My Apocalypse Territory-Chapter 283 - 280 Ten Consecutive Draws

That generous treatment was enough to crush many individuals’ last straw of hesitation.

“This time, the number of new members recruited by the Patrol Team will far exceed the previous two times. Hmm, with the many Awakeners attracted by the Martial Arts Competition, even if a high number are recruited, the average quality will still be higher than the previous times.”

Lately, as the number of external Awakeners had sharply increased, the pressure on the Patrol Team members had also grown. It had been a long time since they had taken on external missions, but fortunately, the territory now had a sufficient storage of soul power; even if they stayed continuously at the Sanctuary to maintain public order, the strength of the Patrol Team members did not fall behind.

But relying on just over thirty Patrol Team members to maintain the public order for thousands of people was indeed challenging.

Even though most of the time, the Puppets maintained public order by controlling or killing the problematic Awakeners, Puppets ultimately had many flaws, such as collecting fines or serving as arbiters in duels. Puppets couldn’t handle these affairs.

Expanding the scale of the Patrol Team was imperative.

“After the expansion, the Patrol Team should no longer be called that,” Tang Yu switched the images on the Crystal Ball, taking in scenes of the Territory. “Perhaps, there’s also a need to finely segregate the functions of these Awakeners, such as internal, external, and those responsible for intelligence.”

“Indeed, and the welfare of the Patrol Team should also be adjusted to some extent.”

The welfare of the Patrol Team was very high; many adventurers risked danger to earn points for exchanging equipment and support potions, which Patrol Team members could obtain at a much smaller cost.

Fair or not, this did not matter to Tang Yu because, relatively speaking, the Patrol Team members were considered ‘insiders’. Utilizing many resources on diligent, progressive individuals was worthwhile in his view, but he wasn’t as pleased if it were wasted on some lazy members.

Under Luo Zhe’s training, there were no lazy individuals in the Patrol Team, but some members lacked initiative, which Tang Yu had also heard from Luo Zhe.

“In the future, the welfare of the Patrol Team will be based on individual contributions and progress. Specifically… um, let Luo Zhe come up with a standard.”

Tang Yu decisively delegated this responsibility, which was a sign of trust in his subordinates, after all, he was a Lord.

“Now…”

He rubbed his hands, “It’s time to do something serious.”

Half an hour later.

After a ritual of burning incense and bathing, dressed in a pristine white robe specially for Consuming Crystals, Tang Yu, with a solemn expression, arrived at the entrance of the tavern.

He had upgraded his Territory to level five; the castle complex was expanded again, encompassing several core buildings. Besides, the maximum building level and the scope of the Territory had expanded again, adding two more permissions for sub-territory construction, his fitting degree with the Territory increased from 20% to 24%… along with other changes, there wasn’t much else unusual.

Tang Yu walked into the tavern; the upgraded tavern hadn’t changed much in appearance, but the five statues of professional inheritance on the second floor looked more lifelike, and three advanced professional inheritances were included again.

“All this is not important, what’s important is that the number of contract slots in the tavern has increased.”

The level four tavern had eighteen contract slots; he originally reserved the last three slots for when he was extremely lucky one day, hoping to find items related to summoning from the market.

And indeed some had been found.

However, Grade B Adventurer Summoning Scroll (which guaranteed the summoning of a Grade B adventurer), Warrior Summoning Scroll (which ensured the next summon would be of a warrior profession adventurer), and so on, Tang Yu just wanted to say, they were of no use!

He might as well sincerely burn incense, bathe, and pray to the luminaries.

“After this tavern upgrade, there are nine more slots available, making a total of twelve contract slots,” Tang Yu pondered for a moment, “why not make it even and keep two slots in reserve, and this time, summon ten adventurers… A tenfold summon, that should be more effective, right?”

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It should…

Tang Yu wasn’t sure, he was becoming increasingly less confident in his own lineage.

Moreover, the tavern didn’t have a mechanism for tenfold summons.

Before summoning, Tang Yu attempted to use the fusion summon function, but the result was the same, he still couldn’t break through the Grade B limit.

From a third-tier tavern, the highest probability was to summon a Grade B adventurer. Even at a fifth-tier tavern, it remained the same. The only difference was a reduction in the number of fusions needed and the Source Crystals consumed were less than before.

That offered Lord Tang slightly some solace.

Taking a deep breath, Tang Yu closed his eyes tightly and then slowly opened them.

A vast and mysterious summoning array swiftly materialized in front of him.

One, two… eight, nine.

His summoning pace wasn’t very fast; with each summon, he would first review the adventurer’s profile, as Tang Yu certainly didn’t want to summon nefarious followers. Even if there were no issues with loyalty, differences in personality and behavior could cause discord and even affect the stability at the rear.

After reading the profiles, Tang Yu had already gained a good understanding of the adventurers’ lives.

Then, he would choose to sign a contract with the adventurers, summon them to engage in simple interactions, introduce the state of the territory to the followers, and then have Eileen and Luo Zhe take the newcomers around to familiarize themselves with the territory.

By the time the ninth follower stepped out of the tavern, with a look through the tavern windows, the outside was speckled with stars.

Tang Yu recalled the nine summoned followers, five men and four women, not all pure-blood humans. Yet due to rushing the summoning, he hadn’t gotten to know these new followers in depth yet.

B-A-B-B-A-B-B-A-B.

These were the nine new followers’ qualifications. In general, they met Tang Yu’s expectations, and with the tavern upgraded to fifth-tier, while the Martial Arts Tavern still couldn’t break through the boundary to directly summon Transcendent Tier adventurers, this new batch’s overall strength was not bad.

They were all above the eighth Awakening Layer, with the strongest reaching the eleventh layer, comparable to Eileen.

“Hmm, that’s not quite right, the last time I saw Eileen, I heard she had a double breakthrough again, and she is now at the twelfth layer of Awakening. Who really is the game-changer here!”

Even after breaking through the sixth layer of Awakening and crazily refining and absorbing soul power, he now reached only the eighth layer. Of course, as his life tier improved, Tang Yu continued to insist on body refining, honing his spirit, condensing Source Power, etc… This had somewhat slowed down his pace of refining soul power, but every time Eileen advanced, she surely tapped her potential to the fullest before advancing again.

“Unfortunately, among the nine followers, the hoped-for Potion Master wasn’t summoned, and giving up the contract to summon again would be too costly…

Tang Yu hesitated since summoning a master-class Pharmacy follower was extremely rare, and if not for having previously good fortune with summoning Kevin, he wouldn’t even know that such a summoning choice existed.

Now, only one last chance remained.

The final draw of the tenfold summons.

Tang Yu took a deep breath, his fingers knitted together at his chest.

At this moment, he wasn’t fighting alone!

Behind him stood followers, countless survivors, and those legendary lucky seniors from history…

“It’s my turn, draw it to death!”

Tang Yu’s hand swung down forcefully.

Before him, the vast Rune Array emerged again.