Chapter 632 Alternate Solutions
Remi was in full agreement with Karl's thoughts on the grand solution for their problem. [Why not have like three different specialties? As far as battle tactics go, there really are just warriors, mages and others.] She offered.
"My partner Remi, the Naga Queen over there, has a suggestion.
Why not increase flexibility? You can have teams led by warriors or mages, and then the others can fill in, since there are far more mages and warriors than anything else."
"And how do you guarantee that we will have enough of them if we try bringing them up among our ranks?"
Karl smiled. "That's the easy part. Plead with the Blue Dragons to give them skill books."
The Overlord gave Karl a look that said two things.
First, he wanted to strangle Karl for suggesting it.
Second, he had already tried it and had been not so politely told that they would not be making thousands of skill books for him.
After all, they had to be handwritten by a suitably powerful user, and the number of Blue Clerics and Inscriptionist Mages was limited.
[If you taught them all Offensive Adaptation, they could likely bond with Bloodbath Spiders.] Rae suggested.
An army of giant spiders and Karl clones would be funny.
"Well, once we have these ones trained, you will have enough data to prove one way or the other whether entire units of System users within the army is a viable tactic. It might take an amendment or two so that they're actually soldiers and not just attached to army units, but it should be easy enough to get a regulations addendum passed if we get a huge influx of new System users."
Drath's eyes shone with amusement as Karl finished his sentence. "You know, if it wouldn't collapse society, we could just have everyone we meet put on a system linked item until they're all depleted or everyone has tried. It would be the greatest challenge that a Bronze Dragon could ever face."
His tone was a bit manic as he envisioned the challenges of maintaining law and order in an entire nation full of workers who had suddenly gained a system class. You couldn't be an 'Elite' if everyone were one, or even if the majority of people were. He would never willingly allow the collapse of society to actually happen, it was completely contrary to his nature. But like a kid dreaming of becoming a superhero, Karl was beginning to understand that Bronze Dragons fantasized of bringing order to chaos and implementing rules and regulations to keep everything orderly.
Then the dragon sighed. "I think it is time for you to use that potion you mentioned. Try to advance your students to the Awakened Rank today, even if just the five with classes that aren't beast linked. You need to make your method stand out as superior to any other if things are going to change. Giving that level of resources to every student in the next intake will be a massive cost. Unless senior Elites empty their stockpiles to provide all the resources, it might not even be possible. But even then, the cost will exceed the entire year's revenue.
Convincing everyone that it is worth it will take results so far beyond anything that we've seen so far that the senior staff will believe that it would cost us more not to."
[Yes, potion time. I've had them ready all day long. These will be great. Trust me, I can make humans into proper Elites.] Remi cheered.
"Alright. They're on lunch, and we've been feeding them Commander Rank meat to overload them with energy for the afternoon training already. That's a worthwhile attempt, by the way. The progression just from sufficient nutrition has the clerics in a frenzy."
Drath chuckled. "If we had that many edible Commander Rank and higher monsters, I would consider it. Edible monsters are rare in the spawns, and it's not like we're farming them at that sort of power level."