Just like Stephen's guild before it, Jerz's guild had collapsed beyond recovery. The Game City properties he had built were seized by the banks, the players lost their jobs, and countless people scattered.
Sky City.
Inside the Iron Blood Brotherhood's guild hall, Lu Yang looked at Pons and said, "Jerz has failed. I'm fulfilling the promise I made to you. The entire Jerz Region will be handed over to you to recruit players again and establish a reliable affiliated guild. If you can do it, I'll put you in charge of this region. Your compensation will be equal to Li Wenxing's and Ayala's. Also, your identity will remain undisclosed."
"Thank you, Guild Master." Pons bowed deeply in excitement. That one sentence from Lu Yang was enough to make him worth tens of millions.
From the beginning of Lu Yang's war against Jerz until its end more than two months later, Pons had hidden himself extremely well and had never been discovered. Now, Lu Yang had promised that he could continue concealing his identity.
As long as no one exposed the fact that Pons had once been a spy, his prestige within Jerz's guild would allow him to gather a large number of players very quickly.
Other than the final battle, when Jerz had been willing to spend cash to improve ordinary players' benefits, he had never cared about regular players before, especially during that last war.
The guild had withheld players' wages for four consecutive days. As a result, many players who lost their equipment could not replace it and could not get another cent from Jerz.
Jerz had gone from being the Freedom Legion's hero to its disgrace. The only people in the entire guild who truly missed him were his personal troops. But this defeat had severely crippled