So, under the seemingly loose structure of the Adjudicating Paladin, there is actually a powerful aggressiveness and supremacy mechanic hidden. The Brood Alliance allows the Paladins to exchange the plundered or occupied resources for more and more advanced weapons and equipment to the headquarters, gain access to more core technologies, hire or plunder more knight squires, and then take a more powerful army to the distance.

Further, the Paladins will establish their own territories, as well as their own agricultural bases, mineral bases, research institutes, and arsenals, so that they do not have to exchange low- and medium-level technologies with headquarters. While saving a lot of resources, you can also develop your own exclusive equipment and even various abilities, so as to gain more voice in the system.

Most of the time, the facilities and institutions owned by the Paladin's private are closely related to the family, and most of these institutions are set up by the family's funds and then transferred to the Paladin's private name, and all the output and technical achievements are shared between the Paladin and the family.

Of course, Zhang Yuan was 108,000 miles away from establishing his base, and he couldn't even afford a complete set of private combat equipment now, except for the rifles sent by Colonel Ku Liqiang, the cash on his body was at most enough to buy a handcuff and corresponding ammunition. Although he has a villain chariot sent by Blue Moon, he has no money to buy energy, let alone hire a driver.

On the way to the Ruling Paladin's headquarters, Zhang Yuan kept a thought swirling in his mind, where was his knight squire?

The sources of knightly squires were varied, the most common being the poor children from the side branches of the family, followed by the stragglers on the periphery who needed a stable source of livelihood.

After all, it's much luckier to be a knight's squire than a mercenary. Moreover, the enemies of the mercenaries are often the paladins who lead a large number of knightly attendants. Eventually, slaves, plunderers, and even bankrupts could become knightly squires.

Of course, due to the high price paid to support a knight squire, no one ruled that the paladin would take the knight squire lightly, and the paladin's criteria for choosing a knight squire were mainly potential and strength.

In the past, even the poorest paladins had at least one or two knightly squires. But Zhang Yuan is an exception, he may be the poorest of all new paladins of all time, and this record does not look like it will be broken for a long time.

The Ruling Paladin's Headquarters had already appeared in sight, and Zhang Yuan knew that it was impossible for him to want a knight's squire. Now, what he needs most is not an attendant, but equipment.

Zhang Yuan decided to come up with one or two small tasks first and get together the equipment funds. In the face of difficulties, he is accustomed to keeping things that he is not yet able to solve in his heart, and only focusing on what can be done in front of him. And the first thing to do at the moment is to familiarize yourself with the task system of the Adjurative Paladin, and earn some start-up capital first.

The Paladin's Mission Hall is located in a separate building next to the Headquarters, with thirty separate rooms, each with a system for posting and undertaking missions. The privacy of the rooms is guaranteed, and the number of these rooms is sufficient for the Adjudication Paladin, whose members do not exceed a thousand. In fact, only the Judgment Paladins of the Soldier rank will use this place, and all Paladins above the rank of Captain have their own private system, which can directly connect to the network of the headquarters, where they can accept or issue missions. Of course, a private system that costs more than 100,000 is very expensive for the rank of ensign, but it is by no means unaffordable under normal circumstances, except for some poor ensigns.

When Zhang Yuan arrived at the mission hall, the sky was just slightly bright, and it wasn't until lunchtime that he came out of it. On the map, it was determined that the area controlled by the Paladin's core was just over 200 kilometers around the Holy Base, and that this area had been effectively developed and rebuilt, and that some of the Terrans had been restored to their pre-war appearance.

Further afield is the so-called Blue Zone, an area where Paladins have been adjudicated and some supply points have been established. Beyond the blue, there is the yellow zone. The yellow zone indicates that the Holy Knights have not been ruled out of the area, but those areas have been discovered. On the yellow area, there are a lot of small red clusters.

The red dots represent areas where there is fierce resistance, or where there is a very dangerous mutant Zerg existence, or where the Holy Knight has been killed for some undisclosed reason. Further out, there is the black area, which is at most only known about the topography and landforms, and there is no other information, and it is still an unknown area.

The area of the Holy Knight's control is not circular, but expands irregularly outward, some places have penetrated more than 3,000 kilometers into the mainland, while in other directions, almost out of the core control area is a black unknown zone. This is also understandable, for a paladin of less than a thousand, it is really difficult to control a vast area of more than hundreds of thousands of square kilometers. And the pace of expansion is constrained by the amount of resources, the supply of energy, food and water is very limited, and the farther it is transported, the higher the cost.

As for the various families, the main industries were almost always concentrated in the core control area, and in the wilderness they appeared more often in the name of the agent and the so-called group army. After all, safety is the primary consideration for important plants and research facilities. Not only is the core control area safeguarded, but it is also much easier to trade and obtain all kinds of resources.

To Zhang Yuan's surprise, the area where he was originally located, including the large grasslands and mountains, was actually a black unknown area. From a distance, it wasn't too far from the Holy Base. However, there is a small note below that this is to hunt down Zhang Yuan, and Lieutenant Kevin has led the paladins to scout the area, but they have not established any supply points there.

For some reason, the Paladin never explored in the direction of the mountain range that Zhang Yuan had finally reached. For the last ten years, the Paladin's focus has been to move in the other direction, without considering the direction of the Prairie Mountains at all.

Zhang Yuan, who had traveled through the grassland, knew that there were many Zerg mutant creatures there, many of which were not recorded in the Holy Horse Number Library. These biological samples can fetch a good price, with initial prices ranging from a few thousand to tens of thousands, with additional prices depending on the value of the study. Hardly any of the second lieutenants of the Holy Knight would fancy this small amount of money, but for Zhang Yuan, it was a huge amount of money.

In a sense, Zhang Yuan is actually richer than many paladins now, because of the injection and absorption of a large number of high-grade genetic potions, coupled with his own potential talent, at least he still has a lot of genetic evolution potential in his body, and the basic element of his body has increased by about thirty percent. If measured by the strength index alone, without using any strength bonus, Zhang Yuan's strength has already reached a high-level level.

Zhang Yuan decided to go to the mountains outside the prairie to find a suitable base and ruins as his future base. Then, he collected samples of some more mutated creatures along the way. The ruins of an unexplored base are worth nothing more than a paladin, if not too dilapidated.

The last time he went deep into the mountains, Zhang Yuan found the ruins of a large Terran base that was not very completely destroyed. At that time, because he was still being hunted, the ruins of the base were of no value to him. But now, Zhang Yuan knew that if the resources of the base, which was not very badly destroyed, could be utilized, he would be given a guarantee.

The only regret is that he couldn't meet Blue Moon before leaving the Holy Base, a creditor who was difficult for Zhang Yuan to evaluate. Just as Zhang Yuan was about to leave, a message suddenly flashed on the screen, asking him to go to Blue Moon's office immediately. The payer is Blue Moon.

I don't know why, seeing this news, Zhang Yuan's heart gradually overflowed with a faint joy, and he immediately walked towards the headquarters building.

At this time, Lan Yue was not in his office, but sat at the desk of Colonel Kuliqiang of the Protoss, with a dignified and elegant posture, just right. She gently shook the coffee cup in her hand, causing the satin-shimmering liquid to swirl softly, shallowly, like dimples on her cheeks.