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Chapter 1235: Chapter 671, Saving the North Line

Rescuing the remnants of the Northern Line Army is a very meaningful task.

Although it involved certain risks, firstly, the risks were not too significant, and secondly, the rewards were considerable.

As for the risks, there’s no need to elaborate; after all, everyone has already safely arrived, the people were safely received, and safely returned. Those who died were from the Extraplanar Tribunal, not the Alliance. The Alliance has done its best, and in this regard, it can be said to be without guilt.

As for the rewards, they mainly lie in three aspects.

First is the combat capability of this force itself. Correct content is on f(r)eew(e)bnovel.(c)o(m)

Although there are only tens of thousands, in reality, to hold out for several months under the siege of an insect swarm on a planet, with the orbital threat of biological ships overhead, is not simple.

In fact, although there are not many people, and the majority are actually the personnel of the warships. The soldiers of the Navy Marine Corps are counted among them, generally considered elite. But there are also many who were sailors on the warships before, or even from logistics. These personnel were just given guns and armored shells; they had no real combat power.

But apart from that, the rest can be considered elite.

The Stormtroopers assigned to Qin Zhiping by the Tribunal have fifteen thousand remaining. They are all equipped with exoskeletons, with a tenth of them equipped with Feedback-Type Power Armor, making them not weak. Although they are mortal troops, consider this: the Alliance’s Glory Guard Corps are also mortals. As long as the level of training is kept up and the equipment level is kept up, even as mortals, the level of strength won’t be poor.

These Stormtroopers can be regarded as ’small-scale Glory Guards.’.

Oh, or you can say that the Glory Guards are large-scale Loyal Heir Stormtroopers; the essence is the same, just that the Glory Guards’ equipment and training levels are even better than the strongest mortal troop, the Loyal Heir Stormtroopers.

The other unit is a group of about a thousand Bounty Hunters.

This is a rather special group; they are not official personnel of the Empire but a group of people on certain worlds who make a living accepting various bounty missions from the Empire Legal Affairs Department, hunting various ’criminals’ on bounty lists. The Empire’s official government won’t take responsibility for them, nor will it provide them with any help other than intelligence. They must buy their own equipment, earn their own keep, and when they die, there are no benefits.

Their origins are mostly civilians from the Nest Capitals who can’t make a living by normal means, being forced to risk their lives; even many gang members or criminals don’t mind taking up the bounty hunter role while dealing with rivals, or when doing a black-on-black deal, use an acquaintance hunter as a front to cash-in on those they eliminate at the Legal Department.

Even those who are full-time bounty hunters do not mind switching identities occasionally to engage in illegal but lucrative activities. l.com

There’s no expectation of high loyalty or moral superiority from them.

Precisely due to these factors, the training and equipment levels of the Bounty Hunters are very uneven. The vast majority are poor, and the Empire’s officials regard them unfavorably.

But, there is an extremely small portion of them who survive mission after mission and successfully complete their tasks. Moreover, unlike most of their peers who squander their earnings, living for the day, they invest the money to improve themselves and enhance their equipment. Through such cycles, they grow into well-known figures, even attracting the Tribunal’s attention.

The Tribunal will generally investigate whether these people have a clean background. If they pass the scrutiny, the Tribunal will attempt to issue them more dangerous but higher-reward tasks while granting access to higher-level knowledge, equipment, technologies, or even human enhancements.

To become a well-known hunter is already one in ten thousand, but not every known hunter is favored by the Tribunal; those favored must survive the highly dangerous missions issued by the Tribunal again and again to continue advancing themselves.

Once someone truly reaches this level and wins the Tribunal’s favor, various Tribunal factions will attempt to incorporate them into their system, becoming followers of official Judges like Qin Zhiping.

Don’t underestimate being just a ’follower’; it may sound like being a dog, and well, it actually is being a dog. But even as a dog, you’re a sanctioned dog. With a sanction, you don’t need to take on frequent missions as before, greatly increasing the safety of life, and the maintenance, updating, and enhancement of equipment doesn’t cost money anymore, while income won’t be low, making life much better.

More importantly, descendants can also easily enter the system, and there is upward mobility for oneself. By performing well as a follower, there’s a chance to become an Inquisitor or Executor. Further advancement could lead to positions like Judge’s Assistant, and from there, a bona fide Judge.

Even the most junior Judge is a top-tier figure in the Empire, theoretically able to issue an Extinction Order for a world. Though that’s not very realistic, no matter which world they go to, unless it’s a place like Holy Terra where you can hit a high official by throwing a stone, even the most junior Judge is a significant figure.

Let’s not talk about such distant matters. Even this group of nearly a thousand followers here represents top strength among mortals.

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