"Ding. A+ class unit destroyed. You have obtained 100,000 Merit Points."
This prompt suddenly popped up in Xiao Ran's mind. He watched as the monster pierced through by his beam went limp and began to collapse, only for the massive blade of Neo Granzam to cleave it in two. It turned into specks of light that gradually scattered away until it vanished completely from this world.
The golden glow in his eyes immediately faded back to normal, and Xiao Ran's lips curled slightly upward. He had launched three attacks against the monster in total. The first interrupted its attack, the second weakened its firepower, and the third blew its head apart with a single shot. Snatching the final blow from so many people had earned him exactly 100,000 Merit Points.
One hundred thousand Merit Points was a fairly decent gain for Xiao Ran, but when considered seriously, it did not seem like all that much—not even enough for him to spend with a flick of his fingers. Still, earning 100,000 Merit Points from firing only three shots left Xiao Ran quite satisfied.
Perhaps because it did not originally belong to this world, or perhaps for some other reason Xiao Ran did not understand, the monster dissolved into points of light. What remained was only a battered mechanical unit, shattered into fragments and scattered across the ground. Xiao Ran had no interest whatsoever in recovering it, and turned his unit around to head straight for the Steel.
The sunlight after the battle felt especially gentle to everyone present—warm and soft, bright and clean. If one ignored the traces left upon the ground by the fighting, the light that had pierced the darkness seemed to carry a special power, allowing everyone there to finally relax completely.
After cutting the monster