. Their Trial Tower records were all above the sixtieth level, mastering multiple Combat Skills, and their use of Combined Attack Skills was skillful. The eight of them stood there, their momentum spreading, comparable to an Army in strength.
Their capabilities were quite impressive.
The issue, however...
Tang Yu’s gaze swept over the eight, and as they stood excitedly puffing out their chests, the well-defined contours of their broad pectorals were visibly outlined beneath the snug Combat Uniforms, the knotted muscles on their robust arms giving off a significant deterrent.
All robust men.
Different from what he had imagined!
