The five powerhouses sent by Xu Sili were naturally the five mentors he brought back.
All of them were elementalists close to five stars when they set foot in the universe, but they fell back to a lower level after Escher Star encountered a natural disaster and was sealed.
They were originally very old. Then as Xu Sili gradually upgraded the main city and lifted the level restrictions, their strength returned and their lifespan was extended.
Moreover, when the main city was upgraded to Lv 5, all of them broke through to five stars in one go.
At present, they were the five most powerful people in the Roland Empire besides Si Sheng.
As for Xu Sili himself, he was only one step away from Lv 5. However, even if he reached five stars, he didn’t dare to say that he was stronger than the five mentors.
After all, he relied on the players’ infrastructure to gain experience and level up without doing anything. He was still far behind compared to the five mentors who relied on their own accumulated strength and trained step by step.
These five mentors were now responsible for teaching life professions, but he never dared to underestimate them.
In the past era where there were as many strong people as clouds, the fact that they were able to stand out among their peers at that age and gain the qualification to set foot in the universe proved their outstanding qualifications and talents, as well as their strong fighting ability.
The Interstellar Alliance would broadcast this competition.
Sending a few mentors out to fight was also sending a signal to the elementalists still in the universe who were originally from Escher Star.
The Roland Empire welcomed them back at any time!
Unlike the five mentors, they didn’t try their best to come back when the Roland Empire was in the most difficult times but Xu Sili still had a good impression of them.
If they hadn’t helped the Roland Empire maintain its ties with the Interstellar Alliance over the years, and even donated money and supplies, it would be unknown if the Roland Empire could’ve persisted for so long.
This kindness should still be remembered.
Now that the Roland Empire was no longer as dangerous as it was in the past, the elementalists born and raised on Escher Star might want to come back and take a look after hearing the news.
Xu Sili welcomed them at any time, even if they weren’t originally from Roland. As the players continued to clean up the planet, they would be able to return to their homeland one day.
As far as he knew, Bazel and the other teachers who weren’t from Roland had been paying close attention to the developments on the front line.
They could also see the satellite maps and watch the golden area expand and spread every day. Perhaps no one was more excited and happy than them.
After all, when they returned to serve the Roland Empire, their request was that after the recovery of Escher, the Roland Empire would build a main city named after their home country on the site of their homeland.
Originally, they didn’t have much hope but were too embarrassed to directly pledge allegiance to the Roland Empire.
Now, they were clearly closer to achieving this goal!
In order to motivate players to work hard to advance the map, these three mentors even paid out of their own pocket. Every time players cleared a certain area of land, the players could come to them to claim rewards.
These rewards included potions, magic circles and elemental dishes, some of which were very precious high-end items.
The moment the first player who got something good posted it on the forum, the players’ enthusiasm for clearing the map was ignited once again.
Now, going to the front line to clear the interstellar beasts had become the most cost-effective mission in the game.
There were high experience rewards, as well as interstellar beast materials full of treasures.
There was now too much interstellar beast meat to eat, so the Roland Empire had started selling it to alien planets. This delicious and nutritious beast meat was more popular than vegetables and fruits.
There were already bigshots in the breeding industry collecting interstellar beast cubs to domesticate and raise. It was believed that this would become one of the specialties of Escher Star in the future.
In addition to these, players could occasionally pick up NPCs wandering around and struggling to survive. If they were lucky, they might come across ruins and directly inherit a rare legacy.
Add this to the ranking rewards and special rewards from the three mentors, and there was really no other way to play that had more benefits than this.
Moreover, every time they completed a large map, the magic circle master Dominic would personally lead people to build a teleportation circle. This could basically be completed in one or two days.
It was very convenient for players to go to the front lines to fight monsters, and they even had the time to go back to the main cities to do the daily missions. Therefore, it wasn’t only newbies who liked to level up on the front lines. Even high level veterans were keen on fighting monsters in the wild.
At this rate, Xu Sili was confident that he could meet the upgrade conditions for Lv 6 within a year, which meant recovering 50% of the territory of Escher Star.
By then, he would actually own a land area of 500 million square kilometers, which was equivalent to the size of Earth.
However, the Roland Empire only had a population of 90 million. This was really too small!
Wen Jishan had issued a series of policies to encourage childbirth, and the enriched national treasury also enabled him to formulate various comprehensive welfare systems.
In such a comfortable environment, the population growth rate would surely increase. However, Xu Sili felt that it was a bit slow and it would take at least 10 to 20 years to see the effect.
The number of elementalists stranded in the interstellar space shouldn’t be particularly large, but it should be tens of thousands, right?
Combined together, this force was also very powerful.
Add the offspring that these elementalists had over the past one hundred years. If they were willing to come back, wouldn’t there be hundreds of thousands?
He didn’t believe that these people would be unwilling to come back after learning that becoming an elementalist could increase their lifespan.
They just had to help with construction and he would give out land as welfare. After all, the Roland Empire had nothing but a lot of land.
Xu Sili felt a headache when he thought about the fact that in order to upgrade the main city to the maximum level in the future, the condition might be to reach 100% land utilization rate for the entire planet.
Even if the players could help him build it, they would just be empty cities if no one lived there!
It was only when the population increased that the Roland Empire could achieve true prosperity.
Therefore, he must lure these people back as soon as possible!
This mecha competition was a good opportunity.
The five mentors had been in the universe for at least a hundred years. There must be many people who knew them. Seeing them fight might bring back memories of the past and make them want to come back to take a look.
Let’s not talk about those old people. Let’s talk about the children and younger generations of the five mentors! It seemed that there were many things that weren’t understood at the beginning, right?
Perhaps Xu Sili could seduce them over here!
The mentors had devoted their efforts to Roland and Xu Sili also valued them very much.
He didn’t want them to be alone forever. After all, a robot butler couldn’t be compared to real family members. At the very least, they would feel different if there were a few blood relatives around.
He just wondered if a hundred years of wandering in the interstellar space had made them lose their fighting spirit.
Under the management of the Interstellar Alliance, peace was still very common. Small-scale battles occasionally occurred but the overall environment was relatively stable.
Xu Sili hesitated for a moment but still didn’t tell Adrian who he would send out.
He planned to go back and ask the mentors. If they didn’t want to play, he would send the highest-level players to take their places.
Adrian agreed and prepared to go back to discuss it with the mecha masters. Before leaving, he also mentioned to Xu Sili the matter of developing the tourism industry of the Roland Empire.
He was really impressed with the delicious food of the Roland Empire.
Right now, most of the members of the alliance’s delegation had been captivated by the delicious food of the Roland Empire. The evaluators who originally planned to stay here for only two weeks directly extended their stay to two months.
It took them two months to get here. How could they leave without making the most of their money?
Xu Sili also felt that Escher Star would definitely take the path of tourism in the future.
The empire’s population was too small and it had a vast land area. It ultimately had to rely on foreign population to drive the economy.
However, this had to be done step by step. There were still many things in the Roland Empire that weren’t suitable to be displayed to alien visitors.
He wasn’t afraid of those big nations coming to rob him, but he still wanted to try and avoid a war if possible.
Therefore, he planned to open a main city first as a test city. This would be easier to control and see the effects, avoiding some detours.
He didn’t reply to Adrian directly, but instead threw the matter to Wen Jishan and Xenos.
These things had all been discussed before, and Wen Jishan and the others understood his ideas. THey should have a preliminary plan by now. It all depended on how the Interstellar Alliance planned to cooperate.
Finn soon received a reply from Adrian. He was relieved to know that His Majesty Roland readily agreed to change the competition format.
Five strong people would be sent out, but it was impossible for all the people of the Roland Empire to be that strong!
He believed that his mecha team could handle it as long as they weren’t at Si Sheng’s level.
The five mentors who received Xu Sili’s message were a bit surprised, but in the end, they agreed without much hesitation.
Teacher Aina said, “I haven’t fought for a long time. I need to prepare well.”
Magic Circle Master Dominic said, “Hmm? Fighting against mechas? It seems interesting.”
In addition to drawing magic circles, he had recently been going to Lilith to learn card skills as he was quite interested in card techniques.
Even the elemental chef called Archibald wasn’t intimidated and quickly agreed.
Teacher Hou Zhen joked with Bazel, He said cheerfully, “Bazel, how many people in our family can recognize us?”
After being upgraded to five stars, he now looked a lot younger!
Bazel ignored him and went back to his laboratory to prepare seriously.
Among the five of them, Old Huo looked gentle and refined, with the appearance of a weak teacher, but he was actually the strongest among them.
He absolutely couldn’t be outdone by them!
However, he was indeed curious about what expressions his grandchildren would have when they saw him on TV.
Or should he just keep the old man’s appearance so that they wouldn’t fail to recognize him?
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