Chapter 381 - The Reward (1/2)

“A wise man submits to fate, welcome to the Brotherhood.” Lin Jie smiled and reached out his hand to Skyscraper, which made him feel flattered. He thanked Lin Jie again and again and seemed like he felt even more glorious than beating a game.

Lin Jie glanced at the audience, smiled, and slowly withdrew to the judges’ seat. He raised his right hand and said, “Let the competition continue. The final battle is fair. Everyone can win the top three seats with their own abilities. Work harder.”

The crowd around spewed out a mouthful of blood. ‘Damn!’

Lone Wolf not only had great power, but he also had a face, which was as think as the Great Wall of China! He had killed and chased the opponents of the Brotherhood away, giving no chance to explain, and now he dared to talk about fairness? This was very shameless!

Of course, this was the thought of the minorities. For the majority, their top-most thought was to join the Brotherhood as soon as possible, so that they could be protected by Lin Jie. Ordinary people were mostly fence-sitters, and Lin Jie was the strong wind. As soon as he blew, those people would change their sides.

The battle continued as Savage Blade’s members were fighting for the top 3. Although the battle was intense, no one used their full strength. Who would fight so hard with their teammates since the rewards were already in their bags? Besides, they had plenty of time to learn from one another in private. Now, it was not worth the loss to reveal their last cards in full view of the public.

In the meantime, Lin Jie was sitting in the judge’s seat with his eyes slightly closed, dealing with some other matters.

He could only disturb the Final Battle of the Guild of Light for this once. From the second round of the Final Battle, the status of the players would begin to improve greatly. They would no longer be “cheap labor” and “cheap mercenaries” in the NPCs’ eyes, and they would become existences akin to saviors. The system would give as many protections and rewards to them as possible.

The first round of Final Battle was only of a very small scale.

Hence, Lin Jie had seized the opportunity and won all the rewards of the Final Battle! Although he was domineering and even inhumane, which would bring him some negative influences, Lin Jie believed that the pros outweighed the cons.

For example, there were more than 20 second and third-class guilds that had applied to join the Brotherhood to become subsidiaries. They’d become prosperous or fall together with the Brotherhood.

Gathering guilds to be the subsidiaries was like asking the bandits to settle down and work for the ancient country that had just leveled their place to the ground. In times of war, they would be thrown out as cannon fodder. If they disobeyed, they would be killed!

Lin Jie accepted all these guilds’ applications.

“Leader Lone Wolf, I’m Skyscraper. I have something to discuss with you.” At that time, Skyscraper sent him a message.

Lin Jie smiled as he had been expecting this scene for a long time. He said, “Oh, it’s Brother Skyscraper. What’s the matter?”

Lin Jie’s enthusiasm was out of Skyscraper’s expectation. Whether in the video or the Final Battle, Lin Jie had been extremely domineering. But unexpectedly, he was so kind to him. Was it because he had given up the battle voluntarily? It must be!

Sure enough, as long as one showed his devotion, Lone Wolf would not be their enemy and would even offer protection.

Skyscraper thought about the wording for a while and said, “We, the Neptune, would like to join the Brotherhood. But in addition, we hope that you can open an authority for us… Maybe you don’t know about the distinctiveness of Neptune…”

Lin Jie’s eye flashed, and he asked, “You want to make use of the power of Brotherhood to secretly gather the players of Neptune so that you can seize control of it?”

“Yes, Neptune is the NPCs’ guild. Although the players in the guild can get more benefits, we’re still puppets. It’s very difficult to get out of their control with our own strength.”

Lin Jie turned silent.

Skyscraper was nervous. He held his breath and waited for Lin Jie’s answer.

“Okay.” Lin Jie nodded and said, “When I become the City Leader of the City of Light, I’ll find a reason to attack the City of Sea King and kill these NPCs. Since they want to make use of you, I can use them as well.”

“What? The City Leader of the City of Light?” exclaimed Skyscraper. After realizing that his reaction was not appropriate, he hurriedly lowered his volume and said respectfully, “Thank you so much, Leader Lone Wolf.”

“No problem. After you have sorted out the name list, send it to me, and I’ll arrange this matter later.”

“Yes.”

After dealing with that matter, Lin Jie felt a sense of happiness from being able to control everything.

As soon as he received the appointment from the City of Light, he would prepare to expand the city before the players had the ability to siege the city!

At this time, the Final Battle was coming to an end.

Baili Changcheng won the first place with his amazing Elemental Swordsmanship.

Wantless got second place, followed by Qiu Yuan.

But none of those mattered as the rewards had long been in Brotherhood’s pockets. As Lin Jie covered the sky with one hand and expelled the enemies, he not only won the top ten rewards but also set up a flag of “invincible”.

—System announcement: Congratulations to player Baili Changcheng for winning the first place. He is rewarded with Level +2, Main City Reputation 1,000. Congratulations to Baili Changcheng for being rewarded with the Dark Gold Fragment [Rory’s Elemental Armor], and an additional reward of [Enrage Greaves]!

—System announcement: Congratulations to player Wantless for winning the second place. He is rewarded with Level +1, Main City Reputation 500. Congratulations to Wantless for being rewarded with the Dark Gold Item [Executor’s Arcane Cape]!

—System announcement: Congratulations to player Qiu Yuan for winning the third place. She is rewarded with Level +1, Main City Reputation 500. Congratulations to Qiu Yuan for being rewarded with the Dark Gold Fragment [Guardian of Sun and Moon’s Dagger]!

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System announcements spammed crazily, and the attributes of the equipment were made to pictorials for the players to view freely. The saliva drooled by the players could circle the earth for dozens of times. The most terrible thing was that the Brotherhood had collected those rewards! The strength of this powerful organization had scaled new heights.

Baili Changcheng was full of joy when he was rewarded with the Dark Gold Fragment until he saw the reward Wantless had obtained.