Chapter 455: The Official Beyonder Organization is Formally Established
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Kingdom of Feynapotter, Jeffery Territory.
It was Hobert's foot bath time again.
Dennis placed the water, not immediately answering Hobert's previous question, but asked, "Sir, you are already a lord, why appoint a town mayor?"
Hobert smiled and nodded slightly: "Progress!"
He explained: "Facts have proved that the chief executive officer system is a very practical and advanced system.
"A town under large-scale construction has thousands of daily tasks, which are very cumbersome.
"According to the advanced experience of various countries in the Northern Continent, these cumbersome tasks should be handed over to the bureaucracy.
"And I should focus all my energy on outlining the future blueprint of the territory and guiding the town government."
Dennis opened his mouth wide. This was some knowledge he had never been exposed to before, as if a new door had been opened for him!
After thinking for a long time, he asked again: "Sir, what if the town government disobeys the direction you have pointed out after a long time?"
"Good, good, you can perceive that the mayor's power is too great." Hobert smiled and said: "So I have to hold the financial power and the power to employ people in my hands."
Dennis's eyes lit up, and an advanced power framework was built in his mind. No matter what actions the town government wants to take, it needs the support of money.
As long as the power to appoint the main officials of the town government is in the hands of the lord, this bureaucracy cannot escape the control of the lord.
Hobert asked while soaking his feet: "What do you think is missing in this structure?"
Although Dennis was clever, his knowledge was insufficient after all, and he couldn't figure it out after thinking for a long time.
"Supervisory agency!" Hobert said: "Okay, the water is cold, take it away."
Suddenly, Hobert felt again that the potion in his body showed signs of digestion again. Although it was not as much as when he lectured Freya before, the three digestions added up have digested one-fifth.
Hobert couldn't help but sigh: As expected, the higher the sequence, the slower the digestion.
Then he realized that the highest administrative officer system in the entire Northern Continent was not perfect enough, otherwise he would not have digested the potion when he explained these to Dennis just now.
In the yard, Dennis remembered when he was splashing water that he had forgotten to answer the lord's previous question.
However, he was already very satisfied with the knowledge he gained tonight, and that question can be answered tomorrow.
Suddenly, Dennis seemed to understand something!
At this time, a few snowflakes fell on the place where the water had just been splashed, and quickly melted. Dennis looked up: "It's snowing!"
The snow fell all night and did not mean to stop the next day.
The construction sites in the territory had to rest for a day.
On this snowy morning, Hobert's cousin Angus returned, along with eight Tudor family Beyonders and a family elder.
Hobert first met Angus in the study and asked about the situation of his return home.
"The family is very supportive of your career in South Colson," Angus said conservatively.
It's more than just support. The members who wanted to participate in the official Beyonders filled Angus's living room, and even some Sequence 6s wanted to follow Angus.
In the end, Angus had to use a lottery to determine who would come with him.
Then he brought a Sequence 6 (in fact, he could have brought more Sequence 6s, but Angus was afraid of affecting his status, so he only brought one who was willing to obey his arrangements.), four Sequence 7s, two Sequence 8s, and one Sequence 9.
Hobert was very satisfied with such combat power, and asked: "How did the elders in the family consider the transaction I proposed before?"
"A representative was sent to talk to you, but, but..."
"But what?"
"It's just that this elder has a bad temper."
Hobert smiled: "I will meet him in the afternoon. You can remind him euphemistically that it's okay to test me, but don't go too far, otherwise I will turn my face!"
These testing methods are all that Hobert has left over from playing. It can be said that the initial meetings will lay the foundation for future ways of getting along and status. Of course, the Tudor family will first send a crazier person.
Angus nodded: "Understood!"
"As for the treatment of team members," Hobert said: "It is the same as that of normal official Beyonders. There are two types of rewards, one is gold Solas plus merits, and the other is pure merits.
"The so-called gold Solas plus merits is the same as ordinary official Beyonders. They receive a weekly salary regularly, and can accumulate merits only after making contributions.
"The reward method of pure merits is that not only will you have merits after making contributions, but you will also be paid with merits at ordinary times. Merits can be exchanged for gold Solas, but gold Solas cannot be exchanged for merits!
"Merits can be exchanged for potions, amulets, main materials for potions, Beyonder characteristics, and even sealed artifacts. I have a list here for the specific exchange standards, you can take a look."
Angus took it over and took a look. 300 merits can be exchanged for an Beyonder characteristic of "Arbiter"! The Beyonder characteristic of Sequence 6 "Judge" requires 3,500 merits!
Angus immediately asked: "If the weekly salary is settled with merits, how many merits can I receive a week?"
"Sequence 9 can receive 4 merits per week, which can be exchanged for 4.8 gold Solas. Sequence 8 doubles and can receive 8 merits, Sequence 7 gets 20 merits per week, and Sequence 6 gets 45 merits!" Hobert had already thought about the exchange ratio and the number of merits issued.
Angus was excited for a while, which means that he can exchange for an Beyonder characteristic of "Arbiter" in seven weeks!
Seeing the other party's excited face, Hobert knew that this plan was very practical.
It's not to say that this plan is fraudulent, but it is easy to ignore the fact that a Sequence 6 can only earn 300 pounds in seven weeks.
Hobert is unwilling to do such a chore anyway. A Sequence 6 earns more even if he is a bodyguard for someone.
If a team member has any doubts about this, Hobert will calculate such an account with him: "But you are a respected and honorable official Beyonder! And you can also exchange for Beyonder characteristics at almost the basic price!
"These are your benefits! Where can ordinary Beyonders have such benefits as you? They may pay a premium of seven or eight thousand pounds to purchase the Beyonder characteristics of Sequence 6, and it depends on luck, and you can't buy it if you want to!"
I believe that if you say this, even people with doubts will think that they didn't think of this, and continue to work for Hobert.
After discussing the treatment, Hobert asked Philip to settle Angus and other team members.
Their office and residence had already been prepared, in Jeffery Town, the area closest to the Lord's Mansion.
Just after sending Angus away, Allen came to report that Wayne was back, bringing back a whole ship of decoration materials that would be needed in a while. This time, Wayne can finally rest in the territory for a few days.
Wayne was accompanied by two ships of building materials transported by Captain Dean. After inspection, Philip settled the payment in person.
Dean made a lot of money and invited the crew of the two ships to have a big meal at a restaurant on the shore.
As long as these two ships go back, without Hobert publishing advertisements or doing any publicity, people will often come to Jeffery Territory with building materials.
The lower reaches of the Taz River can be regarded as completely open.
It's just that Wayne reported to Hobert that there were still some bandits following along the way, and it seemed that they would still rob if they had the opportunity.
This aroused Hobert's attention. He planned to take the soldiers in the territory to the lower reaches for "training" after they had been trained for a while!
As if they had discussed it, the Beyonders sent by the "Theosophy Order" also arrived on this snowy day.
According to Jonathan's previous agreement, the "Theosophy Order" sent two Sequence 7s, four Sequence 8s, and three Sequence 9s.
Compared with the power of the Tudor family, their power is much weaker, and most of them are Beyonders of the 'Door' pathway, and their frontal combat power is not very strong.
Hobert also gave Helen a list of merits to exchange for Beyonder characteristics, and after explaining it to her, asked her to go back and explain it to the team members.
From the Demonic Wolf of Fog, Hobert had just obtained an Beyonder characteristic of "Traveler", which made him dare to make promises to the Beyonders of the "Door" pathway.
Although Hobert does not have the Beyonder characteristics of the "Witch" pathway now, it does not affect him from making promises first.
In the afternoon, Hobert met the Sequence 5 sent by the Tudor family to discuss the Beyonder characteristics business in the main hall.
The other party not only had a bad temper, but also looked very arrogant. As soon as he entered the main hall, he said: "According to seniority, you should call me grandpa."
Hobert ignored him and asked Angus: "Who is this?"
Angus hurriedly said: "This is..."
The other party interrupted Angus: "According to seniority! I am your grandfather!"
Hobert said to Angus again: "Introduce me, who the hell is this?"
Angus: "This is..."
The other party interrupted Angus again: "I am your grandfather!"
Hobert sneered: "Introduce me! Who the hell is this?"
Angus waited for a while, and seeing that the elder's face was flushed with anger, he quickly said: "This is Mr. Bunier."
Hobert then smiled and stood up and said: "Welcome, welcome! Mr. Bunier, please sit down!"
While saying that, he pointed to the seat at the lower position!
Bunier had no intention of sitting down. After trying to restrain his anger, he said with a smug look: "I heard that you have a batch of Beyonder characteristics and want us to buy them?"
Hobert sat in his seat carelessly: "I do have a batch of Beyonder characteristics, and I want to sell them to you for the sake of being from the same clan!"
Bunier sneered: "How many characteristics? What are the sequences?"
Hobert said unhurriedly: "17 copies of 'Arbiter', 15 copies of 'Sheriff', 4 copies of 'Interrogator', 3 copies of 'Judge', and 1 copy of 'Disciplinary Knight'."
In fact, Hobert has 5 Beyonder characteristics of "Interrogator" in his hand, but he reserved one for Xio who is preparing to be promoted.
When he heard 17 copies of "Arbiter", Angus opened his mouth wide. At first, he thought that Hobert only had a few Beyonder characteristics to sell, but he didn't expect that he would sell more than a dozen copies!
Bunier was also obviously stunned for a second or two. He cleared his throat to cover up his embarrassment before asking: "How much do you plan to sell each of them for?"
Hobert said: "'Arbiter' 400 gold Solas, 'Sheriff' 1,000 gold Solas, 'Inquisitor' 3,000 gold Solas, 'Judge' 7,000 gold Solas, 'Disciplinary Knight' 14,000 gold Solas."
This was the most ruthless time Hobert had ever asked for a price. He thought that with the other party's attitude, he would bargain again and again, so he overpaid a lot.
But even if the premium is a lot, this is a price that can be barely accepted in the outside world.
Especially the Beyonder characteristics above Sequence 7, the royal families of the two countries of Loen and Feynapotter control them so much that they often cannot be bought even if they have money.
Hobert guessed that this should also be the dilemma faced by this branch of the Tudor family, after all, the Beyonder characteristics of the "Lawyer" pathway are not so scarce.
What Hobert and Angus didn't expect was that Bunier sneered: "I will only give you half the price for the Beyonder characteristics of each sequence!
"I guessed on the way here that in this poor mountainous area, even if you have Beyonder characteristics, it is difficult to sell them.
"Now it seems that this is indeed the case, otherwise you would not have accumulated so many Beyonder characteristics in your hands."
Hobert was stunned for a long time before saying: "You, you..."
Are you sick?
Bunier smiled triumphantly when he saw Hobert's "surprised" expression: "As expected, I guessed it! Don't worry, although you father and son are sorry for the family, the family..."
Hobert simply said: "Allen, send this guest away! Let him go out and calm down!"
Bunier was slightly stunned: "You have to think clearly, no one except the family will want your..."
"I have many sales channels!" Hobert also sneered unceremoniously: "For example, the royal family of Feynapotter, such as the Solomon family!"
He said to Angus on the side: "Tell your elders that if you want to facilitate this transaction, send someone with a normal brain to talk!"
No wonder Christian wanted to leave the Tudor family. It turns out that there are people with sick minds in these extraordinary families now!
At this time, Bunier realized that he had completely guessed wrong, but as an elder, he still wanted to save face.
It's just that Hobert didn't give him this opportunity. He pulled out the scepter on his waist and said: "You don't think that the Beyonder characteristics of the 'Disciplinary Knight' were given to me by someone else, do you?
"Get out! If you appear in my territory again, you will definitely appear with the Beyonder characteristics of 'Disciplinary Knight'!"
Bunier immediately realized that Hobert had a Level 1 Sealed Artifact in his hand!
He is sick, but that doesn't mean he is stupid, and immediately left in despair.
Hobert asked Angus: "Are the Tudor family all this kind of stuff now? No wonder they have been forgotten by the world!"
Of course he knew that this was the Tudor family patriarch giving him a blow.
Angus smiled bitterly. He couldn't figure it out either. Christian and his son obviously didn't like this, so why did the patriarch still use this old trick?
This deterrence obviously failed again. Before, Hobert still said "Our Tudor family", but now he simply said "Tudor family" or "Your family"!
Obviously, the goodwill Hobert had just built up towards the family vanished instantly.
After Hobert left the main hall, the anger on his face quickly disappeared. In fact, he wasn't as angry as he seemed.
As the saying goes, "Life is all about acting." He was just expressing his anger to Angus.
Now that there were no more spectators, he naturally didn't need to continue acting.
He went to the study to continue teaching Freya vocabulary.
This time, while he was teaching, the messenger suddenly appeared, placed a long package on Hobert's desk, and then disappeared from the study.
Hobert continued teaching Freya vocabulary as if nothing had happened. Freya had 'seen' messengers a few times and didn't take it too seriously.
Dennis, who was becoming more and more professional as a male servant, was startled. Why did he suddenly feel a sense of fear? And something suddenly appeared on the desk?
But seeing that Hobert and Freya both acted as if nothing had happened, Dennis also suppressed his curiosity, glancing at the package on the desk and then at Hobert.
He waited until Hobert finished teaching Freya vocabulary before Hobert took the package back to his room.
Although Dennis was scratching his head with curiosity, this time he restrained himself from asking. He took a few deep breaths and realized that patience was a way to temper his inner world.
Back in his room, Hobert didn't know about Dennis's inner thoughts, but he did deliberately not give Dennis a chance to ask. 'Silence' is an inner practice in many situations.
He opened the package and looked at it. It was from Jessica. Inside the long box was an extraordinary weapon that Carrie had just completed.
It was a black sword that looked sharp and menacing.
In the letter, Jessica first expressed her apologies, saying that they had gone to the sea for a few days during the New Year, so the production cycle of this weapon was a bit longer.
The following was a detailed introduction to the weapon: "The first ability is to be sharper when cutting through the flesh of enemies, and there is a 3% probability in battle that it can cut the enemy even without directly touching them."
"The second ability is that when facing non-human opponents such as beasts and monsters, the wielder can exhibit a certain aura that makes beasts or monsters fear, and there is a 5% probability that the beast or monster will give up resistance."
The last part of the letter was Jessica relaying Carrie's recent research results: "Beyonder materials make it easier for extraordinary weapons to gain Beyonder abilities than spiritual materials, and they generally gain two abilities, making them more powerful than extraordinary weapons made from spiritual materials."
Carrie suggested that Hobert could sell this weapon for 1300 to 1500 pounds. She was always concerned about Hobert's cost issues.
In her opinion, if it could be sold for 1500 pounds, Hobert would not only be able to recover his costs in this transaction, but also make a small profit.
Although extraordinary weapons have no negative effects, their abilities are only probabilities and are full of uncertainty, so even if they have two abilities and are relatively scarce, they can only be sold for this price.
Actually, this new weapon is quite good. Even without the probabilistic abilities of only 3% and 5%, it can become sharper when attacking enemies and also enhance the wielder's aura.
The second ability seems to be tailor-made for the 'Forsaken Land of the Gods'.
However, Hobert planned to sell it to Little Sun after a while. He already had a lot of Beyonder ingredients in his hand, and he didn't have a stable sales channel yet.
There were also two failed weapons in the package Jessica sent.
Hobert smiled. If Carrie's mystical weapons could be mass-produced, he would definitely make a fortune!
Hobert first asked the kitchen to make donuts, then wrote back to Jessica, saying that he was very satisfied with the weapon, and stuffed 200 pounds of material costs into the envelope.
Then Hobert said that he had found a way to extract Beyonder ingredients from failed weapons, and put two Beyonder characteristics of the Sequence 8 level main ingredient of the 'Hunter' pathway in the return package for Carrie to see if she could use them.
If she could, he wouldn't have to worry about the cost issue in the future.
Hobert only partially concealed this matter. After all, even if he didn't explain it to Jessica, Carrie would probably discover or think of this, so he might as well generously tell the other party his 'business secret'.
At the same time, Hobert also provided three main materials of the Sequence 8 level of the 'Assassin' pathway, which is also the 'Witch' pathway, hoping that Carrie could try to make a weapon.
These three main materials were just paid by 'Little Sun'. The reason why he knew so clearly what pathway the materials were from was because he had just consulted 'Vice Admiral Iceberg'.
After writing the reply, Hobert named the new weapon 'Black Jade Sword' because the sword looked as beautiful as black jade.
Then he simply sacrificed the two failed weapons to the 'Nation of Disorder', and took the Beyonder ingredients and characteristics to be sent to Jessica from the 'Nation of Disorder'.
Then Hobert selected some Beyonder characteristics and several sealed artifacts from the stone platform where he stored his spoils and brought them to the real world.
After sending the letter, Hobert took the 'Black Jade Sword' and a dozen wooden boxes to the courtyard of the Anton Tudor family and the 'Theosophy Order' Beyonders.
A sign of the 'Special Operations Department' had already been hung at the entrance of the courtyard. Starting tomorrow, it would be officially open for business, but no one knows what they do yet.
The courtyard had just been renovated and looked brand new. Each Beyonder had been assigned a separate room, and each team had been assigned three offices, as well as a shared lounge and a large conference room.
Except for the two captains, everyone was here for the first time. After settling down, they gathered in the conference room to chat.
The team members on both sides were still quite excited. One side was an ancient family that had been hiding for more than a thousand years, and the other side was an evil secret organization that had been doing it for about a thousand years. Suddenly, they became official Beyonders, and official Beyonders recognized by the orthodox church.
This made them feel novel and excited, like college students who had just settled in their dormitories.
Just as everyone was chatting happily, Helen suddenly stood up and said, "Our lord is here!"
Everyone looked towards the entrance of the courtyard and sure enough, they saw a young man in a noble cloak entering the courtyard.
The two captains got up to greet him, and the others, although they didn't take the so-called lord too seriously, also followed to greet him.
After exchanging a few polite words, Hobert entered the room and sat at the head of the conference table: "I'm here to talk to you about the purpose of the 'Special Operations Department' and everyone's powers.
"Of course, most importantly, I'm here to show you that I have the ability to fulfill your promises."
He lined up ten small wooden boxes on the conference table and then opened them one by one.
Everyone's breathing immediately became heavy. Each wooden box contained an Beyonder characteristic, from 'Arbiter' to 'Disciplnary Knight', from 'Apprentice' to 'Traveler'.
The Beyonders, who had been somewhat unconvinced because they didn't know Hobert's strength and thought Hobert was a baron from a remote area, immediately became respectful.
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