At this time, there were six men and three women in the teleportation hall, a total of nine apostles. At the same time that Stark greeted him, Qin Lun keenly noticed that at least half of the nine people had a disapproving attitude. Some of them even had sarcastic and disdainful expressions on their faces.

Summoner Oddo gave Qin Lun a brief introduction to this guild. This guild of apostles called “Fortress” belonged to a mature bronze guild, and also had a black iron subordinate guild of 15 people.

Among the peripheral guilds that Tian Fu belonged to, the Fortress guild was a relatively strong independent guild, and they only had nominal affiliations with Tian Fu. Prior to the previous mission world, this guild had five Tier 2 profession apostles, and the other members were also transfer apostles. The Guild Leader had even reached the peak of Second Order, and was only a step away from breaking through to the Advanced Order.

Such a bronze guild had almost reached the peak of the bronze guild. As long as the Guild Leader broke through to Tier 3, they would be able to attract another expansion. With the strength of a high-tier and four-tier core guild, they had basically completed the qualitative change from the bronze guild to the silver guild.

At that time, their relationship with Tianfu would no longer be purely that of peripheral guilds, but that of collaborators. If they were willing to give up team independence, the core members would basically be able to smoothly become the main force of Tian Fu, and Tier 1 members could also be included in Tian Fu’s rookie system.

However, the collapse of the previous mission world had dealt a fatal blow to this guild. More than half of the ten main forces were killed, and two of the four Second Grade apostles who entered the world at the same time died. One of them was the former leader of the fortress guild.

Right now, the burly man who greeted Qin Lun, Stark, was one of the three Second Grade apostles left in the fortress team.

Logically speaking, excluding the influence of the quest world, the most important thing for the fortress guild right now was to elect a new Guild Leader to lead everyone. However, this simple internal work had created a lot of trouble.

There are many reasons, the most important of which is related to the structure of the fortress team. Actually, most bronze guilds only had one or two Second Grade apostles, and their subordinate guilds would still have rookies who hadn’t changed professions, just like the Fink guild that had been annihilated by Qin Lun, Hill, and the others.

With the strength of the fortress guild, they could expand into a medium-sized guild of three to five Black Iron guilds around five Tier 2 members. However, the former Guild Leader of the Fortress Guild insisted on the principle that there was no lack of resources. He only retained a Black Iron Guild as a supplement to the main guild.

Originally, this was nothing, but he had not made any arrangements. Because the main force had four Tier 2 members, their strength far surpassed their subordinate Black Iron Team. The profits of each mission world were much greater than their subordinate teams. Everyone was willing to stay in the main team instead of going to their subordinate teams.

The former Guild Leader of the fortress tacitly acknowledged this point. He did not arrange for the rotation of the members of his subordinate guild and the members of the main guild. In other words, only if the main force suffered casualties would he be able to replenish his staff from his subordinate teams.

Over time, the relationship between the subordinate team and the members of the main force became more distant. As a result, most of the members of the main force died this time, especially after the death of the Guild Leader, the subordinate guild and the main force became estranged.

However, through the cooperation of many mission worlds, the subordinate teams had formed a strong friendship and tacit understanding between the members, so they naturally wanted to obtain the leadership of the team. Although there were still two Tier 2 players left in the main force, the sub-captain leading the subordinate team was also Tier 2. Moreover, his strength was not bad. This person was the Stark who had called Qin Lun.

Most importantly, Stark was an MT, and the only MT left in Fortress other than the original Guild Leader.

As a result, things turned out like this. The five subordinate team members wanted to take the lead in the team. On the other hand, the four members of the original main force still had two Tier 2 members, and they were worried about the distribution of benefits in the future, so they were unwilling to accept Stark’s leadership, causing the entire team to be in a split state.

If this continued, there would be only one result in most cases. That was, after the mission world failed again and lost a portion of its members, the other members were forced to give up their independence and join other guilds as loose people, most likely joining Tian Fu.

This was also one of the aspects that Kelly, the deputy commander of Lost, had warned Qin Lun that once a small team reached a certain stage, they would inevitably encounter similar bottlenecks. Before developing into a large team, they would fall below this threshold and be swallowed up by the large team.

Then can the [Fortress] guild split into two smaller guilds, you go your way and I go my canopy? Theoretically possible, but none of them will do so at the moment.

For the four members of the original main force, they had just suffered heavy injuries and lost their position as the leader of the MT. Unless the guild was really disbanded, they could only accept the current situation. As for Stark and the others, he couldn’t ignore their four companions, or else what Tian Fu and the other guilds of the Apostolic Filling Tombstone Alliance would think of them.

Moreover, if Stark’s current Black Iron Team progressed smoothly, it would sooner or later expand. These four companions were only unconvinced of him, not enemies. As long as he had the ability to lead the team, everything would come naturally, much better than recruiting unfamiliar apostles from the outside world.

“Alright, since everyone is here, let’s begin!” Stark turned his head to look at the crowd and sent Qin Lun an invitation to join the guild.

“Apostle 70053, do you accept Apostle 25531’s invitation to join the Fortress Party?”

“Eh?” Qin Lun had just accepted the invitation of the guild with his consciousness when he suddenly remembered something and couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows in surprise.

“Haha, it seems that you know the conditions for advancement of the apostle guild.” Stark seemed to understand what the young man was surprised at. He laughed, “The message you received is correct. We have become a temporary Silver Team with a title.”

Stark’s eyes lit up as he sighed with emotion. Their main force had actually completed their mission in the previous mission world. That mission was somewhat similar to the [Crystal Lake Mystery] Qin Lun had accepted in the Narse World.

The Mystery of the Crystal Lake was not only a leading mission before the main plot, but also a mission for Qin Lun and the others to set up a guild. The mission the fortress guild received in the previous mission world was both the main storyline and the upgrade mission for the Bronze guild to the Silver guild.

It was precisely because this mission was of utmost importance that the former Guild Leader of the fortress had burned his boat and risked his life in the final stage of the mission. If this Guild Leader hadn’t died, the fortress guild could have crossed an important threshold. Not only would the guild become Silver rank, but the Guild Leader would also be able to overcome the bottleneck of Tier 2 to Tier 3.

These things had already become the past. Although the fortress guild had obtained the Silver guild title, they had lost their leader and were on the verge of extinction. The Silver Team title was also an important factor for Stark and the others to be able to continue in this split state.

Once the main force was disbanded, the Silver Title would disappear, and several of their companions, including the Guild Leader, would die in vain. It had to be said that this was a kind of sorrow.

After joining the guild, Qin Lun immediately checked the guild skills that the Fortress possessed. Apostle guilds possess a guild skill that is actually a regional law, usually a regional halo centered on the guild leader or guild leader.

Back then, the Black Iron Team formed by Qin Lun, Hill, and the others in the Nars World had a single party skill-the Halo of Sincerity. Within 100 meters of the Guild Leader, team members receive 10% HP and Spirit Points.

Actually, the team skills of the Bronze Team and the Black Iron Team were all halos of sincerity, and there was no difference in essence. Only after advancing to the Silver Team would he obtain another title skill.

The title skill of the “Fortress” guild was called “Fortress”, but the content of this title skill did not correspond to the word “Fortress” at all.

The Fortress title is a personal guild skill that can increase the user’s energy and health recovery speed by 50% based on the Laws of Body Attributes. It also provides a reserve amount equal to one-third of HP or HP. HP and HP depend on the apostle’s needs.

This title skill is very powerful, but it can only be used by two people. Seriously, it is not an excellent team title skill. There was a special reason why the fortress guild had such a guild skill, and it was also one of the factors contributing to the guild’s current situation.

After completing the guild promotion mission, the Guild Leader had already died. Only four of the ten members remained. They knew that if they wanted to preserve the Silver Team’s results, they could only join forces with Stark’s team.

However, they were worried that they would have to sacrifice so much that they could only benefit their subordinates in the end. Thus, after voting, he chose this title skill, and agreed that this title skill would temporarily be rotated among the four of them.

Although Stark had become the nominal Acting Guild Leader, he did not have the authority to be the Guild Leader of the “Fortress” guild. The four old members of the main force said that if Stark showed the ability to lead them through the difficult times, he would become the deputy commander. Otherwise, he would rather give up the silver title than surrender the authority of the commander.

“Commander Stark, why did you say it was a temporary Silver Team?” Qin Lun asked curiously after checking the guild information.

Stark hesitated for a moment before explaining to Qin Lun, “Because the head of the Silver Team needs to reach the third rank of the apostle title, and I don’t have the qualifications, the Silver Title can only remain in one mission world for the time being.” “If I can’t get more than 100 contribution points in the quest world, the fortress will become a bronze guild again.”

“Contribution points above 100 points?” Hearing Stark’s words, Qin Lun’s mansion couldn’t help but be shocked.

Even though Qin Lun had received the Golden Evaluation of the Low Demon World or the Silver Evaluation of the Middle Demon World, he hadn’t received more than a hundred contribution points. From this point of view, one could imagine the difficulty of the fortress guild’s next mission world.

Even if the Shattered Star Sky split these 100 contribution points into several sub-plots, it would not be an easy task to complete. No wonder the four members of the original main force acted so fiercely. They were forcing Stark and the others to risk their lives to protect their companions in exchange for their lives.

From this point of view, they weren’t necessarily fighting for leadership!

“Yes, yes!” Stark grinned. “You still have a choice. Do you want to follow us into the next mission world?”