Chapter 17
The Expensive Talent Network
After settling the equipment and lodgings, the only thing remaining was the raw materials and hiring of talents. For raw materials, Xiye and that crafty goblin didn’t have too many disputes. After all, raw materials all had standard pricing on the market. Since they were cooperating, the price of the raw materials they provided would definitely have to be lower than the market price.
In addition, the quality of the raw materials had to be guaranteed. After all, it was a long-term cooperation. Price negotiation was dependent on one’s capabilities, but if the quality of the goods was bad, that would be a problem with one’s reputation. For such mistakes, high-grade goblins would never make them.
After carefully calculating everything, Xiye bought roughly about one billion dollars worth of raw materials, including the Gemma Gold thingy spoken by the goblin.
Now, the only thing left was to hire talents. Other than the personnel provided by Wine Immortal Overlord, Xiye also planned to head to the talent market and employ some more staff.
The development speed of his base was very fast. He believed that not long later, the number of miners would soon reach the peak. At that time, he had to train up another group of highly-skilled talents. If he wanted to do so, the basic instructors couldn’t be lacking!
Right now, there were three races in his base. Xiye temporarily had no plans to nurture other races. So, he planned to hire some outstanding instructors for these three races first.
The evolutionary path of green titans was relatively fixed. They would all be basically walking the path of warriors. For this point, they were very similar to thunder warriors. Warriors could be broken down into many types, but there were three main types. The first type was the weapons master, someone that cared more about skill and specialized in weapons. The second type was berserkers who depended on their bodily strength. What he wanted to hire was primarily these two types. As for the third type, they were known as rune fighters. Usually, only those with unique bloodline powers could walk this path. The Bronze Race and Thunder Race belonged to this category. Naturally, there was also the Rune Race that specialized in runes, but green titans weren’t a part of this.
So, he only needed to employ warrior instructors of the first two types.
And on the contrary, Developers had a much broader evolutionary path. Developers could walk on the path of mental-type occupations. But right now, Xiye couldn’t afford such a vast and complicated job system. At the start, he only planned to hire some pure research-type instructors to teach his Developers.
Right now, the mood of the people was not in the proper condition. Those Developers had no interest in pure research and kept wanting to go and be miners. Truly, decayed wood couldn’t be carved.
Earlier, through the reactions of Old Master Lu and the other players, they seemed to be very interested in the job of mecha controller. They were seemingly filled with anticipation toward mage-type jobs as well. From this point of view, it felt like he also needed to hire instructors of this field to spur the enthusiasm of players toward the Developer Race.
If not, if that damnable Old Master Lu posted a thread again, most probably none of the new players would want to be a Developer.
Currently, the number of developers he had was truly insufficient. This was also the most difficult problem he had to solve with regards to the base!
And lastly, for the wood elves, their evolutionary path was more troublesome. Elves were a great race in the Cosmos, with many different branches and was also an ancient bloodline. For their evolution, he had to find those specialized elf instructors. From what Xiye knew, those prideful fellows would usually have a very high asking price and be very picky about their lodgings. The environment on Mars seemed as though it wasn’t a good fit for them!
After reconsideration, Xiye still decided to head to the talent market and do his registration first!
Hence, after returning, he closed himself in his room and opened up the virtual network. He used his unique Overlord number and entered the Federation Talent Market.
“Respectable Sir Overlord, may I ask if you are here to register yourself for recruitment?” When he entered the talent network, a customer service officer welcomed him passionately.
Xiye entered the talent network using a Prosina Planet’s IP address. The majority of those who could shop on Prosina were all wealthy bosses. Hence, the talent network instantly arranged for a one-on-one service.
“Mn…” Xiye cooly nodded. “My base is just at the starting phase of development. I will need to hire a bunch of outstanding racial teachers to guide my subjects on the skills needed for different jobs. Can you recommend some people for me?”
“Sure. I will fill in the information on your behalf then.” The customer service officer took out a form with intricate designs.
“Might I know the name of the power you are from?”
“Aldia Star System!” After thinking for a while, Xiye eventually decided to use his clan’s name. After all, everything he owned was in a sense from the clan.
“Aldia?” The customer service officer was startled. He silently mused that this should be the clan that was famous for producing thunder warriors. Now, an overlord actually appeared in that clan?
“Might I ask how much funds do you plan to input?”
Xiye was mildly stunned. He who was registering himself as a boss on a talent network was somewhat astonished. “I even need to input funds? Isn’t there a middle-man fee?”
“There naturally is.” The customer service officer smiled politely. “We are a professional talent network. Not only do we have to be responsible for overlords like you, but we also have to be responsible for job seekers. By inputting funds, it would be a proof of your financial ability. Only then can we recommend capable talents to you!”
Xiye hesitated. The officer continued, “Also, inputting funds is just a way of putting a deposit to join our talent network. When you need to use the money, you can withdraw it anytime.”
“Then..I’ll pass five million over as a token,” Xiye reluctantly spoke.
Five million?
The smile on the customer service officer’s face turned stiff. After that, he politely let out a laugh. “Respectable sir overlord, it is very hard for a deposit of five million dollars to hire any outstanding talents. For some who originated from regular clans, when they see your low-amount of registration deposit, they would definitely not be willing to work for you as they wouldn’t believe there would be any future.”
Xiye: “…”
“In addition, sir you are able to shop on Prosina Planet on your first return. You definitely aren’t those types of overlords that hire dark goblins, right?”
Xiye: “Naturally not!”
“Alright then!” The officer smiled. “Sir, I can tell that you are an overlord with a bright future. You are here to employ talents despite your first return, so you must have an extraordinary bout of future in your interstellar travels. Surely, you want to recruit some excellent people from reputable families, right? If I introduce talents with murky backgrounds, you wouldn’t be able to rest at ease when using them too, isn’t it?”
Xiye could only stay silent. Although he knew that the other party wanted to cheat his money, he couldn’t think of anything to rebut at this moment.
During his time at Deity University, his teachers had taught him before that when it came to employing people, it was best to hire those from reputable clans. Why? Because there were no safeguards for those with ambiguous or murky backgrounds.
This was common knowledge in the Federation. For more experienced overlords, other than recruiting subjects, they basically would employ people from reputable clans to work for them first. For example in the Aldia Clan Xiye was from, they had a very good reputation in the Federation. Through countless years, there were no incidents of betrayal or incidents like leaking secrets.
Because as the descendant of a clan, once you did something like that, you would blacken the reputation of the entire clan. Even before the overlord dealt with you, your entire clan would be the first to finish you off. And as for the enemy overlord that hired you to leak the secrets, he would be suppressed from all angles by the clan, and the clan might even rope in allies to stop that overlord from hiring talents of all jobs anymore!
Once, there was an overlord that suffered this tragedy. After that, half of his elites left him, causing the power he had established to instantly decline in tier. Later on, his power was even devoured by another!
So, in the Federation, although the survival of a clan depended on the jobs an overlord provided, there was still a certain degree of restriction.
This was why many overlords would be willing to expend so much financial resources to nurture local powers that were genetic clans. Naturally, this was all for the sake of the future.
But to a new overlord, they would usually feel more secure to hire people from reputable clans. The deeper the clan’s foundations, the more would they be welcomed by the new overlord.
“Tell me how much deposit you think is good then,” Xiye asked.
The officer smiled. “Sir, you are a new overlord. You will definitely need a large amount of money to develop your base and cannot afford to care about this small loss. From my view, how does one billion sounds? This can exhibit your financial strength and wouldn’t restrict you too much in terms of your available funds.”
Xiye sucked in a cold breath after hearing that. Although these words sounded considerate, why did he feel there was something wrong with the amount?
“100 million! That’s my bottom line!” Xiye’s tone was determined. “If you cannot find talents with reputable backgrounds for me, I can only look for other talent networks then!”