Chapter 1500 - 560: Strong Team, Zhan Yue Team
Even though an upgrade is a good thing, Ye Lingyue, out of caution, still inquired further about the matters regarding the team level upgrade.
"After your team is upgraded, you can expand your personnel, take on more challenging missions, and operate in a wider area. However, you will be required to complete a city task once a month. If you fail to do so, equivalent merit points will be deducted."
The secretary explained while displaying a merit points table.
According to the rules of the Jiu Provinces Alliance, the teams participating in the Jiu Provinces Hunting have different initial merit points based on their ranks.
Ninth-Tier Representative Team: Zero.
Eight-Tier Representative Team: One thousand five hundred.
Seventh-Tier Team: Three thousand.
Sixth-Tier Representative Team: Five thousand.
Fifth-tier Representative Team: Ten thousand.
Fourth-tier Representative Team: Fifty thousand.
Third-tier Representative Team: Two hundred thousand.
Second-tier Team: Five hundred thousand.
First-tier Team: One million.
Moreover, the merit points requirement for the Super First-class Team is: Five million+.
In addition to the corresponding merit points table, the secretary also informed Ye Lingyue that each demon beast below the Fifth Rank earns one merit point when killed.
Middle-High Grade demon beasts above the Fifth Rank earn ten merit points.
Killing a Great Demon Level demon beast earns between fifty to several hundred merit points.
Killing a Demon General Level grants five thousand.
If the kill is of Sky Demon Level, the merit points amount to one hundred thousand, and successfully killing a Demon King Level immediately jumps to a million points.
But that’s merely the literal meaning.
After all, if a Demon King Level demon beast truly appears, not to mention a First-tier Team, even the joint forces of the nine elders of the Jiu Provinces Alliance might not be a match.
But besides killing demon beasts, completing missions also accumulates merit.
Just like Ye Lingyue and the Huangquan Team accumulated two thousand merit points in this instance.
Managing the drought earned them one thousand merit points, defending against the demon clan invasion was another thousand merit points.
After calculating, Ye Lingyue felt they really suffered a big loss.
Not to mention the drought situation, just the fact that five thousand elite demon soldiers invaded Ah County, the Huangquan Team was just short of wiping out the entire army of demon soldiers.
Moreover, that Green Evil Demon from the demon clan, being a Quasi-Demon General Level entity, how is it accounted for merely one thousand merit points?
Whoever wrote this merit report clearly wasted learning arithmetic.
However, after a second thought, Ye Lingyue was relieved.
The surprise victory at Ah County’s siege decidedly had a great element of fortune.
Especially confronting the Quasi-Demon General Level Green Evil Demon, if not for Master Chen having earlier exhausted a part of its demonic power, it wouldn’t have been so easily captured.
Moreover, mysteriously avoiding Elder Jing’s retaliation should be considered extremely fortunate.
Located in Ancient Jing State, Elder Jing involuntarily sneezed loudly.
"Adding two thousand merit points for the Huangquan Team, now Lord Zhongyuan should be satisfied, right?"
Elder Jing certainly did not dare to write up the exact demon soldier count nor detail the Blue Evil Demon’s situation.
Firstly, Elder Jing had never encountered those demon soldiers, let alone understood their strength.
Secondly, regardless of how heaven-defying a Ninth-Tier Representative Team might be, it couldn’t possibly kill such numerous elite demon clan members.
Elder Jing even suspected that Lord Zhongyuan was secretly assisting them then.
Thus, Elder Jing carefully considered and ultimately reported two thousand merit points, which smoothly got approved.
Having completed the upgrade procedures, Ye Lingyue and the rest of the Huangquan Team were preparing to leave the City Lord’s Mansion.
Suddenly, Ye Lingyue felt pain in her shoulder as someone forcefully pushed past her, attempting to shove her aside.
"Get away, don’t block the master’s path."
The person was a man of about twenty-seven or twenty-eight, not tall, who spoke harshly upon seeing someone in his way.
Ye Lingyue, unfazed, steeled her footing and utilized the "Ten Layers of Heaven."
The person behind her felt as if he had run into a wall, and not only failed to push Ye Lingyue away but stumbled out of the crowd, nearly falling to the ground.
A hand reached out from behind him and supported him.
"You kid are such an embarrassment, can’t even take down a freak."
Five young demon hunters laughed and walked over.
Three men and two women, all elegantly dressed and attractive, stark contrast to the dusty appearance of the Huangquan Team due to their travel hardships.
The one supporting the rash young man was among them, a man appearing slightly taller than the shorter male, looked at others with his head slightly raised from habit, clearly a person with a conceited personality.
After speaking, the man scanned over the individuals behind Ye Lingyue.
Upon seeing Bo Qing and Guangzi, and Gong Lin Xin’s outstanding appearances, he seemed somewhat surprised, clearly puzzled by the team.
The team leader is so unassuming, yet several members are quite remarkable, truly like flowers planted in cow dung.
"Who are you calling freaks? You’re ugly, your entire team is ugly. Ling Yue, are you hurt?"
Upon hearing someone bullying his sister, Guangzi frowned coldly and was ready to step forward to confront.
"Oh, this beautiful lady, why are you upset, we were not talking about you."
The young demon hunters burst into laughter, the men leering at Guangzi, while the women cast flirty glances at Bo Qing.
"Guangzi, don’t bother with them."
Ye Lingyue remained indifferent.
She now felt fortunate that Di Shen had foreknowledge, otherwise handling the constant fawning would be troublesome.
As for the earlier offense... it wasn’t her who lost out.
The hunter who suffered from her "Ten Layers of Heaven" likely would lose the use of his shoulder for a good half-year.
"You’re wise, offending the Zhan Yue Team will bring you troubles."
The leading young man sneered.
Then he gestured, and the young demon hunters behind him brought in several boxes, placing them in front of the secretary.
"We’re here to deliver, ten boxes of Heavenly Scouring Grass from Luming City, check them."
Upon seeing those boxes, Ye Lingyue, about to leave, paused her steps.
Are these the members of the Zhan Yue Team?
Ye Lingyue took a closer look at the boxes in front of the secretary; those are the ones they helped Luo Qianche retrieve earlier.
So it was Heavenly Scouring Grass inside, but the ones delivering the mission should have been Luo Qianche’s Shui City Team?
Or perhaps there is a reason behind this she doesn’t know?
Despite the full of questions in her heart, Ye Lingyue did not voice them.
The secretaries inspected the boxes and the medicinal grass inside, nodding.
"Ten boxes of Heavenly Scouring Grass, three thousand merit points."
After speaking, with a stroke of the pen, three thousand merit points were about to be allocated to the Zhan Yue Team.