Chapter 294: The Military Structure
Jason usually kept a lot of kill points in store because he wanted to be ready for any time one of the higher-ranked Rooks finally gained enough experience to be promoted to the next Rank. For example, Ragnar was already a Rook Rank III, so he would need fifty thousand kill points before he could be upgraded into a Bishop Rank I. If Jason didn’t have any kill points in store and Ragnar reached the required Hierarchy Level in the middle of a fight, then Jason would have to wait until the fight was over before he could boost Ragnar, and that would be bad if Ragnar was in a fight against someone who far outclassed him. So Jason decided that he was only going to keep a hundred thousand kill points in storage to use in the future. That meant Jason could only use one hundred and six thousand to boost the Pawns!
Jason looked through his list of subordinates, and he saw that he had hundreds of subordinates who were in Pawn Rank I. Those subordinates were obviously the most useless of the bunch, and Jason knew that they wouldn’t be of any use in any of the coming battles.
’I should upgrade the Pawn Rank I’s to Pawn Rank II since it only takes a hundred Kill Points for each one. I can use twenty thousand kill points to improve two hundred Pawn Rank I’s to Pawn Rank II, then I’ll use forty thousand kill points to upgrade eighty Pawn Rank II’s to Pawn Rank III. I’ll have about forty thousand kill points after all that, so I can use them to upgrade twenty Pawn Rank III’s to Rook Rank I.’
Jason leaned his head back on the couch and popped another magic crystal in his mouth. He stared at the ceiling as he thought his plan through, and he decided that it was a good plan. This way, Jason would have more than a hundred Rooks, and he could add the stronger Pawns as Rook Rank subordinates that would have higher defenses and the [Stonewall] skill. Now, Jason just had to figure out which of the subordinates he would upgrade. The most obvious choice was going to be the Adamantine Ants. The Adamantine Ants had far too many benefits for Jason to overlook them, so he was going to create at least five more Rooks from their numbers. The superhumans that Jason resurrected from the BloodRaven guild were also useful because of their diverse Gifts, so Jason would pick out five of them with powerful gifts and make them Rooks as well. That left only ten more spots open, and Jason decided to split them between the Iron Bladed Falcons, the Moonlight Wolves, and the Phantoms.
As for the Pawn Rank I’s that Jason wanted to promote, Jason had two hundred spots open, and he would take one hundred and fifty of them from the Adamantine Ants. There were more than two hundred Pawn Rank I Adamantine Ants, so it would be useful if he improved them. Twenty would come from the Moonlight Wolves since they were also useful as a frontline force, and the remaining thirty would be from the Spidermonkeys. The Pawn Rank II’s would come from the Iron Bladed Falcons and the Moonlight Wolves, then he would complete it with the Adamantine Ants and the Superhumans. Jason let out a calm breath as he finally organized his thoughts and all the upgrades he wanted to make, and the system sent a message.
[Would the user like to convert [100,000] Kill Points to Upgrade Points and transfer them to the Subordinates? Yes/No?]
Jason chose yes, and he watched as the points were transferred quickly.
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The user has used [400] Upgrade Points to promote [5] Adamantine Ants, [5] Superhumans, [5] Iron Bladed Falcons, [2] Moonlight Wolves, and [3] Phantoms from Pawn Rank III to Rook Rank I.
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+20,000 MP
+2.9% Strength
+4.3% Stamina
+1.5% Agility
+1.5% Durability
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The user has used [200] Upgrade Points to promote [150] Adamantine Ants, [30] Spidermonkeys, and [20] Moonlight Wolves from Pawn Rank I to Pawn Rank II.
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+30,000 MP
+5.1% Strength
+6.2% Stamina
+2.9% Agility
+3.1% Durability
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The user has used [400] Upgrade Points to promote [30] Adamantine Ants, [30] Iron Bladed Falcons, [10] Phantoms, and [10] Superhumans from Pawn Rank II to Pawn Rank III.
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+24,000 MP
+4% Strength
+5.5% Stamina
+2.1% Agility
+3.5% Durability
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Jason felt his strength and mana increase by a very wide margin after he was done with the points transfer! His Rooks had finally gone past the one hundred mark, but the number of Pawns he had went down to just about seven hundred again. Jason’s mana had gone up to almost two hundred thousand units, and Jason smiled at the improvements as he felt some satisfaction after so much work. Jason knew that he would have to get some more Pawns very soon since there were literally no more Pawns for him to fill out the subordinate spaces for the new Rooks, so the Rooks would be growing very slowly for now.
Jason leaned back with another calm sigh and closed the system tabs as he listened to the sound of Gina humming beautifully while moving around the kitchen. He ran a hand through his rough hair, and he finally decided to focus properly on the conversation he was having with one of the Radagan Soldiers in his Legion. Jason had asked the soldiers about the military structure of Radagan as well as the pattern of attack that the soldiers normally used.
According to them, Radagan wasn’t very advanced in terms of scientific discoveries. Jason wasn’t surprised by this fact because he knew that most worlds that had a lot of magic would normally never think to create things like airplanes or bombs when they had literal dragons that could shoot fire from their mouths. The Radagan Soldiers said that the most advanced scientific discovery that Radagan had experienced in the past decade was the discovery of the Giant Crossbow. And the only reason it was created was so they could use it to shoot down enemy dragons.
Jason hummed after hearing everything that the soldier said. Jason was glad that he didn’t have to worry about both technology and magic on Radagan, so he asked the soldier to move on to the military tactics. The soldier began to explain quickly. On Radagan, there were three major branches of the military. The first branch was known as the Rogues. This branch of the military consisted of every single member of the Radagan race that owned a dragon or wyvern but wasn’t a part of the main Radagan military. In Radagan, the privilege of owning a dragon or wyvern wasn’t something that every single person had. Only those who were chosen by dragons or wyverns would be able to ride them.
So once a person is chosen by a dragon, they automatically gain a power that is greater than most of the other members of the race, and the Radagan royal family ordained that the person would be added into the ranks of the Rogues to ensure that the person didn’t abuse the power that they had. As a Rogue, you are allowed to ride your dragon around and use it on a daily basis, but you are not allowed to unleash fire from your dragon, and you are also not allowed to use your dragon to hurt others. The moment you do any of these things, you will be arrested. Rogues are also called on by the military whenever there is a war that requires more firepower, and they are obligated by law to respond to the call, no matter what!