The surgery went smoothly, and one couldn't help but admire that this black-market doctor was truly a qualified surgeon. He performed the entire operation with the ease of a fish in water, without even needing an assistant's help. He completed it all by himself.
And he was incredibly fast.
As for the troublemakers who came here, not a single one died, but they all ended up a few pounds lighter.
"Hmm."
Doctor Gou rested his chin in one hand, pondering, and said, "Should I start a devilish weight-loss boot camp? I feel like my weight-loss method will soon prove effective."
The brawny men had all left the clinic, clutching their abdomens. As expected, they probably wouldn't come back. For these low-level thugs, there wasn't much of a desire for revenge. A painful lesson usually sufficed to keep them at bay.
Unless you run into some stubborn fools, who would choose to seek revenge.
After the bruisers had left, Doctor Gou turned back to the black-market doctor with a serious look, "Stay. My clinic needs a qualified doctor, and I think you're pretty good. We both have a profound love for saving lives and helping the injured, birds of a feather. We'll work well together."
"..."
The black-market doctor was a young man, exuding a kind of soft beauty that wasn't effeminate but made one sense intense negative emotions and something slightly sinister.
After a long silence, the black-market doctor said softly, "I don't have a passion for saving lives and helping the wounded. I chose to be a doctor simply because the salary is high."
"Besides, isn't your profession supposed to be Swordsman?"
"That doesn't really go with being a doctor, does it?"
"It does, how does it not?"
Doctor Gou put an arm around the black-market doctor's shoulder and laughed, "A doctor also needs to use a scalpel, and sometimes the clinic needs it to defend itself. Though, it might not work so well in Broken Pot City."
"You need 500,000, don't you? I'll give it to you."
"But your future salary will be deducted from here, until the 500,000 is paid off. Any problems with that?"
The black-market doctor paused for a moment then spoke hoarsely, "Is there a contract I need to sign?"
"No need."
Doctor Gou waved his hand carelessly, "I trust you as a person. It's not early anymore, I'll close the clinic for now. Let's go have some late-night snacks to celebrate the clinic welcoming a new member for the first time."
Power Value was mainly composed of two parts, the total Combat Power of the members and the influence of the power.
Of these, over 8,000 Power Values came from the Combat Power bonuses of him and Hungry Monkey, with only the remaining 2,000 or so coming from Faction Influence. They hadn't found an opportunity to make the Tomb Guardian Power famous during this major event, and the planned strategies in advance were somewhat unutilized, leading to hardly anyone knowing about their power.
The scant over 2,000 Faction Influence was because someone had seen his impressive performance in a live stream and had specifically searched for his name on the leaderboard.
Seeing that he was the leader of the Tomb Guardian Power, they learned the name of this power.
But it has to be said, it was just enough.
"When your Power Value reaches 10,000 points, you unlock special effects such as Faction Effects and an increase in the number of members."
This notification had been on his panel for a long time, but due to too many things needing attention after his return, he hadn't had the time to look into it. Just now, he remembered and went ahead to activate the Faction Effect.
"Ding, congratulations to your power 'Tomb Guardian' for successfully reaching 10,000 Power Value and advancing to a level 2 power."
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"You have obtained the Faction Effect: Diligent Striving (Grade A)."
"All members of your power will feel much less fatigue while working and will have improved concentration."
"And the power can accommodate up to 50 members."
"When your Power Value exceeds 100,000 points, you will advance to level 3 power and unlock functions such as power battles and power territories."
It was certainly a cause for celebration; his power had successfully advanced to level 2.
Although it was only a level 2 power at present, he believed that one day it would at least become a power of level 10. That wasn't the important part, though. What mattered was that the number of people his power could accommodate had reached 50, meaning that Doctor Gou and the as-yet-unmet Black Doctor could now join the Tomb Guardian without any issues.
"It's just..."
Chen Miao's brow furrowed as he looked at this Faction Effect. The Faction Effect was similar to a City-State Effect, except one affected the city-state and the other affected the people within a power, with different scopes of influence.
And he had randomly obtained a Grade A Faction Effect, Diligent Striving.
Graded from low to high, they were FEDCBAS, with F being the lowest. To randomly receive a Grade A was an incredibly lucky draw, and he didn't need much else. But the problem was... this Grade A effect was completely useless to him.
Utterly useless, that is.