Published: February 11, 2025
Many people entered with Ye Zhongming; apart from Zhao Xiangxue, Gao Yi, and Li Qiang, the rest were members of the Nalan battle team.
Mina and Garan followed Ye Zhongming’s lead, both willingly and at his request. He wanted to come to the Color City, a place with a very high combat intensity, so having help would alleviate some of the pressure.
As for whether the fighters from the Nalan team could withstand the tests here, Ye Zhongming didn't consider it. Sacrifices would always happen, as long as they weren't his own people. Of course, Ye Zhongming would provide some compensation afterward.
However, seeing the Nalan battle team with its over one hundred fifty members made Ye Zhongming feel an uncontrollable admiration and a bit speechless toward Garan and Mina.
Because among this group of over a hundred people, their strength was too uniform. The lowest evolution level was four-star, and the highest was five-star...
Such a structure in Cloud Summit was very similar to a small team, with one level of leadership above and the warriors one level below. There was no problem with that since it represented a normal level disparity in a combat collective.
But placed within a complete organization, that became a significant issue.
Calculating the average level, Cloud Summit Villa should rank very high among super forces, but in Cloud Summit, the evolutionary levels were still distinctly defined, from the highest seven-star evolvers to the continuously trained one-star evolvers; each level was present.
Even if everyone eventually became evolvers, lower evolution levels like one-star and two-star would disappear from Cloud Summit, yet other evolution levels would still remain.
This is similar to an army; because of the different ranks, there is a clear promotion path, giving people hope, instead of an even distribution like a utopian society.
If it were truly like that, any collective would collapse.
Although Ye Zhongming invests a lot in his subordinates, his own combat power has always maintained an absolute lead. The only time Xia Bai’s strength was close to his was due to special circumstances, and Ye Zhongming never doubted Xia Bai's loyalty.
However, the Nalan battle team, as an organization, maintained such an extremely close evolutionary level. In the short term, Garan and Mina could still keep their strength advantage. After being aided by them, these people would likely feel grateful and obedient for a while.
But what about after a long time? Or when their evolution levels reached or even exceeded those of Garan and Mina?
Would they still be willing to remain subordinate? Moreover, Garan and Mina's excellent appearance easily led men to develop ulterior motives.
Right now, things were fine, but hidden dangers had already been planted. Aside from these two women, there were also several five-star evolvers in the Nalan battle team. Even Ye Zhongming could see that some of them occasionally exhibited rebellious expressions, only to restrain themselves when they saw him.
Ye Zhongming didn’t know if Garan and Mina had noticed these signs, but it was an undeniable serious hidden danger.
As for the admiration he felt, it was because the two might have given up their own evolution opportunities to continuously strengthen their subordinates. So far, the organization ranked well, but their own strength remained low.
That didn’t mean they would overlook a six-star potion when they had it; they often used any magic crystals they obtained, unable to save them up.
Let’s consider it a way to clean up their ranks, Ye Zhongming thought.
“This is Color City; everything around us could be an enemy. They can take on various forms to attack us, so we must stay alert,” Ye Zhongming stated some of the things he knew. He didn’t care about the lives of the Nalan people; not that he wanted them all to die here, but if they could live longer and do more for him, it would naturally be better.
“There’s no good way to resolve things here; we can only push through little by little. Once we completely destroy this city, we can get the final rewards.”