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Know Thy Enemy, Know Thyself
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2021-06-05 21:01:54When Zen went through the virtual binding contract that Liu Feng discussed with Akiko, he didn’t know what to think. After slaving his whole life trying to pay bills, Zen didn’t believe that anyone would value him this much.
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Job Contract
Proposed by: Akiko
Witness: Liu Feng
Job Title: External Advisor
Duties:
Game strategy planning for new dungeon floors
Event strategy for primary party members
Cooking meals for primary party members
Payment:
20% of regular dungeon drops
Third pick for boss dungeon drops
First pick for event drops
Benefits:
Guild protection
Party protection
Alliance and Non-aggression pact
Resource sharing with primary party members
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Zen read through the job contract generated by the system and tilted his head to one side.
“Primary party? Guild?”
Sasha grinned and po
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