Chapter 630: Dejiaka Battle Group! Master Rating!

Strong ones don't like being restrained or managed.

Therefore, even if they join guilds or legions, they can earn battle merits by fighting on the front-line battlefield.

Yet most of the ability users who come to Moben from other countries willingly join the Dejiaka Battle Group.

Precisely because of this, although the Dejiaka Battle Group has been founded for less than fifty years, it has already become a colossal presence.

The logistics base alone covers an area of several hundred thousand square meters.

The main building standing before the logistics base is built even more extravagantly.

"We're here."

"This is the Dejiaka Battle Group's garrison."

A tall man, looking about thirty years old, with a steady presence, appeared in front of the building.

This was Xu Jingming after he had changed his appearance.

The Tianming Sect's forces in Moben are extremely rampant, and other countries might also be harboring some scheme to assassinate geniuses from other nations.

So he followed Teacher Ling Shuang's advice—when out and about, he never used his true identity.

As for his aura, he likewise used a Breath-Concealing Art to disguise it to the level of a seventh-rank mid-tier ability user.

He stepped into the first-floor lobby, swept his gaze around, and the surrounding scene was instantly taken in at a glance.

This lobby was very large, a full ten thousand square meters, with quite a few ability users all queuing up to register.

Most of these ability users were fifth-rank or sixth-rank; even fourth-rank was rare.

Below fourth-rank, there wasn't a single one.

The front-line battlefield is extremely dangerous; low-rank ability users can almost be called cannon fodder.

They clearly had self-awareness and wouldn't come to join.

"Hello, Mr., may I help you with anything?"

A uniformed girl wearing a super short skirt that revealed Bai Xi long legs came up to greet him and asked warmly.

Inwardly, however, she was secretly shocked.

Judging from the faint pressure, this was absolutely a seventh-rank Master-level ability user.

Yet the other party looked young, only about thirty-one or thirty-two years old.

A seventh-rank Master at this age was considered relatively young, and could very well advance further.

Why not stay properly in the city to cultivate, and instead come join a front-line battlefield with a death rate as high as fifty percent?

Either he was a commoner ability user with no background, wanting to earn money to buy cultivation resources.

Or he was a scion of an ability-user clan who came here to temper himself.

After thinking it over, she still leaned more toward the latter.

After all, the former wouldn't join the Dejiaka Battle Group, but would join a legion directly.

That way, not only could one harvest fierce beast materials, but also accumulate battle merits.

"I've come to join the Dejiaka Battle Group. What procedures do I need to handle? Do I queue up here?"

Xu Jingming asked.

"The lobby is where ability users below seventh-rank register. You are a seventh-rank Master, so naturally you don't need to queue. Please follow me."

Led by this pretty female receptionist, Xu Jingming arrived at the area to the right of the lobby.

Compared to the bustling center of the lobby, this place was far more spacious.

Only a few sofas for resting were casually placed around.

At this moment, there were three people on the sofa—two men and one woman.

All three were fully armed, wearing battle suits and carrying weapons on their persons.

Their auras leaked out slightly, revealing their identities as seventh-rank Master-level ability users.

"My lord, please rest here for a moment." The female receptionist said with a smile.

"Can't I register right away?" Xu Jingming frowned.

"For a Master-level ability user to join the Dejiaka Battle Group, Uncle Keladuo must personally review them.

Please rest for a moment, my lord. Uncle Keladuo will be here in about half an hour."

The female receptionist replied with a smile.

"Keladuo will give us a rating.

Until we are rated, we can't join the Dejiaka Battle Group.

Friend, take a seat first."

On the sofa, a burly, bald-headed strong man said with a smile.

"You may go now."

After giving the order to the female receptionist, she retreated with an apologetic look on her face.

Xu Jingming himself sat down on the seat to the right of this strong man and asked curiously:

"Rating? Can this big brother explain it in detail?"

Before coming, Xu Jingming had already looked up relevant information on the Dejiaka Battle Group.

He knew Keladuo was one of the core members of the battle group, an eighth-rank mid-tier Master Zongshi, possessing an Enhancement-type A-rank ability.

But that one needed Keladuo's rating before joining the battle group—this was the first time he had heard of it.

"This friend must have just arrived in Moben not long ago, right?"

The other seventh-rank Master, a lean man, asked with a smile.

"Mm." Xu Jingming nodded.

At most, he had only been in Moben for less than two months.

"No wonder you don't know — this is a measure the Dejiaka Battle Group only started implementing in the last year or two.

It's mainly aimed at seventh-tier Master-level ability users."

The bald, burly man explained with a smile, "They divide seventh-tier Masters from one star to nine stars, into nine grades.

The assessment later will be to see just how strong you really are."

"Not looking at grade, directly certifying star count?" Xu Jingming was hearing this kind of talk for the first time.

"That's right."

The bald, burly man laughed heartily, "Grade doesn't represent everything, and for us seventh-tier Masters it's even more so.

Based on base attributes, ability level, combat experience, weapons and equipment, and other related factors,

the combat power one ultimately displays will be entirely different, which is why this star-rating system exists.

Taking A-grade abilities as the standard, a seventh-tier lower-rank ability user's strength is roughly one to two stars.

Mid-rank is three to four stars, upper-rank is five to six stars.

As for seven, eight, and nine stars, those are ratings for seventh-tier peak, or even those brushing against the eighth-tier level."

"So that's how it is."

Xu Jingming now fully understood, "But what's the benefit of these stars? Surely it's not just for show?"

"There are plenty of benefits — the higher the star rating, the more likely you are to catch the eye of elite Master squads.

On the battlefield, having a group of reliable teammates is an extremely rare condition.

Besides that, when the Dejiaka Battle Group has any good stuff to distribute internally, high-star Masters are also given priority."

The bald, burly man smiled and extended his hand: "I'm Zhang Zhou, upper-rank seventh-tier, with an Enhancement-system A-grade ability.

For the strength certification later, I estimate I can get about six stars."

"Zhou Xuan."

Xu Jingming also extended his hand and gave it a light squeeze, "Seventh-tier mid-rank ability user, with an Elemental Fire-system A-grade ability.

This is my first time here, I haven't thought about star rating yet — I'll just do my best later."

Zhou Xuan was an identity Ling Shuang had specially forged for him.

The information was real and verifiable, with not a single flaw to be seen.

As for the fire-system ability, it was because he considered his own lightning ability far too conspicuous.

Using combat techniques would make it very easy for his identity to be seen through.

It happened that the "Lei Huo" combat technique could serve as a conversion.

Disguising as an Elemental Fire-system ability user would make him far less likely to be discovered.

Also, he hadn't expected this burly man to actually be a Great Xia person too — no wonder he'd taken the initiative to chat earlier.