At this time, there were six men and three women in the teleportation hall, a total of nine apostles. When Stark greeted him, Qin Lun keenly noticed that at least half of the nine people showed a disapproving attitude, and some of them even showed sarcasm and disdain.
Summoner Odo gave Qin Lun a brief introduction to the team before. This apostle team named "Fortress" belongs to a relatively mature bronze team, and also has a black iron subordinate team, with a total of fifteen members.
Among the peripheral teams that Tianfu belongs to, the fortress team is a relatively strong independent team, and it only has a nominal subsidiary relationship with Tianfu. Before the last mission world, this team had five second-tier professional apostles, and the other members were also job-changing apostles. The head of the group has even reached the peak of the second order, and is only one step away from breaking through the high order.
Such a bronze team has almost reached the peak of the bronze team. As long as the team leader breaks through the third-tier profession, they can attract another expansion. Relying on the strength of a core team with one high-ranking member and four second-ranking members, they have preliminarily completed the qualitative change from the bronze team to the silver team.
At that time, their relationship with Tianfu will no longer be a mere peripheral team, but a collaborator. If you are willing to give up the independence of the team, the core members can basically become the main force of Tianfu, and the first-level members can also be included in Tianfu's newcomer system.
It was just the defeat of the last mission world that dealt a fatal blow to this team. More than half of the ten-man main group suffered casualties, and two of the four second-order apostles who entered the world at the same time died, one of whom was the original head of the fortress team.
The burly Han Stark who was greeting Qin Lun was one of the three remaining second-tier apostles in the fortress team.
It stands to reason that excluding the influence of the mission world, the most important thing for the Fortress team at present is to re-elect a leader to lead everyone. However, this simple inner working is now causing a lot of trouble.
There are many reasons, the most important of which is related to the structure of the fortress team. In fact, most of the general bronze teams only have one or two second-tier apostles, and there will be newcomers who have not transferred to the subordinate teams, just like the Fink team that was destroyed by Qin Lun, Hill and others.
With the strength of the fortress team, they can completely expand into a medium-sized team with three or five black iron teams around five second-tier members. However, the original head of the fortress team insisted on the principle of preferring lack to excess, and only retained a black iron team as a supplement to the main team.
It was nothing at all, but he didn't arrange it well. Since the main group has four second-tier members, its strength is far superior to that of the subordinate black iron team, and the profit of each mission world is much greater than that of the subordinate team. Everyone would like to stay in the main team, and don't want to go to the subordinate team.
The original head of the fortress acquiesced to this, and he did not arrange for the rotation of subordinate team members and main team members. In other words, only when the main force has suffered casualties will he replenish personnel from subordinate teams.
Over time, the relationship between the subordinate team and the main team members has become relatively distant. As a result, most of the members of the main team died this time, especially after the head of the team fell, and there was a gap between the subordinate team and the main team.
However, through the cooperation of many mission worlds, the subordinate team has formed a strong friendship and tacit understanding among the members, and naturally wants to gain the leadership of the team. Although there are still two second ranks left in the main team, the head of the subordinate team is also second rank, and his strength is not bad. This person is Stark who greeted Qin Lun.
The most important thing is that Stark is an MT, and besides the original leader, the only existing MT of the "Fortress".
So, things have evolved into the current situation, and five subordinate team members want to dominate the team. However, the four members of the original main team insisted that there were still two second-tier members, and they were worried about the distribution of benefits in the future, so they were unwilling to accept Stark's leadership, causing the entire team to be in a split state.
In this way, in most cases, there is only one result. That is, after the mission world failed again and lost some members, other members were forced to give up their independence and join other teams as individuals, most likely joining Tianfu.
This is also an aspect that Kelly, the deputy head of Lost, once warned Qin Lun. When a small team develops to a certain stage, it will inevitably encounter similar bottlenecks. Before they develop into large teams, they will fall below this threshold and eventually be swallowed by large teams.
So can the "Fortress" team be divided into two small teams, you take your Yangguan way, and I take my single-plank bridge? It's theoretically possible, but none of them are currently doing that.
For the four members of the original main team, they had just suffered a serious injury and lost their team leader as an MT. Unless the team is really disbanded, it can only accept the status quo. As for Stark and others, he couldn't ignore those four original companions, otherwise Tianfu and even other teams of the Apostles Monument Alliance would think of them.
What's more, if Stark's current black iron team is going well, it will expand sooner or later. These four companions are only dissatisfied with him, not enemies. As long as he has the ability to lead the team, everything will come naturally, which is much better than recruiting strange apostles from the outside world.
"Okay, since everyone is here, let's start!" Stark turned his head to look at the crowd, and then invited Qin Lun to join the group.
"Apostle No. 70053, do you accept the invitation of Apostle No. 25531 to join the 'Fortress' team?"
"Huh?" Qin Lun just consciously accepted the team invitation, and suddenly remembered something, and raised his eyebrows in surprise.
"Hehe, it seems that you have understood the promotion requirements of the apostle team." Stark seemed to understand what the young man was surprised, and smiled in a deep voice, "The reminder message you received is correct, we have become a temporary team with the title. Silver team."
Stark's eyes flashed, and there was a lot of emotion in his expression. Their main team had actually completed the mission in the last mission world, and that mission was somewhat similar to the "Mystery of the Crystal Lake" that Qin Lun accepted in the world of Nars.
"The Mystery of Crystal Lake" is not only the guiding task before the main plot, but also the team building task of Qin Lun and others. The task that the fortress team accepted in the last mission world is not only the main storyline, but also the team promotion task for the bronze team to be promoted to the silver team.
It is precisely because of the importance of this mission that the original head of the fortress will break the boat and fight desperately at the final stage of the mission. If the leader is not dead, the Fortress team can actually be considered to have passed an important threshold. Not only will the team become a silver rank, but the team leader is also very likely to cross the bottleneck from the second rank to the third rank.
Now these have become a thing of the past. Although the Fortress team won the silver team title, they lost their leader and were on the verge of collapse. The silver team title is also an important factor for Stark and others to continue to maintain this split state.
Once the main group is disbanded, the silver title will disappear, and several companions including the group leader will die in vain. It has to be said that this is a kind of sadness.
After joining the team, Qin Lun immediately checked the team skills possessed by "Fortress". The team skills possessed by the apostle team are actually a kind of regional law, usually a regional halo with the group leader or team authority person as the core.
At the beginning, the black iron team formed by Qin Lun, Hill and others in the world of Nars had a single team skill—the halo of sincerity. Within the 100-meter range of the team leader, team members gain 10% health and energy.
In fact, the team skills of the bronze team and the black iron team are all auras of sincerity, and there is no difference in essence. Only after being promoted to the silver team will you get another title skill.
The title skill of the "Fortress" team is called "Fortress", but the content expression of this title skill has nothing to do with the word "Fortress".
The title of "Fortress" is an individual team skill, based on the physical attributes of the law, it can increase the energy value and life value recovery speed of the authority by 50%, and provide a reserve equivalent to one-third of the life value or energy value. Life and energy can be chosen according to the needs of the apostles.
This title skill is very powerful, but it can only be used by two people. Seriously, it is not an excellent team title skill. There is a special reason why the Fortress team has such a team skill, and it is also one of the factors that caused the team's current situation.
After completing the team promotion task of the main fortress group, the head of the group has died, and only four of the ten members remain. They knew that if they wanted to keep the results of the silver team, they could only combine with Stark's team.
However, they are worried that they and others will make such a big sacrifice, and in the end they will only benefit the subordinate team. So after voting, they chose such a tasteless title skill, and agreed that this title skill would only be used in rotation among the current four people for the time being.
Although Stark has become the nominal acting head, in fact, the head authority of the "Fortress" team does not belong to him. The four veteran members of the main team said that either Stark showed the ability to lead them through difficulties, or he would be the deputy head, otherwise he would rather give up the silver title than hand over the authority of the head.
"Captain Stark, why do you say it is a temporary silver team?" Qin Lun asked curiously after checking the team information.
Stark hesitated for a moment, and explained to Qin Lun: "Because the leader of the Silver team needs to reach the third level of apostle title, and I don't have this condition yet, the Silver title can only retain one mission world for the time being. In the next mission world, if I can’t get more than 100 contribution points, then the fortress will become a bronze team again.”
"Contribution value above 100 points?" Hearing Stark's words, even Qin Lun's city government couldn't help but be surprised.
Even if Qin Lun got a gold rating in a low-magic world or a silver rating in a medium-demonic world, he never got more than 100 points of contribution. From this point of view, the difficulty of the Fortress team's next task world can be imagined.
Even if Broken Starry Sky divides the 100 points of contribution into several side plots, it is not an easy task to complete. No wonder the four original main team members acted so fiercely. They were forcing Stark and others to go all out to save the achievements of their companions at the cost of their lives.
From this point of view, they are not necessarily just fighting for leadership!
"Well, yes!" Stark grinned, "You still have a choice now, do you want to continue with us into the next mission world!"