Reaper of the Martial World

Book 7: Chapter 349: Merits (3)

“Officials have many perks. Not to mention the fact they have the right to vote on certain matters during the Mortal Meetings, these perks extend outside of these walls as well.

“For one, they’re allocated a great amount of resources. Even 1^st Tier Officials will be awarded with 1 celestial stone worth of resources a month. As for 9^th Tier Officials, this increases to 1 enigmatic stone worth of resources a month.”

The hearts of those who heard these words palpitated. But, Dyon’s next words threw a bucket of cold water over their heads.

“However, don’t even dream about becoming a 1^st Tier Official without first entering the celestial realm. This standard will only rise as time passes on. Within 1000 years, the system will be as follows:

“1^st through 3^rd Tier Officials must be Peak Celestials at the worst. 4^th through 6^th Tier Officials must be Dao Experts. 7^th Tier must be Middle Dao Experts, 8^th Tier must be Higher Dao Experts, while 9^th Tier must be Peak Dao Experts. As for the right to gain a Hereditary Title of Nobility, your Clan must produce a Higher Existence!”

Those Leaders here half wanted to complain about the standards being too high once again. But, when they saw the staunchness in Dyon’s eyes, they could only swallow their words.

“For now, I’ll allow you to become a 1^st Tier Official as long as you enter the celestial realm.”

“And what about 2^nd Tier Official?” A Clan Leader asked probingly.

Dyon sneered lightly. “In order to become a 2^nd Tier Clan, you need 100 separate individuals to contribute 10 000 merit points and accumulate a minimum of 10 000 000 points total.”

Hearing these words, the one who spoke silenced himself immediately. Who knew how many years it would take to reach that sort of level? It wasn’t impossible considering there were many people working together, but for Clans who hadn’t even earned 1 merit point, 10 000 000 still seemed much too far off.

“These standards shouldn’t be impossible to meet as long as one fosters a good culture within their own Clans. Many of you come from Clans and Families with hundreds of individuals. Some of you larger Clans have tens of thousands under you.

“Always remember that for how difficult you may believe these tasks are to accomplish, there’s always an adequate award waiting at the end.

“While a 1^st Tier Official will receive 1 celestial stone worth of goods a month, a 1^st Tier Clan will receive 10 000 celestial stones worth. In the same vein, a 9^th Tier Clan will receive 10 000 enigmatic stones worth. These don’t even touch upon the numerous benefits including territory and power.”

“Leader Sacharro,” King Belmont, who had been silent until now, spoke up. Although, he couldn’t necessarily be called King Belmont anymore, but rather, Patriarch Belmont. “You spoke of subordinate Clans, how will this system work?”

For Patriarch Belmont who had had five God Clans under his purview not too long ago, he found this concept intriguing. Plus, after being cured of the Bai Clan curse, he was doing far better now and was well equipped to make up for his mistakes in the past few decades.

“Mm.” Dyon nodded. “Higher tier Clans have the right to take lesser Clans under their wings. That said, this isn’t a sort of absolute dictatorship.

“The amount of land in a given territory is limited. This is why you can gain merit points discovering and mapping new lands, as I’ve stated before.

“As a result of this scarcity, it is inevitable that there will come a time when the territories of Clans overlap. This is especially so for 9^th Tier Clans who will begin the right to rule over an entire Universe.

“When these sorts of overlaps occur, the lesser Clan will become a subordinate Clan. On the one hand, they will have to pay a certain tax to the higher ranked Clan, but on the other, the higher ranked Clan will then become responsible for the lesser Clan’s safety.

“In addition to this, the higher ranked clan will be able to recruit talents within the lesser clan into their fold. However, in order to do this, the higher ranked clan must be willing to give this recruited talent the same privileges as a founding pillar of their clan.”

Dyon chose this Law of Order for a reason. He didn’t want large Clans bullying smaller ones by taking up all of their talents. In that way, that would create a cycle where smaller clans would never be able to rise up. Still, he also knew that these sorts of practices were inevitable, so he also decided to heavily regulate it.

Clans would definitely think twice before giving an incoming talent the rights of a founding member. That was borderline nonsensical.

“Excluding this founding member position, the subordinate clan will also become exempt from taxes they once gave to their higher ranked clan, but the higher tier clan will still be required to protect them.”

This sort of penalty just for one person? Would those larger clans be willing to take this on?

“If a larger clan decides to take a second talent from a lesser clan, they will in turn have to pay renumerations to the lower tiered clan. These sort of reverse taxes, so to speak, will increase exponentially for every talent taken and will continue until the death date of that talent.

“Mind you, this will occur whether the talent is willingly leaving their Clan or not. Unless this talent can provide proof that they’ve been mistreated by their paternal Clan, they will be forever tied to that Clan in one fashion or another.”