Chapter III Urban Management
The administrators of the Apostle City are the intelligent race of the Shattered Starry Sky, and the authority they have is based on the urban code, and they have the judicial and administrative power on the surface.
The Urban Code was formulated by the original top apostolic team, and has undergone successive revisions and major reforms over the years, and has been able to cover all aspects of the entire city relatively completely. Each Apostle City's code is different, and the Code of the Devil's Horn has some characteristics of its own.
Based on this urban code, the intelligent races that govern the city form a security team and an administrative body, which is responsible for coordinating and managing the apostolic city. Because of the apostolic specificity, imprisonment and judgment were non-existent. In response to illegal incidents, the Devil's Horn mainly includes fines, confiscation of employment points, expulsion of urban residents and other law enforcement methods.
Of course, due to the limited strength of the security guards, they are not enough to supervise and control the high apostles, and at this time, other high apostles will take over.
In the Apostle City, Qin Lun's conjecture of bullying the weak and eating the weak is unavoidable. Of course, people who can become official apostles will not be too weak in mind, as long as they are not enemies of life and death, they generally will not go too far, and even if they bully the weak, everyone will appear very low-key.
Interestingly, Beruses' low-key is not directed at the High Apostles against the enforcers, but against the weak whom they bully.
The strength of the apostle changes very quickly, and the current weak person has become a strong person after a few otherworldly tasks. In the apostles, there is no strong person who is always high, and sometimes a mission from the other world is not passed, and the high apostle will be hit hard and change from the strong to the weak again. Even those god-level apostles in the ancient period have disappeared in the long years, and no one knows what happened to them.
Most of the apostles in the Apostle City will use masks and cloaks to hide their identities, and they will rarely have the retarded mind to deliberately provoke others without confirming the strength of their opponents.
For the Apostles of the Devil's Horn, there is no such thing as temptation, and once the provocation begins, it must be won or lost. The soft egg that retreats without going through a fight will soon be swallowed by the others until every bit of broken crystal on his body is squeezed dry.
"Hearing you say that, even if you can disguise your identity, it doesn't seem that a low-level apostle will do much good in the devil's horn. Even if you just want to exchange experiences with other apostles, it is easy to be perceived by your true strength and fall into danger! Qin Lun frowned slightly, looking at the old demon strangely.
"Hehe, actually, low-level apostles can only grow the fastest in the apostle city. Cheap equipment eliminated by the High Apostles, detailed information on otherworldly missions, colorful urban mercenary missions, and battles in various arenas and training grounds......" Beruses shook his head with a smile,
"There is no single race floating city that can provide so many content and choices for low-level apostles! As for security, the low-level apostles were protected by a certain amount of protection in each apostolic city.
The same is true of the Devil's Horn, a certain urban mercenary task of the High Apostle team is to track down ~ investigate and persecute ~ the outlaws of the low-level Apostles. Once discovered, the punishment is very severe, and it is even possible to be immediately removed from the status of a resident of the Apostle City. ”
"The identity of the resident you are talking about, and the ...... of the city points" Qin Lun's eyes flashed, and he asked suspiciously.
"The apostolic inhabitants of the Devil's Horn are divided into three categories, one is the resident residents, who make up about half of the city's population, and the second is the semi-resident population, although these apostles also have a residence in the apostolic city, but many times they return to the original floating city to live. Both types of residents can have the official status of the Devil's Horn! ”
Belusyston paused for a moment and continued, "The last type is the Wandering Apostles, which are not recommended by the Administrator Race, but are only temporarily settled in the Devil's Horn, and most of them will complete the transaction or leave after a while. Of course, they can also complete city employment tasks through guò, accumulate city points, and get official residency! ”
"As for the city points, it involves the city employment task. There are many types of mercenary missions, some of which are issued by the apostles themselves, and the content will generally be information, special items, the transfer of specific knowledge, martial arts sparring, and so on. The points for these tasks are paid for by the apostles themselves, and the governing body is responsible for escrow!
There are also some mercenary missions issued by the management of the Demon Horns, and the content of the missions is more complicated, including war mercenary in other floating cities, caravan guards, assassinations, ...... Anything is possible. ”
"What can I do with my City Points?" Qin Lun asked curiously.
"In the Devil's Horn, City Points are a hard currency, and even the High Apostle Team and the Council of Managers have no authority to increase or decrease City Points. City points are generated with the operation of the Apostle City, and each point of City Points generated corresponds to the Apostle's Broken Crystal or equipment items. Beruteres said solemnly.
It turned out that the apostles would spend a lot of money in the Demon Horn, such as housing, food, equipment repairs, potion replenishment, etc., all of which required a certain amount of money to be paid to the Demon Horn. Moreover, the Apostle City does not accept the currency of the Shattered Starry Sky, only the special currency of the Apostles. For example: Broken Crystals, Soul Crystals, Equipment Items......
City Points cannot be used in the outside world, but they are an indispensable currency in Apostle City. It can be used to post quests and purchase special services that are only available in Apostle City. For example, ask the alchemists trained in the city to synthesize equipment, use skill training grounds, hire life attendants, and so on.
The quantity and quality of apostles in an apostolic city represent the hard power of the city, while the accumulated city points belong to soft power. These points are accumulated more than they are consumed, and neither the High Apostles nor the Council of Administrators have the power to use them.
Only when the Apostle City releases a large-scale mercenary mission, the City Points will be consumed in large quantities.
Usually this happens, either the Apostle City has received a challenge from other Apostle Cities, or the Apostle City has encountered a foreign invasion of the management race to which it belongs, and the Apostle City needs to fulfill its duty of protection.
"Excluding the service personnel of the intelligent race, the apostles of the devil's horn are generally maintained at about 20,000. The city hall now stores 1 million city points last month, and during the Demon Clan's management, the city points increased by more than 100,000. Berluses said proudly, "The main reason why those elves have fallen to the current fate is because they lost a full 50,000 points in the city during their management. ”
In a city of 20,000 people, the amount of major currency is only 1 million, which means that the average person only has 50 city points. Qin Lun raised his eyebrows, the old demon's words revealed two pieces of information to Qin Lun.
The amount of currency of one million cannot meet the consumption circulation of the entire city in any case, which not only shows the preciousness of the city's points, but also one-sidedly shows that there are many private transactions between the official apostles, and there is no guò city official, after all, they have the common currency of broken crystals and huàn coupons among themselves.
As for the elves...... Qin Lun glanced at Beruses lightly, the old guy's words concealed a lot of things, the elf clan no longer had business acumen, and they would not lose so much.
In fact, he guessed correctly, in the years when the elves were in charge of management, there happened to be an elven war, which belonged to the moonlit night elves and the night elves. Although the Apostle City fulfilled its war obligations, the consumption of City Points was unavoidable.
What's more, this war is for the elves themselves, and the replacement of the main management has become inevitable, and there is a feeling that the time is also fateful.
The elves were also mentally prepared for the loss of the main management rights, but they didn't expect the demon clan to unite with the other three management races and plan to exclude them from the management council.
The Apostle City has achieved remarkable results under the management of the Demon Clan, and after deducting the task consumption, it has added a full 100,000 city points in just a few years. Even without that war, the Demon Clan's results were better than the Elves'.
Under such a premise, coupled with the fact that there were no other intelligent races in the Council of Administrators, the elves were suddenly in a desperate situation. In fact, in the past few years, the elven race has tried its best to import the apostles of the floating city into the apostle city to win the hearts of the city's people, but it seems powerless in the face of the alliance of the four major management races.
The Moon Night Elves knew that they could not afford to lose the management of the Apostle City, otherwise the racial influence would immediately be knocked down by a class.
What does it mean to have the stewardship of an apostolic city? This means that behind the Moonlit Night Elves stood twenty thousand official apostles, hundreds of teams of high apostles. Before the Demon Horn was destroyed, no race had been able to defeat the Moon Night Elves in war.
Losing the protection of the Apostle City is equivalent to the ancient Huaguo losing its nuclear umbrella, which is the Achilles heel of the moonlit night elves, and it cannot bear the weight.
"By the way, what do you mean when you said that the new apostle has a foothold in the Devil's Horn and only needs to follow one principle?" Qin Lun came back to his senses from the association and looked at the old demon calmly.
"Hehe, you already know just now that as long as your identity is well disguised, under normal circumstances, you will not be deliberately provoked." Beruses smiled and said, "But if you have already intervened in the dispute, then be careful not to divulge your apostle number!" ”
Qin Lun lowered his head and pondered, in the Demon Horn, whether it was bullying or being bullied, there would obviously be countless grievances. Apostles have a wide range of abilities, and there are many similar skills and combat skills, and their body shape and appearance can also be changed at any time. Even if you participate in robbery~robbery, as long as you keep a low profile, there will be no accidents.
If the unique apostle number is revealed, the urban punishment is nothing more than some broken crystals, but if it is hated by other apostles, it will not be a trivial matter.
This reminder from the old demon is probably the most important point of all information.