New Gods of North America.

Chapter 307 Assistance
A new week begins, and the courses in the academy continue to cycle step by step.
Seth compiled a list of students who had been to the college church during non-preaching hours.
I picked out the names of people who show up relatively regularly every week, and there are currently twenty-three people in total.

Of course, these students may not all be Beyonders.
Among them there may also be relatively devout believers, or students who are willing to provide some voluntary labor in exchange for the pastor's recommendation, or even confessors or something.

Then Seth led a team of agents to investigate and make tentative contacts with them one by one according to the plan.
He would go to Wayne every day to report on the situation and take back some homework that he was too lazy to do.

Doug is a bit busier.
In addition to continuing to poach people from Peter and familiarizing the detective agency with the friends from Kanks, he also had to take the time to communicate privately with the agents and peripheral members to roughly draw up a recommended list of the first team of the office.

He and Ryan reached a preliminary consensus.
Doug assisted Ryan in setting up the basic framework of the office, but in the end Ryan was the one who would be the head of the office first. If the detective agency had no objection, Ryan would apply to "change positions" again after six months to a year.

After a few days of "competition" and "running-in", the new members from Kankers City also roughly determined their ranking among the members according to the assessment rules of the detective agency.

If we only look at the "unrestricted fighting" item, they basically occupy the position in 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 is a relatively capable member of the Hunter Association named Connor, who has become the current "champion" in the "Unlimited Fight".
His extraordinary ability is actually a bit like a weakened version of Peter's "armor transformation", which is also able to create hard things connected to the body.
However, the total amount of "products" he can produce at the same time is more limited. In terms of volume, it is probably about the same as the material used in one of Peter's "arm armors".
The hardness and stability are not as good as Peter's "armor". When it was first made, it was probably like a softer metal or a stronger hardwood, and then it would quickly soften and "evaporate" within a few seconds.
If the thickness is sufficient, the bullet can be stuck inside, but there is no way to "bounce" the bullet away.

But 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".
As long as the total volume does not exceed that of a grapefruit and the requirements for fineness are not too high, they can suddenly "grow" out of the body.

In a sense, it can be regarded as "attack and defense in one", and it is more flexible and changeable.

For example, if he punches, 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 just hitting the wall all the time.

Even if the "cut" is done in time, it would not be easy for some contact-type extraordinary abilities to directly touch him.

Objectively speaking, this extraordinary ability itself is not that strong, but people have made great use of it.

As for the second agent of "Unlimited Fighting", it is Sanders who is currently a peripheral member.
His case is relatively simple. When he explodes, he is very strong and can take a lot of beatings. His speed is not slow either. He can miss a hundred times, but as long as you give him a chance to land a few close-range punches at a desperate rate, it will be a lose-lose situation.

So according to Wayne's current preliminary plan,
Doug is probably still serving as the detective agency's "housekeeper". Seth may have a chance to compete with Doug. Ryan will try to be the head of the office.

As for Conor and Sanders, they usually serve as coachmen and bodyguards for Wayne or clients.

Then, when the list of recommended members of the office comes out, the partners will hold another meeting and transfer the new members and some peripheral members to "trainee detectives" in proportion. The office will take away almost half of the members of the detective agency, so the ratio and overall strength of the detectives on both sides must be slightly "evened out" to avoid any problems.

……

Soon a week passed,
Ryan began to conduct preliminary running-in with the members who were about to go to the office. Two of them were friends from Kanks, who knew Ryan before, and two were trainee detectives who joined earlier.
The remaining five are the "peripheral members" recruited by Doug before, two of whom are already "trainee agents" in the probation period.

Theoretically, if I go to the office now, the contract fee plus the bounty for the wanted criminals I might catch will at least bring me more income than the current "busy time" in the detective agency.
However, not everyone is rushing to go. Due to various considerations, some who want to go have not been able to go yet, while others have been forced to go there.

When arranging a relatively long-term staff assignment for the first time, it is natural to conduct another employee education before departure, and reiterate the relevant rules and requirements.

To be on the safe side, the detective agency also helped the members to open local bank accounts and left contact persons and addresses in case of emergencies, in case anything unexpected happened and the members would not know who to give the money and belongings they had saved to.

As a makeshift team, we have to slowly figure out many things.

Anyway, just implement all the measures you can think of that are reasonable and feasible, and then make changes if there are any problems.

Some members had not thought that the detective agency was quite secure in this regard, and that they could apply for a "job change" after a certain period of time.
No one had any objection to the detective agency's arrangement, and some people seemed to think it was pretty good.

So on the day off, the detective agency held a small gathering.

It's an early farewell.

Currently, those who are willing to stay in the detective agency can be considered "our own people", so everyone is relatively "real".
With the presence of Wayne and several other partners, although it wasn't particularly noisy, various drinking competitions and other exchanges soon began one after another - some of the ground was lost in the "shooting range" or "arena", so naturally it had to be regained at the drinking table.

When David Mills came over, many agents were already "drunk".
Wayne looked at David Mills, feeling a little helpless but inexplicably being pulled over by Ryan and several members, holding their shoulders. After he was given a large glass of beer, they helped him out.

Wayne originally thought that David Mills had obtained the identification results of the previous potion and came to tell him.

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

"I've got a little problem here, and Reverend Bazzini doesn't want us to report to the cathedral before things are properly handled, so I may need your assistance."

(End of this chapter)