Chapter 383 - 224: Luke’s Choice

Chapter 383: Chapter 224: Luke’s Choice

This compensation came with prerequisites, making it essentially a concession from the Liuren Demon Hall.

It guaranteed that even if he and Luke didn’t rank in the top 1,000 while exploring the Secret Realm, they would still receive over thirty percent of the earnings.

Zhong Yi still wasn’t sure about the resource yield in the Secret Realms opened by the Wanyu Gambling Company.

But if even A Level influences were willing to participate, the profits surely wouldn’t be small.

C Level influences could participate in the Secret Realms opened by the Wanyu Gambling Company. After all, eligibility to join the company’s events was one of the prerequisites for being rated as a B Level Influence.

Compared to participating in Wanyu Gambling Company events, successfully auctioning for three new worlds from the Wanyu Boundary Exploration Company was undoubtedly much more difficult.

This meant that no matter how strong the Talents participating in the Wanyu Gambling Company’s Secret Realms were, there probably weren’t many C Level Talents who could get in.

This was especially true for Secret Realms matched to the current Level of people like Zhong Yi and Luke.

As Zhong Yi pondered this, he spoke to Du Xiu.

"If we join the Liuren Demon Hall, besides the compensation package, we’ll certainly need to have some understanding of its strength."

"I wonder, how many Talents of each rating does the Liuren Demon Hall have?"

Hearing Zhong Yi ask about the Talents within the Liuren Demon Hall, Du Xiu’s expression became a little unnatural.

Before deciding to join an influence, understanding the strength of its members was indeed a very normal thing to do.

It was just that several B Level Talents had recently left the Liuren Demon Hall, and their departure had also taken quite a few people with them.

This left the Liuren Demon Hall’s current number of Talents in a rather awkward state.

Du Xiu, being a bit cunning, decided not to tell Zhong Yi the current situation.

Instead, he told Zhong Yi about the situation before the B Level Talents had left.

"Our Liuren Demon Hall has thirteen B Level Talents, fifty-four C Level Talents, and only two Zhenxing C Level Talents."

"Among all the A Level influences, the Liuren Demon Hall hasn’t fallen out of the top 1,000 for nearly a thousand years."

Du Xiu felt a bit guilty as he said this.

To cover up the losses from their recent new world explorations, Du Xiu not only lied but also intentionally inflated the number of C Level Talents by twenty.

’Anyway, even if some bad rumors spread, the Liuren Demon Hall is still an A Level Influence at the end of the day.’

’It’s hard to recruit Zhenxing C Level Talents, but with our terms, we can still attract regular C Level Talents.’

Hearing this, Zhong Yi nodded to himself.

His estimation of his and Luke’s value as Zhenxing C Level Talents rose even higher.

’An A Level Influence only has two Zhenxing C Level Talents!’

Zhong Yi had asked Du Xiu about the Liuren Demon Hall’s Talents not because he was determined to join...

...but because he wanted to get a general understanding of the strength of A Level influences.

Compared to the Liuren Demon Hall, the Lion Heart Association, an influence with only one B Level Talent, was undoubtedly much weaker.

Zhong Yi chatted a little more with Du Xiu before saying that he and Luke needed some time to think it over before giving a reply.

After seeing Du Xiu off, Zhong Yi sent a message to Taya.

From Taya, Zhong Yi learned that the Lion Heart Association had only successfully been promoted to a B Level Influence a few years ago.

To win the auctions for three new worlds from the Wanyu Boundary Exploration Company, the Lion Heart Association had nearly emptied its coffers.

After confirming the Lion Heart Association’s influence level, Zhong Yi also had a rough idea of the state of B Level influences.

In the following days, Zhong Yi and Luke met with all the managers from A Level influences in the reception room who were interested in recruiting them.

The compensation packages offered by these A Level influence managers were more or less the same as what Du Xiu had reported.

In fact, the Liuren Demon Hall’s offer might even be better than what a few other A Level influences had proposed.

In the process of communicating with other A Level influences, Zhong Yi heard some rumors about the Liuren Demon Hall.

Zhong Yi didn’t think much of the fact that the Liuren Demon Hall had lost many Talents while extensively exploring new worlds.

This was because on the Virtual Source Network, an influence couldn’t force Talents to participate in developing and exploring new worlds.

Instead, those Talents had willingly agreed to go after learning of the Six-Person Demon Hall’s objectives.

Opportunity often goes hand-in-hand with risk. Dying in the pursuit of more resources was consistent with the laws of survival in any world.

"Young Master, the Liuren Demon Hall is in dire need of people right now."

"The Liuren Demon Hall originates from the Demon Spirit Ecosystem, and many unique materials from that ecosystem are beneficial for advancing my Fallen Energy Race Bloodline."

"I’m planning to join the Liuren Demon Hall!"

Zhong Yi himself intended to contact a few more B Level influences to understand the offers they were making for Zhenxing C Level Talents.

Since Luke had decided to join the Liuren Demon Hall, Zhong Yi didn’t drag him along to meet with the managers of those B Level influences.

The Liuren Demon Hall, an A Level Influence that perennially ranked in the top 1,000, was indeed desperate for talent at the moment.

Moreover, within the Liuren Demon Hall, Luke would indeed have an easier time obtaining materials from the Demon Spirit Ecosystem at a lower price.

Luke’s decision to join the Liuren Demon Hall was an unexpected and pleasant surprise for Du Xiu.

Du Xiu had heard that Zhong Yi and Luke were frequently meeting with other A Level influences.

The other A Level influences had probably also heard that the Liuren Demon Hall was in contact with Zhong Yi and Luke.

When it came to recruiting Talents, the major influences never hesitated to bad-mouth their peers in front of a prospect.

Zhong Yi and Luke must have already learned about the Liuren Demon Hall’s situation.

He never thought that, despite knowing all this, Luke would still be willing to join the Liuren Demon Hall.

After meeting with several B Level influences, Zhong Yi had a general idea of the compensation they offered for Zhenxing C Level Talents.

Compared to A Level influences, B Level influences undoubtedly cherished Zhenxing C Level Talents more.

Many B Level influence managers even adopted a humble and fervent attitude when trying to recruit Zhong Yi.

An A Level Influence only had two Zhenxing C Level Talents join them.

Resources like Zhenxing C Level Talents rarely remained in B Level influences.

However, compared to the packages from A Level influences, the resources offered by B Level influences weren’t that much greater.

After all, both the development of an influence and its internal maintenance required a huge amount of Divine Origin Value.

Furthermore, Zhong Yi learned that participating in the Secret Realms opened by the Wanyu Gambling Company also required paying a fee in Divine Origin Value.

If an influence couldn’t rank in the top 2,000 and didn’t find any rare materials in the Secret Realm...

...that influence was destined to suffer a loss!

For an A Level Influence to offer a condition like a thirty percent share of the profits regardless of ranking was already considered ignoring the costs.

The B Level influences offered Zhong Yi a fifty percent share of the profits, regardless of his ranking.

This held little appeal for Zhong Yi.

When Zhong Yi participated in a Secret Realm opened by the Wanyu Gambling Company, he was definitely going to compete for a top rank.

Now that Zhong Yi had formed a Contract with an additional Golden Iron Drifter, he was even stronger than when he participated in the Ranking Competition.

Besides, Zhong Yi still had the Resurrection Celestial Lord as his trump card.

Zhong Yi didn’t care about the basic resource split, because he wasn’t aiming for the basic share given to those ranked in the top thousand.

Many B Level influences couldn’t offer priceless treasures that could enhance or bestow Rule Authority like the A Level influences could.

Just as Zhong Yi was about to choose an A Level Influence to join, he received a Divine Origin Value transfer on his Soul Fighting Bracelet.

This was the first time Zhong Yi learned that the Soul Fighting Bracelet actually had a function for direct Divine Origin Value transfers.

When Zhong Yi had first obtained his Soul Fighting Bracelet, he had carefully studied all its functions.

Zhong Yi remembered that the Soul Fighting Bracelet he initially received didn’t have this feature.

’The Divine Origin Value transfer function must be a special feature opened by the Wanyu Soul Fighting Company to promote talent.’

This Divine Origin Value transfer wasn’t a large amount for those who could participate in the Third Level Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm without limit.

It was only 100 points of Divine Origin Value!

But Zhong Yi’s original Divine Origin Value was less than 40 points in total, so this was more than all the Divine Origin Value he currently possessed.

Following the 100-point Divine Origin Value transfer was a long message.