Cruze told Xiao Ran the bottom line for negotiations with the Impact Legion: they had to secure all technology related to the Moonlight Cannon. Even if they could not sell it in Prometheus, it would be enough as long as they could use it themselves. The second condition was thirty-five percent of the final settlement score.
In other words, although they now knew they might receive a great many points, they could not guarantee exactly how many that would be, nor whether the deal would end in a loss or a huge profit. In truth, however, it was a very safe approach for both sides.
Unless Xiao Ran wanted to take a risk, cut off all negotiations with the Impact Legion, leave every issue to be settled in Prometheus, and apply to the Legion Management Center for a forced settlement. But that was also a fifty-fifty gamble, with no way of knowing whether they would ultimately profit or lose out.
When all was said and done, Xiao Ran and the others had essentially coasted through the entire conflict between the Impact Legion and the Overlord Legion. They had only encountered the Impact Legion at the very end, and it was only by relying on ELS's power that they had completely suppressed them. Of course, that did not mean the Victory Fleet could not have defeated the Impact Legion through its own strength. It was simply that ELS's appearance had utterly extinguished the Impact Legion's will to resist, bringing the war to an early end.
But victory was victory, and defeat was defeat. Whether it was Xiao Ran, Naza, or the people of the Impact Legion, none of them believed it had merely been luck. If Xiao Ran had not gathered so many Super Pilots along the way, then held back