The next morning, the mine workers reported for duty.
Everyone saw the five hundred fully armed mine guards stationed throughout the mining area.
Uniform individual combat gear, their presence radiating an overwhelming sense of pressure.
The entire mine fell silent as cicadas in winter.
Fortunately, the mine was stable enough now. These guards were meant to face outward, not inward.
Ding!
As Zhang Yang admired the heroic bearing of his mine guards, he suddenly heard a system notification in his mind.
Congratulations, Host. You have triggered a new mission. Mission Name: Within the next month, the main forces of several armed groups will attack the mine. Please repel them all. Mission Reward: Recruitment Order (This Recruitment Order can recruit any individual from Salito Province as the Host's subordinate. This subordinate will never betray the Host and will be absolutely loyal.)
The mission was brief and straightforward, yet it plunged Zhang Yang into thought—and instantly set his heart racing.
This was...
There was nothing much to say about the mission itself. What truly caught his attention was the reward.
A Recruitment Order?
Randomly recruit someone from Salito Province as his loyal subordinate?
For a moment, countless figures flashed through his mind, before an unbelievable and audacious idea suddenly took shape.
If he was going to do this, he might as well go big.
What if... he recruited that person?
Zabol.
The true power holder of Salito Province—Lieutenant General Zabol, who controlled the province's military and political affairs and governed five million people.
If he could recruit Zabol, wouldn't that mean he would no longer have any worries in this vast Salito Province? He could freely and boldly develop his own forces.
Not just the mine...
He could even indirectly control the entire Salito Province by controlling Zabol.
He had