As for the last factor, it was the most direct approach, according to Number 3…
On January 3rd, 2012, your clone, Number 3, used a large sum of money to bribe the agent of the second-ranked assassin, 'The Concealer,' in the killer organization, obtaining The Concealer's hideout.
On January 5th, your clone, Number 3, successfully ambushed The Concealer. Relying on the absolute difference in strength, this second-ranked assassin, who was famous throughout the Southern Federation, couldn't even last 30 seconds in Number 3's hands before being decapitated with a single blow!
On January 6th, clone Number 3 publicly announced that he had killed The Concealer and hung photos of The Concealer's corpse on the dark web…
On the same day, the entire dark world of the Southern Federation was stirred up! Countless underworld bosses closely related to the assassin industry sent people to verify the authenticity of the news.
And the result was self-evident! Faced with the news of his own death, The Concealer himself had not logged into the dark web to issue a statement, which was enough to infer that The Concealer had indeed met with misfortune!
On January 9th, a full three days had passed since your clone, Number 3, announced that he had killed The Concealer.
And with The Concealer himself still silent, people in the dark world had already determined that The Concealer had been killed by clone Number 3!
Number 3's fame in the dark world skyrocketed again! He jumped to replace The Concealer as the second-ranked assassin on the assassin rankings! Not only the Southern Federation, but almost all forces around the world that could access the dark web received this shocking news.
On January 10th, clone Number 3, who had advanced to become the world's second-ranked assassin, announced four messages to the entire dark web!
First, the Assassination Court will be hiring a large number of outstanding assassins from the entire dark world! It will also be recruiting experienced assassin agents from the entire dark web to take over the Assassination Court's order taking and dispatching tasks.
Second, assassins and agents affiliated with the Assassination Court only need to pay 10% of the information fee to the Assassination Court when accepting tasks dispatched by the Assassination Court. The Assassination Court will no longer share the task income of the assassins and agents themselves.
Third, for customers who trust the Assassination Court, the Assassination Court will guarantee that once a task is accepted, it will be completed no matter the cost! And the assassination fee charged will only be 70% of that of its peers!
Fourth, customers who have hired assassins from the Assassination Court for 100 million Federal Credits per year, or who have injected more than 100 million Federal Credits into the Assassination Court each year, can become honorary partners of the Assassination Court. The Assassination Court will not accept assassination missions against honorary partners, including their close relatives within three generations!
As soon as the news was released.
It immediately caused an uproar in the entire dark world!
The first message was nothing special. The underworld of the Southern Federation was not short of so-called assassin organizations. Although many of these assassin organizations were not very reputable, they did recruit a large number of assassins and assassin agents, undertaking the vast majority of low-end assassination business in the dark world.
Many powerful assassins, such as The Concealer, who were ranked in the top ten, had affiliated or directly managed assassin organizations. The biggest role of these assassin organizations was to provide intelligence and logistical equipment for the assassins themselves. Therefore, after Number 3 made a name for himself, it was normal for him to recruit assassins on a large scale and expand the size of the assassin organization.
But from the second message onwards, people began to realize Number 3's hidden ambitions!
First of all, the operating costs of assassin organizations are extremely high!
A qualified assassin organization must also be a huge intelligence agency! Only with a huge intelligence organization can assassins learn the specific information and even the action trajectory of their targets, so that assassins can have a relatively high success rate in killing their targets.
And how simple is it to build a huge intelligence agency, even one that only covers the territory of one federation, which requires tens of billions or hundreds of billions? Given the size of the assassin organization, there is only one way to maintain such a large intelligence network…
That is to extract commissions from the assassins! According to the level of the assassin organization, the higher the level of the assassin organization, the larger the proportion of commissions extracted, the lowest being 30% and the highest even reaching 50%!
Such a huge commission ratio naturally makes the bottom-level assassins miserable.
But firstly, it is difficult for bottom-level assassins to receive suitable tasks through their personal abilities.
Secondly, without the intelligence and channels provided by assassin organizations, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky to find the target and get close to the target, let alone kill the target and retreat safely.
Not all assassins are as powerful as Number 3, who only needs the information provided by the employer to find the target and complete the kill with absolute strength.
Most assassins are actually just a group of folk professionals who are dissatisfied with their lives, or wandering professionals who have been expelled from the war band. Their average level is only around level 20. They are not capable of completing a series of assassination missions on their own.
Only by joining an assassin organization and relying on the channels and assistance of the assassin organization can they complete slightly more valuable assassination missions while maximizing their own safety.
The same is true for assassin agents. If assassin agents want to survive stably in this industry, it is almost impossible without relying on assassin organizations.
Therefore, although the commission ratio of assassin organizations is quite high, assassins and assassin agents can only grit their teeth and endure it, and even prefer those powerful assassin organizations!
That not only means that there will be more 'work' to do, but also means that they will have a greater chance of survival, unlike some small organizations that sell them out if they suffer a little pressure.
And it is under such circumstances.
That the assassin organization formed by Number 3, who ranks second on the assassin list, actually claims to only charge a fixed commission of 10%!
No one doubts whether the assassin organization formed by Number 3 will become a powerful assassin organization.
Unlike the traditional assassin organizations before the Awakening Era, where powerful assassins were discovered and trained by professional assassin organizations.
After the Awakening Era, the powerful personal power of professionals has naturally modified the primary and secondary relationship between top assassins and assassin organizations!
Today's assassin organizations are extremely dependent on the strength of top assassins.
Because without top assassins, they cannot complete most of the advanced assassination missions in this world. The days when an ordinary person could be trained for a few days and easily kill the Federal Governor with a weapon are long gone. Nowadays, federal officials and even institutional tycoons are almost all protected by Earth-level or even Sky-level professionals…
Assassins who are not strong enough do not even have the qualifications to touch the other party, and the businesses that can really make money and make a name for themselves in the underground world are precisely these 'advanced' tasks.
