BXBX NOVEL Chapter 1483 Gold Bars
As the name suggested, the centre dealt solely with missions and in lieu, the completion of missions. That means it was considered one of the major 'attractions' in every town since commanders depended on this Mission Command Centre for their livelihood. From little things to short term recruitment of adhoc jobs to the involvement of multiple commanders to clear an infestation near the town.
To top it off, other towns' Mission Command Centres offer their requests as well in case the commanders decided to take a few jobs at a time. Naturally, being unable to complete a request would result in a demerit of points and a bad rep and that would cause a commander who had defaulted on those requests to be badly shunned upon. The previous Jin was one of such commanders but with the completion of this particular scouting mission, this new Jin would get to reap the rewards that the old Jin had placed for him,
While somewhat illegal, all those bets by various commanders had already been deposited into the Mission Command Centre's incentive programme where a commander who deemed the mission too hard to be done and requests someone else to do it. However, such incentives can be pulled out by the Mission Command Centre if the commander fails the mission. As such when Jin submitted the mission details, all those extra 'incentives' have been awarded to him as well as the extra mission objectives that he managed to complete.
"CPT is literally swimming with gold bars and points." Diaz chuckled as she saw how Jin was being escorted to the redemption point and suitcases of gold bars had been taken out for him to verify the reward amount. Naturally, he had decided to convert some into points since there was no way for him to carry that many around with him. He still found it funny that with such a modern setting, their way of bartering stuff is being done with gold bars.
Granted some prefer gold bars because the point conversion of gold bars varied day to day and there will be a few who wished to profit from the most amount of points but other than that, lugging gold bars around town or out for missions was ludicrous and impractical. The War Maidens also could not understand the fascination for gold bars and Jin believed it had to do with the inhabitants of Synthesis World who could have used gold bars as their mode of currency and barter before this entire virtual world thing came along.
Perhaps the alluring visual of gold bars made those inhabitants feel rich rather than the measly digital numbers that the points system had made. It was only later a veteran commander overheard Jin talking about gold bars that he kindly explained it provided extra bonus to the year end calculation of points. "Whoever has these gold bars will be exchanged for some additional points in addition to the current gold to points conversion. It is sort of like a bonus so some hoarders thought that having a healthy amount of gold bars can enable them to earn higher points."
"Won't that put them at risk of other commanders attempting to steal from them?" Jin asked and the veteran commander nodded his head, glad to know that someone new was willing to hear his thoughts and ramblings.
"You are a smart one. " The veteran commander said as Jin portrayed his LT rank so openly to show that he was somewhat a 'newbie' since his CPT insignia rank yet had to be officially given. "Those new commanders never knew that and fall prey to the more scrupulous ones. So you best be careful of your gold bars." He said before walking away fulfilled that he had given advice of the day.
"CPT, that guy did not tell you everything but you need gold bars to exchange for War Maidens. Buy Mechanoids with points is actually more expensive." Yinn told Jin through the encrypted tactical system channel.
"Ack! Then did I convert too many to gold bars?" Jin asked when all he did was exchange fifty of them when he still had hundreds in his possession. (Diaz felt like slapping him)
"We have more than enough to remake our Medic as well as creating a new War Maiden...though the two of them would most probably not have Package Ten installed since Assistant Chief Engineer Rocky had done us a favour by skipping the requirements. There is no way the War Maiden Manufacturing Store would allow such concessions." Yinn said felt a little disappointed that their new teammates would not have the same upgrades as them.
"Ehh... Technically, I can just give Rocky a heads up about it. He might be able to do something about that." Jin said as if it should not be a problem but Yinn insisted not to bother him considering he was the Archduke's engineering team. One of the more prestigious engineering teams that people were dying to get into. Obviously, the best would be the royal guards but to Jin, it was none of his concern since he would use Rocky if the circumstances needed him to do so.
"User, do remember about my request now that we are going to get one more permanent 'member' for the squad." The Tactical System wrote and Jin became a little worried."Will it go smoothly?"
"It will. Given the amount of time spent in this realm, the System had managed to ensure the safety of the new member. However, User have to embrace himself. The new member would likely be either violent or emotionally unstable upon seeing you."
"Lol, how much time has passed?" Jin asked as he knew there will be a discrepancy in their time when comparing parallel worlds.
"Approximately a month in Earth's time." The System reported and Jin nearly fainted on the spot.