3. Nepotism

Day three, in the morning.

In front of Raden, stood Jeanne Wu and a new officer. Raden twitched his eyebrows looking at the officer basic information.

Name : Li Xiaoya

Nationality : Federation People of China

This is glaring nepotism practice!

"You use your privilege well." He said to Jeanne with a hint of sarcasm.

"No no, I choose her besides her marksmanship, I also reconsider her appearance." Jeanne denied like old politicians.

Raden's eyebrows twitched once again. Why he felt Jeanne collecting his future harem? Is he really Harem Protagonist? Maybe Author can change this story as harem story.

"Show me your talent before signing contract." Raden said while massaging his temple.

Li Xiaoya nodded without any words. Her talent consist of Marksman Talent, Siege Talent, and Skill Talent. Raden nodded and offered a contract.

Li Xiaoya read the contract and frowned. It was almost same as President said before. It was no different from slavery contract. For modern people, slavery was disgusted by the mass. She looked at Jeanne Wu and saw Jeanne nodded with a bitter smile.

"No negotiations?" She asked briefly.

"No, but you can put a condition. As long as it doesn't cancel my conditions, everything is okay."

After brief hesitation, she signed the contract. Raden smiled and took the contract to his inventory. He took several golden EXP Elixirs that enough for her to rise to level 25.

Without any nonsense he dismissed the two after giving his instructions for Li Xiaoya's talent tree. But the two of them didn't go.

"What?" He asked.

Jeanne simply hesitated. Li Xiaoya sighed and said. "We want to learn about talent tree. In exchange for my servitude, President of China asked me to learn."

"Pretty straightforward. But I like it. Go on. You ask, and I will answer. No long explanation and no nonsense arguments. Clear?". Raden stated his condition upward.

They nodded.

"Jeanne first. Assault Talent is basically for officer who rely on their basic damage. It's greatly enhance officer and her troops basic damage. If you have high damage rate, this talent will add magic to it."

Raden continued. "But not all talent nodes is useful. Remember, your talent points is limited by your level cap. For example talent for 5% attack after you lose half your troops. It's useful but who want to lose half of your troops? So, you need to focus on specific nodes."

Then Raden told her several traps in talent tree. He explained pro and con for the talent node. He also explained why he told her to choose Assault and Field Battle talents then General talent back then.

Then Raden explained talent trees to Li Xiaoya. He asked her to choose Marksman talent and Skill talent. Marksman without a doubt is focusing at Ranged Squad. It's enhance shooting range and bullets damage. This talent also enhanced basic attribute for Ranger Squad, including health bar and endurance. As for the Skill talent tree, it's basically enhancing her own active skill like enhancing damage, enhancing rage gained from attacking with skills, and enhancing scoping duration.

Basically no perfect talent tree arrangement. But someone could arrange talent tree to fully enhance their combat tree. As human isn't perfect, why not focusing on their own strong point then being a jack of all trade without mastering anything?

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After sending two beauty off, he finally could reflect current situation. In layman term, officer was under governor. But what the crowd fail to see was officer could build their power by recruiting their aide. Without servitude contract, these officer could band together and revolt. Cultivating high level ofiicer was time consuming and resource hungry. If they were revolt, the base territory would face perilous situation.

Actually, he also got a call from President of Nusantara Archipelago at the same night as Jeanne. But he mute the ringtone and slept. He didn't care about their rambling as he couldn't back to earth anymore. His governor status is basically permanent assignment in virgin land. That's why, the title is governor, not king.

From the windows, he saw two ladies walked out from the gate with small amount of troops. We'll, his troops indeed small in amounts. He won't deny it. Tomorrow, just wait for tomorrow. He would use his items once again. He would upgrade his troop to level 2. Level 2 troops was unlocked at level 5 prosperity.

He shifted his focus to base resources nodes. Each resource has one factory. It was basic welfare for every governors. But the node only at level 1. The output was low. Because of this problem, he didn't dare to increase his troops. The output barely able to feed 200 soldiers. He could increase 40 more troops, but no spare food for emergency later.

To increase the output, he needed to move the base to node with abundant resources, especially food. The rest, he could use his resource from inventory.

That's why, he urged Jeanne to patrol everyday to scout surrounding. If he could find a level 4 food node, he would use free relocation and occupy the node.

The factory could be upgraded, but the resource nodes couldn't. That's why, Raden couldn't level up crazily and dominate the world.

It was a game after all, almost everything follow game's rule.

Thankfully, the soldier barracks could be upgraded. Level 5 barracks opened upgrade option to troop Tier 2. Next day, he would start upgrade all soldiers.

He looked at prosperity sub panel. He saw rows of data. The highest prosperity contributor was officers. Officer alone contributed a quarter. Troop contributed 15%,and the rest was from facility.

If he provided gold equipment to Jeanne and Xiaoya, the prosperity state would shoot up like crazy as he could pump their equipment with his enhancement stones. But he need to wait for level 15 to open officer equipment slots. Previously, from the FAQ, he found that governor could only get five officer. One deputy, four deputy aide. It was a hard rule, so he couldn't change it.

If he could get 20 officers...

Hehehe, he would dump all his officer related item to Jack their power up. So, his prosperity rise to the moon!

Alas, it's just a daydream...