Chapter 209: Chapter 176: They May Profit Greatly, But I Never Lose Out (Combined Chapters, Extra for Monthly Tickets)
Even this afternoon, he raised the ordinary members’ benefits to include two free bottles a month, 50% higher than Bit, yet still no one wanted to join.
Now, with such a vast territory of the Iron Heart Gang, which normally requires thousands of people to maintain, there are less than two hundred Martial Arts Academy Disciples who aren’t even apprentices to upkeep it, it’s truly pitiful.
If it weren’t for the reputation of the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, the nearby gangs would have attacked long ago, even if they didn’t, they could harass the merchants, making it impossible for them to move, thereby reducing the income from the territory.
"In that case, you can announce to the public that from today onwards, all disciples recruited by our Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall can learn the authentic Training Technique to become a Martial Artist, and as long as they have enough contribution, they can also exchange for the Martial Artist level Training Technique, and the learning fee is only one thousand Bits per session," Lin Qi said with a smile.
"Hall Master, are you serious?" Meng Wei stared at Lin Qi, hardly daring to believe his ears, "Can we really let other members learn freely? That’s the foundation of the Martial Arts Hall!"
He had long been intrigued by the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s Training Technique.
He could never forget the scene when Ye Qinglu became a Martial Artist, the strength of her Qi and Blood seemed even richer than his own as an Extreme Initial Stage Martial Artist.
It’s obvious without guessing that the Training Technique these formal disciples of the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall learned is definitely not the ordinary Martial Artist level Training Technique, they are likely high-tier Martial Artist level Training Techniques that those old forces on the outskirts don’t teach to outsiders.
Such Training Techniques are something he couldn’t obtain, let alone learn, even if he, an Extreme Initial Stage Martial Artist, tried his hardest.
If it were truly open for anyone to join and learn, Meng Wei was sure the line of people wanting to join would stretch all the way out of the city, even personnel from other gangs would come to meddle.
"Of course, not only the Martial Arts Academy Disciples who join, even those who are not disciples can learn, only the learning fee would be higher," Lin Qi nodded.
The system’s task not only required him to train more powerful players, but also to cultivate formidable local residents, meaning that the more people learning the Shocking God Breathing Technique, the better, ideally all advancing to Martial Artists or even higher, so that his system permissions would increase, and his strength would grow stronger.
Previously, due to insufficient strength, he worried that the people he taught might bring about various problems he couldn’t handle, which would harm himself instead.
But now that he is comparable to a real high-tier Martial Artist, and Martial Artists have emerged among players increasingly, there are fewer people and forces in Chasing Light City that could intimidate him, naturally, he could execute boldly.
"Hall Master, if we recruit like this, I’m afraid the Martial Artist resources we have at hand might be far from enough." Meng Wei said worriedly, "Moreover, with us recruiting in this manner, the four major forces will definitely not allow us to grow stronger, if they dispatch a large group of quasi-Martial Artists equipped with B2 Level or above battle armor to cause trouble, we hardly have the strength to counteract."
"The four major forces have a lot of B2 Level or above battle armor?" Lin Qi asked, puzzled.
B Level and above battle armor are regulated products in major cities, even top potential talents in the Martial Artist Association can only exchange for a set of B2 Level Battle Armor, with a price as high as eighty million Bits, Martial Artists qualified to purchase it can only sell one set if they wish to sell.
It’s hard to imagine a suburban force owning multiple sets, let alone in large quantities.
"A lot." Meng Wei nodded and said solemnly, "Just today, any one of the four major forces has more than ten Extreme Quasi-Martial Artists equipped with B2 Level or above battle armor, otherwise our Martial Arts Academy Disciples wouldn’t be suffering so much."
"How do they have so many?" Lin Qi was astonished upon hearing this.
In his view, these large forces in the suburbs having a few sets would already be impressive. The price is not cheap, for one, secondly, there’s nowhere to buy them, especially B2 Level or above battle armor.
Now, any one of the four major forces can produce over ten sets of B2 Level or above battle armor, it’s simply a joke.
B2 Level Battle Armor can increase 1000 kilograms of strength, letting an Extreme Quasi-Martial Artist wear it turns them into a live Extreme Initial Stage Martial Artist, as for B3 Level Battle Armor, it’s even more terrifying, increasing 1600 kilograms of strength, letting an Extreme Quasi-Martial Artist wear it allows them to contend with Middle Tier Martial Artists.
"Hall Master, you might not have had a territory in the suburbs before, nor become a local force, so you may not know, but actually, any suburban force with Energy Ore or Energy Crystal Stone and a qualification can freely buy B2 Level or above battle armor." Meng Wei explained, "Just that acquiring this purchasing qualification is not easy."
"Purchasing qualification? How do you get this qualification?" Lin Qi asked, surprised.
If it’s really possible to freely purchase using Energy Ore or Energy Crystal Stone, then it would be much easier for him to quickly arm a team to defend the Iron Heart Gang’s territory and Red Moon Mountain.
Especially if he himself could acquire a B3 Level or above battle armor, his combat power would increase significantly.
"This purchasing qualification requires a force to have sufficient strength." Meng Wei explained, "Although major cities restrict B Level battle armor, there’s a commerce named Red Moon that’s always secretly selling B Level battle armor, this Red Moon Commerce is very mysterious, for some reason, even high-ranking leaders of major cities know about it but never ban it."
"And the trading rules of this Red Moon Commerce are very peculiar, though they sell B Level battle armor, owning Energy Ore or Energy Crystal Stones aren’t enough, it also depends on a force’s strength ranking, the higher the rank, the more B Level battle armor they can purchase, and the higher the level they can access."
"The top hundred ranked forces each month can purchase one B5 Level and ten B4 Level or below battle armors, forces ranked in the top two hundred can purchase one B4 Level and ten B3 Level or below battle armors each month, the top three hundred forces can purchase one B3 Level and five B2 Level or below battle armors each month, and forces ranked in the top five hundred can purchase one B1 Level battle armor, forces after five hundred have no purchase qualification."
"A strength ranking of a force? How is this ranked? Is it determined by the Martial Artist Association?" Lin Qi couldn’t help but be curious.
Ranking the strength of a force is actually hard to categorize, even rankings made by the Martial Artist Association for wild gangs are very vague, without real fights, no one knows who is stronger.
And there are many forces within cities, an additional B2 Level battle armor, or one less B2 Level battle armor, accumulates significantly each month, few forces would want others to decide casually.
"This strength ranking isn’t determined by anyone, it’s fought out." Meng Wei said.
"Fought out?" Lin Qi was astonished, "But I haven’t heard of many forces in cities fighting."
"This fight isn’t a full-scale war among city forces, not even the forces in the rankings know each other." Meng Wei explained, "The Red Moon Commerce establishes this force ranking through individual matches held at the commerce, each major city force only needs to send ten people, either for Martial Artist level matches or below, all ten can be Martial Artists or all can be below Martial Artist level."
"Just ten people participating in such matches, life or death aside, the higher the individual’s overall rank, the more points they earn, Martial Artist ranking points are double, and final ranking is based on total points."
"Although our Iron Heart Gang had two Martial Artists before, our ranking wasn’t good, we barely ranked in the top five hundred, so all these years we never had a single B2 Level battle armor."
As Meng Wei spoke, he also felt quite helpless and ashamed, clearly a gang with two Martial Artists, but the total points were lower than many forces without any Martial Artists, they had almost become the laughingstock of Chasing Light City.
"Ten people?" Lin Qi suddenly became interested when he heard this, "How do you participate in this force ranking?"