Chapter 102 -102: Level Four Map
“Master, An Jianyou has already claimed those tasks,”
At the Salamander Base, within the rest area.
Xiao Huan’s figure swiftly popped out of the phone, standing pertly in front of Fang You, dutifully reporting on various task statuses with solemnity.
For routine Mysterious Evil extermination tasks, a quick glance sufficed, mainly to check for any special rewards.
However, some special tasks required his approval.
An Jianyou starting a company was essentially about integrating several organizational tasks, which after some discussion, were to be managed and funded by her, with Wang Chui and Silver Bell Technology also investing, but they would be taking on tasks in exchange for organizational contributions.
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As for the money earned by the company, a part was retained for company development, and another part was transferred into Salamander’s account as organizational funds.
Just because Angels had money, it didn’t mean the organization didn’t need funds.
He could release tasks at any time, but having a substantial amount of money in his pocket was always more reassuring… not to mention, Fang You no longer had to worry about financial issues when he stepped out of the door.
He couldn’t always rely on task releases, either.
For instance, the salary for peripheral staff — if it were up to Pei Corporation to cover it, Pei Hongjing might be more than happy to comply, but Fang You didn’t want that.
In the future, Salamander would need to establish more departments, all of which would require financial support.
Of course, they also needed to fleece the Angel Envoys; Pei Hongjing himself felt there weren’t enough tasks.
“Speaking of which, although Pei Hongjing has unlimited potential, his current role is like a treasury, his personal combat power, rounded up, is practically zero.”
“Having him learn blade techniques, for example, would not only be difficult and fail to bring out his talents, but also other skills…”
As per usual, when drawing an Apostle of Fate, it would come with skills or equipment suited to the Apostle.
Only Pei Hongjing didn’t have any.
Most likely… it was because he was drawn using a summons scroll, but since it was the choice of fate, maybe, just maybe, the next ten consecutive draws might produce something appropriate… right?
Fang You opened the Salvation Game.
After loading the Spirit of Illusion, at his request, Xiao Huan had manually updated it, making the interface more intuitive and clear.
‘Salvation Organization: Salamander’
‘Authority Level: 2’
‘Apostles of Fate: 7’
‘Junior Apostles: 1’
‘Fate Points: 320.6’
‘Ghastly Crystals: 436’
‘Junior Apostle Recruitment Vouchers: 5’
In recent days, busy with tasks such as constructing the training base, selecting new recruits, and building the organization’s structure, Fang You hadn’t ventured deep into the wilderness to clear it, only occasionally heading to the suburbs to farm some monsters.
Still, even so, the average daily income of Fate Points was around fifty.
The main workers, of course, were him, Black Blade, An Jianyou, and Xing Jing Lei.
Pei Hongjing wasn’t yet qualified to accept dispatch tasks, being weaker than Ming Deng the Mage, much weaker; Silver Bell and Wang Chui did have the strength, but Wang Chui was busy crafting equipment, and Silver Bell had taken on a very important task.
Busy like a bee.
“Black Blade needs to handle the training of the new recruits, so he has much less time for tasks. An Jianyou is also preoccupied with establishing the company. After going around in circles, it seems… it’s just me and Xing Jing Lei who have spare time to clear out Mysterious Evil, right?”
Despite the increase in personnel, despite the organization growing, why does he, the Savior, still have to do everything himself, personally toiling away?
(╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻!
Upgrade the map, upgrade the map.
Fang You opened the dispatch module.
“Map ranges Level 3, Level 2, Level 2.”
The two Level 2s are anchors, sub-maps, one located in the capital of Yunling State, and the other in this training base for newcomers.
After pondering for a while, Fang You said, “The main map can migrate with my location, but it requires a reset time… When the map level was low and the range small, the reset time was not long, but now… with Level 3, the range it covers is dozens of times what it was before, and the reset time has become very long.”
“We can’t afford to waste time.”
He chose to upgrade the ‘map range’ of the training base for newcomers to Level 3, thus equalizing it with the level of the main map.
Then, he swapped the locations of the main map and the training base, this second anchor point.
With that, this place became the main map, saving a lot of reset time, and moreover…
“Baiyun State is located on the southeastern coast, Lindong City next to Bai River is a coastal city, and if the map continues to expand, a large part will extend over the vast sea, which is a waste.”
“Shuize State is different, located in the central part of Dong Huang Country. Once the map range is upgraded to Level 5, it will likely… cover more than half or even the entire Dong Huang Country.”
This is called a strategic adjustment.
Fang You didn’t even need to tap with his hand, he simply commanded, “Xiao Huan, upgrade the level of the map range.”
“Okay, master~!”
“Ding!”
“Notice: Main map ‘map range’ upgraded from Level 3 to Level 4, the next level upgrade will cost 1000 Mysterious Crystals.”
The map display continuously contracted, zooming in on Shuize City and its surroundings, then the area covered by light rapidly expanded.
The surrounding darkness quickly vanished, revealing structures, roads, forests, and other environmental features, as well as numerous mission red markers that appeared on them.
But this time, the range of expansion was indeed too large, and Fang You still had to wait a full hour before the map was officially upgraded.
It had already covered most of Shuize State, as well as bits of other states.
Inside the city were specks of red, while outside the city lay a daunting sea of red.
There were far too many mission red markers. Even though two-star and three-star missions appeared darker red and more prominent, against this backdrop, they were barely noticeable.
Could there be tens of thousands, or even more, missions?
For him to click and check each one individually, he would tire to death without seeing them all… his checking speed might not even match the rate of growth of Mysterious Evil.
“Xiao Huan, count the number of one-star, two-star, and three-star missions within the main map range, and list group missions separately.”
“Also, are there any four-star missions?”
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“Master, there are no four-star missions. There are 101 three-star missions, of which 23 are group missions, and oh, there is one Ghastly Realm gate detected within the range, 390 kilometers away.”
It was a location far from the city.
Receptionist Xiao Huan continued, “In addition, based on big data judgment and analysis, three areas with the tide of Mysterious Evil have been detected, slowly moving towards the city.”
Xiao Huan thoughtfully circled these three areas on the map.
And marked their movement speed as well as the estimated time of arrival at the city.
For the moment, there seemed to be plenty of time, with some taking a few days and others up to a fortnight, but that was just within Shuize City.
What he couldn’t see, Fang You couldn’t save, but what was right before his eyes…
He left the base and found the caretaker in the attic guarding the No-Face Statue… no, Black Pupil, who was reading a novel, and picked it up.
“Meow meow meow~!”
It pointed at the statue.
Isn’t my job to watch this statue? Meow has a job too!
“No, Black Blade is not on duty for the time being, there’s no need for anyone else to guard this place, you’re now jobless, an unemployed cat.”
Rejecting the holiday request, Fang You picked up Black Pupil, then had Xiao Huan buy a ticket for him and arrange a fake identity, and he immediately set off on a journey to work… to save the world, with the cat in tow.