Reincarnated as incubus: I didn't mean to seduce you!

Chapter 1012 277: Is Brother Kael Really an NPC? Kael's Terrifying Exploitation of Quests (10K)

So... there must be a price increase.

Thus, within the Mercenary Union, due to the strong demand from numerous travelling merchant players and native travelling merchants, a "Protection Category" task board was even established.

Tasks in this category generally don't offer experience points but provide an extra sum of Demon Crystals. For mercenary players, who are already planning to visit the local area, an additional income is a welcome benefit.

For both native and player travelling merchants, employing mercenaries for protection that have a "hitchhiker" characteristic is more cost-effective than directly hiring professionals for self-protection.

The main theme is mutual benefit for both parties.

Thus, through give and take, Lancaster Territory has unexpectedly become the most crucial hub among the Eastern Border Territories.

At times, even when the military stronghold Fransburg supports the border territory, they also directly travel through the hub node established by Lancaster Territory to reach neighboring territories.

In the view of Great Tree of Infinity, it is no surprise that the scenery of Lancaster Territory can change with each passing day, as fortune, favorable timing, and advantageous conditions are fully in hand.

Of course, there are some small operations that players might not understand.

As over a hundred Border Lords have signed a contract with Lancaster Territory to utilize the mobility of players, they have delegated the authority of "how to assign dungeon tasks to players" to Kael.

Native lords release related tasks, but unlike Kael, they cannot use the system panel to detail the tasks, resulting in very low efficiency in using their own "Territory Experience Pool."

And as this part of the authority is handed over to Kael, who can directly allocate tasks, the efficiency naturally reaches its peak.

The majority of player travelling merchants, who possess the Space Backpack feature, find it easier and more profitable than ordinary people during their trade journeys.

With Lancaster Territory being large enough, producing magic potions, ores, processed products, food, and even light and heavy industrial products made by Jiu Yue Industries, the variety and quantity are sufficient for travelling merchant players to set sail fully loaded.

In other words, even if someone wants to reclaim the Territory Experience Pool to imitate Lancaster's Mercenary Union Headquarters to establish a similar institution, they still lack the industrial foundation to sustain the ambitions of travelling merchants.

If the above two reasons have kept the Mercenary Union created by Kael standing firm in the East, the final reason becomes the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Firstly, the Experience Pool Kael possesses as a lord refreshes daily, and is refilled the next day even if not fully used.

Secondly, Lancaster Territory's Experience Pool cannot be utterly depleted every single day.

Based on these two premises, Kael made a bold decision to directly dilute the remaining part of the daily refreshed Experience Pool into the tasks of travelling merchants within the Mercenary Union Headquarters.

This allows many adventure players to see not only the hire prices given by travelling merchants on the Mercenary Union travel tasks but also a chance to gain experience points when accepting these tasks.

Though this experience is not considerable, merely a small benefit, for mercenary players, even a tiny profit is valuable. It significantly boosts their enthusiasm toward dungeons and hires.

In this trinity situation, a miracle in the Eastern Border was ultimately created in the eyes of Great Tree of Infinity.

Of course, such a complicated number of operations can make the territory more prosperous but would consume a lot of Kael's time in releasing tasks. If he had to manually issue them himself, his first action would be to disband the Mercenary Union.

However, due to the presence of Aister, a super-intelligent brain who shares the system panel with him, Kael completely handed over these operations, which are just a bit of calculation for Aister, to her.

Anyway, Aister has nothing much to do on a daily basis, so it serves as a simple mental exercise.

Great Tree of Infinity also gained significant fame among the player community for being one of the earliest members to establish the Mercenary Union.

Widely known in an era where fame is traffic and traffic is money, all of this can be translated into the growth benefits that accompany Great Tree of Infinity throughout the game.

Overall, thanks to this matter, the real-life living situation of Great Tree of Infinity has improved considerably.

It's uncertain whether Brother Kael will give him a small Kael-style shock the next time he finds him.

However... when he saw Kael again, he realized things seemed to be developing in a subtle direction.

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"Mr. Kael, do you intend to use our players' internal communication channels to directly contact the over 100 lords involved in the Mercenary Union system, allowing them to nominally hand over the rights to form auxiliary troops and assist Lancaster in clearing invaders to you?"

Kael nodded, saying, "In the name of my Helois Monarch, through you Undead, I hope to contact all the lords, hoping they can cooperate with my actions here, even if nominally, it would suffice."