Published: February 13, 2025
Chapter: The Chapter of Two-in-One
The things boss makes are all good things.
The current Red Dress Guard is the future of other battle teams.
These two points are something that the Cloud Summit warriors and even the high-ranking officials of Cloud Summit firmly believe.
Since the seemingly unremarkable Bronze Mask meets both of these requirements, it is absolutely worth scrambling for!
If everyone shares equally, then there's nothing to say—everyone is good, and we all care for each other. We’ve saved each other's lives countless times over the years, perhaps enough to be counted on one hand.
Good things should be shared among everyone, and there won’t be any issues. There’s a guarantee of no competition; even if there are moments when distributions vary, no one really minds because it’s definitely not something dirty. It’s just the situation as it is, and compensations will be given in the future.
In Cloud Summit, it might not be possible to achieve absolute fairness, but striving for fairness can be guaranteed.
But now, things are different. Le Da Yuan said that giving fifty thousand Bronze Masks to one battle team is a significant issue.
This is not merely a distribution problem; to some extent, it involves the recognition of a team's strength.
After a long period of development, the majority of battle teams now have a scale of at least a hundred thousand members, with the main battle teams being larger and the others smaller. Single-type battle teams usually have more members, while special teams have fewer.
For instance, a cavalry unit like Little Tiger’s has now exceeded two hundred thousand, counting one person and one mount as one unit. Take the Cloud Summit air force, for example, with a scale of over three hundred thousand—of which one hundred thousand are aerial knights and over two hundred thousand are individual flying battle beasts.
In another case, Li Daqian’s battle beast department has even more numbers; not counting the reserves, its current combat strength exceeds five hundred thousand.
Among normal battle teams, the Mo Ye battle team is the largest, with one hundred eighty-seven thousand members, while Guangyao’s team has one hundred sixty-five thousand members.
Special departments, like the medical department led by Park Soo-young, have only about fifty thousand members, and the potion department managed by Tang Guo has just over forty thousand.
With the increase in numbers, the strength of each team is also changing. Excluding the special forces, to be honest, the combat power discrepancy among the other teams is becoming smaller.
In the process of absorbing new members, well-established teams like Mo Ye’s, Liang Chuyin’s, and Xia Lei’s naturally have a significant allure. However, this also signifies an increase in difficulty for those wanting to rise within, and status often correlates with benefits and evolution speed. Thus, many capable and ambitious individuals prefer to join ‘new’ teams or relatively weaker ones, such as the early-established teams led by Young Master Yun, Lu Yi, Alang, and a dozen new armies formed by outstanding individuals selected from the Youth Army.
Talent flow is a normal occurrence, and since Xia Lei also emphasizes balance between teams, the strength disparity among the thirty-some teams is significantly smaller than before.
Healthy competition is something that Xia Lei and many core members of Cloud Summit hope to see; it’s also a crucial way to maintain unity within Cloud Summit.
However, healthy competition is still competition, and with this deliberate act and the rapid development of Cloud Summit, this competition is becoming increasingly heated.
Teams like Little Tiger’s, Park Soo-young’s, and Li Daqian’s, with their unique or exceptional strengths, may not feel the urgency as much, but for other teams, the fifty thousand pieces of equipment coveted by the Red Dress Guard could very well be a game-changer, widening the gap in overall strength.
Indeed, these items might still be manufactured in the future and available for every battle, but let’s not forget that a war is imminent that could influence the entire fate of Cloud Summit.