My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit
Chapter 613 - 384: What Does It Mean to Gain Strength by Recruiting Downlines?
Even the Patriarch of the Alben branch thought he was mistaken and had obtained a novel written by some lunatic instead of actual gang intel.
But after repeatedly checking, he found that there indeed existed such a lunatic organization, comprised entirely of children from the lower tier, who harbored deep hatred towards gang members and were swiftly exterminating the gang members throughout Roland City.
Those old gangsters who used to swagger in front of the underprivileged folks are now all part of the roadside displays of their heads on stakes.
In this major city of Roland City, with a population of about 2.4 million, gang members number around 500,000, the lower-tier prostitutes and other people make up around 1.9 million, and the remaining roughly 10,000 are aristocrats.
And now, this organization has swept through several street blocks in less than a day, slaughtering around 50,000 gang members.
According to the intel received, this organization has already expanded to over 10,000 people, achieving numbers that only a major gang would have, and all of them boast Hero Level strength or above.
This situation made the Alben patriarch feel uneasy.
"Are they insane? Why do they want to slaughter all the gang members, did the gangs offend them?" he asked his subordinates puzzled, "Besides, even if the gangs did offend them, wouldn’t targeting just one gang be enough? Why are they indiscriminately attacking all gangs?"
"Patriarch, members of the Xiao Organization are all children of those lower-tier prostitutes, from a young age they’ve lived under the oppression of gangs, and to them... in their perception, gangs have become the lord of their world, and most of them have experienced some degree of persecution by the gangs... or have been transformed in gender..." The intel officer stammered, somewhat incoherent.
When he received this intel, he too was utterly confused, even bewildered; where did so many Hero Level low-tier people suddenly appear from?
To them, Hero Level is as common as cabbage, available in abundance, and even Legendary Level is not rare, numbering in the dozens, such a force, let alone here in the small Roland City, even globally, ranks among the top factions.
This world belongs to an absolute high magic world, with magic potions and techniques easily accessible, the power of magic is as ubiquitous as electrical energy on Earth.
Yet, in the view of Xue Dili, the upper limit and combat capabilities are lacking.
In this world, spellcasting is very cumbersome, hence their battles are centered around "rituals" and "engravings."
A ritual is essentially an environment and array set up in advance, achieving the technique within a specific time and condition, whereas an engraving is a simplified ritual, infusing the power of mysticism into the body or corresponding objects.
Just like the divine descent technique released by Xue Dili belongs to a ritual, but the simplified divine descent technique given to other members of the Xiao Organization is considered an engraving.
The difference is that the power of engravings rarely reaches Tier Three, due to the reduction in strength for ease of use.
Therefore, facing a gang of over 10,000 at Tier Two and dozens at Tier Three, even as the patriarch of the Alben branch, caution is warranted.
"Patriarch, how could so many Hero Level girls suddenly appear just in one day?" asked the intel officer.
Alben quietly drummed his fingers on the table, wearing glasses, resembling a deep scholar, analyzing the situation based on the intel he had.
He believed that the lower tier of Roland City could gather so many Hero Level children, but he didn’t believe that merely this unknown Xiao Organization could conveniently gather all these children together.
So, the only answer is that they aren’t truly Hero Level, akin to many gangs using berserk runes; these young ladies achieved Tier Two combat power only through specific engravings, but in essence, they don’t possess any actual power.
Yet even so, this made the patriarch of the Alben branch gasp.
He might have guessed everything, running a mental simulation and processing the whole scenario.
When a small gang captures those from the lower tier, suddenly one awakens an innate technique and counter-kills the gang members involved.
And his technique belongs to the enhancement type, can provide overwhelming enhancement to others, so he immediately gathered together a batch of children, gifting them corresponding engravings, thereby gradually expanding the entire gang.
If his guess is correct, then the leader of the Xiao Organization is terrifying to the extreme, able to effortlessly distribute that enhancement engraving to over 10,000 people, and even let the engravings evolve among them, achieving Legendary Level strength, this isn’t ordinary exaggeration.
He instantly realized the terror behind this engraving, and the unknown leader of the Xiao Organization.
Moreover, engravings often come with corresponding side effects, to gain that power, one must pay the corresponding price.
Based on the collected intel, the cost of this engraving is likely... madness?
Alben reviewed the intel once more, noticing that many who advanced their engravings to the Legendary Level mentioned in the intel, did so after killing an entire gang, shouting "Mother, I avenged you," "Sister, did you see it?" "Father, I’ve sent XX gang down to meet you," only then did they become Legends.