Of course, this stage isn't difficult for Clone No. 2 either.
Although your Clone No. 2 didn't particularly exceed expectations in the previous job change tasks, nor did it gain much skill proficiency.
But it can't withstand the fact that your Clone No. 2 has now entered the simulation for the fourth time, and the actual age as a professional has exceeded thirty years!
In thirty years, even a pig should have mastered the basic skills, let alone No. 2, who is wholeheartedly dedicated to the front line?
What your Clone No. 2 really needs to spend time on is actually the third stage of the Sky-level job change task, which is the easiest for ordinary Earth-level professionals!
Sky-level Job Change Task (3): Ascension Trial!
Task Description: Once activated, the trial participant will enter a space similar to an endless tower, trying to withstand the attacks of monsters for as long as possible.
Reward: Sky-level Job Change (will gain a new ability: Domain Suppression)
Note: All monsters within the Ascension Trial will provide Domain experience to the trial participant. The longer you persist and the more monsters you kill, the higher your Domain level will increase! You can gain up to 100,000 Domain experience points.
This is why there isn't much of a fundamental difference in power between Sky-level and Earth-level professionals, but Sky-level professionals are generally stronger than Earth-level professionals.
Relying on the large amount of Domain experience gained from the Ascension Trial, the vast majority of Sky-level professionals can increase their Domain level by 1 during the Ascension Trial.
Although it's only 1 level, firstly, the professionals who can advance to become Sky-level professionals are often the best among Earth-level professionals.
Secondly, the new ability of Sky-level professionals, Domain Suppression, has a special effect that can be described as a dimensionality reduction strike against Earth-level professionals whose Domain levels are generally lower!
The so-called Domain Suppression has only one effect.
That is, when a Sky-level professional's Domain level exceeds the target's, each level that their Domain level exceeds the opponent's will reduce the opponent's Domain effect by 10%!
Exceed two levels, and it's 20%...
In addition, Sky-level professionals have higher Domain levels and can obtain more buffs.
So, when a Sky-level professional with a Level 6 Domain encounters an Earth-level professional with a Level 4 Domain, they can often create a difference of half the Domain effect!
This is already absolute crushing. Taking Clone No. 2's Four-Law Mastery Domain as an example, once Clone No. 2's Four-Law Mastery Domain is suppressed by 20%, the original 70% increase in four-elemental spell damage will plummet to 56%...
Therefore, your Clone No. 2 intends to persist for as long as possible in the Ascension Trial.
According to information obtained from other Sky-level professionals, this time may be three months, or even longer...
To prevent any accidents from happening in Salvation during this period, your Clone No. 2 needs to notify Clone No. 1 in advance.
No. 1, who approved No. 2's job change application, felt even more urgently the need to find someone to replace him in managing Salvation!
Compared to No. 2, who is almost fully prepared and only needs the Ascension Trial to complete the Sky-level job change and become a Sky-level professional.
Your Clone No. 1, so far, is not only only level 45, far from the level 50 required to start the job change task, but even the skill and Domain levels are far behind!
Especially the Domain level, which is only at level 3 now. In addition, the Warrior class's ability to grind monsters is inherently inferior to that of Mages... If you want to safely advance to become a Sky-level professional in this simulation, your Clone No. 1 cannot allow Salvation to involve too much of its energy...
Your Clone No. 1 has locked onto two targets to replace No. 3...
One, naturally, is Shangguan Lingwei, who has always been a veteran member of Salvation since the beginning of the simulation.
Shangguan Lingwei, born into a high-ranking official's family, naturally possesses extraordinary vision and management skills. Although she is somewhat inferior compared to No. 3, she is still sufficient to serve as the manager of Salvation during its development period.
As for the other one, it's the main body's fellow countryman in this world: Zhang Zitao!
"Zhang Zitao?"
Lin Ke was slightly stunned.
Your Clone No. 1 had only just remembered this 'distant' name.
In the last simulation, Zhang Zitao had joined Salvation.
But Clone No. 1 wasn't interested in her at the time, so he handed Zhang Zitao over to No. 3, making Zhang Zitao No. 3's assistant.
What no one expected was that Zhang Zitao, whose awakened talent was mediocre, possessed extraordinary talent in managing internal affairs! After the establishment of the World Federation, No. 3 even appointed Zhang Zitao as the governor of the Eastern Victory Divine Continent.
Although No. 1 doesn't know Zhang Zitao's true level.
But in the last simulation, the Eastern Victory Divine Continent, as the general government of the World Federation, was indeed managed in an orderly manner, and there had never been any chaos or inefficient operation caused by internal corruption.
Most importantly, No. 1 believes in No. 3's vision.
Since No. 3 can appoint Zhang Zitao to manage the crucial Eastern Victory Divine Continent, it must mean that Zhang Zitao has the ability to manage the Eastern Victory Divine Continent!
Not to mention, Zhang Zitao is still the main body's fellow countryman, and coupled with Zhang Zitao's current predicament of working as a waitress in a tea restaurant, as long as a little help is provided, Zhang Zitao will definitely be grateful...
Thinking about it, your Clone No. 1 immediately remitted a 'huge sum' of 10 million Federal Coins to his hometown, and then called Shangguan Lingwei to formally appoint Shangguan Lingwei as the vice president of Salvation!
Faced with your Clone No. 1's almost unconditional trust.
Shangguan Lingwei secretly vowed in her heart that she would definitely live up to No. 1's trust and carry forward Salvation!
"Be a human, will you!" Lin Ke really couldn't hold back.
You didn't even think of the fellow countryman in the simulation because Zhang Zitao had no value.
And Shangguan Lingwei, after being sold by No. 1, still helps No. 1 count the money... In three words, she's a 'real beast'...
Your Clone No. 4 told No. 1 that he was also preparing to change jobs to become an Earth-level professional and hoped that No. 1 could help him purchase a set of powerful knight equipment and matching knight skills...
Faced with No. 4's request.
Your Clone No. 1 simply looked at the Salvation account balance, which was as high as 12 digits of Federal Coins, and directly transferred 20 billion Federal Coins to No. 4 without any heartache, and asked Shangguan Lingwei, who had just taken office as vice president, to use Salvation's network to assist No. 4 in purchasing equipment and skill books.
When Shangguan Lingwei heard that No. 4 said he was about to start the job change task of an Earth-level professional.
Shangguan Lingwei's entire brain was blank, and the way she looked at No. 4 was as if she was looking at some kind of monster...
It's no wonder Shangguan Lingwei was so shocked.
The speed at which No. 4's level increased was too fast!
You must know that even Shangguan Lingwei's current level is only barely 13! Even so, it was because Shangguan Lingwei had obtained extra experience rewards by completing the job change task of killing the dungeon BOSS beyond the limit when completing the Bronze-level job change task!
But what about No. 4?
Okay, No. 4 is the younger brother of No. 1 and No. 2...
Honestly, if No. 4 didn't often wander behind No. 2, Shangguan Lingwei would have almost forgotten that this big fool was actually one of the four miracle siblings of the Lin family!
As one of the four miracle siblings of the Lin family, preparing for the fourth job change in two months after awakening their talents is also a very reasonable thing, right?
Although Shangguan Lingwei's worldview tells her that this is completely unreasonable! But the fact is that these freaks of the Lin family cannot be measured by the common sense of professionals, and many professional researchers have also carefully studied No. 1 and No. 2, but the results are all normal...
Normal as if their heaven-defying growth rate was completely earned by them with every slash and stab!
Filled with resentment towards the completely unreasonable growth of the four miracle siblings of the Lin family.
Shangguan Lingwei began her first task as a workhorse... no, it should be said as the vice president of Salvation.
And No. 1, who had settled Shangguan Lingwei and No. 4, did not get the free time as he had imagined.
At the end of December.
Through a series of operations, your Clone No. 1 'invited' Nordell, a war weapon research expert from the Western Federation, to Donghua City through secret channels.
Relying on the USB flash drive inherited by No. 2 from the last simulation, which contained a wealth of research data on war weapons.
The process of your Clone convincing Nordell to join Salvation this time did not encounter any accidents.
Especially after seeing the research conjecture on the Domain Device, Nordell unconditionally accepted the clone's recruitment...
And not just Nordell.
Clone No. 1 also sent invitations to many top war weapon research experts in the future world. Under the temptation of the Domain Device data, almost more than 90% of the war weapon experts who received the invitation agreed to Salvation's recruitment...
Of course, the arrival of a large number of war weapon experts will inevitably require extremely large research funds.
Although Salvation has undergone two rounds of financing and has hundreds of billions of funds on its books, using it for research on war weapons and manufacturing war weapons, which are projects that can swallow money even faster than a shredder, may not be able to sustain it for too long.
Not to mention, learning from the lesson of insufficient war weapons at the critical moment in the last simulation, No. 1 plans to massively expand the war weapon factories in the early stages of Salvation, increasing the number of war weapon factories opened in the early stages of the last simulation from 220 to 1,000!
The construction cost of the factories alone is estimated to be nearly 200 billion Federal Coins.
In addition, war factories also need to be equipped with a large number of awakened people as workers! According to the calculation that each factory needs to be equipped with nearly a thousand people, 1,000 war weapon factories need to be equipped with hundreds of thousands of people!
"Even if we calculate that it takes at least 50,000 Federal Coins worth of magic stones to awaken one person, it will take at least 50 billion Federal Coins to complete the awakening of a million people... In addition, we need extra awakening balls, otherwise, relying solely on the awakening balls of Donghua University and Nankai University, we can only complete the awakening of a maximum of 30,000 people a day, and awakening alone will take more than a month..."
"The combat personnel of Salvation also need standardized suits! According to the cost of 5 million Federal Coins for a set of Level 20 Silver-level suits and 30 million Federal Coins for a set of Level 30 Gold-level suits, even if we produce and use 10,000 sets of Silver-level suits and 1,000 sets of Gold-level suits ourselves, it will cost 80 billion Federal Coins..."
"In addition, there must be a large number of Earth-level, Sky-level, and even Star-level equipment and skill books to fill Salvation's warehouse, as a reward for Salvation's senior combat personnel."
Clone No. 1 silently calculated the resources needed to speed up the progress in his heart.
Finally, he concluded that if the existing Salvation wants to maintain its rapid development momentum across the board, the annual expenditure must be at least 600 billion Federal Coins or more!
As for what kind of reaction the federal government will have to such outrageous things as building a thousand war weapon factories in one go and awakening millions of ordinary people?
No. 1 said that he would just deal with whatever came his way. The height he stands at now is no longer limited to the level of professional forces or federal forces. His gaze is on the entire human race, and his imaginary enemy is no longer humans, but Alaya, who has made him suffer in two consecutive simulations!
The infighting within humanity is not insurmountable for the powerful clones now.
As long as Salvation doesn't show a clear anti-Alaya stance, and the Professional Guild and A-level combat teams don't take Salvation as an enemy, the military power controlled by the Federation and the scattered low- and mid-level combat teams simply cannot afford the cost of a head-on confrontation with Salvation.
In the past six simulations, Clone No. 1 had already seen through the reality of the Human Federation.
Although the Human Federation's strength on paper is extremely strong, if it can be effectively integrated, the Federation in one state can contend with several A-level combat teams!
But the Human Federation does not have the ability to unite these military forces and combat teams.
Whether it is the provincial government or the municipal government, their attitude towards the Federal General Government is quite perfunctory.
If it is to deal with threats within the province, there is no need to say more, the major provincial governments are definitely more nervous than the Federal General Government. Without the Federal General Government urging them, they will fully implement it and eliminate the danger in the bud.
The former Clone No. 1 caused trouble in Donghua City, and the reaction speed of the Oriental Province Provincial Government was quite rapid.
But if it is the turmoil in other provinces, sorry, even if the Federal General Government orders them to do so, these 'warlords' of the Awakening Era will push it if they can, and if they really can't push it, they will just pretend to do it and will never spend too much of their own military power for the affairs of other provinces.
The General Government and the Municipal Government are like this under the federal system, let alone those professional combat teams that are already in a special position. Whether or not they accept the conscription completely depends on their own mood and the benefits paid by the Federation.
Just like a certain Central Plains power, which was repeatedly overthrown by ethnic minorities and remote small countries whose population and overall strength were far lower than its own.
No. 1, who has deeply understood the way the Human Federation operates, also knows very well that the power of the Federation is often just a bluffing paper tiger.
The reason why the Eastern Victory Federation was able to withstand the attacks of numerous A-rank battle groups last time was largely due to the Savior Society's war weapons and battle formations. Without the Savior Society's war weapons and battle formations, and without the Savior Society's established elite troops holding the front lines, the strength of battle groups below B-rank would have made them nothing more than cannon fodder on the battlefield.
Although the Savior Society is still quite weak now, far from the level it reached in the previous simulation.
But compared to the Savior Society of the same period in the last simulation, the foundation laid by the current Savior Society is far more terrifying than that of the Savior Society in the same period in the last simulation!
[Awakening Year 12, January.
Nankai University officially merged with Donghua University! In less than a week, almost all of the more than 30,000 Nankai students became members of the Savior Society, bringing the Savior Society's membership to a staggering 75,000! Among them, there are as many as 10,000 Silver-rank professionals!
That's right, Silver-rank professionals, not Silver-rank talent awakeners!
Both universities had already cultivated a large number of Silver-rank professionals before the Savior Society took over.
Especially the graduating seniors, about 20% of them were able to break through to Silver-rank and complete their job change before graduation.
These Silver-rank professionals don't necessarily have Silver-rank or higher talents. Even with Bronze-rank talents, as long as the team configuration is reasonable and the combat awareness is outstanding, they can still break through to Silver-rank within 4 years.
The most direct example is the Crimson Team that Clone No. 1 once joined. All of them had Bronze-rank talents, and they all completed their Silver-rank job changes one month before graduation and were pre-ordered by the battle group as an affiliated professional team.
The number of these Silver-rank professionals has been maintained at nearly 2,000 in each of the two universities for many years, adding up to about 4,000.
After being taken over by the Savior Society, all the students in the school were able to find suitable teams under the red system, and after the leveling efficiency was greatly improved, those students who were originally only one step away from entering the Silver-rank naturally broke through one after another.
It's not very surprising to No. 1 that the number jumped from 4,000 to 10,000 in one go.]
[However, although the development speed of the Savior Society did not exceed No. 1's expectations.
But it greatly stimulated outside investors!]
[These investors initially thought that the Savior Society was a new type of student association with an amazing growth rate and a strong, but still understandable, dissemination power!
Relying on this dissemination power, coupled with the foundation of Donghua University, they unanimously judged that the Savior Society would have a high probability of more than 70% of becoming an A-rank battle group in the future.
For this reason, many investors generously donated money and even before the Savior Society had a clear, potential leader in charge, they raised the Savior Society's valuation to a staggering 100 billion Federal currency!
After that, the Savior Society swept through all the student associations of Donghua University at a speed that stunned everyone, and even recruited Zong Heng, a Star-rank professional, to join the Savior Society. In just one month, it transformed the Savior Society into a behemoth with more than 40,000 members, full of geniuses, and almost certain to become an A-rank battle group!
At this time, investors' expectations for the Savior Society had reached their peak! So when No. 1 proposed a second round of financing, not only investment institutions in the Eastern Province, but also international investment institutions throughout the Eastern Victory Federation and even outside the Eastern Victory Federation, waved their banknotes and frantically followed up! No. 1 exchanged only 10% of the control of the Savior Society for a huge fortune of nearly 300 billion Federal currency! It also means that the Savior Society's valuation had reached a terrifying 3 trillion at that time!!
But the surprises that No. 1 gave to the investors were obviously more than that!
He first promoted the student association competition between Donghua University and Nankai University, and then led the Savior Society to powerfully defeat all the student associations of Nankai University in the two-school competition, thereby demonstrating the Savior Society's amazing combat power to the Savior Society's investors!
Shortly after defeating Nankai University, No. 1 proposed to all investors of the Savior Society the issue of promoting the merger of Nankai and Donghua, the two major professional universities.
Although the investors did exert their influence on Nankai University at No. 1's request.
But they didn't have much hope for such an outrageous thing as the integration of the two schools.
You must know that this is a world's top 100 university, and it is still a professional university. In the past few years since its establishment, the disciples and former officials who have walked out of this university can be described as countless!
I don't know how many团长s of battle groups were once students of Nankai. Once their alma mater is in trouble, these people can exert a little influence to ensure that Nankai University is not harmed by insidious means.
As long as the Nankai school authorities insist on not merging, these investors actually don't have very good solutions. At most, they will cut off financial support and assistance to the Nankai school authorities and slowly suppress Nankai University.]
[However, what the investors never expected was.
That the merger of these two thorny schools was actually accomplished by the Savior Society!]
[This is not just as simple as the Savior Society's membership increasing from 40,000 to 75,000!]
[The foundation of the two major universities is combined into one, not only the resources and social connections of the two schools are condensed into one from now on.
The most important thing is that the Savior Society, which occupies the two universities, will be able to continuously obtain fresh blood from Donghua and Nankai, the two professional universities! According to the two universities enrolling nearly 20,000 students each year, in ten years, they will have 200,000 blood supplements!
Even according to the most brutal A-rank battle group's attrition rate of 20% of professionals each year.
In ten years, the Savior Society will become an incredible behemoth! It will also have at least several geniuses with Star-rank or higher talents, and then cultivate several Sky-rank professionals!
[But this is still not all the surprises that the Savior Society brings to them!!]
[As Awakening Year 11 passed and Awakening Year 12 arrived.
When No. 1 ordered Shangguan Lingwei to submit the Savior Society's annual summary report for Awakening Year 11 to a group of shareholders.
These high-ranking shareholders were immediately stunned by the report in front of them!]
