Chapter 1071: Passage of Time
The days passed one by one in the territory. The daily expenditure of three hundred Merit Points per person was an enormous drain on the entire team, nearly exhausting all of Xiao Ran's remaining Merit Points. Even so, he had purchased three years of Retention Time for every team member from the very beginning.
Only someone like Xiao Ran, with a stable source of Merit Points and the ability to earn a huge sum after just a few missions, would dare do such a thing. No other participant would spend so many Merit Points on followers—spending them on followers was natural enough, but using them solely to purchase Retention Time was another matter entirely.
Aside from his own squad members, Captain Jeffrey of the Macross Frontier, Ozma, Alto, Mihail, Brera, Luca, Glan Glan, the five-member W squad, Eshe's group of four, and even every legion member had all remained in the territory for at least a year.
A year amounted to more than a hundred thousand Merit Points. In truth, not every legion member had savings of over a hundred thousand Merit Points, much less the willingness to spend all of them in the Faction Territory. Instead, after entering this world and completing routine training, the members formed teams of one, two, or three squads and boarded warships assigned by the Fleet World, dispersing throughout the galaxy.
With assistance from or employment by the Earth New Unified Government and the Fleet World's friendly forces, they undertook mission after mission with generous rewards. They had practically become mercenaries, fighting everywhere, converting their earnings into Merit Points at a ratio recognized by Prometheus, triggering Side Missions under rules entirely different from those of ordinary missions, and doing everything possible to improve themselves.
Xiao Ran had arranged all