Volume 3: Rise of the God of War Chapter 428: Expanding Power
"By the way, will you take over the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group later? Is there any problem?" Li Jiu suddenly frowned and asked, "As far as I know, the leader of a one-star mercenary group needs to be a major. And as a two-star mercenary group, the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group probably has a higher requirement for the leader's rank, right? But you are only a captain now, will this have any impact?"
"My lord, there are some impacts, but it's not a big problem." Captain William replied.
"Oh? How do you mean?" Li Jiu asked curiously.
"That's right, master. Since the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group was founded by my father himself, the entire mercenary group is actually private property, so I should be the inheritor. However, the alliance also has some basic requirements. That is, my military rank must be promoted to major before I can inherit, and I can only inherit as acting leader. Only when my military rank is promoted to lieutenant colonel level can I officially become the leader of the Blood Wolf." Captain William explained.
"Although my current military rank is only at the captain level, I am not far from becoming a major. In addition, I will be able to draw some mission rewards from each mission I accept from the mercenary group, and I will be able to be promoted to the rank of major soon. Therefore, there is no problem at all for me to take over the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group."
"Well, that's good. I feel relieved." Li Jiu nodded and drank the red wine in his hand.
"It's getting late. I should leave too." After looking at the time on the intelligent optical brain, Li Jiu pondered for a moment and stood up.
"Master, I have one more thing to report to you." Captain William suddenly said when he saw Li Jiu was about to leave.
"Oh? What's the matter?" Li Jiu paused, turned around and asked.
"It's about the God of War Tournament." Captain William replied, "In order to compete for the city championship this year, Claude invited a late-stage awakener to the Blood Wolf Squad to help out in advance. I think this may pose a threat to the master's team."
"Late general level?" Li Jiu was secretly surprised.
This is the awakened person with the highest level of superpowers he has ever heard of, except for General Ghost and General Black Dragon!
If there really is such an awakened person in the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group's participating team, then he might indeed pose a threat to himself during the competition!
Although, he has secretly taken over the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group now, if he wants to avoid this problem, he can directly order Captain William to make the participating team of the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group give up the competition, or ask the awakened person to leave.
But if they did so, it would inevitably cause a series of suspicions from outsiders, and thus bring other unnecessary troubles. After all, under normal circumstances, it had never happened before that any mercenary group would voluntarily give up the qualification to participate in the God of War Tournament, let alone the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group, which was the most likely to win the district championship.
Therefore, the battle with the Blood Wolf Mercenaries is inevitable at that time.
"What is his special ability? Where is he now?" Li Jiu asked after thinking for a moment.
If a battle with the other party is really unavoidable at that time, Li Jiu hopes to use the identity of Captain William to contact the other party in advance.
"I don't know what that person's special ability is, because Claude is a very suspicious person. There are many things he won't even tell me. It was only during a conversation with him that I accidentally found out the level of his special ability. In addition, that person is not in the fifth district now. The other party has an agreement with Claude. He does not need to be in charge of the competition in the sub-district. He will only come to the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group during the district finals and the city-level competitions." Captain William explained.
"Is that so...Okay, I get it. You did a great job on this matter. If you have any intelligence in the future, please report it to me in time." Li Jiu said after a moment of hesitation.
"Yes, sir." Captain William bowed and said.
Afterwards, Li Jiu put on Worster's military uniform again and followed Captain William out of the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group's base.
Arriving at the foot of Lonely Mountain, Li Jiu got on Night Rose's special flying car and flew to the eastern suburbs of the Fifth District.
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Li Jiu did not return to the competition venue, but came to a wilderness villa near the civilians.
"Brother Nine!"
After entering the villa gate and getting out of the car, Doug and the other two spoke respectfully at the same time.
"Well, how is it, Quinn? The injury on your shoulder hasn't healed yet?" Seeing that Quinn still had a bandage on his shoulder, Li Jiu couldn't help but frown and asked.
"Hehe, it's okay, it's just that the bone was shot through. Ordinary healing potions can't heal the bone in a short time. However, it will be fine after a few more days of rest." Quinn grinned and said nonchalantly.
Although Li Jiu gave each of them a super healing capsule, if Quinn took it, the injury on his shoulder would be healed immediately, but Quinn was reluctant to use it now. He would rather spend more time recuperating.
"That's fine." Li Jiu nodded with a smile, then looked around the villa, his eyes fell on a newly built high wall on the left, and asked Doug: "Doug, are the training facilities ready?"
"It's almost done, Brother Jiu, come over and take a look." Doug replied with a smile.
Afterwards, Li Jiu, under the leadership of Doug, followed them towards the newly built high wall.
After passing through the heavy iron door on the wall, everyone came behind the wall.
"Haha, not bad, it looks quite professional." Seeing the situation behind the wall, Li Jiu nodded with satisfaction.
Behind this wall is the villa, which is surrounded by a newly built wall covering an area of about 40 to 50 acres. Inside, there is a shooting range, a training loft that simulates actual combat situations, and other training facilities.
"Brother Jiu, this was originally a lawn. Following your instructions, I cordoned off this area and built a scaled-down training ground based on the standards of a regular military base training ground. However, although it is a scaled-down version, it can at least be used by a hundred people at the same time. And now, there are only three of us training here, which is really a bit of a waste of resources." Doug explained with a smile.
Li Jiu smiled and nodded silently.
It is just as Doug said, it is such a big training ground, but only Doug and three others are training here, which is really a waste of resources... It seems that I should think about making full use of these resources.
Currently, he is still about one million merit points away from reaching the rank of major, and this is not a task that can be accomplished in a short period of time.
Therefore, now is not the time to build your own mercenary group.
But facing the Donna family who might arrive at any time, and the various forces in District 5 who are eyeing them covetously because they are jealous of the rise of Night Rose, Doug and his three men are not enough.
Not to mention, in the near future, he would have to investigate the reasons for the decline of the Huaxia ethnic group in the alliance, and even confront the entire alliance government!
Therefore, now, I must seize the time and expand my own power!
"Doug, how has your three training been going lately?" After thinking for a moment, Li Jiu withdrew his gaze from the training facilities and asked Doug and the other two.
To expand their power, Doug and the other two are the key. First of all, they have to train themselves well so that they can train more subordinates for themselves.
"Brother Jiu, why don't you inspect it on the spot?" Clouded Leopard, who was wearing a black suit, smiled and said confidently.
"Haha, well, you didn't seem to be very good at using guns before. Today I'll see how Doug and the other two have trained you recently." Li Jiu said with a faint smile.
Clouded Leopard comes from a background of underground boxing. He has a strong physique and sharp skills. Although his physical fitness is only slightly better than that of an ordinary mercenary, his ability in hand-to-hand combat is even stronger than that of an ordinary double-reinforced mercenary.
However, he was not good at using firearms before, and last time in the entertainment city, Li Jiu was busy dealing with Claude and did not see how he had been training recently.
"Okay, Brother Jiu, I'll go shoot at a target for you to see." Yunbao nodded.
After saying that, he found the silenced M4A1 that Li Jiu had given them, walked to the shooting range, and selected a target.
“Throw it! ” “Throw it!”
"Lose, lose, lose..."
First, he fired ten shots in a burst and hit 93 rings, then he fired ten shots in a row and hit 85 rings.
"Well, not bad." Seeing Clouded Leopard's shooting results, Li Jiu nodded with satisfaction.
Although such a result is nothing for an old soldier with excellent marksmanship, it is a very good result for Clouded Leopard who has only been in contact with guns for a short time.
"What about you two? Has your close combat strength improved?" After examining the clouded leopard, Li Jiu looked at the twin brothers Doug and Quinn and asked with a smile.
"Hey, Brother Jiu, how about we give it a try?" Quinn grinned and looked at Li Jiu with a hint of eagerness to try.
It looked like this guy was actually planning to have a real combat fight with Li Jiu.
"Get lost! If you want to try, go ahead and try, don't drag me into it." Doug rolled his eyes at Quinn and cursed with a smile.
The two of them have indeed improved their hand-to-hand combat abilities under Clouded Leopard's recent training.
But now, the two of them joined forces, and they could barely fight the clouded leopard to a draw. It was a bit unrealistic to fight Li Jiu. After all, they had all seen Li Jiu's powerful strength.
"Brother Nine, the close combat strength of these two people has indeed improved a lot recently. If they both attack together, even I can only hold my own against them for a while and will eventually be defeated." Clouded Leopard praised with certainty.
"Oh? So it's indeed a big improvement." Li Jiu was slightly surprised and said with satisfaction.
"In that case... Doug, starting tomorrow, you three will begin recruiting people secretly. For the first batch, recruit thirty people and form three combat teams, which will be trained by the three of you separately." Li Jiu said after a moment of hesitation.
"Recruiting people?" Doug and the other two were slightly stunned and looked at each other.
"But Brother Jiu, where can we recruit people from?" Doug frowned.
"Let's go to this nearby civilian area and ask the Judge's Skeleton Gang to help." Li Jiu said with a smile.
