Specially Recruiting Long-Legged Guards

Specially Recruiting Long-Legged Guards.

As for recruitment...

The residents of Dawn Town were incredibly enthusiastic about it. Ever since William had arrived in town, he had campaigned east and west... Ahem, bullied to the east and robbed to the west. Not only had they gained plenty of resources, they had never lost a single soldier.

The treatment afforded to the Elven Royal Guard in particular was so good that it inspired envy, jealousy, and hatred.

Even the 300 Dwarf warriors who had joined later received excellent benefits.

On the day William announced the recruitment drive, more than 3,000 Professionals eagerly signed up, not even wanting to farm anymore...

That included former town residents. After all, more than half the residents of the former Border Town had been Professionals.

As for the 500 Half-Elves who had never left, they seemed to have made up their minds as well. More than 300 of them enlisted.

There was almost no need to think about it.

William immediately accepted those Half-Elves. Half-Elves were far stronger than humans in combat, and they had become Professionals early on. Most of them had come to Border Town after getting into some sort of trouble, and their abilities were quite outstanding.

More importantly, while Half-Elves had weaker bloodlines than Elves, even the weakest among them possessed Novice Bloodlines. Some even had Intermediate-Class, Advanced, Grandmaster, or even Epic Bloodlines.

Humans, on the other hand, had far poorer bloodline potential. Many did not even possess Novice Bloodlines and could not become Professionals at all.

But once one considered the sheer number of humans on the Legendary Continent, it became clear that population changed everything...

Human aptitude was the most ordinary, yet through their overwhelming numbers, they still occupied the broadest, most prosperous, and most resource-rich lands on the Legendary Continent.

"Actually, the Elves, Winged Folk, and Half-Elves have it pretty good. Their populations are small, and they belong to the Good or Neutral Factions, so they can choose resource-rich places to live.

As for the places where Dwarves, Goblins, and Gnomes are willing to live, nobody usually wants to fight over them.

But other Neutral races, such as Minotaurs, Gnolls, Orcs, Trolls, and so on, can only occupy remote regions and live off the wind and grass..." William sighed faintly. But that was simply how things stood at present.

The Gods Era had no recorded history, so it was not included.

The First Era belonged to Dragons.

The Second Era belonged to Elves and Dwarves.

The Third Era belonged to humans, as it did now!

And the Fourth Era was about to arrive...

The disaster brought by gods and demons would not merely be a disaster for the Legendary Continent. It would spread across the entire world.

"Gods and demons are really just a type of existence—or rather, a type of creature.

The strongest among them become titled gods and demons, forming two factions. Those who do well and have good reputations are called gods. Those who do not fare as well, fight and kill every day, and earn bad reputations become demons.

For example, the God of Light, Lord of Magic, Goddess of Fortune, and the like, worshipped by humans, belong to the Light Faction in human eyes.

The demons of the Dark World, as well as the God of Darkness, Lord of Demons, Goddess of Misfortune, and others worshipped by Demons, are considered demons." William stroked his impeccably handsome chin. For some reason, those thoughts had suddenly come to mind.

"Come on, come on, big brother will help test your bloodlines!" William looked at the long line of female Professionals behind him.

Women in this world were easily discriminated against. Many female Professionals suffered oppression and unfair treatment. Unfortunately, William had no interest in that. Who said women were inferior to men?

He was going to build a dazzling, beautiful city guard!

That was right.

The guards responsible for defending the town would not all be women, but most of them would be female Professionals!

As for any ulterior motives, it was absolutely not for his own personal benefit. William was not a lecher!

He intended to use this special method to keep huge numbers of male players around...

As for how to attract female players?

Finding a few male Half-Elf NPCs would be enough. They were all long-legged and handsome anyway, not to mention that he himself was the most handsome of them all...

Don't you dare doubt it...

When other players saw that the other duchies only had groups of muscular men standing guard, patrolling, and defending the place—men who glared and threatened them at every turn, with no sense of charm whatsoever—they would definitely throw themselves into William's arms.

One had to know...

The title under which players descended into this world was Chosen Ones.

What were Chosen Ones?

Creatures chosen by heaven.

To every race in a feudal society, the word "heaven" was comparable to a deity—perhaps even greater than one.

Yet the gods of this world were also constantly watching this continent.

Even if they could not descend or truly determine where the players came from, they would still regard players as unusual. The gods would also send messages to the religions that worshipped them, leading to a certain degree of investigation, surveillance, and so on.

This was not limited to the gods. Or rather, all native inhabitants would regard players as something unusual.

"But who am I? Your savior, the only one who loves you. I'm not interested in your resurrection, nor am I interested in where you came from~"

William wiped his lips. Even if he drooled, his peerless looks would never make him seem sleazy.

Even the young woman in front of him, whose shoulder he was holding, had flushed bright red, yet her favorability toward him still rose sharply.

For a moment, she had even thought that the lord was about to take her away and make her his wife.

Unfortunately, William glanced at her long legs and said without the slightest hesitation, "Qualified. Next~"

Recruitment went quickly.

William personally chose everyone, patting each person on the shoulder while actually casting Insight...

In short, he casually offered a few words of encouragement. Those eliminated were told to keep trying, while those who passed were told to continue working hard...

By the time his mouth had gone dry, he had successfully selected 1,000 new recruits and 200 female Professional city guards.

Among the recruits, there were 930 Novice-Class Professionals and 270 Intermediate-Class Professionals.

"There are a lot of Intermediate-Class Professionals among these recruits." Lotner looked at the recruitment records and exclaimed in surprise.

"Not bad. More than half of my five hundred royal guards have now entered the Intermediate-Class Profession as well. They only just advanced, but I have the best armor and weapons.

"As for these recruits, give them each a set of Fine-quality (Blue) armor first, then take them out for training!"

William smiled. Teemo the Sprite had been working especially hard lately, producing more and more magical herbs. After Mages turned them into potions, even the Elven Royal Guard, who were already fairly high-level, had drunk quite a few.

On top of that, he often led them around on patrols—raids—and as long as they kept grinding small tribes for a few more months, they would basically all advance to Intermediate-Class Professionals.

The key point was that most Elves possessed Intermediate-Class, Advanced, Grandmaster, or even Epic Bloodlines.

Novice Bloodlines were practically nonexistent among them, while Intermediate-Class Bloodlines were also rare.

After all, there were only thirty million Elves on the entire Legendary Continent. If their bloodline potential were inferior to that of other races, they would truly have no way to survive.

-.- I knew you people would definitely misunderstand me... Tsk, tsk. Send over those recommendation votes.

Ahem, some big shots said the poor quality of this book was the real reason it had so few clicks.

Everyone, find the bad points and offer suggestions, then post them in the complaint thread I wrote. Thanks~ (′??×??`)

As for the issue of padding the plot, let's not talk about that for now. There are a lot of things that need to be written; this is background material. I'll reveal it gradually, revise it gradually, and keep it as concise as possible.