New Gods of North America

A new week began, and the academy's courses continued to cycle in an orderly fashion.

Seth compiled a list of students who had visited the academy's chapel during non-preaching hours, identifying those who attended relatively regularly each week, totaling twenty-three individuals.

Of course, not all of these students were necessarily Awakened; some might have been genuinely devout believers, students willing to provide voluntary labor in exchange for a pastor's recommendation, or even penitents.

Then, Seth, leading a team of agents, systematically investigated and tentatively contacted them according to the plan.

He himself reported the situation to Wayne daily, and also took back some homework that Wayne was too lazy to do.

Doug was even busier.

Besides continuing to dig up people from Ssong Peter's mouth and familiarizing those little partners from Kanks with the detective agency's situation, he also had to find time to privately communicate with agents and peripheral members, roughly drafting a list of suggested candidates for the branch office's first team.

He and Ryan had reached a preliminary consensus.

Doug would assist Ryan in creating the basic framework for the branch office, but Ryan would initially go there as the person in charge.

If the detective agency had no objections, Ryan planned to apply for a "job change" back after six months to a year.

After several days of "competition" and "integration," the new members from Kanks City roughly determined their ranking among the members under the detective agency's assessment rules.

If only the "unrestricted fighting" item was considered, they basically occupied the middle and upper reaches.

——When the difference in physique and strength is not particularly large, "slippery" is sometimes a form of "strength".

Among them, a relatively capable Hunter Association member named Connor became the current "ring leader" in "unrestricted fighting."

His extraordinary ability is actually a weakened version of Ssong Peter's "armorization," also able to create hard things connected to the body.

However, the total amount of "generated objects" he can produce at the same time is more limited.

In terms of volume, it is probably at most about the same as the material used for one side of Ssong Peter's "arm armor."

The hardness and stability are not as good as Ssong Peter's "armor".

When it is first created, it is probably like a softer metal, or a relatively solid hardwood, and then it will quickly soften and "evaporate" within a few seconds.

When the thickness is sufficient, it can get bullets stuck inside, but it can't "bounce" the bullets away.

However, the things made by Connor's extraordinary ability can be "quickly made" and "roughly shaped".

It can be a "dagger" or "spike" that suddenly appears, or a temporary "arm guard" or "helmet", etc.

As long as the overall volume does not exceed a grapefruit, and the requirements for precision are not too high, they can all suddenly "grow" from the body.

In a sense, it is also an "integrated attack and defense", and more flexible and changeable.

For example, if he punches over, it may be a hard punch, or it may become a "stab" with a suddenly longer attack distance.

As long as he defends well, the opponent is probably about the same as hitting a wall all the time.

Even as long as the "cutting" is timely, some contact-type extraordinary abilities will not be so easy to touch him directly.

Objectively speaking, this extraordinary ability itself is not too strong, but people just play it out.

As for the second place agent in "unrestricted fighting", it is now Sanders, the peripheral member.

His is relatively simple, he is strong when he explodes, resistant to beatings, and not slow.

He can miss a hundred times, but as long as he finds an opportunity to get close and hit a few punches desperately, then the bottom line is also a lose-lose situation.

So according to Wayne's current preliminary plan,

Doug still roughly serves as a similar "butler" of the detective agency, Seth may have a chance to compete with Doug slightly, Ryan will first go to the office to try to be in charge,

As for that Connor and Sanders, they usually serve as Wayne's or the client's coachman and bodyguard.

Then, when the member recommendation list of the office comes out, the partners will have another meeting, and convert the new members and some peripheral members into "probationary agents" in proportion.

The office is about to take away half of the members of the detective agency, and the proportion of agents and overall strength on both sides must be slightly "balanced" to avoid any problems.

...

Soon a week passed,

Ryan began to conduct preliminary integration with the members who were going to the office, including two partners from Kanks who had known Ryan before, and two probationary agents who joined earlier.

The remaining five are "peripheral members" recruited by Doug before, and two of them are already considered "probationary agents" during the inspection period.

In theory, going to the office now, the contract remuneration plus the bounty for the wanted criminals that may be caught, the income is at least higher than the current "busy work" in the detective agency.

However, not everyone is rushing to go. For the sake of balance in all aspects, some who want to go have not been able to go temporarily, and some have been put on the shelves and arranged to go.

The first time to arrange relatively long-term personnel expatriation, naturally, there must be another employee education before going out, and by the way, reiterate the relevant rules and requirements.

For insurance purposes, the detective agency also helped the members to open local bank accounts, and left the contact person and contact address in case of emergency, so as to avoid any accidents, and then the money and relics saved by the members will not know who to give to.

The grass-roots team, many things have to be explored slowly,

Anyway, if you think of any measures that are reasonable and feasible, do them first, and then change them if there are any problems.

Some members did not expect that the detective agency is quite guaranteed in this regard, and that they can apply for a "job change" after a certain period of time.

Everyone has no objection to the detective agency's arrangements, and some people seem to think it is quite good.

So on this day off, the detective agency held a small party,

It was a farewell in advance.

At present, those who are willing to stay in the detective agency can be regarded as "one of us", so everyone is more "real".

With Wayne and their partners present, although it is not particularly noisy, various exchanges such as fighting wine have also started one after another - some scenes lost in the "shooting range" or "arena" must be found back at the wine table.

When David Mills came over, many agents were already considered "drunk".

Wayne looked at David Mills a little helplessly but inexplicably being pulled over by Ryan and several members with their shoulders around him, and after he was poured a large glass of beer, he helped him out of the siege.

Originally, Wayne thought that David Mills had received the appraisal result of the previous potion, and was here to tell him at this moment,

But what David Mills wanted to say was obviously not about the potion:

"I have encountered a little problem here. Pastor Bazini does not want us to report to the Great Church before the matter is properly handled, so I may need your assistance."