Chapter 57: Rook Class Subordinate
All the monsters that Jason had killed so far were all Pawns, and Jason knew that even though they were stronger, they wouldn’t even hold a candle to the other classes!
Just to upgrade from Pawn Rank III to Rook Rank I, Jason needed to get two thousand kill points! It was four times higher than what it took to upgrade from Pawn Rank II to Pawn Rank III, and that number told Jason that the upgrade was going to change everything about the monster!
Right now, Jason’s strongest monster was on the same level as a Country-level Eldritch Rank, the same as the Red Gate Boss. But it was still far weaker than what Jason knew he needed. A Red Gate boss wouldn’t even put up a good fight against an A Rank, and Jason knew that if he fought against a guild with high-ranking members and they had a supporter who could boost their strength, then they would be able to beat his Legion.
Although most guilds saw supporters as lesser than Brawlers and Emitters, there was a reason why they were still one of the most sought-after superhuman types out there. A supporter could make or break a Gate Dive by providing enough boosts to the superhumans. There are various types of supporters. Some supporters could only boost one of the four stat types, like Agility-boosting supporters or Strength-boosting supporters, and some supporters could boost a certain element or even the level of mana in a superhuman. Like fire-based supporters who could increase the fire output from skills or spells.
However, the supporters were limited by how much mana they had as well as how high their power level was. A supporter who was only a C Rank wouldn’t do much to help a teammate who was an A Rank, and a supporter who could only boost your power for five minutes or less might not be very useful in fights against hundreds of monsters.
As far as Jason was concerned, the brawlers and emitters were important, but in a real fight, he would first find and eliminate the supporters. They were the backbone of any group, and he wouldn’t risk losing because some fucker decided to boost a Brawler’s strength to something beyond what Jason could handle.
Jason turned back to his system and decided that it was time for him to finally create the Rook Class subordinate. Jason had about three thousand kill points right now, and he was going to use two thousand of them to transform one of his Pawn Rank III’s into a Rook. But Jason wasn’t going to do anything more than that. Jason knew that he could use a thousand points to transform two Pawn Rank II’s into Pawn Rank III’s, but he was going to hold onto the points and wait until he had more so that he could use them to transform another Pawn Rank III into a Rook.
Jason was already thinking about the future, and he knew that he would rather have multiple Rooks when facing off against the Eldritch Class Queen than having just a single Rook and multiple Pawns.
[Does the user wish to transfer 2000 kill points into upgrade points? Yes/No?]
The system sent a confirmation message, and Jason easily chose yes and watched as the 2000 kill points transferred into 20 upgrade points. Jason then looked around at the subordinates with a critical gaze. It was important to be careful when choosing which of his subordinates he was going to upgrade now. Jason knew that he had to think seriously about this.
Jason had Pawn Rank III’s in both the Adamantine Ant and the Moonlight Wolf subordinates, but from what Jason had seen, the Adamantine Ant soldiers were capable of holding their own against the Pawn Rank III Moonlight Wolves even before they were made into his subordinates.