Chapter 519 - Ferde’s Sunlight Army (1/2)

Chapter 519: Ferde’s Sunlight Army

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Mage Tower, alchemy room

Link, Vance, and the other three were concluding the results of the experiment for the first generation of Seeds of Sunlight.

“The results look good. Of the 100, 97 became much stronger,” Link said. “Though the power of the three didn’t change, they still received the strength of sunlight.” He drank some fire wine. He was quite satisfied with this result.

Vance nodded too. This result was beyond his expectations. He’d thought that it would be good enough if they could have a success rate of 80%. Now, they practically had no failures.

However, everyone in this team saw things from different angles during the fusing process. They obviously had different opinions too.

“The high success rate is related to the fact that they’re all elites,” Alloa said calmly. “I saw the entire process. I think it’s still too painful. It’s okay for these elites, but for regular soldiers, the success rate will decrease greatly. Should we revise it further?”

Eleanor shook her head. “I don’t think so. This is good too. As the saying goes, harsh fire creates true gold. Only after extreme pain can the Seed of Sunlight enter deep into the soul. Only then can the Sunlight Warrior have more potential for growth.”

Alloa and Eleanor’s opinion was completely different. “But the success rate would be much lower,” she argued. “We have a high rate now, but when we move to regular soldiers, I would be surprised if 50% could survive. Each soldier only has one chance. This will greatly affect the expansion of the Sunlight Warriors.”

The critical part was that each soldier only had one chance at the fusion. If they missed it, then they missed it.

Both had very clear standpoints.

Eleanor wanted to create elites. She wanted the Sunlight Warriors to become truly powerful figures in the future!

Alloa, though, saw the advantage in number. In her opinion, the soldiers only had to be at the standard level. There was no need to go for the extreme. While ensuring quality, they could add on more numbers. When there were enough soldiers, the combat ability would improve in quality as well. This was the root of an army’s strength.

Eliard didn’t speak until now. Hearing this, he shrugged. “Why don’t we separate it? One method for elites and one for regular soldiers.”

As soon as he spoke, Vance waved his hand. “No, that’s not fair to the soldiers. Everyone should at least have the chance to choose. And how do you differentiate between elites and regular people? Potential is hard to see. You’ll never know what a soldier can accomplish in the future.”

With that, he looked to Link and shrugged. “Take Link for example. When I saw him a year ago, I had no clue he would rise to the Legendary level so quickly. If we use Eliard’s idea, we might miss a future genius!”

He was right too. Letting every soldier have the right to choose was enlightening. The soldiers would definitely support it if they knew. However, both Eleanor and Alloa disagreed.

Eleanor waved her hand quickly. “No, no, no, that won’t do. Regular soldiers don’t understand the Seed of Sunlight. If they’re allowed to choose, they would definitely choose the most painful method, either due to their impatience to rise up or envy of the strong. The lower option would practically become a dummy. The failure rate would still be high.”

Alloa went even deeper. “Mortals are always controlled by different emotions. They have limited knowledge as well and just can’t see the truth. Giving regular soldiers the right to choose is good treatment, but we won’t be able to maximize our growth. The northern army is already preparing to come southward. We must become stronger as fast as possible. We can’t use your method.”

Vance threw his hands up, speechless. Both of them made sense, and he couldn’t refute them.

Seeing this stalemate, everyone looked to Link for his decision. He already had a mature idea in mind. Chuckling, he said, “As the saying goes, your first impression of someone will be wrong. It’ll be wrong after a day too. But after one year, you won’t be wrong. My idea is that we can have the soldiers choose but without telling them.”

This intrigued everyone. They waited for Link to continue.

“There are 30,000 official soldiers in Ferde. It’s not much. We can increase Tower Spirit Lily’s functions and secretly put all the soldiers into the observation range. We’ll set some testing standards as well and rate them from the details of their everyday lives. We can watch for a while. It’s the first generation of Sunlight Warriors, after all. One year isn’t needed, so how about one month? Those with high scores will use the elite method. Those with lower scores will use the regular method. We can become more specific too and split the methods into different levels. Like five levels with different scores. What do you all think?”

Judging a soldier’s potential from their daily lives was very objective. As long as they set logical standards, they wouldn’t make any mistakes after observing for one month. The soldiers were technically choosing for themselves too.

The four exchanged glances and nodded in agreement.

“In that case, let’s start. We have a lot to do.”

The five began working in a flurry again. Upgrading Lily and large-scale production of the Seeds of Sunlight could only be done by them. It was a lot of work.

Link was responsible for 60% of the work. The other four divided the rest equally. Even so, they were still all exhausted.