"Uh, a little pricey. This one too, and this one."
Having become Rule-level, Lu Mouren still had endless things to do even after setting aside his political work.
But the priority was shopping, and he had to inspect the goods himself. He was Life-type, a precious and expensive "Logistics Profession."
The defining trait of such professions was their extremely long growth cycle and enormous consumption. Once they had developed, they also required vast amounts of money and resources for "combat power production," raising their "products," "weapons," and "legions" to match their own tier.
To put it plainly, if a treant like Liu Zibei, a big tree, truly advanced into a Golden Tier Gardener, he could no longer use Silver Tier treants as his main force, nor could a Blood Vine suspected to be Gold Tier remain his trump card.
For Professionals focused on production, every "reproduction" was potentially a qualitative leap. Before completing production, they might not even be able to defeat a low-rank combat profession. But after upgrading their gear, if they were suited for the battlefield, taking on three combat professionals of the same tier would likely be no problem.
Did that seem to hint at occupational discrimination and distinctions? Some harsh realities did exist here. Logistics-oriented professions such as Healers, Gardeners, and beast tamers grew slowly and consumed immense resources, but once they came into their own, they were more sought after than ordinary combat professions, with far higher ceilings.
To say nothing of the distant past, take Fang Wen back then. Setting aside that Big Machine, her Close-Guard Mechanical Legion alone had three members no weaker than Professionals of the same tier. The long growth cycle of "Logistics" also brought a combat ceiling far beyond one's level.
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