Chapter 318: 318
The core members of Umbra had gathered in the Rank 7 Guild Hall, from the Vice-Guildmaster Sublime Notion to the newest member Noble Writer . Exactly 19 of them stood in the waiting area of the Training Hall .
Curiously, Local Lord was still absent . According to Cobra and Akainu, he was the first of the new batch to receive the Genetic Compatibility privilege, so he was currently on his way to the Central Country to have his DNA collected .
As for Money Lover, he was still quite a huge way away from Rank 2 . But with the way he was going around abusing his class skills, it was likely that he too should be ready to Rank up in the next 3-6 months .
For that matter, the members of Umbra couldn't help but check their status pages once again . What they saw made their lips twitch .
They had all reached level 50! The person with the least amount of stockpiled experience was Noble Writer, who had the lowest level of the bunch . But even his stockpiled experience was 23,098%!
What!
This was a crazy number . It meant that after slaughtering every Rank 1 monster within a Field Zone, as well as some weaker Rank 2 ones since Rina's final damage had been so high thanks to her Queen of Death title, they each gained 27,000% experience .
The experience split had been set to equal share . So that meant that the total amount of experience earned was 513,000%!
This was more than the total Draco had earned slaughtering 3 Area Zones full of Rank 2 monsters at Rank 1 . Of course, Rina's attack had assaulted a whole Continent Zone, so it could not be compared .
However, the experience 1,000 Rank 1 monsters gave was nothing compared to experience gained by killing 1 Rank 2 monster by someone 1 Rank below them .
In other words, more than 60% of this huge total experience was from the one or two Rank 2 monsters that were killed . If Rina didn't share this experience with the core members, she might have enough to jump to Rank 4 or higher straight away .
However, Draco's class only gave him a 10% exp gain . So if it were him, he'd have earned only 51,300% experience after killing every single monster in a whole continent as well as some weak Rank 2 ones while at Rank 1 .
In essence, what Rina and co did was equivalent to him clearing out just one Area Zone in the Refinement God's Treasury . One couldn't help but think; if there was no Refinement God's Treasury, would Draco be able to even level up?
The AI had proven its insidiousness once again . By cutting his exp gain down, it forced Draco's progression to become the same as or even slower than normal players .
If he didn't rely on his memories to acquire lucrative quests, he would have to fight almost every waking hour in order to even progress a little . Truly wicked .
Everyone became excited at the mention of this . Naturally, Draco and Eva weren't so irresponsible that they'd hide this information from their core members . Even the basic members of Umbra were aware of this .
The only problem was the huge cost . Forget Legendary classes, even one attempt at an Epic class cost 100,000 platinum . Just because Draco and Eva could throw about such a sum didn't mean that everyone else could .
Even at this moment, Eva was left helpless by the task of raising funds for her own Class Up . Where was she supposed to get 1 billion platinum from? She didn't want to wait for Draco to come out first, she wanted to Class Up and surprise him .
However, she had no shortcuts in mind . If Draco had to rely on luck to get his chance, she would too, as - after all - they had the same set of knowledge . Eva would have to depend on fate to give her a chance this time .
As for these core members, they were rich in UPs . Heck, even the poorest Noble Writer had around 800 UPs, which was 800 gold . Sublime had almost 300,000 UPs and the rest fell in this range .
But right now, they all understood that things would be different . Sublime explained as much in her next statement .
"Since we plan to do this at once to raise our guild's reputation and acquire an accolade - hopefully - the guild will naturally provide the funds for our attempts . "
Instead of excitement, the core members of Umbra became solemn . This came as no surprise, as the guild would take a huge dent from this .
Umbra was currently swimming in funds thanks to Money Lover's hard work . Of their current total, 80% of it was brought in by him . The last 20% was shared by Vita City-State and the Rank 7 Shop .
Most of this money had been poured into developing the City-State, which was part of its great rise in power . Now though, this would be stifled by this choice of theirs, and they had no certainty that it was the right one .
This caused them to feel burdened . They were core members, people who were intricately tied to the guild, being the face of it as well . Even the recently joined Noble Writer had great affection as well as respect towards this guild, not wanting to betray their trust .
Sublime Notion saw their expressions and chuckled cutely . The air of a leader left her as she turned into that playful adorable loli that they all feared .
"Hehe, but I can trust you all, right? That even if we were to invest in you to try for a Legendary class, you all can pass on the first try, right?"
"As core members of Umbra, nothing less shall be acceptable . Or would you like me to explain such a failure to Eva?"
Once they heard her words, they all broke out in cold sweat and shivered with fear . Thinking of the cold and murderous aura of Riveting Night that showed how demonic she was, they all trembled .
After all, many had been 'disciplined' by her . There was nothing sexual about it, just pure and brutal torture as if they had tried to kill her parents . None of them had any intention of going through that again .
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