"Hey, Anvis, are you still employing those foreigners? How is it going?"
Harvey wasn’t clear about Anvis’s plans, but the primary reason for his visit was due to his curiosity about the results of Anvis’s previous foreigner pilot program.
Recently, it has beco known that Anvis had allocated a piece of provincial territory entirely to those foreigners to oversee its developnt.
While many foreign scholars were still trying to figure out how to prevent those outsiders from undermining things from within, Anvis had already co up with new tricks.
"Those foreigners..."
Speaking of them, Anvis revealed a rather odd expression.
Well, it’s tough to say, but lately, more and more of them have been spending money on high-level idle modes.
Especially when he personally appeared and generously offered orange Legendary Equipnt, Secret Magic Golem blueprints, master-quality Moonlight Spring Potions, and other treasures as rewards to the players who contributed most to the construction, the enthusiasm of many players soared to unprecedented levels.
Gradually, re idling was no longer enough for so hardcore players; so even bought lesser energy potions daily, taking them to quickly recover from excessive energy consumption.
Of course, this wasn’t just to climb the leaderboards for rewards but also because of the Experience Value players earn from various construction and production tasks, directly linked to their effort levels.
For the hardcore level grinders, this was rely transforming idling from monster killing for Experience to idling for work Experience, taking potions was quite normal.
However, even though he was aware of the players’ intentions, Anvis still found this behavior rather indescribable.
They had to work during the day, and they were still working even while asleep at night!
Moreover, this job doesn’t earn money but instead costs them money to work!
Even spilling out not just this world’s money but also Blue Star’s money!
The working hours were also twelve and a half tis longer!
Most importantly, all of this was voluntary by the players, and there were even clubs and guilds specifically paying them salaries to work here.
Real capitalists would cry upon seeing this.
"Actually, their work ethic is pretty good, quite diligent..."
After thinking for a mont, Anvis spoke in an indifferent tone, as if referring to sothing trivial.
"...Please, Anvis, you don’t need to put on a brave front anymore, I understand—"
However, Harvey seed to have misunderstood Anvis’s intention.
With a mysterious tone, under Anvis’s sowhat bewildered gaze, Harvey spoke.
"Actually, when I found out you assigned those foreigners to work outdoors and build cities, I also tried to get them involved in production work.
But as you know, I don’t have any territory to manage, so I just set up an Alchemy Workshop and instructed my foreign subordinates to work there as apprentices."
"You had those foreigners working as... Alchemy Apprentices?"
Hearing Harvey’s words, Anvis cast a peculiar look at him.
Alchemy Apprentices are not like chanical Factory workers; regular custodial mode simply isn’t up to the task. They are dealing with actual natives, not the cold assembly lines of a chanical Factory.
Unlike the stability of an assembly line, working hands-on with real people often leads to many unforeseen situations.
And the response of the players in regular custodial mode to these situations was like that of a tree person cursed with slowness, excruciatingly slow.
In Mysterious Era, one characteristic of tasks is that the subjective judgnt of the natives also occupies a large portion of the completion score.
And a low task completion score results in pitifully low experience gains.
To these ’foolish foreigners,’ the Alchemists naturally had no patience, resulting in the players waking up and seeing, to their astonishnt, that the idling experience was minuscule!
Since that’s the case, why don’t they just go directly to look for the cats? Spending a night idle, they could at least bring back five or six cats, and perhaps even trigger so other random adventure tasks along the way.
Hence, the players who felt deceived left and divided up the raw materials and finished products from the Alchemy Workshop before fleeing, using them to offset their ’wages’.
"...My alchemists tell that those newcors from foreign lands seed cursed, their actions completely abnormal, more like skeleton laborers clad in human skin."
After working for a few days, they suddenly all fled, and they even emptied the warehouse of the Alchemy Workshop, causing a loss of over ten thousand gold coins,"
After briefly recounting the events, Harvey shrugged his shoulders, showing disdain for the morals of these foreigners.
"So, Anvis, I advise you to be careful as well – these foreigners are not to be trusted.
Even if they haven’t shown any signs yet, to use those foreigner’s words, maybe they are preparing to ’hit you big’!"
"Thank you for your advice, Harvey."
Anvis nodded,
"Also, tonight is dical examination ti, rember to bring your girlfriend to my laboratory in the Royal Capital."
"...I know."
Harvey’s expression imdiately turned bitter when this was ntioned.
Although Anvis’s examinations wouldn’t cause them any harm, so of the experintal procedures always seed sowhat ominous to him.
Especially when Anvis studies the changes in dream wave frequency, which might affect his consciousness.
"By the way, I’ve recently received an interesting piece of news. Many people, including Prince Lanno, seem to be trying to set up spy agencies covertly using foreigners."
Before leaving, Harvey casually dropped this piece of news for Anvis as his eyes darted around the room.
"A foreigner intelligence agency, huh? I got it."
Anvis also nodded slightly, and then watched Harvey leave.
This world is never short of clever people; employing players in intelligence agencies is indeed the most appropriate way to utilize them currently.
It not only maximizes the players’ strengths but also avoids the chaos their unpredictable attributes could cause.
Anvis dares to extensively use foreigners not just because he was a seasoned player in his forr life but also because he can see other players’ status panels.
For other normal inhabitants who don’t have such special abilities, rely imitating his actions in employing players would be no different from courting death.
"...Even Harvey knows the news that Lanno is secretly establishing a foreigner intelligence organization?"
Muttering under his breath, Anvis instantly recalled Lanno’s rise in his previous life.
In his previous life, during Lanno’s rise, players had contributed significantly.
Unlike the other princes, Lanno didn’t put on airs with the players, or rather, he didn’t show any.
Plus, with his gentle and beautiful youthful appearance, being polite and highly intelligent, Lanno was extrely popular among players. Most major clubs dostically and even so renowned international clubs had private dealings with him.
An opposite example was his royal brother, Seventh Prince Ville, a known conservative who carries the sa na as a certain Ninth Rank from the Alfred Family. He is notorious for his arrogant attitude toward foreigners and civilian Professionals.
This earned him the support of the conservative forces within the Royal Family but also cost him the support of the reformists and players.
In the subsequent struggle for power, his forces were largely decimated due to traps set by players, leaving the scene in bitterness.
"Given his nature, if Harvey’s intelligence was able to get this information, it has to an he intentionally let the news leak to obscure his true intentions.
Does that an he is already beginning to approach the three major clubs?"
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