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Chapter 617 - 617 149 Recruitment Order_2

617: Chapter 149: Recruitment Order_2 617: Chapter 149: Recruitment Order_2 Elderly, women and children: 5 gold coins.

No cannon fodder species are accepted.

This discriminatory pricing naturally comes from Hudson.

Each bounty price stands up to scrutiny.

The price of Bimon is the highest, not only for their strong fighting abilities, but also because the Bimon tribe has a sparse population.

By now, there are estimated to be fewer than 200,000 members of their tribe left, even fewer of them being young and strong knights.

Even if everyone’s head was severed for the bounty, it would only result in a few million gold coins.

If one could wipe out an orc royal family for the mere sum of a few million gold coins, who could resist?

Seriously pricing these bounties with the end goal of wiping out the entire Bimon clan.

The price of Hawkman is high because they can fly and are harder to kill.

Of course, it is also because the major powers with strong air forces are deliberately pushing for this.

This is typical everywhere and the allied forces are no exception.

When the Frank Kingdom and the Clergy take the same stance, no one dares to oppose.

For the Hawkman who can’t fly, their bounty price is much more reasonable, similar to the other major royal families.

To stimulate everyone’s enthusiasm, the allied forces also promised that the leaders of the top ten mercenary groups with the most kills will be granted noble titles.

Individual mercenaries who rank in the top 500 can also become nobles.

The levels of their nobility will be determined by their individual accomplishments.

A chance to change one’s class has arisen.

For the common people, this is the best opportunity to become a noble.

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In an abandoned noble castle in Northland, the core members of the July Club met again.

Compared to before, they were in a much more dire situation.

As it turns out, participating in assassination is not so easy.

Even though they deliberately tried to pin it on the Nobles of the North, they were still implicated.

The officers left behind have stepped up the public security control.

Countless members of the July Club were sent to the front line for being idle.

It’s not that they’re lazy, it’s mainly because of the war, which has forced them to suspend their smuggling and slave catching businesses.

To avoid being hunted by the five major families in the north, members of the July Club mostly use false identities when they go out.

This kind of identity offers some safety, but also blocks their access to active duty.

To be precise, it only blocks their path to become military officers.

If they only intend to be common soldiers, identity verification is not strict.

But there’s no point in this.

Once one is stripped of noble status, it’s extremely difficult to reenter the ranks of the nobility.

The five major families in Northland have considerable influence in the military.

These remnants of rival clans simply can’t survive within military ranks.

This was all caused by Hudson.

They just got caught up in it.

Before the rise of the Koslow Family, the five major families didn’t care about these declining nobles at all.

But when Hudson took on the position of Grand Army Commander, they finally had a glimmer of respite.

But it is still risky.

After all, it’s better to be the current master than the official one.

The Grand Army Commander cannot look after everything.

With Hudson’s oversight, the people underneath dared not deliberately send them to their deaths, but they inevitably ended up doing the dirty work.

To avoid this pressure, one must directly join Hudson’s forces.

In fact, this is the choice of most of the declining nobles in Northland.

However, this does not include the senior members of the July Club.

It’s not a matter of bending down, it’s mainly because they have skeletons in their closets and fear getting exposed, leading to them losing even the opportunity to escape.

“Chief, the Allied Forces have issued a recruitment order for mercenaries.

This is our best opportunity to change identities.

There are so many mercenaries that even the five major Northland families can’t check one by one.

If we join as mercenaries and earn war achievements, we can reenter the ranks of the nobility, and temporarily bury our past.

We can settle accounts with our enemies in the future!”

A young man said enthusiastically as if nobility was already beckoning him, only one step away from becoming a new noble lord.

“Matteo, things are not as simple as you think.

Seeing the rewards offered by the Allied Forces, even you are moved.

I’m afraid it won’t take long for the mercenaries all over the continent to flood in.

Whether it’s to become one of the top ten mercenary groups with the highest war achievements or to enter the top 500 personal war records, it all involves fierce competition.

Moreover, do you think those nobles in the allied forces will really just sit by and do nothing?

Most likely, a large proportion of the positions have already been pre-booked, and the rest are left for everyone to fight over!”

The old man at the forefront said with a shake of his head.

He knows too well about the integrity of the nobility.

With huge profits at stake, if they don’t capitalise on this, can they still consider themselves nobles?

Even if they play fair, the nobility’s resources and strength simply don’t compare to the ordinary mercenaries.

For those mercenary groups, if they could concentrate their power to pile up personal achievements, then they might have a chance.

But if everyone wants to seize this golden opportunity, clashing with each other without giving in, the end result will most likely be them falling on the battlefield, leaving only a few lucky ones to take their bounty home.

This not only applies to ordinary mercenaries but also to the July Club.

If the club’s members concentrate their forces on pushing several nobles forward, that would not be difficult.