The cost of Dimension Devourers was far from low. Any weapon related to MDE was equally expensive, and while other Micro Missiles might be cheap individually, there was no enduring the sheer quantity used. The gains from this mission surpassed every previous mission, but the weapons, ammunition, and other supplies consumed also far exceeded those of any other mission. Even the average duration of combat had been unprecedented. Not even when they faced the ELS in the 00 World had they suffered such terrifying consumption.
It could be said that every single Merit Point had been earned by genuinely destroying BETA. Even if those BETA were low-level and could be harvested like weeds, harvesting them did not feel satisfying at all. Some members even felt like vomiting whenever they saw BETA after slaughtering so many of them. None of their previous excitement or exhilaration remained. Looking at the endless BETA only brought a different kind of scalp-crawling dread.
But no matter how numb their hands became from killing, how nauseated they felt, or how much their scalps tingled, the mission to clear out the BETA could not stop because of it. By the time the second year had passed—more than two years since the Burning Legion arrived in this world—they had finally raised the mission completion rate to seventy percent.
By then, even Xiao Ran no longer wanted to keep tangling with the BETA. Every day, he opened his eyes to BETA and closed them to BETA. By the later stages, even B-class Pilots could no longer gain anything from ordinary BETA.
The ammunition stored aboard every warship, along with the countless units of ammunition carried in the members' Storage Slots, had been almost entirely consumed over those two-plus years. Xiao Ran could actually have submitted the mission once its