The enhancements were finally completed a long while later. It was already the second full day since returning to Prometheus. Just enhancing the machines and their personal attributes had taken an entire day, consuming an untold number of Merit Points.
More than seven hundred thousand Merit Points had dwindled to just over 224,000 in a single day. The plan to buy skills for Graham had to be postponed due to insufficient Merit Points. After all, any skill that could truly prove useful in battle cost at least tens of thousands, if not over a hundred thousand points. Even spending around a hundred thousand Merit Points might not buy a skill that truly satisfied Xiao Ran, and it would only worsen their current shortage of Merit Points.
So Xiao Ran postponed buying skills for Graham until after they returned from the SEED World. In Xiao Ran's plan, if they used the Ultimate Mission Card in the SEED World and completed everything according to plan, then their Merit Points would certainly see a massive increase upon their return. Buying skills would no longer be a problem.
During the week Luo spent repairing and modifying the machines, Xiao Ran and the others did not sit idle. Whenever he was in Prometheus, Xiao Ran's life became extremely regimented. He trained his body to better adapt to his enhanced attributes, practiced melee combat and shooting to improve his ability to survive emergencies without an MS, and then went to the training rooms in the Arena Zone for MS combat practice. The only difference this time was that there were four of them instead of two.
After his attributes improved, Graham's MS piloting skills improved considerably as well. His reactions became faster, but his fighting style also became more direct, decisive, and swift.
Given the current