<h4>Chapter 354: Speeding! (1)</h4>
<strong>Trantor: </strong>As Studios <strong>Editor: </strong>As Studios
After a month on Sunil, Han Xiao and the others finally returned to Juberly Hub. As soon as they were in the Hub Hall, the first thing that Han Xiao did was change the medium resting room into arge stronghold. The rental increased, from 40 to 100 Enas, as did the space.
The better the faction’s base looked, the more reliable the yers would feel. Han Xiao actually thought that a spaceship was the best mobile base, but a spaceship was way too expensive; they would not be able to afford one even if they sold the kidneys of all the yers. The human body did not sell very well in the Gctic Organ Market after all.
Excess money was meant for splurging—the consumption concept of a Mechanic was always ‘money spent will always make returns’.
This trip was very profitable. More than ten thousand hadnded in the yers’ pockets, and Han Xiao would take that off their hands to gather the funds to buy two ss advancement knowledges.
Pro yers will always use their residual money to buy equipment. There were private equipment stores in Juberly Hub, and these were all Han Xiao’spetitors.
<i>It’s impossible to have the yers only buy things from me. yers have their personal preferences, so I can’t rob away their freedom, or it will be bad for faction development. Nobody likes to be forced. Plus, the things I sell might not satisfy all of their needs... Anyway, I only need a part of the yers’ fortune, and the profit is high enough.</i>
Although Han Xiao had plenty of ways to make money, he always kept that desire controlled.
He updated the faction exchange list, adding Offensive, Defensive, and Scouting Enlistee ss armor, with a prerequisite of 500 faction rtionship points. Then he set the exchange price at 800 Enas.
In the new stronghold, before the yers had started roaming outside, someone had already discovered the new items in the faction shop.
“Is this the Enlistee ss armor that we saw in Sunil?” Frenzied Sword said in surprise.
“It is their technology indeed,” Hao Tian said. “Why can we purchase another organization’s equipment from the faction?”
The yers became curious.
Bun-Hit-Dog had a sh of insight and gave a sensible guess. “A mercenary group might be a faction with growing potential. Afterpleting different mission hires, the faction shop will be updated. The more missionspleted, therger the faction will grow...”
The yers thought of Herlous joining and the growth potential on the faction interface when they first joined ck Star, and they felt it made sense. Instantly, they became excited.
The actions of the yers could make the faction grow!
“We might have joined a special faction!” Frenzied Sword was overjoyed.
They were all pro yers, so they immediately realized the advantages of the mercenary group. If they underwent missions from different organizations, the exchange list would be updated with equipment from those organizations, which meant that the more missions they did, the richer the faction exchange list would be. All they had to do was increase the rtionship points with the faction itself—it would save them a lot of time!
They were the first batch of yers entering the gxy, and they had gone through a very difficult selection progress. Was joining this faction the hidden benefit?
The yers felt that this specialness of the mercenary group came from Han Xiao. After all, storyline main characters would definitely possess something special. The yers trusted Han Xiao very strongly. No matter how shocking the things that he did were, it all seemed possible—this was the impression that Han Xiao had forged in the yers’ minds.
To make the yers feel that the growth of the faction was ‘driven’ by them, when they clearly saw the growth of the faction, they would slowly develop a sense of belonging. This was the development path that he had set from the start. Now, the yers finally felt this specialness and freshness; his strategy had achieved its anticipated result.
At this time, the yers had money in their pockets and were willing to spend. A few of them bought the Enlistee ss armor on the spot. Han Xiao did not have anypleted products with him, so it had to be built. The other yers wanted to observe when the finished product was made.
During the battle on Sunil, every yer had been tempted by the single unit armors, but sadly, they had not been given a way to purchase them. Second Prince almost wanted to steal one.
“We have battled for more than a month; let’s all take a break and rest for some time.”
Han Xiao dismissed them, left the stronghold, and rented a mechanical modification room.
He first spent millions of experience and upgraded the armor blueprint level to Lv.6, only then did he start to build. There was still a lot of material left from what he had brought from Aquamarine—only a small part of the Sunil Enlistee ss armor required him to buy materials from the gxy. The cost to make one was only about 50 Enas.
For the time being, there was no mission for the mercenary group. The yers could finally explore Juberly Hub freely, and naturally, they would not just spend money in one ce.
There were many shops in the hub center, and it was full of variety and choices. During this resting period, they witnessed equipment from many different civilizations and bought a lot of gear, such as arms with stronger power, small supportive machinery, and so on.
At the same time, they noticed that some machinery shops were selling single unit armors as well. This was verymon in the gxy, and although these armors’ designs were very different from the ones on Sunil, their technology levels were all rather basic. However, these shops were selling them at a way higher price than exchanging in the faction—even the cheapest one was 3,200 Enas, four times the faction price!
The yers became worried because of this. They knew that the price was usually corrted with quality, but Han Xiao’s armor was so cheap. Would its attributes be very low?
They memorized the attributes of the armor in the shop and nned to make aparison when the finished product from the faction wasplete.
Although ck Star’s equipment had good prices, when the pro yers were rich, they never looked at price, only quality.
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Herlous went to the mercenary hall alone to register. He joined the ck Star Mercenary Group then opened the mercenary group records.
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ck Star Mercenary group
Credibility Rating: 154
Scale: 53 members
ss C: 52 members
ss B: 1 member
Missions Completed: 1 (Daily Low-Level Missions Excluded)
Active region: Garton Gxy
Records: [Sunil Defense Battle] (Expand/Copse)
Creator: ck Star – Han Xiao
Creation date: Gxy Calendar Year 688, 02 October
Summary: A small mercenary group with a certain amount ofbat power and one grade B Super.
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“A mercenary group created little more than a month back. ck Star didn’t lie to me...” When Herlous saw there was only one grade B Super, he knew that he was the strongest in this mercenary group. He could not help but feel a sense of responsibility.
For the future of his race, he had to protect Han Xiao. He hoped that this captain would not choose hiring missions that were too dangerous.
On the other side, Han Xiao received a notification from the interface while he was building armor in the workshop.
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Faction Reward Limit: 135,7000
Faction Leader Level: 80 (+64,000 reward quota)
Cadres: Herlous (B) (+20,000 reward quota)
Faction Size: 52 (+20,000 reward quota)
Renown: 7 (+14,000 reward quota)
Legendary Points: Leader (3) +15% reward quota
Allies and Enemies: None
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His friendliness with Sunil was on a personal level, so it had yet to be a faction ally.
Han Xiao felt refreshed. The faction had gained its first cadre and taken its first step. Plus, the quota had increased by 20,000, showing that recruiting cadres was indeed a good way to quickly increase the quota.
Two dayster, Han Xiao had built six sets of Enlistee ss armor. The yers could not wait to equip them, and they instantly felt the benefits of the armor.
Single Unit Armor was something that most civilizations would research on when they reached a certain technological level. Its original purpose was to let users have stronger physical capabilities and adapt better to different environments. The first time wearing single unit armor was like opening the gate to a new world for the yers.
In the stronghold, a few yers that bought the armor were controlling them excitedly. The fresh feeling had them overjoyed, and the other yers surrounded them and touched the armor with curiosity.
“How does it feel?”
“It looks heavy, but it’s actually really easy to move. There are parts inside that helps me move.”
Rainy Kim frowned and said, “Piles of iron, they look so ugly.”
All the male yers stared at her. It was the first time that they had shared amon enemy.
“You don’t know sh*t. The mechanical suit is men’s romance!”