Chapter 231: Making Changes
Jason activated the [King’s Substitute] skill and he appeared in the middle of an abandoned warehouse in the city of Riverdale. One of his Rook Class subordinates vanished from the warehouse as they switched places, and Jason looked around the warehouse calmly as his Phantoms bent to one knee in respect. He only glanced at them for a moment before he turned away to look at the bodies that had been piled to one side. Tobias Grant and all the other members of his Guild that ran to this city together had been killed by the Phantoms, and Jason wasted no time as he put his hand towards them and sent a surge of mana forward.
"Resurrect."
Jason’s will immediately overrode the will of every single person there, and Jason watched as their souls were extracted from their bodies. There were fifteen of them in total, but only Tobias was an A Rank. All the others were split between B and C Ranks, and Jason frowned as he saw the number of stat points he had gotten for their resurrection.
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The user has gained [9] Pawn Rank II Subordinates
+180 MP
+0.8% Strength
+0.5% Stamina
+0.1% Agility
+0.1% Durability
The skill [Horde Conductor] has grown stronger.
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The user has gained [5] Pawn Rank III Subordinates
+250 MP
+1.1% Strength
+0.8% Stamina
+0.1% Agility
+0.2% Durability
The skill [Horde Conductor] has grown stronger.
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The user has gained [1] Rook Rank I subordinate.
+900 MP
+2% Strength
+1% Stamina
+0.2% Agility
+0.2% Durability
The A Rank skill [Horde Conductor] has evolved to S rank.
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Once Jason was done with the resurrections, he quickly glanced to the side to see how far his stats had improved. Jason’s plan had been to improve all his stats to SS before he would go to fight against the Lich. He thought that he would be able to get up to SS Rank after the two Gates they cleared last night, but it wasn’t enough.
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STATISTICS
Strength: S [80.6%]
Stamina: S [92.1%]
Agility: SS [16.2%]
Durability: SS [3.8%]
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Only two of Jason’s four stats were at the SS level, but the other two were already very close to getting there, and Jason knew that if he killed a few more monsters and resurrected them, then they would finally achieve his goal. But this result was still very good and Jason was more than happy with how far he managed to grow in such a short time.
’I’ll have to take all the monsters I have with me. I’ll leave the Phantoms that are protecting Mum and Janet, and I’ll also leave a few Phantoms to look after Riyala since I don’t know what Cerci will do when I’m not here. Other than them, everyone else needs to come with me.’
Jason glanced towards his system once more to see just how many subordinates he had, and he hummed at the number.
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Number of Pawn Class Subordinates: [766/3000]
Number of Rook Class Subordinates: [21/50]
Number of Bishop Class Subordinates: 0
Number of Knight Class Subordinates: 0
Number of Queen Class Subordinates: 0
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Jason’s subordinate count had grown significantly compared to last night, and Jason was sure it was because of the two Gates they raided between then and now. Jason told all of the Rooks that didn’t have any subordinates to come out, and they appeared in front of Jason. The Rooks without subordinates were the ones that Jason had only gained recently, which included the five nuns that had been protecting Katarina, the large Swamp Viper that Raya had defeated, and Tobias Grant.
’They won’t be enough.’
Jason frowned while looking at the lineup in front of him. He only had twenty-one Rooks and he was going to have to leave about three of them behind since he needed them to look after his family and Riyala. That left him with nineteen Rooks and just over seven hundred Pawns. That was definitely not going to be enough firepower to handle the monsters he would meet when he goes to face the Lich. The system told him that the Lich was as strong as the Leviathan Rank Boss of a Yellow Gate, so most of its subordinates would be in the same power range as Jason’s Rooks. If Jason tried going in there with only this many Rooks, he would get decimated.
But Jason already had a plan to get more strength quickly. Jason had been storing up a lot of Kill Points for a long time now because he was waiting for his Rooks to reach a hundred percent in their hierarchy so he could upgrade them. But since Jason didn’t have time to waste anymore, he was going to throw that plan away and he would focus on upgrading the Pawns instead! This plan would provide Jaosn with two huge benefits. The first would be the increased number of Rook Rank subordinates that could help him in a fight, and the second was the power boost Jason would gain from upgrading his Legion! If the Legion became more powerful, then Jason would also gain improvements in his stats and mana! That means he might be able to make it to SS Rank before he goes to fight the Lich.
’No, not just making it to SS Rank, I’ll probably shoot past it significantly.’
Jason had saved up more than ninety thousand kill points after going into Gates continuously, so he would gain a lot from using them. Jason decided that he was going to use up a majority of them to raise his Pawn Rank III’s into Rooks. Jason had been saving these points for Ragnar and Raya, but he couldn’t wait anymore.
It takes two thousand kill points [20 upgrade points] to upgrade one Pawn Rank III subordinate to a Rook Rank I. If Jason converts eighty thousand of his kill points, then he would get eight hundred upgrade points, and that would be enough to upgrade forty Pawn Rank III’s to Rooks. Jason quickly began making the conversions once he was sure of his calculations, and a system prompt came up.
[Would the user like to convert 80,000 Kill points to Upgrade Points? Yes/No]
Jason chose yes and he watched as the kill points tab reduced to only sixteen thousand while the upgrade points tab increased by eight hundred. Jason decided not to use the sixteen thousand kill points that he still had since he didn’t know when he would need them. It was better to have some spare kill points just in case.
Now, Jason had to pick out which of his subordinates he was going to upgrade. The Adamantine Ants were an easy option. Not only did they have high defenses, but they could also fly, and their attack power was high, so Jason was going to upgrade twenty of them to Rook Rank I’s. The next obvious choice was the Iron-Bladed Falcons. They also had high attack and defense stats, and the fact that they could fly even faster than the Adamantine Ants gave them more of an advantage in the air. Jason would upgrade ten of the Pawns to Rooks.
’Should I upgrade the Swamp Vipers? They’re very powerful in the water, but if I end up in an arid region, then they won’t be at full power. I’ll just upgrade five of them so I’ll have six Rooks from there.’
Jason still had a hundred upgrade points left, and he decided that he would use them on the Moonlight Wolves. The Moonlight Wolves were the fastest of Jason’s Legion on land, so if he needed a group to charge forward towards the enemies, then they would be the best bet.